Review on the Burning Crusade from an older gamer

First, a brief background on myself. I started playing MMORPG's with Motor City Online and DAoC. My favorite MMORPG's were DAoC and SWG before the NGE. I tried WoW twice, because my brother and his dad plays it. I played it the first month I bought it and then I resubbed at the end of this past summer. Both times I never got a character above lvl 30, because of a few reasons. One, the content I had to repeat every time I recreated a character to try out different classes wore down on my interest, because the content sucked. The quests weren't that great in my opinion. I also wanted to play a race and class that did not exist yet...the Elven Mage.

Well, because Vanguard would cost me $300 to play it, because I would have to upgrade my brand new PC from a Geforce 7300 LE to a 7900 and my 1gig of RAM to 2gigs, and I didn't want to do that quite yet; I decided to pick up TBC and try out a BE Mage. I didn't expect much, because I read up on it before. So I expected to quit after playing it after a few days. Well, so far so good is the long story short.

For those that are wandering, it is sort of more of the same. However, the musical scores are better, the quest lines are better, the content seems more fun and the armor even looks better. The community does seem to have switched sides...a lot of the mature people went to try out the new Alliance class, while every kid that plays seemed to have rolled a BE. Again, I knew this would happen a year ago when they announced the expansion.

The new content/areas, music, and races seem to have made an improvement to this game. However, I have no idea how the end game will change and if the lvl 60 raid gear will even be worth raiding for anymore. One thing is for sure...Blizzard has done it again. They produced a well polished expansion and I haven't ran into one bug yet. I doubted Blizzards judgment call on holding out this expansion so long, but when they release two well polished games (WoW & the TBC expansion) you start to wander why companies like Sigil don't take a clue and polish their games before releasing them.

I'm sorry, this actually doesn't seem like much of a review, but more of an observation on TBC and on whether I like it or not. I hated WoW and what it has done to the market. I am 26 yrs old, married, and I have a son who is in school. I prefer sandbox games like SWG was. But even after that, plus I play 20 hours a week, I am having fun in TBC. Whether or not I stay depends on if I can find a group of mature adults that want to experience all aspects of the game.