God, these events leading up to a new expansion sound awesome. What an MMO can do with an insane amount of cash influx each month. I'm an old school MMO vet, started playing Everquest 11 years ago next month. Tried WoW, just wasn't "hardcore" enough. Currently playing EQ2. But damn, I'd kill to play an MMO with dynamic worldwide events such as the ones described in this thread. Only real parallel in a game I played was when my guild awoke Kerafyrm the Sleeper in EQ. I guess without the cash, you can't expect a game to have enough devs to code stuff like that in, but still, sounds awesome.