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Unfinished Area Exploration in WoW

Posted by Zonk on from the those-wackty-devs-(tm) dept.

TubaJon writes "Exploring all of the maps in World of Warcraft can be very interesting, especially to see the parts that Blizzard is still working on. Silithus is one major zone that Blizzard is still working on, which a guy got to and took screenshots of. He also went to the airport in Ironforge and the Wetlands Farms, both of which are still areas in development. There are even whole websites devoted to getting to these areas."

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  1. Re:Things to do in WoW when you're dead... or not by Rallion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A while back people got banned for going into unfinished areas, and exploiting them for benefit. It wasn't sinply being in the areas that was the problem, not really, it was the mobs they had put there. (Though there was certainly never any question that they didn't want people in the given areas. Giant mobs called "Guardians of Blizzard" that can kill you by looking at you are a good clue.)

    I don't think any of them are actually exploitable anymore, though I could be wrong.

  2. GM Island. by JavaLord · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hah, they mentioned they are going to explore GM island for their next article. Good luck on them losing their accounts. I remember reading over at Blizz Hackers there was a guy who used a teleport hack to get to GM island. He claimed to have walked around a bit, and found a room with a big table and a bunch of chairs around it. Another member claimed that while walking around on the island he got a whisper from a GM saying "You shouldn't be here", and his account was banned. From the stories I've read it's somewhere in the middle of the world. People claim to have been teleported there when accused of hacking into an questioning type room that was totally dark with the exception of a beam of light coming through one window.