>>536959641
He kept going on about how different it all felt. I had forgotten how much retail changed WoW. All the little RPG elements and inconvenient quirks that gave the game some personality, sand blasted off.

Also the fact that post-Cataclysm areas relied way too much on self-referential shit, which absolutely does not work if you've never played pre-Cataclysm. It just falls flat for newer players because you've never seen what the original world looked like