i checked some new quests in cata
and some old quests
almost 30-40% of content is changed (items, quests,enviroment)
so the question is this : is Cataclysm an expansion like TBC/Lich/other expansions from games like Starcraft : broodwar , or is Cataclysm something else, like part 2 of a game (starcraft 2, red alert 2, etc)
because an expansion does not change the actual game, it adds new zones, missions, units
for exemple, you can play starcraft 1 (not the broodwar, just st 1 - the 10 missions with terrans, 10 zerg and 10 protos) and after broodwar was released, you could play broodwar, but the classic missions, unchanged as well.
in this case, you can NEVER play wow as it was before... the content will be removed, changed, etc.
which sucks in my opinion
Devillzard made a good game, but HUUUUGE!
I mean barrens is like fcking huge... and thinking at the time when you got mount at level 40... muahahah... that s serious walk dude
in my opinion, the guys who made first wow did a good job in the first zones : stormwind, elwin forest, westfall + deadmines
i think they worked 70& of the time at this zones
then they made the horde side... and just copy paste and changed some here and there
Then... they thought " LET's make a huge world to explore!" and they made other zones, huge zones, but they didn't worked too much to make the quests unique, or the mobs, or anything.
They did a LAUZY job... and they thought players will just swallow them!
And players did swallow them because the game was addictive...etc(but that's other story) even so, they were never favorites!
So now, after 5 years and a lot more billions of dollars, devvilzard thought "hey, dudes, mb we should finish those huge zones and make them good and intreating this time"
so wow cata is in my opinion a repair of the wow old that had sume huge minus
but i still think it suks
i mean, i like barrens how it is now... i like to enter after 10 years and watch crossroad and remember when i found my first green item!
instead of this i will se a huge CRATER!
i live in bucharest and in the 70s, some dude Ceaucescu began to make a new world... and demolish the old houses and build new flats
but the thing is... why don t you build new flats on an empty zone, and keep the old houses?