I actually got curious about one of those "gold making is supereasy" sort of guides and bought one and it was totally not worth the money. Then again, Ive played the AH for as long as I can remember and dont really have ingame money issues. I can see it being a decent resource for someone on their first character, but truth be told, everyone Ive recomended taking up two gathering profs while leveling is usually very well off when it comes to gold anyway so its not that hard to begin with ;).
Everquest, I played it for a long long time. I know there have been some expansions since I quit playing it however it was way way way more difficult than WoW. I played EQ on a PVE server and it was still much more difficult. The vast array of spells you get alone was mindboggling. There was a LOT more area and if you didn't have a wizard to port you around you did a LOT of walking or riding if you were lucky enough to have the insane amount of money required to buy a faster mount. Also, you had to sell things through the bazaar.. basically you parked your char in the bazaar and sold stuff off him.. there was no AH. Also, there weren't instances when i played, several guilds would camp epic mobs often waiting long periods of time for them to repop. Even then the drop you need you may not get. My guild spent 800 hours played working on one epic drop. If you died, you did not get a whispy wonderful ghost to go and recover your body with. You popped up at your bind spot completely naked and would often die several times just trying to get your corpse back. You could get a necro to summon your corpse to the beginning of the zone but that was very expensive. Each time you went to a new "zone" you would get a loading screen...this was very tedious.
So, I replied back and informed them that their response was rude, childish and unacceptable, and that they were doing a great disservice to the community that they puported to support by not allowing their membership to even know about the changes, have any conversations about it, or even hint at it. In short, Darknest is keeping its membership, in the dark. I am sure there will be a lot of ERP'ers that will be unhappy to learn that, had they known, their account did not have to be locked or deleted, and their guild disbanded.
Designer's Island and the small Outland-like island appear to be gone too. I just swam out and it seems a large chunk of the map has been removed. And as for my method, I'd rather not post it. If the info gets out, Blizz will fix it, and we won't be able to do it. But it's pretty simple to figure out.. Edit: I will post images of the edge of the map where the water stops, and my character stuck at the edge, and then dead. Give me a few minutes to convert and upload them..