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World of Warcraft: NA Regional Finals Aug 21-22
SBFord
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The Warcraft regional finals for North America will be held on August 21-22 in Austin, Texas. Folks who are able to attend in person will be able to watch live Warcraft III and World of Warcraft PvP matches, try out Starcraft II and the WoW Cataclysm expansion. The event is free too! Can't attend? No worries.
We realize that some of you are too far away to attend. Hopefully, we’ll soon have an event in your area. In the meantime, however, we will be providing a free video stream of the tournament matches on this website.
Check out the brackets, prize lists and more on the Warcraft Tournament page.
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I believe that this is the root cause for the decline in the quality of WoW's development. At some point, someone at Blizzard decided to deviate from sustaining an expansive persistent world to making the game the launching point for an e-sport. I can only believe that this is the sole reason for the homogenization of classes and the crusade to shove Arena combat down the players' throats.
I agree, I mean hey its cool if you want to pvp but why force the people who pve to conform for pvp's comfort?
Because PvE content requires resources, time and effort. PvP content does not demand as much because the content is created by the players
I have to agree that PvP is one of the elements that have marred WoW's quality for those of us who enjoy PvE.
At one time, I had a "there's room for us all" attitude, but that is before I learned that the devs really never intended to separate these 2 very different aspects of game play. "It's too confusing for the players to have abilities work differently for PvP and PvE."
If the different aspects of a game aren't acknowledged and built for, then the result is a game that plays like canned soup tastes - a bland concoction designed to avoid offending anyone's taste buds rather than be something really good.
Have played: Everquest, Asheron's Call, Horizons, Everquest2, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer, Age of Conan, Darkfall
I find that reasoning a bunch of hogwash. Other games have done it, I'm certain that WoW with all of their resources could do it as well. It won't happen but it should have in my opinion.
Just had to get on the wagon here for anti-pvp.. See you PVE's have things bad.. imagine then how bad it is for us Roleplayers.
I do ALOT of testing for various companies Blizzard inclusive and the one thing I see time and time again is that companies lose sight of what their gene of game is .. Its a MMORPG for a reason and yet so very few games ever manage to do a decent or even half decent emote system neverlone the ability to sit in a Inn and not die when some fool rushes in and decides he doesn't like roleplayers..
Blizzard thankfully took alot of advice to heart for Wow but even so Roleplayer servers are the last to ever be patched or fixed .. too many people are trying to please the PVP'ers and no one thinks of the roleplayers.
The thing that makes me drop my sub within the first month is the lack of RP in a lot games.. Now this isn't an anti-Wow post as I have had WoW on my system since I did beta so 6yrs on and I'm still there.
There's RP servers and PvP servers now but saddly all those Player Killers will ALWAYS come first to a company over we Roleplayers.
One day I hope there will be a game made by roleplayers for roleplayers.. but until then I will continue to watch the world do events for pvp.. I bet there's nothing to even do there if you don't like pvp.