How are new zones selling better when no one is there to play them?
There are people to play them, though.
The point is that more people come back for patches when new zones come with them, not that wows numbers are the best they’ve ever been
These forums man lol
Odd complaint lol
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So you’re telling me that more people are happy and willing to resub to play a new zone, with a new forced rep grind, with new useless daily quests, all mixed with a pinch of timegating (the entirety of Korthia and the new 9.2 zone) over revisiting the zones they’ve already invested so much time in, and perhaps discovering a more compelling and long lasting story since Blizzard has more than one content patch for said zones to flesh them out?
These details are revealed with transparency via Wowhead allowing the player to determine whether they should save their subscription dollars. Their disappointment exists before the content even drops.
They pulled people in with covenants, dropped the covenants, and now their new zones are as desolate as their story direction. half life 2 death noise
Cataclysm happened and people hated that we lost old zones for an expansion
So Blizzard stopped revamping older zones and just makes new ones
Although I do agree the “quest hub” zones are a bit strange. They feel quite disconnected from the current expansion
Like Korthia does not feel like the maw, even tho it is… idk they’re just odd to me
Wrath is the only expansion that didn’t feature a new patch zone and it launched with like 10 zones.
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We aren’t here to discuss your personal gripes with the game. Not really relevant to my point.
The point is that they release new zones with each patch because it causes more players to return. That is all.
I didn’t know that asking a valid question about what people want from a content patch instead of just assuming what people come back for like you’re doing was considered a personal gripe. Nice try though.
Yeah you’re telling me…
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Zones are all wastelands after their initial use. It’s pathetic.
Tired of new zones after the main ones are “done” also.
Maldraxxus. Rev. Arden. Just world quest farming and move on.
Surely they can use these areas more… I want to actually enjoy these zones…
Although I’d rather just go back to Azeroth.
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To be fair our transition to an esteemed hero wasn’t sudden at all. We went from…
Fighting defias bad guys who were basically just poor people who wanted bread to fighting a black dragon lord and his sister to a lieutenant of Arthas’, then heading over to Outland to stop an impending invasion and end Illidan’s rule. Then we go and finish off business with Arthas in Northrend, then Deathwing pops up and is like raahahahhaah I kill everyone! But it turns out he went nuts by gasp the very old god we beat in BfA. Somewhere between that we fended off a lunatic horde leader (of course), another few dragons and old gods, then handled the burning legion.
So really, we’re like the best candidates for this fight against a supreme dominating force like the Jailer – as lame as he is.
We’re simply not adventurers anymore, and I think that was inevitable. There are only so many enemy forces we can fight before the stakes have to be raised.
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Hell yeah. Now we use the Maw as our personal playground with our ridiculous mounts just to mock the Jailer!
I wouldn’t be against new zones if they actually put the old ones to use as well. Instead, zones are stuck in expansions and that just shouldn’t be the case. Why create this HUGE open world, if we barely ever see most of it. In my opinion, they should work hard to keep the whole world relevant, even after the expansions time has passed. The artists and design team went through all of that work just to have those zones be forgotten and barren.
-EDarkness
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Too bad you didn’t make to Community council…oh what heck you would be ignored there as well 
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I gotta say though…
It barely feels like WoW atm. Feels like a huge disconnect.
Put us back on land.
I want to feel like the Horde again.
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I have to somewhat disagree here, I think new zones are great, as long as flight is allowed in them. Any new zones where we can not fly, will never make my favorites list. Any new expansions where we don’t also have the option to purchase flight at max level, will never make my favorites list. Any expansion that the current lead dev is still the current lead dev on, will never make my favorites list.
Semper Fi! 
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It’ll all be ok. I wish you health and happiness in your World of Warcraft experience.
Peace and prosperity my brother
This reply is a bit ambiguous.
I agree, I did appreciate when they used Uldum and Vale during BfA.
based.
But is this true though?
We were not the ones to shove the dagger into Nzoth. The dragon dude was. Sure, we fought the forces, but he did deliver the final blow. In BFA, we were merely pawns. Yes, we took part in some special ops, but this was a full out war. We were barely responsible for ending it.
In Shadowlands, even like Maw assaults, yes, we do some missions, clear some trash, but the premise is that its an entire might of the covenant who does the legwork. Same goes for Sigils. We are just mere tools. We’re far from gods imho. Even like Sylva fight, technically, Bolvar & Jaina are there with us. They are fighting Anduit and holding off Jailor while we tickle sylvanas. We wouldn’t even be able to get to Phase 2 without Jaina.
People just ignore those bits and pieces.
There’s nothing ambiguous about it.
TBC had Isle of Quel’danis
Cata had the Molten Front
MoP had the Isle of Thunder and Timeless Isle
and so on.