Quote Originally Posted by Surian View Post
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As someone who played XI for years, no, the only people who complained about the large and lifeless maps were not looking for something to blame. I adored my time with XI, but going from it to early WoW was like a splahs of ice water to the face. I saw that zones could have personality beyond "grassland zone a, b c", "desert zone", "snow zone" like XI and XIV 1.0 had. It didn't just have to be an endless field with the same hills and mountains and ponds copy and pasted everywhere.

You sound like one of those folks who thinks 1.0 was actually good, which unlike my statement that the zones were empty, is factually wrong. If it wasn't, why would 2.0 exist?