World of Warcraft Player Makes Hilarious Observation About the World Map
Many players would argue that Azeroth has started to look cluttered on the interactive map in World of Warcraft, and a fan made a rather funny observation as to the real reason behind it. Back in 2004, when World of Warcraft initially launched to critical and popular acclaim, the old version of Azeroth only had two playable continents to offer: Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. Northrend being omitted from the initial slate came as a disappointment to many Warcraft 3 fans at the time, which made its eventual reintroduction in Wrath of the Lich King such a delight.
With Pandaria filling out the southern corner of the world, the community believed that the major landmasses in Azeroth had been covered, and that Blizzard Entertainment would either move the narrative to new worlds in an overarching crusade against the Burning Legion, or keep the scope smaller by fleshing out unseen archipelagos and lands such as Zandalar, the Broken Isles, Kul Tiras, and the Dragon Isles. As the years went by, the players eventually got introduced to all these locations across several World of Warcraft expansions, but the world map has suffered greatly for it.
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The Maelstrom, which is canonically placed in the middle of the known world, has been pushed aside to make space for all the aforementioned continents added after Mists of Pandaria. A proud Horde player named Blind_Fire couldn't help but accuse the latest string of expansions as an Alliance ploy to push the Maelstrom into Orgrimmar, sharing their humorous take on the official World of Warcraft subreddit. As absurd as it may be, past the initial joke, the thread kicked off a healthy discussion about the
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