Hey everyone, let’s get this straight and emotional !
I’m a gnome player since the beginning. I just love to tinker, truly. I love engineering in the game and when I started to play WoW 14 year’s ago, i was looking upon Gnomeregan. The “Techno-city”, marvel of gnome ingeniousity and I was really into the sad story behind it. The Trogg Invasion, the unfortunate fate of Sicco Thermaplugg and the Fall of Gnomeregan.
Since the day I started wow, i had this one dream that kept me enthusiastic and a proud gnome player : I wanted Gnomeregan back ! I wanted to just explore and sit in a living city of gnomes !
I hold to that dream for many years, because i was 100% sure that one day, we’ll get Gnomeregan back. But as years passed, my smile faded slowly like the dream I had. And out of nowhere, The pre-events of Cataclysm : Battle for Gnomeregan ! I was so excited, it was like an adrenaline shot for me ! I couldn’t sit on my chair, hearing Gelbin Mekkatorque and playing with all my friends around that event ! I was in heaven. And at the end of this battle, we still couldn’t get Gnomeregan back, but i was relieved to see that the issue about our city was being adressed ! We were going somewhere, event if that was a small progression, for me, it was the trailer of my dream, soon to become reality.
And after that … nothing ! For severals years, there was always another fight, another battle, another danger … See, 14 years is a long time. I grew up since. But deep down, there was still this little kid, dreaming about Gnomeregan. And, like everyone, things happened in my life, but I was strong, i was a gamer, i had friends, i lost some, but I was strong, i was still holding to that dream, because this was one of the last link i had with my inner child.
I used to be a gnome player, not because i was playing a gnome, but because I was smiling during difficult time, because every problems, even in my life, was for me an opportunity to find a solution, and i loved that philosophy. You could think i’m lame to be so overdramatic about that silly thing, that this is just a game, move on. But there is nothing more pure and beautiful than to desperately try to save our inner child : That flicker of innocence that makes someone glow !
So here I am today …
Where is the dream when Gnomeregan becomes a Pet Dungeon ? :
It might be the sign of a “not so hostile” city anymore ? If we can do battle pets here, I guess things are not so bad, maybe we would be able to move back there soon ?
Where is the dream when developers are working on Mechagon ? :
Mwell, that’s the spirit of engineering ! If they put lots of effort in doing another techno-city, maybe they’ll be able to reuse thoses parts and recreate Gnomeregan ?
Where is the dream when High Tinker Gelbin Mekkatorque get frozen after sacrificing himself for the alliance ? :
Well … uh … he is not “confirmed” dead, he might get healed by mechagnomes, i’m sure they have the technology to unfroze him, or extract his brain and transplant it on a mechabody ?
You see what being a gnome player is ? There is no end for my stubbornness, and i’ve been paying every month for 14 years for this dream ! Please Blizzard ! Free me from this curse ! Give me my sock !