i’ve been sat in wetlands for maybe 2 hours now, nobody has said a word.
okay i realise it’s almost 5 am, but out of the entirety of europe, i am the only person on this server in this zone. i did the /who search.
what does that really tell us about this game?
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/who doesn’t include people outside of your battlegroup. Ever since crossrealms Blizz never bothered to update it.
Nothing… it’s a very old and irrelevant zone, more so when people can pick whatever expansion to level up in via Chromie Time; People leveling are all over the place, end game is the focus.
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i think you did make it clear though…
that is what it tells us about the game. that they have kinda killed the old zones.
i’m not necessarily trying to complain about any of this, no matter how i feel about being totally alone here… i think it is showing that old zones are increasingly irrelevant and that this persistent world they made is abandoned, and that constant expansions don’t perhaps make sense any more.
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Most people level in WoD, Legion and BfA as far as my observations go. Also, Wetlands is kinda terrible of a zone to navigate through.
It’s old content that has served their purpose… why would you want to make it relevant again beyond leveling in? If you make all zones ‘relevant’ to end game you’d just completely overwhelm players with unnecessary stuff… there’s already plenty of Achievements/Mogs/Pets/Mounts/etc. to collect in old zones if a player so chooses to go after those, and there’s a LOT of them…
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That’s a very childish point of view to have.
Killed the old zones? What do you expect they’d do? Constantly create reasons for people to travel everywhere? Even if by a miracle, they have the time and resources to invest on a ton of new reasons for people to travel to far and distant places, the inconvenience of being forced to travel everywhere on a regular basis alone, will ruin the game.
There are still reasons for a lot of players to visit old zone. You go for mogs, mounts and some other old farms.
The game will not and CAN NOT provide you with a reason to visit anywhere anytime during the day and expect people to be crawling in there.
Is this a troll topic?
“It’s 5am and there is no one in this really old zone”
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I think most people play the expansions to level.
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That 5am is not a busy time for levelling?
That other expansions (especially the quicker ones like WoD) are more popular for levelling via Chromie Time?
That more people are playing end game content than levelling?
That you aren’t on the busiest server?
Idk, take your pick! If you had the same findings in a current zone, even at 5am, this would be more telling about the state of the game.
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It tells us that the wetlands is not a popular zone to level in at 5am. Anything beyond that is extrapolation.
The wetlands has never been the hotbed of wow activity, nor a popular zone, and 5am has never been a primetime slot. Quite how you think we can conclude anything about the state of the game from these two facets is questionable. It’s like me deciding that I can determine how many people are attending football matches by looking at how many people visited the corner shop near the football stadium at 5am.
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Tbh, they had a chance in BfA… the N’zoth invasions could have showed up anywhere. They could have taken 3 months to cycle round, and they could have included scaling so that people who were 1-60 could have joined in and gained XP from them.
But nope.
Blizz be too wedded to the idea that every expansion must come with a rep grind. Having new zones without a faction? Preposterous!
(Personally all I want from a patch is a new dungeon and BG to throw in the rotation. You know, like… content.)
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Sometimes reading the forums makes me sad because I see things like this and think about how awesome the expansion could have been… 
Yeah, I’d love it if the world was used more - like the prepatch event could have been scourge invasions everywhere, not just in one zone, kinda like the Legion prepatch event where you really did feel like the world was under threat (until the Burning Legion decided “screw this, we’ll just attack the Broken Isles”).
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Indeed, if Blizz want to have a threat to “the world” they really need to be bold enough to make it the world.
I’d be very happy to get sent to Stonetalon mountains or Redridge as my weekly quest 
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Exactly, the huge beautiful world for me at least is the main selling point of wow. Use it Blizzard, let people rediscover forgotten areas by putting daily/weekly quests all over the place and try to make this game interesting again.
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I do miss the old zones, it’s always nice when a quest line takes me there. Happens rarely, but I enjoy it.
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Make barrens a endgame zone
Barrens is life , barrens is love
I miss mankrik
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excuse me, what makes you think it is acceptable to talk to someone this way?
The game is about end game since every expansion. You level to cap and you play in the end game zones and instances. Same thing happened in Classic when after leveling wave was done most of low/mid level zones got completely empty.
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maybe no one is leveling cause they are busy with trash end game? 
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sorry if it hurt your feeling or you felt offended.
But the truth of the matter remains the same.
We got hundreds of different zones in this game. Expecting them to give you an excuse to visit all of them and not only that, but to then state that there’s something wrong because you couldn’t find someone in the zone chat at 5 AM in the morning is indeed a very unreasonable expectation.
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