Did you know Blizzard's most successful game won't let you cook bacon? Disturbing, ins't it? Me neither and it was nothing short of a pure shock for me when I figured this out a couple of years ago. As an adventurous dwarf in Azeroth and enthusiastic chef in real life, I was quite disappointed to learn that the game which literally thought me how to cook my own meals, won't let me stir-fry my own bacon rolls. I'm just tired of munching on mystery meat! And despite the fact I can now tend my own gigantic garden and feed a pig or two with smelly turnips, nothing can compare with the virtual pleasure of loading the texture of a 3D bacon slice. Heck, ale ain't that good without bacon, ain't it? And despite Blizzard did confirm we will be able to soon cook bacon recipes, we all know what "soon" actually means.
But the bacon topic is just the begging of my obvious displeasure. I can not describe my feelings when I learnt garrisons will be nothing like the Sims homes. I am already living 8-12 hours a day in this otherwise gorgeous reality, all I needed is a place to call home. Still, what's a dwelling simulation without actually being able to throw your trash away or call a move in cleaner after you rent your fortress of a gnome family? While cooking and fishing were introduced in vanilla WoW in 2004, cleaning which is also an essential part of a our lives was never even mentioned. Where's the Red-shirt Guy now to ask this uncomphy question at BlizzCon? I bet Mists of Pandaria was called MOP in short for a reason. I expect cleaning to be added as a primary profession to the next expansion, otherwise I'll run Gasrrosh until my spirit quits respawning for good.
And why did all the characters get a completely new texture? Pixel graphics are just making their way through the market in games like Terraria and Minecraft and what Blizzard did is adopt the old-school high-quality look. What a shame! Not to mention the loading time we will get with graphics like these. My Windows 98 gaming PC wound't stand a change against all that rendering. And why do I need to have a pretty face when there's not even a proper mirror in the barber shop? Developers should've thought this trough! But maybe they're trying to keep Thrall's eyebrows a secret for him as long as they could. And how could they turn a perfectly tolerable orc into a all-around metro-sexual hulk? What were they thinking dieing his bears and making him all wimpy! Or it is maybe a conspiracy against the Horde, who knows?