Capital Cities - Why the fuss?

[The Stormbringer]

For the same reason they weren't the last four expansions. AHs remain restricted to the capitals, as opposed to the expansion specific hubs.

You could even build a storehouse at your garrison and completely forego the hubs.

-cough- Shattrath Auction Houses. -cough- Cataclysm didn't have proper hubs, just the main cities (so I don't think it counts). Wrath and MoP had the engineering AHs.

[Bosen]

Maybe if the Home Bases looked Badass, people wouldn't be so upset.

[spinner981]

Better is subjective. I actually play Beta and Had alpha and Karabor and Bladespire as cities would be a nightmare.

Good to know that a blizz fanboy would totally agree with blizzard by saying that karabor and bladespire would be a nightmare. I personally would welcome such massive cities to traverse around in, and this doesn't answer the possibility of having hubs in both trashran and karabor/bladespire.

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So after the reveal that the Alliance and Horde capital cities would be adjacent to Karabor rather than in their respective zones

Also, what does this refer to? Is it referring to ashran or new hubs that blizzard announced? If so, where can I find that announcement?

[freighttrain]

If people had balls they would actually just proclaim bladespire and karabor their home cities.
But they all want convenient portals, etc. The Capital is what the community chooses to be the capital.
Nothing prohibits the community from making karabor and bladespire capital cities, only their own lazyness and need of convenience.

My hearthstone is set to TB. I like TB. I do not role play either. I have no issues logging on and either flying to org or porting with my Brawlers Guild ring(I think its a ring)to port to Pandaria, or my TI trinket teleport and fly where I need to. You are correct that people want the convenience. They bitch that they took the world out of WoW but sit on their hands and take full advantage of them while shouting from the rooftops.

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It's not that it's lazy, it's just that they're boring in comparison to what we were 'promised'. Going from a huge Ogre fortress to a generic Horde outpost is a bit of a downgrade.

Except you were not promised anything. You assumed something, but then the issue lies with you not a game developer in the process of making a game where all plans are subject to chance. We also agree that anything can be changed without notice. At least they told us about it.

[ITIorpheus]

People were hoping for a decent capital like Shatt, Org, or Dalaran. But now we get re-hashed, smaller versions of the pandaran "shrines".

[huth]

Which is all we were going to get from the start. Only the location was changed.

Karabor and spire were never going to be capitals, just faction hubs.

-cough- Shattrath Auction Houses. -cough- Cataclysm didn't have proper hubs, just the main cities (so I don't think it counts). Wrath and MoP had the engineering AHs.

You might want to check when the AHs in Shatt were introduced. They weren't there during BC. The Engi-AHs are a special engineering perk and not open to the general public.

[The Stormbringer]

Which is all we were going to get from the start. Only the location was changed.

Karabor and spire were never going to be capitals, just faction hubs.


You might want to check when the AHs in Shatt were introduced. They weren't there during BC. The Engi-AHs are a special engineering perk and not open to the general public.

Ehh? I'm pretty sure I remember there being auctioneers back in BC.

And that's the fault of the non-engineering masses for rejecting the Master Profession!

[Sassafrass]

If people had balls they would actually just proclaim bladespire and karabor their home cities.
But they all want convenient portals, etc. The Capital is what the community chooses to be the capital.
Nothing prohibits the community from making karabor and bladespire capital cities, only their own lazyness and need of convenience.

Everyone conveniently chooses to ignore / not respond to my comment because by acknowledging that fact they acknowledge that their own entitlement and lack of will is what makes the problem exist in the first place. GG.

You could technically use Gilneas City as a capital, "only laziness and need of convenience" keeps it from happening.
Right?

How many people use the capitals other than SW/Org? It's always about convenience. People want portals and AH in the same place.
If Blizzard puts the portals in Trashcan, guess where everyone is going to go? To Trashcan, so they can port everywhere with ease.

Blizzard already tried this "make everyone explore!" gimmick when they removed Dalaran's portals and shoved everyone into SW/Org. Why will this be any different?

[Haven2011]

I wish they would just give us what they promised at blizzcon and stop short cutting it or out doing away with it.

[huth]

Ehh? I'm pretty sure I remember there being auctioneers back in BC.

And that's the fault of the non-engineering masses for rejecting the Master Profession!

Your mind is tricking you. They were only introduced in Cataclysm.

[grexly75]

Ehh? I'm pretty sure I remember there being auctioneers back in BC.

And that's the fault of the non-engineering masses for rejecting the Master Profession!

There was no auction house in Shattrath during TBC.. As stated by huth above, it was during Cataclysm that Shattrath got an auction house.. Interestingly it seems Dalaran got an auction house before Shattrath..

[Shroud]

Yeah just going to continue staying in org/stormwind and thankfully they are finally doing something about giant ass crater....seriously glad that eye sore is going away.

[grexly75]

You could technically use Gilneas City as a capital, "only laziness and need of convenience" keeps it from happening.
Right?

How many people use the capitals other than SW/Org? It's always about convenience. People want portals and AH in the same place.
If Blizzard puts the portals in Trashcan, guess where everyone is going to go? To Trashcan, so they can port everywhere with ease.

Blizzard already tried this "make everyone explore!" gimmick when they removed Dalaran's portals and shoved everyone into SW/Org. Why will this be any different?

Exactly, if people tour around the cities currently in the game only the two shrines in Pandaria as well as SW / Org are the only ones that get used the most.. Not many use the other cities and only then when they are leveling or there is a specific event there.. Otherwise they are completely deserted..

[kyoloco]

well...if i ordered an escort which im told would be a solid 9

and i got a 6 instead...id be pissed

would probably still pay though

[Marquize]

really it was because Karabor has some amazing lore about it and the horde city seemed amazing.
And they are forcing their shitty "classing Alterac Valley battlezone" BS upon all of us. And adding more loading screens, further removing from the immersion. And the cities we get will be dull, and won't be any more spectacular than Honor Hold and Thrallmar with some portals and banks added for convenience, I guarantee it.