There used to be a time when you had people dueling infront of capitals (Stormwind, Orgrimmar) you had people hanging/dueling in Goldshire. Etc etc.
You know it is sad to see where ever you go, the people that used to hang at some spots are no longer there.
One of the biggest issues for me today. Logging in to see a wasteland of areas that used to be crowded not even too long ago.
Dueling infront of capitals are gone due WM. Hang spots are slowly becoming more and more seperated or totally gone from the game.
I think Blizzard fails to understand that is big chunk for many players to log in, yet they focus more and more on streamlined content and just the usual grind and raids.
10.0 will need to change this issue if they want people have that attachment again to the game.
Even today i log in, at 13:00 and see'ing a ghost town Goldshire (yeah there are like 30 people there, but for A RP realm its very LOW) and blaming the reason of it's still early never used to be a thing in WOW. Or blaming that people are spread out, like people were always spread out in any expansion.
I could play WoW at 3AM and i still would feel like the game was sorta crowded for the time of day.
We just can't ignore this issue and if this won't change i doubt many even has that feel to return. What is point to return to a game where you feel ur the only one around?