I can’t recall the Exodar ever having a booming population of rpers (outside of events, and I do bring up this zone because it is in the same boat), but Silvermoon has its crowd from time to time.
The fact that it does feel more cut off from the rest of Azeroth makes it unappealing to inhabit. It’s not so much because you can’t fly straight there, but you can’t fly period, and there’s no easy way to navigate to and from. Both the Exodar and Silvermoon only have teleports to Darnasus and Undercity respectively. Oof.
This sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much.
100% This.
Oh and did I say this?
but they don’t have do delete the old zones, they can make a new zone for high level content and keep the low ones as they did with darkshore, arathi highlands, tirisfal glades…
Blizzard babies blood elves, blizzard has like idk 10 children and blood elves are like the favorite child.
Connecting those zones to the rest of the Eastern Kingdom would be extremely difficult because they are on different data structures. The Blood Elf zones are on the same structure as Outland and other Burning Crusade Expansion areas.
Also, making they flyable would be a major task because they were built as facades. If you look down at them you see massive holes and also there are invisible barriers that would have to be removed.
Now could they do this? Well yes, but that would take developer time which means something else would not get done. Personally I’d rather see them work on new material even though I usually main Blood Elves.
It just doesn’t make sense for Suramar to be this beautiful majestic highborne city that we don’t even use in game. Yet silver moon still has paper mâchée trees.
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All of this.
Would love to see the city in the current timeline and fully updated assets.
Dark Animus Golems, maybe a new dock. The Dark Animus itself held maybe where they used to keep M’uru.
The fel crystals replaced with those red versions we see more recently.
So many things.
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The space goat zone needs the same work done to it. They need to move into an actual capital city and stop hanging out in their crashed space ship.
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People always talking about how the blood elf zones need an update to allow flying and the like. But Draenei zones got the same problem + they’re still living in huts made from spaceship wreckage.
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Listen, they kicked me out since I wanted to study the void!
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If they’re going to do Silvermoon they’d do Exodar at the same time. No reason not to since they both have the same problem.
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Azuremyst and Bloodmyst are pretty much ready to go for flight already. The only bit that might be weird is the inability to fly to/from the Kalimdor mainland which clashes with its apparent distance, but that’s pretty easily taken care of by cutting the two zones off of the Outland map and pasting it on the Kalimdor map, which is easy since there’s nothing but ocean there on the Kalimdor map currently.
The only thing keeping them from being flyable is a sense of “fairness” with Eversong and Ghostlands — they don’t want to enable flight in one but not the other.
The Draenei zones are in bad need of an update to sync them with lore though, no disputing that.
It would be really expensive to do that. Are you sure you want Blizzard to be spending resources on updating an old zone, when they could be spending the resources on creating quality new content?
Let us fly. Literally. I want to fly there. It’s a cool zone.
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When they launch the old world dragon riding compatibility update, they just roll these two ground-locked areas in the mix. 
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To do that they have to redo all of that work and is it worth it (plus, who even knows how long people will be enthralled with their latest gimmick. ) Not worth the time and money, when there are other things that end up making them more money.
They have spent that kind of time and money on worse.
How much money and manpower has been flushed down the toliet over the past few xpacs just cleaning up expansion systems disasters… based on how badly fixing the Azerite dumpsterfire delayed 8.1, 8.2, and subsequently required 8.3 to be heavily trimmed down it’s got to be a lot. More than enough to spruce up old zones.
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I mean. They made at two wildly different times in WoWs history, so it makes a lot of sense.
Yes. I don’t need constant new zones every patch. I’d like to see some of the zones that currently exist be updated and used again.
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