I've seen a lot of disgruntlement aimed at both the worgen and the goblins, but personally, I've enjoyed the hell out of both races. I've enjoyed the goblins more than the worgen, but part of that is novelty value, as I'm primarily an alliance player, and certainly not a reflection on the worgen level of quality... those guys are ace too.

I'm not sure which worgen starting zone some of the above commenters played, because personally I found it to be the most gloriously atmospheric thing I've seen in the game yet, and I certainly enjoyed it more than the goblin one by far, right up until being dropped gracelessly in the middle of Darnassus, which helped none, as the entire Night Elf set of regions has always been my least favourite, although the Cataclysm revamps have made them more bearable.

As much as I love playing a goblin, I found the entire Kezan thing grating and misplaced. Things did pick up during the LOST/Kong/anything with pygmy tribes, zombies and volcanoes tribute that followed, but I only really started enjoying being a goblin as we knew and loved them before Cataclysm once I'd made it to Orgrimmar.

It does seem like the worgen have taken a back seat in terms of integration with the world beyond their initial introduction, and while there's definitely truth to that, I do think that's at least partly because we're already used to seeing goblins all over the place from before Cataclysm, as npcs, quest givers, lore generators and the whole shebang... the greedy little guys have always been around, but not so much moody werewolves. Despite goblins already prominent and now bolstered existence, both races do suffer noticeably from lack of long term impact on the world, a disadvantage they have against the Blood Elf/Draenei arraval, who both had an entire end-game world to fight over. Maybe (hopefully) this will be rectified in the future with some sort of worgen/goblin end-game boosting focused patches down the road, though. They've got to save some stuff for later, after all, beyond the obvious Deathwingery.

Treating Cataclysm as exactly what it was (in my opinion) intended to be, an introduction to the new stage in the world's overall story, a stepping stone to greater tings in the future, I'm pretty pleased with both the new races and all the new stuff as a whole. I can't wait for the next chapters to unfold with future patches.

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