Great review man and I would have to agree about wow being my gaming benchmark as well. Also, the feeling of awe you are describing is one I am trying to recapture in my N00b Squad comic series in addition to some good old wow nostalgia. So seriously, I'd love input on it. I'm a pretty good artist by trade but am not sure about storytelling and I'm trying to make something that is entertaining and yet fits the platform as well. So very open to change.
Most of the places you described had the same effect on me. Some experiences just got seared onto my brain, such as witnessing loch Modan and iron forge for the first time. The peak of my experience was a late night raid where as a resto shaman I healed a successful kill of the lich king and was the only healer left alive. It was pretty much me a Paladin tank and some of the top dps while all of the dead characters screamed at us through teamspeak. I might have cried a little bit lol it took months to get to that. But real life didn't leave time for raiding so it pretty much ended there too.
The one other game I played capable of matching wow in terms of scale and grandeur was eve online. The lore in it is bland but the universe is dazzling and the most amazing aspect of it is the real dynamic of the game is steered by actions of players and player owned corporations. You think wow auction house was fun? This game's economy is managed by full time professional economists and has a dollar value exchange rate.
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I probably had a similar raid experience the first time my guild took down the Twin Emps in AQ40 during vanilla... I wasn't even the main or secondary tank in the guild.. I was third string and only filled in when one of the mains were gone or if content was on farm status and they were looking for DPS gear... After a bajillion wipes the second tank bailed and like a good guildmate I was online during the raid even though I wasn't raiding. It was my badlands farming time. Mithril and Iron ore were hot commodities. Anyway they called me in said we are gonna wipe a bunch but they just wanted to practice some more... We downed them on the third attempt! Was our guild first! I felt like a boss even though it had less to o with me and more to do with everyone else improving. It's like when you loosen the lid on a jar and some asshole walks over and opens it with ease saying wow you couldn't open that!
I never played Eve at all but the PS4 version is the one game that really makes me want to get a PSVR. Oh man by dollar value exchange rate do you mean you can convert Eve money to real world money... I wish I could earn cash in all my hours gaming and trade it in. There was some crypto currencies that I had read about that kind of sounded like they might do something like that. Even if I could only use it to buy more games I'd be all over it. Like convert my ps4 trophies into a digital currency that I can use to purchase downloads from the PS Store! I'll definitely keep an eye out for your N00b squad comics and let you know what I think. Considering I couldn't even draw a stick person if my life depended on it I'm likely not going to be able to offer much though!
Well the EVE that is on PlayStation and VR platforms are their first person shooter games, Valkyrie and the lighter weight arcade type, gunjack. Gunjack was fun but I haven't played Valkyrie. I know party play is possible, but when I say EVE online, I am referring to the mmorpg PC game. Millions of players all playing one universe and participating in self-created political and market upheavals.
Like wow gold you technically could find ways to sell it for fiat currency but it would be against the game's terms of service. The fiat conversion is possible because pilot's licenses, or PLEX, are sold for fiat, but they can also be purchased in-game for in-game currency, or ISK, giving a real-world conversion factor. So, no, you can't make Real currency for online gaming but it would be possible to play for free.
Of course there are plenty of ways for intrepid gamers to make real money, by YouTube'ing, Twitch streaming, game guide creation, or being skilled enough to get on an Esports team or making it to an Esports tournament, but I don't know of any yet where in game currency can be converted to fiat currency. As soon as there was such a game, it would be overrun by people in 3rd world country sweatshops playing games to farm the currency. I remember a time where there was quite a bit of that going on in wow and diablo, fueled by 3rd party sites where you could pay cash for gold and items .