WAR Report, Altdorf
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I was wandering around Altdorf the other night, which is the capital city for the Empire (ie. the humans). I don’t remember why I went there — probably to find someone to fulfill some quest. Or maybe just because it was enabled on the map where it wasn’t before. Anyway, I was anxious to see it because capital cities in MMOs tend to be crowded, interesting places with lots of things to see and do and bustling activity everywhere. (I’m thinking of Stormwind and Ironforge from WoW, where crowds of players packed the streets, begging for gold and hawking their goods and services.)
Altdorf, however, was a gigantic wasteland of missing content and missing players. I ran across maybe four or five others while I was there, each of which seemed to have the same puzzled expression — where is everyone? You can run around the streets and look at all kinds of buildings, but you can only enter a handful of them. And even if you could go into a building, most of the time there was nothing to do there. There were NPCs everywhere, but hardly any of them talk or give out quests. Maybe it will blossom into something better at later levels, but at level 12, it was definitely not worth the visit.
There are a handful of unique vendors there, though: The horse vendor, the last name registrar (whatever that is), the guild registrar and a bunch of librarians. So at least I know where to go now when I’m ready to buy a horse. Also, the auction house was there, but there was nothing useful for my character to buy.
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