One of the reasons that was originally given for the Freeport revamp was that the old city was too confusing to get around in. And the *new* Freeport is their idea of an improvement? I could walk directly to any place I needed to be in the old Freeport without ever getting lost. Anyone who thinks the old Freeport was too difficult to get around in probably also has trouble figuring out which shoe goes on which foot every morning when they get dressed. Please correct this tragic mistake and bring back the original Freeport.

As an old school Human Pally who's starting city was the old Freeport, I took a dim view to a revamp of my hometown. Seeing the final product though, was just a huge disappointment. I hate the "new" design, still get lost trying to find my way through it, and for the most part, try to avoid going there at all.

Highpass Hold was another fubar of a zone revamp...

When playing on the progression server I finally learned to somewhat navigate new freeport. That being said I still hate it. I wish they would just stick the old Freeport back in the game. Just stick a teleportation gnome in the caster tower to get to the POR expansion and be done with it. I have never found anyone who actually likes the changes. Just a big mass of mazey buildings with nothing interesting to really see.

Maybe daybreak will consider doing this. Heck Project 1999 has a pretty spot on spawn of the original Freeport assuming there are no backups of the original database for old freeport.

I think I've only encountered 1 or 2 players who admit to liking the new Freeport. I sure didn't like it. And that's not to say it isn't remarkably well designed and interesting to explore. But from the day it went live it always struck me as misdirected effort and it also was competing against players' nostalgic memories of the original Freeport... however crude and old-fashioned those zones were most players who go way back had fond memories of time spent in Freeport. The new Freeport was introduced in whatever expansion brought along fun zones like The Devastation with the introduction of the then "ground-breaking" idea of destructible content. I guess since they were going to make Freeport the conduit zone to get to Devastation they figured let's just overhaul that zone too since we're doing the design work anyway.

I think if the "new" Freeport had been a nexus zone reached FROM the old Freeport, which means the old zone would still be around, players would be fonder of the new zone. I know I would.

But I'm old school.... I feel the same way about Misty Thicket. I thank the Gods they never got around to destroying Butcherblock Mountains!