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The Burning Crusade will...
Dis_Ordur
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...serve as a stark reminder of how companies like SOE should maybe stick to simpler games, like side-scrollers...
The amount of features and new content in this expansion will dwarf that of any other MMO's offerrings... It is sad really... Companies once thought they had 'game', but ole Blizz is rolling up the newspaper and smacking everyone over the nose...
The bar has been raised for MMO's due to WoW, and now expansions will be pale in comparison to the mega-offerring that is the BC...
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In War - Victory.
In Peace - Vigilance.
In Death - Sacrifice.
So what is this expansive list of features that puts everything else to shame? How does BC have anything more than Kingdom of the Sky which added 10 more levels, AAs, and an entirely new PvP system with separate pve/pvp stats for every single item and skill in teh game?
I cant wait to grind all my lv 60s up to 70 then stand around in IF and wait two more years for an for an expansion.
But at least they dropped the price on (BC) .
The Burning Crusade will...
probably hold me over till WAR is launched
However the CM's have said naxx gear would be upgraded in Khazaran and not really beforehand.
It's certainly not something that makes me want to re-sub, but I hope it will keep the people still playing occupied for awhile.
After waiting for two years for an expansion of a game that rapidly becomes stale after hitting the level cap The Burning Crusade fails to introduce even ONE new class?
They will take away the priest, paladin, mage etc abilities to auto-cleanse disease, curses, poisons etc in an efficient manner. Effectively forcing all of those raiding guilds to relearn the encounters (and likely making alot of the support class players stop playing them. Admittedly this could be good or bad, depending on the healers you have in your guilds.
They introduce 2 new races?...Whoopty doo..lol. Now you have 6 races to pick. Furthermore, each of the new races will "share" a racial ability with an existing race.
New Talents. Always nice, but Blizzard has failed to balance classes in the two+ years since launch. I can here the forum crying now about such and such being too strong...
The UI improvements that Blizz has been slowly implementing are thanks to all of those UI folks out there showing Blizzard "how to" make their UI better.
I know there will be some positive effect from BC release, but the OP isn't even close by saying "The bar has been raised for MMO's due to WoW, and now expansions will be pale in comparison to the mega-offerring that is the BC..."
The only bar Blizzard has ever raised, is going to other games and taking a successful "bar" from other developers stacks of bars and making it their own.
Don't get me wrong, I played and mostly enjoyed the game for almost 2 years, but when I stepped away I realized there are alot of innovative ideas out there just waiting to be unleashed and enjoyed.
I will be happily trying out G&H, Vanguard, Age of Conan etc while all of you WoW'ers do the faction grind some more, since Blizzard will fail to implement anything other than "borrowed" gameplay as their "new" features.
If WoW was for the casual gamer before then this expansion is the messiah of casual games. It makes all previous gear obsolete (has been said), then gives in to casuals in every area even the pvp and new raid gear.
Dont have naxx gear atm? Fine go do a 5-man and get better stuff.
Dont have time to pvp? Fine pvp once a week and save your honor up, dont worry you wont lose rank.
Dont have time for a big raid guild? Fine get a few friends and a small guild going and raid anything.
The only thing groundbreaking I see is mass appeal to casual raiders and maybe the flying mounts.. Still have to give blizzard props though, game could be more popular than ever thanks to new changes for casuals.
The Burning Crusade will......keep WOW alive for 2-3 months.
After that,it will begin to die as the new releases come out/are beta'd.
After two full years, Blizzard creates an expansion with 0 new races and that expands the land mass of WoW by 25%?
Again, you must be joking. This is going to be one of the biggest rip offs released for a MMO. Seriuosly, the 9 classes they do have were stale a year ago, and they can't come up with 1 new class.
I'm sorry, but I don't share your thoughts on the subject. This is one MMO expansion that I will be skipping.
I have to admit the announced features didn't look too impressive because there was a sort of a lack of 'gimmicks' which I have become quite accustomed to with mmorpgs, but the information coming back from BC beta sounds like it will be a big improvement for the game. Whether it will be or not, we'll have to see but yeah I can guess I see where the OP is coming from.
Edit. By the way, the reason cited no classes are being added is because they are still ironing out the existing classes, which I'm going to have say I agree with as it needs doing badly.
Yeah, especially since it's subscription rate hasn't dropped in nearly a year, it's the most popular and widely-accepted MMO ever to exist, and has consistently gotten the highest-ratings out of any MMO on most gaming sites.
Yeah, it's really going to "die" soon.
Except what I stated was in no way refering to the quality of the name. Not that reading comprehension really plays any factor in the replies I ever get.
Everquest 1 in its peak had 500k subs? Its still alive 7 years later.. Who knows they still have alot of servers up it might even see another 5-7 years if soe doesnt pull the plug.
With graphic/engine overhauls I think its fair to say WoW will still be around 10 years from now.
It has been said many times that NAXX gear will only be replaced by the level 70 raid dungeons.
BC will only further split the Casual vs. Raiders flame wars.
Considering that they didn't even add Hero classes or Battlegrounds 2 that they featured on their comming soon page over a year ago, I am not impressed with BC.
BC will be a huge sales success, but I bet you see WoW's rating on this website drop further.
In addition to these huge mistakes, I was also told today that in BC, Hunters will be able to set traps DURING combat. This was one of my greatest peeves with this game, and since it can't be fixed, Blizzard will make it even worse by simply giving up.
I absolutely agree. I read the new talents/spells and the only thing I can say about them is that it will be the single worst mistake Blizzard has ever made. The classes who desperately needed help got the shaft once again, and those who were already too powerful got even moreso. If they ever get around to even attempting to fix this mistake, I imagine it will be a failed effort and they will simply turn the tables on who is gimped and who is awesome, as they have done repeatedly in the past.
Again, this is Blizzard's way of taking someone else's brilliant ideas, adding it to the game with a little polish, and pretending it's all fresh and new. The few mods they CAN'T add to the game will be rendered useless. Modding was one of the few aspects that I really liked about this game, and I wrote them as often as possible. I hope that other games will utilize this feature in upcoming releases.
Adding two "new" races, 10 levels, and a couple of zones and then trying to call it an "Expansion" is a joke. Where are these supposed "Hero Classes" that have been in the works since the beginning of the game? Where are these "Siege" mechanics that were supposed to be added to Battlegrounds many months ago? They added Jewelcrafting, but we all know what it is... just another way to get "hawt lewt" through ridiculous grinds and overpriced materials.
I'd also like to point out that while WoW continuously reports that they have over 7 million accounts, most of them are from China. I'd be surprised if the total number of WESTERN accounts was more than 1 million.