It's probably been about three years since I've taken the time to level a new char but here I am doing it, and I hear the music, the old barrens music and it just.. it takes me right back to where I was nine years ago... and for the next hour I read all the text quest I look around at all the scenery I think about how im playing my class... and it's like a new game all over again... AND I LOOOOVE IT!
I don't just miss this... I wonder... I wonder what it takes to get back to this. How can we shed the feeling of what the game has come to be, to some of us old timers? I still do enjoy the game (I only came back in sept/13 after leaving for all of mop (after DS cata), and am sad I did) but sometimes it feels like the game has lost some of its soul(since early wrath). It's not just about ease of assess (LFR, Dungeon Finder, repetitive kill "x" quest") it's something else...
It's also the mystery! Yes LFR and LFD and (Oque) have killed a good portion of the need to meet new people (something I dearly miss) but there is no wonder to the xpacks! That is something that (for me, being a noob at the time in vanilla) was in love with during vanilla. I had very little idea of what was going on, who I was fighting and why. It was some what of a search-in all the quest text, and by the time I got to the raid it was all much clearer then...
Could you Imagine if cata/mop Garrosh had been more noble and more honor based but at the same time seeing the need for the Horde to expand and secure a foot hold in azeroth due to the (now evident) power grab the Allience have over all of azeroth and we had ended up fighting him not because he was mad with power (BOOOOOORRRIIIIINNGGG, come on mezten, I love ya man but come on...) But we ended up fighting and killing him because of our own misguided views! Meanwhile he saw the need to set a balance of power in the world but couldn't let us know that due to our short shortsightedness. If this is something we didn't know it would be shocking! It would leave an emotional impact which would leave a greater memory, which is, what some of us are looking for!
And THAT! IMO would have made for an ineradicable story! And you could still pave way for WoD and even Legion story with this frame. And at this point I duno.. Im rambling I've been drinking, but I think I might be on to something.. maybe.. just maybe.