the garrison had more depth and character

...seeing as WOD's only other content was raid or die.

It would be a good idea not to laud garrisons, as WOD's net effect was to wipe out more than 50% of the bloody playerbase in FOUR MONTHS.

Garrisons were fine, not as if there was anything else to do.

WOD was in every sense of the word an absolute disaster, a gigantic screwup, add to that Mr "Cube crawl" Afriasabi's war on flight that lost them ANOTHER one million players, and you have the textbook definition of abject failure.

https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/top...ds-of-draenor/

Intro: (0:00) Alliance City: (0:02) Horde City: (0:27) Ogre Continent: (0:58) Farahlon: (1:17) Frostfire Purple Desert: (2:14) Shattrath Raid: (2:42) Garrison in any zone: (3:20) Trophies: (4:04) Renaming your Followers: (4:20) Tier 3 customization: (4:49) Specific Follower Missions: (5:45) Garrison buildings wherever you want: (6:34) Cleave Tertiary Stat : (7:07) Gromash Hellscream Final Boss : (7:55) The Chronal Spire : (8:14) Gorehowl legendary : (8:50) Broken Horn Village : (9:42) Kargath Survives : (10:07) Class Accessories : (10:25) Zangarmarsh Zone: (10:38) The 4 Scrapped Battlegrounds : (11:03) Ages of War Await : (11:37) Early Gorgrond Trains : (11:56) Feral Worgen storyline : (12:20) Maraad & Yrel relationship : (12:44) Removed Islands : (13:01) Medivh Cameo : (13:16) Trial of the Gladiator : (13:34).
and here

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...rds-of-Draenor

Thats what...ten pages of what was left out?

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No, they didn't. They USED THIS INFORMATION AT BLIZZCON 2013 TO SELL PREORDERS. They used it as hype to sell their product. That goes beyond telling us what they wanted to do. No expansion has ever had the amount cut that WOD did. Not even close. Yes, Wrath had Azjol-Nerub cut and turned into 2 dungeons, but Wrath still has a massive amount of content. Meanwhile WOD has 1/3 the endgame content of Cataclysm. And also they lied about everything that was cut until the last minute, and instead of announcing cuts on their site at the time the decisions were made, they waited and tried to sneak announcements out on Twitter and on obscure sites, and they would always do these on a Friday before a long weekend. They didn't even have enough respect for the players to make the announcements on their own website.

WOD was a more expensive expansion with 1/3 of the content of Cataclysm. And it had 1 content patch. 1 freaking content patch. Even Cataclysm had 3. But it's not just the cut content. It's also the way they handled it. If they had communicated with the players and treated them with respect, perhaps more could've been forgiven. But no, they handled it in a very arrogant way with NO respect for the players at all. They outright lied in interviews.