MW was a game from 2000 on a low budget, for what it was, how it came about and when it was made, its pound for pound 10x as impressive as WoW has been or ever will be. Howling Fjord I remember well, but it was essentially the same throughout the entire zone, even copy and pasted enemies. Wow has a lot of content, but its not stretched out as well as it should be, its just clusters of content with nothing but blandness and boring traveling inbetween. Skyrim and TES in general do not have that, when you consider random events, actual solid content and other things. WoW has some of the worst spacing and pacing I've ever seen.
It is nowhere near as impressive as WoW. When you start Morrowind, you start in the underbelly of a ship. Wow? Well..
Yeah, a bit more impressive. And how was Howling Fjord the same throughout the entire zone? You went from viking inhabited cliffs to dark forests to large snowy mountains, and the enemies are copy pasted? Well, yeah, because WoW has to support about 5000x more than morrowind at any one time, yet they still manage some variation, plus, morrowind is designed so you can strip enemies and take their stuff, WoW isn't, having variation to the scale morrowind does is a waste considering in The Elder Scrolls the enemies level and scale with you, WoW doesn't, you move onto a new zone. And how is boring travelling in between?
When I'm levelling in STV I'm travelling over beautiful rivers and waterfalls with a crashed zeppelin in the tree etc.. hardly boring, in fact, more fun to travel around in WoW than I have found in Morrowind actually, and I doubt you're seriously considering Morrowinds enviroment of "desert..desert..different bit of desert..hills..desert" to be entertaining and not bland? You seriously can't be considering that to be superior over "jungle..river..huge waterfalls.. dark forest... graveyard" if were going to apply my same wording to it.
And worst spacing and pacing you've ever seen? Wow, you can't of played this game you speak so highly of then, which had easily the worst combat I've ever seen in a game, the pacing was awful, it made me give up on it.
People see morrowind through rose tinted glasses, they don't see it what it is now which is overrated. I prefer any of the elder scrolls games to it.