Re:I can wait. (Score 1)

A long time ago when I played Asherons Call I remember there being huge world events, like the pvp God entering the world turning all the water to blood until he was killed, and once he got killed he didn't respawn and only one player recivied his loot. Of other memorable stuff there was a meteor crash which destroyed one of the excisting cities, and an invasion of shadows.

All those things had in commen was that I never personally saw any of it (except for the red water), and while I personally found it interesting to read about on webpages I'm sure a lot of people were unhappy never getting to see it. Perhaps that is why Blizzard have chosen another direction, and they're hardly the only MMO company to do this.

Interestingly Anarchy Online had similar events, and even had GM run quests for small groups of random people - and as far as I know Age of Conan doesn't. Which seems to suggest that perhaps the "living" world isn't as popular as it would have to be before Blizzard took it seriously.

As for gnomeregan, I agree it's about time the gnomes got their city back - but then again - it'd take quite a lot of work to create the capitol of the gnomes and that's deveolment time which would come out of creating new content.