Devs QnA (Score 1)

1) While WoW is a highly polished and addicting game, why are you already working on an Expansion Pack? Sure, there have been content updates and so forth but compared to older MMORPGs WoW currently lacks several things that made those games popular. 1A) Where is the Live Team? The ones that churn out content month after month. 1B) For that matter, where are the World Events? This is World of Warcraft, a living, breathing, and hurting world. Darkmoon Faire was a start, but we need to experience new things. Yes, creating these things as one-off events will mean less time for instances and other such things. That's why you need a Live Team to add content and move the storyline along. 2) The current Honor system for WoW was crafted to suit the playerbase, but I believe that there was a miscommunication. Yes, players were getting 'griefed' by higher level enemy players by killing Quest NPCs and so forth, but the Dishonorable Kill system didn't really stop that. It instead stopped massed PvP to the point where I've seen 30-odd Hordies running away from one civilian. What are your plans to address this issue? 3) While I'm enjoying the Battlegrounds experience, I'd like to know why these diversions are having such an impact in the PvP system. That is, why is my catching a flag suddenly make me more 'honorable'? They are dynamic and fun diversions, but they don't add anything overall. Winning Alterac Valley several times won't have an impact one way or another. In short, why don't these PvP 'instances' have an affect on the world itself? It leaves many players feeling like they are merely farming reputation or honour points instead of actually contributing to their faction's cause. 4) Contested Territories: Is it in the cards that sometime in the future contested territories on PvP servers will be actually contestible? As in one side would have the ability to conquer a certain location, given time, resources, and planning while forcing the other side to fight for it back. Before the BGs and DHKs town raids were common on PvP servers, slaughtering civilians and hearing their lamentations and so forth. But there was no purpose to the bloodshed other than to grief the other faction's players. Would it be possible to create two sets of NPCs for each side for all of these contested territories and have some way for one faction or another to wrest control of those lands from the other side? I guess this 'question' really ties in with the implementation of the Battlegrounds as static things that do not affect the rest of the world. Something as simple (as in easier said than done) such as declaring for the month, after the tallies of one particular BG locale were made, to award that site to one faction. If the Horde won Alterac Valley for a month then so and so would happen. Interactivity and input into the game world is what WoW lacks. 5) Really, any plans for a Live Team for quick bug smashing and content generation? Tamer questions: 6) Not-directly related to Devs, but any plans to expand the CM numbers? 7) Any hints for the Paladin changes in 1.8? Thanks!