WoW's recent revamp of Silvermoon for Midnight is so good, I'm starting to wonder if the MMO's model of a 'new exciting continent every 2-3 years' was ever the right way

WoW’s recent revamp of Silvermoon for Midnight is so good, I’m starting to wonder if the MMO’s model of a ‘new exciting continent every 2-3 years’ was ever the right way | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Midnight’s ‘stay a while and listen’ monologues might’ve just heavily hinted at a future big bad World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Midnight players found an empty campsite that references 2019’s planet-hopping puzzler Outer Wilds FPS Overwatch’s grand revamp event is a suffocating blip in an otherwise successful return to form World of Warcraft An inaccessible zone in World of Warcraft: Midnight has players convinced it’s a clue for the next update World of Warcraft ‘Sorry I can’t hear you over the roar of the Sunwell’: World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to turn the volume down on the giant crackling beam in the sky World of Warcraft Here’s when World of Warcraft: Midnight launches in your time zone World of Warcraft Ah yikes, World of Warcraft: Midnight’s otherwise solid housing system is soured by its premium currency, which makes you ‘minimize leftovers’ even though Blizzard said it wouldn’t World of Warcraft After playing a bunch of Midnight, I don’t think I miss WoW’s combat addons or my old class design at all World of Warcraft WoW’s new allied race in Midnight, the Haranir, has a model clipping issue with dozens of gear items—a problem that’s been on the PTR for months MMO The best MMOs on PC MMO Project: Gorgon has recaptured the old-school MMO magic I thought was dead and gone by letting me ask a pig about its mother so hard it dies RPG Path of Exile’s next expansion overhauls a beloved endgame system that hasn’t seen major changes for 10 years World of Warcraft ‘The Light really did call EVERYBODY’: players find Leeory Jenkins, complete with his cloth shoulderpads, defending the Sunwell in World of Warcraft: Midnight World of Warcraft WoW’s classes were pruned for Midnight because many were ‘built in a world’ where its devs assumed they’d be using addons Final Fantasy Final Fantasy 14’s latest unofficial census is a surprising uptick, and shows I’m not the only one getting sucked back into the MMO again PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!MarathonArc RaidersBest PC gearQuizzes Games MMO World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Midnight WoW’s recent revamp of Silvermoon for Midnight is so good, I’m starting to wonder if the MMO’s model of a ‘new exciting continent every 2-3 years’ was ever the right way Features By Harvey Randall published 7 March 2026 Home is where the hearthstone is. 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By all means, they’re still “new”—the rebuilt Silvermoon is completely different, as are the questing zones outside, but Blizzard’s really digging into its old world in a way it hasn’t done since the old world overhaul in Cataclysm.And you know what? It’s great. This might just be me donning my rose-tinted goggles for a second, given I played quite a bit of The Burning Crusade as a lad, but Blizzard’s art department and world design developers have both done a bang-up job here. The new Silvermoon is gorgeous.Image 1 of 5(Image credit: Blizzard)(Image credit: Blizzard)(Image credit: Blizzard)(Image credit: Blizzard)(Image credit: Blizzard)Murder Row, previously just a street, is now a sprawling district filled with hidden bars and noble dens of degeneracy. The Sunwell is placed at the end of a long, ocean-stretching bridge that looks like it was peeled straight out of the concept art. There are these little floating terraces with blood elves drinking wine. You may like WoW’s revisiting old zones for Midnight and The Last Titan because not every story ‘has to be t