World of Warcraft fans have created their own cyberpunk utopia

polygon.com:

One of the most beautiful parts about World of Warcraft is how the game constantly expands. In the lore, new continents regularly appear from the mists, emerging onto the map and becoming hubs for adventure. It gives players a feeling that literally anything could be possible; there are no limits, because if whole continents can emerge from nowhere, then anything could be out there.

This holds especially true with the creation of fan tools like Epsilon. Rather than giving fans a new way to play World of Warcraft, Epsilon gives fans access to many of the MMO’s assets, character models, and environments, so they can create their own worlds. While some fans like to create takes on Star Wars or totally original premises, others like to expand on the existing lore of Azeroth. Caleb, one World of Warcraft fan who plays the gnome Kitche Goldwatt, has spent nearly two years lovingly creating a cyberpunk city that is like nothing else in all of Warcraft. His city is a kind of haven for gnomes and goblins, two races that don’t tend to be as popular among fans.

Fission Heights is an environment for an elaborate role-playing campaign. The concept behind the city is that it once served as a massive goblin power plant, and over time, an entire successful city grew around that industrial center. “Something that I really wanted to create was a full urban sprawl, with buildings that you could actually go inside with full interiors,” Caleb said in a call with Polygon. “I’ve had so much help from friends, figuring out what kind of stores we think live in the city. What kind of places are people shopping at in a cyberpunk world?”

These choices help add a lot of variety to Fission Heights. The pandaren run a hibachi grill restaurant, there’s