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World of Warcraft: Why I'm Looking Forward to WotLK
Stradden
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MMORPG.com World of Warcraft player and writer joe Iuliani has been looking forward to Blizzard's Wrath of the Lich King expansion for quite some time and now, only 15 (or fewer) hours before the launch, he writes this article explaining why.
Loktar, Baladash, Malnore and howdy World of Warcraft fans. Hell, howdy to all the WoW haters too. Well at the time this article is being concocted it is now t-minus thirty one hours until the release of Wrath of the Lich King. After months of anticipation it’s almost go time. I know I’m not the only one out there that can’t wait for it.
As if the simple release of this expansion wasn’t enough to excite the WoW population, Blizzard has done a great job of chumming the water with their release of the achievement system. Not only did that give players a chance to fill in the blanks of their WoW experience, it gave players an insight into what may be expected in the upcoming expansion. Hopefully we’ll see all of those achievement points put to good use. I’d hate think I explored every single inch of the maps for just a title. Hercule the Explorer doesn’t have the best ring to it. I was not fortunate enough to get into the WOTLK beta, so I’m forced to base most of why I am excited for the expansion on previous press releases and the World of Warcraft home page, but I think that’s enough. So I know I will be stating much of the obvious, and with that being said…
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Read Joe's Wrath of the Lich King article.
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
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I can't wait to play too, probably saturday at this pace. Game was down all day tuesday, now today it's looking to be the same thing.
WRONG!!!!
You might BUY Wrath of the Lich King but you sure as heck won't be playing it!!! WOW Is dead, has been dead since yesterday. They broke it and it is not working anymore!!!
The same thing happened the day before the release of BC and guess what I was playing it that night when it came out. People need to relax and understand they need to prepare for the release....
This isnt preparing for the expansion....it is panic mode to unscrew something they failed to plan for. You don't keep servers offline for over an entire day....possibly two days just to "prepare". The prep should have been done a while ago...but I understand cults and cult followers...you know, the cult of personality and weak minded ppl...those who can see no failings in that which they worship....kinda like many ppl who will post how WOW is their religion and will come to defend it regardless of what they do!!!
That is why the devs can do what they want when they want and how they want.....they are gods in the eyes of many players and they know it.
Hmm, actually this is pretty common in terms of both past presecedent from Blizzard and other expansions for other MMOs. Look at the EVE Online expansion that was launched just yesterday by CCP. That resulted in some server downtime as well.
And just as a point of note, I don't play WoW and have no loyalty to it whwatsoever.
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
Unfortunately since the big patch 3 weeks ago, WoW has serious stability issues. Severe lag, crashing servers, mail disappearing, and now free PvP epics were handed out yesterday. In the past 24 hours the servers have been up for less than 30 minutes. My server is one from the original launch (i think they revamped it last year tho) and is extremely packed. We now have queue times of up to 45 minutes. The exspansion has brought back players who were dormant, and that's great for the game. I just don't think Blizzard was prepared for the influx of players.
Of course, I'll get some smart ass remark from a forum troll like "It's not the end of the world!!" or "Go outside and get some fresh air!!" And yes, all of these are valid points. But since I can only afford one P2P game, all I have is WoW. Which means that on my day off, when I usually kick back, pour some hot coffee and play for a bit, I can't.
I was looking forward to WotLK since I heard of it. But the past 3 weeks has honestly soured me to the idea of picking up the game and playing it. And honestly, I don't see these technical issues getting any better any time soon. I hope (crosses fingers) that Blizzard is able to get the game up sometime today. If not I'll more than likely wait till next week to try the Xpac. As least by then they should everything up and running.
Earth
Just started playing again myself and so far i have seen no problems, but mostly been spending my reset talents again and some new spells for some of the classes, and some world pvp, and i die as fast as always so nothing new there
Well i for one ain't very happy about it. wow is dying many players have quit and have moved on to to other games that offer a better gaming exipirience. Wow , it seems that warhammer online is gaining more players. not that I really care for that one either. I am playing those free mmorpgs, because they do offer a much better gaming expirience not to mention they are more social which is my opinion is what an mmorpg is about.
This is lacking big time is world of warcraft. also in world of warcraft you are badly limited to what you can do making a charachter automatically makes you the arch of the opposit faction and to make matters worse with every update the horde gets stronger and cooler mounts and equipment and the alliance gets weaker and sukier mounts and equipment. this is the reason I quite a year ago that and the lack of social play which is what I prefer.
I just feel it's time that blizzards takes the game in a new direction. I wish they would create social servers where you aren't automatically the arch enemy of the opposite faction. basically it's all about fighting monsters and making friends regardless of your charachters faction.
But I seriously doubt this will ever be implamented. I never cared to much for pvp. and I am sure there are others out there that agree. If blizzard really wants the popularity of the game to take off, then they need to something to encourage social play instead of always encouraging pvp all the time.
I do realize horde vs alliance has been the premis of lore for the longest time but it would be nice to have a change. I mean you can't be locked in a endless war forever, it has to end at some point.
Any ways this is just my opinion because social is my style of play.
Hmm, actually this is pretty common in terms of both past presecedent from Blizzard and other expansions for other MMOs. Look at the EVE Online expansion that was launched just yesterday by CCP. That resulted in some server downtime as well.
And just as a point of note, I don't play WoW and have no loyalty to it whwatsoever.
They had been doing extended maintenance and hardware upgrades for the past 4 months in preparations for WotLK launch, so ,they said, there was not going to be a problem on launch week, yesterday they were going to do the regular mail DB purge, but someone put the wrong SQL sequence and they did a wipe! Today they needed to fix the problem with the free PVP gear and again they run upon DB problems. I would not be surprised if when we get to log again we have out toons naked and there is an mail saying they are sorry and they will work on fixing the problem in the next week, like they did with the mails.
This brings them 1 step closer to get in the level of SOE Devs. Shame! Real Shame.
This is why I'm looking forward to making my DK.
Have fun crashing Northrend everyone! That is, assuming we can actually log in tonight...
Ah well, at least I have WAR to keep me busy should the worst happen.
Well... I didn't expect to get that feeling again... wow was my first real mmo. I played it since release. Quited almost a year ago. Tried some private servers, didn't like that and quited definitive. I went to other games: lotro, ryzom,... played a lot of different things..
But I've read a lot about WOTLK also... and it sounds great...
I think I go back!!
I wanna give it a try again
Hail wow!
the drums of war thunders once again for me!!
arthas is not prepared!!
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No offense...but what are you talking about? WoW's numbers actually just increased so how is it dying? Hell, I just quit myself but even I know it just hit 11 million subs. It has done the complete opposite of what you are stating. If eleven million subs is dying in your eyes I hate to see what you believe is a thriving game.
Ahhh Naxx.... what a dungeon, we actually made it all the way to Saph before BC was released and then it was forgotten.
I have to say this is without a doubt the best dungeon Blizz has implemented for WoW by a long way, the fights were amazing, with the Horsemen requiring probably the most co-ordination of any single raid fight (iincluding C'Thun) hopefully the 10/25 man raids will recreate at laest some of the epic feel of the original.
Good luck to everyone, see you at the door to Naxx.
For me BAttlegrounds ruined WOW and until they make a Battlegroundless server I wont be coming back.
Meh. I know WoW has a gazillion subscribers, but it's like consuming a Big Mac. It's cheap and filling but tastes like crap if you eat them every day.
I noticed I'm not the only person who doesn't play WoW. Which is nice. Sometimes I feel so alone.
I think people like WoW so much only because it is already popular. It may be silly of me to point out such a thing but a tired point is still valid.
It is strange how Blizzard entertains newcomers to WoW. I went to their main website (just googled WoW and hit the top link) as a dummy prospective buyer of the game. What I noticed immediately was that they didn't advertise WotLK as an expansion to the original game. In other words, you have to have bought the original and BC expansion in order to play WotLK. If this is true then it would seem that Blizzard aren't interested at all in new players. Amazing.
It's not strange at all. WotLK is not meant for new players. There is NOTHING in it that a new player could access, or would need to. Even the "new" profession was released in a patch for BC.
Hmmm... care to elaborate on the details about that?
Damn my old vanilla warrior could have used those "freepvp epics"
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
You must be smoking some strange chet. There is definitely an access point for new players. Its called Death Knight. Their starting level is 55, thus effectively giving new players 25 levels to play through.
But beyond this... I found the OP's post very much like a sales-talk. Reading through this, the writer did not seem to express any sort of experience prior to Burning Crusade which gimps their credibility to some degree. As many folks will notice that those who are excited for WoW's new expansion are either new to the game or have some strong affinity for WoW's type of gameplay.
Frankly, a new continent with more dungeons, only 1 new BG, 1 new Profession, and 1 Hero Class, in this WotLK expansion... seems to be only half of the content potential that was released in Burning Crusade. Burning Crusade had 2 new regions (Draenei/Blood Elf), 2 new races (already mentioned), new continent (Outland), 1 new BG, 1 new profession, and your standard extra raids.
If you compare WotLK and BC, your content for WotLK is gimped compared to BC. And I'm sure people enjoy getting ripped by Blizzard's wizening idea of how to effectively milk people for their money. I think CCP does a more effective job at deserving peoples' money without paying for expansion packs like Blizzard does.
I mean, look at Starcraft 2. Their reason for splitting it into 3 games was supposedly for "more content". I smell bullcr*p. Sure they can do it, but what is stopping them from packing it into 1 game? Instead of paying for 3 of them!
Hmm, actually this is pretty common in terms of both past presecedent from Blizzard and other expansions for other MMOs. Look at the EVE Online expansion that was launched just yesterday by CCP. That resulted in some server downtime as well.
And just as a point of note, I don't play WoW and have no loyalty to it whwatsoever.
I've actually never seen a MMO in my gaming career with more downtime then WOW has. I haven't played in nearly a year but it was still having all day maintenance every single week. So that was roughly 52 days a year down for scheduled not to mention unschedules. They will have more downtime with the release just to tweak things out i suspect so people should prepare for it.
My favorite part is:
"Say it with me, 'Death Night' "
Hahaha.
I don't understand the WoW haters and doomsayers that continue to post here. We get it, you don't like WoW. Go cry somewhere else about how your game can't even get 10% of the number of people playing WoW and pretend that other games are growing. Their not. They are in fact shrinking, as WAR has experienced in the past few weeks.
You really have no one to blame except the overhyped, featureless, MMOs that keep getting released onto the market.
It also doesn't matter if the previewer was trying to plug the expansion or not. Frankly, he doesn't have to. Millions of copies of this expansion will sell over the next 24 hours. More than any new MMO has been able to sell in weeks, let alone EVER.
I'm really not sure what keeps people continuing to waste their energy hating WoW. Jealousy is the only reason I can imagine anymore.
Not really excited about this one. I dont hate WoW, i just dont find it as interesting as it once was. WoW was at its peak before TBC was released, it was so fun back then. TBC and WotLK just dont deliver what expansions should, at least not fot me. Im into Lotro now. Sure it doesnt have 11 million subs, but a MMO doesnt need 11 million subs to be a success or fun.
The forest underneath Dalaran is pretty.
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I would have to agree here... not much excitement about the expansion. WoW lost me about 2 weeks ago after the last patch and countless server issues. I know there were problems with BC also when it launched, but with so many issues it would seem to me Blizzard and other dev would make better use of beta before upsetting many of their paying population! I was getting bored with WoW and the whole MMO community anyways. It would be nice to find a MMOG that offered more depth in storeline and character dev. Some have tried, but either have graphical glitching or game integ issues that make playing for any length of time frustrating. WoW (for the most part) plays smoothly and can be enjoyable as far as battle/fighting and exploring, but lacks depth in storeline and character dev outside of stats. Someday a game will come along with more depth and adventure to it and will offer more than a mindless grind for gear and levels to pvp and raid instances for more gear. When you think about it... you hit max level, enjoy a few quest lines, but mostly you reach "raiding status" for what? So you can look cool in nice gear as you hang out in city zones chatting to others about the next raid and dueling each other infront of the Auction House. I guess for some that stays enjoyable for longer than it did me.