I stopped reading on the first line.

Morlochs? Have you even played WoW?

 This still doesn't make a BlizzCon stream worth 40$....

In answer to your question, "will they add 10 levels?".

Why would they reduce the levels to obtain normal /epic/normal flying mounts so much if their intention was not to add another 10 levels?

It's feckin obvious that is their unimaginative and somewhat whimsical intention!

Hence one of my previous posts concerning a massive influx of imbecilic wastrels accelerating to max level without any effort.

1-90 without doing a single instance will be just too bloody easy.

In essence more fast food for gamer junkies!

Think I'm past being fed that shit!

In regards to Bnet 2.0 and paying for it, blizzard have confirmed many times that regular use is free.. ie, what you can do in Bnet 1.0 at the moment it will be free in Bnet 2.0 aswell.. so regular multiplayer matchups etc are free. 

When a player buys the StarCraft II box at retail, they will have the ability to play on the new Battle.net for free
source: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=17616371851&pageNo=2&sid=3000#25

Mike Morhaime - what I will say is that a player who goes to retail and buys the Starcraft 2 box at retail will have the full Starcraft 2 game included in the box and they will have the ability to play on battlenet with no additional fee.
source: http://www.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/mike_morhaime_confirms_battle.net_2.0_is_free/

There will be some paid for features but blizzard have yet to talk about that.. but I guess some of that will come out in a weeks time at blizzcon.

In ragards to the WoW expansion I have 1 wish.. to not allow flying mounts in the new zones, I think they have been the biggest reason for the death of world PvP and the general lack of world feeling.

Maybe we will also get some news about the WOW movie. It would be nice to know what the story will be.

- Drek'thar and the frostwolves

- Horde VS Alliance

- The fall of Gnomeregan (lol kidding)

- Sunwell going "BOOM"

-etc.

There's a lot of possibilites

i expect bnet 2.0 to be a bit like magic the gatherings online service.  you can play games agaisnt folks for free, but to get into tournies and win stuff it costs cash.

but yeah...

d3

sc2

WoW movie (itll suck but ill watch it)

WoW x-pac

unannounced MMO

i fully plan on getting d3, sc2, and whatever the new mmo is no matter the title.

But i dont really expect anything all that awsome to get announced and blizzcon, despite the fact that they should.

Gnomes <3

Originally posted by coffee

In ragards to the WoW expansion I have 1 wish.. to not allow flying mounts in the new zones, I think they have been the biggest reason for the death of world PvP and the general lack of world feeling.

Next Its Going To be Underwater Mounts. WATCH ME VANISH IN MY YELLOW SUB.

ok ...can someone please tell me what will become of Booty Bay and Ratchet if Goblins become a playable race.....

*Prays* Goblins do not become a playable race!  /puke

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Originally posted by garrett

jp can you link that statement?

My guess is...if that is true, then it will be SC2 and D3.

Although a WoW expansion in Dec. 2010 would not surprise me either.

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Originally posted by Zaminia

ok ...can someone please tell me what will become of Booty Bay and Ratchet if Goblins become a playable race.....

*Prays* Goblins do not become a playable race!  /puke

They will all remain neutral.. but a different faction of goblins will join horde, just as with the undead, the undead kown as the forsaken have join horde the rest are still alligned with arthus.

Also I doubt the goblins currently in the game will look like the goblins that join horde, the goblins city was more or less at the heart of the sundering event "cataclysm" so theres a good chance the goblins that join horde will look different too. Just as "the broken" look different to "Dreinai".

Originally posted by SaintViktor

The one thing I don't see mentioned here is the possible announcement of Blizzard's new mmo. We'll see what happens!

Can't believe this article didn't touch that.

I couldn't care less about WoW, the game just isn't fun. Never really liked it from the start. As for Diablo 3, well I loved the first Diablo but didn't enjoy Diablo 2 nearly as much. So I guess I'm not sure how I feel about Diablo 3 yet.

But there is Starcraft 2. Starcraft 1 was amazing, I avoided all of the Warcraft games and played all the C&C instead (Love C&C). When Starcraft came out it looked interesting so I tried it and it was amazing, I played it for a long long time. Spent most of my time doing the 3 v 5 ultimate AIs on the big money map, those were fun matches. I think game companies underestimate on strategy and shooters how much the players enjoy teaming up against tough outnumbering computer foes.

However I hadn't heard the rumors that battle.net would cost money now. It's a shame really because my money for Starcraft 2 was guaranteed money before that, but I will not buy it if I have to have a subscription or pay money to use battle.net. Why would I when I can play any other stand alone game that I want online for free? I guess I'll have to see what gets said about that because that will be the determining factor on if the one thing I truly loved that was blizzard joins the rest of the group and I don't buy it. Why would they even do that?

Originally posted by SnarlingWolf

I couldn't care less about WoW, the game just isn't fun. Never really liked it from the start. As for Diablo 3, well I loved the first Diablo but didn't enjoy Diablo 2 nearly as much. So I guess I'm not sure how I feel about Diablo 3 yet.

 

But there is Starcraft 2. Starcraft 1 was amazing, I avoided all of the Warcraft games and played all the C&C instead (Love C&C). When Starcraft came out it looked interesting so I tried it and it was amazing, I played it for a long long time. Spent most of my time doing the 3 v 5 ultimate AIs on the big money map, those were fun matches. I think game companies underestimate on strategy and shooters how much the players enjoy teaming up against tough outnumbering computer foes.

 

However I hadn't heard the rumors that battle.net would cost money now. It's a shame really because my money for Starcraft 2 was guaranteed money before that, but I will not buy it if I have to have a subscription or pay money to use battle.net. Why would I when I can play any other stand alone game that I want online for free? I guess I'll have to see what gets said about that because that will be the determining factor on if the one thing I truly loved that was blizzard joins the rest of the group and I don't buy it. Why would they even do that?

You will NOT have to pay money be it a 1 off payment or sub to play SC2 or D3 on the new battlenet. Some features of Bnet2 will be paid4 but regular play is free.  Confirmed by blizzard many times, look back in this thread I posted links.

Some of the paid4 feature floating around, and none confirmed. are:

1. esports - blizzard will regulary host esport tornaments, players pay $5 to enter and the winner wins the total sum of the entry fees, so if 1000 players enter the winner(s) share $5000 .. hell id give it a go.

2. premium bnet2 account, a small monthly sub and you can play agains other premium account holders, kind of a way of flushing out the kids and idiots.

 I'm very much interested in seeing more about Diablo 3 rather than SC or the WoW expansion.

So, Diablo 3 or the new MMO for me...

Originally posted by Zaminia

ok ...can someone please tell me what will become of Booty Bay and Ratchet if Goblins become a playable race.....

*Prays* Goblins do not become a playable race!  /puke

your probably ally anyway. Getting tea-bag'd by a gnome is less humaliting then tea-bag by goblin. and horde supposed to be the "So called, evil, humaliting side" .

And dont worry your probably Ally just go play your tiger fetish side.

A hourly fee? Please... I would not expect the idea to even cross anyones mind, its ridiculous. Personally I'd love a hint at what the next Blizzard MMO entails and am causciously optimistic they may discuss something about it if not neccesarily show something.

If there is a fee for Battle.net 2.0 then I expect it would be for services offered outside of what Battle.net 1.0 does, things like streaming E-sport matches, exclusive access to betas, sharing replays or something. Ultimately though I would be almost shocked if we had to pay a penny for anything, after all whatever it was for I think it would cause a pretty big uproar amongst fans. More information on the Starcraft II campaign would be mighty welcome.

Eh the only part if Blizzcon I'm looking foward to is the unveiling of Diablo 2 1.13 patch. I think there will be big upgrades to D2.

I have been playing Blizzard games since 1996 (I quit WoW over a year ago and have absolutely no desire to go back to watch them continually rape their own lore) and therefore I do not buy the argument the author of the article gives for the delay of SC II being they are Blizzard and unlike other companies they have the luxury of releasing when it is done.  Sorry to inform, but this has always been Blizzards way of releasing a game, it is a HUGE reason their games dont fail and they are at where they are today because of it.  ANY game company can do it, Blizz deleayed and delayed,  when they were still nobodies.  They did it at the beginning when they were nothing, they sure as heck will do it now, when they cant count all their $$ fast enough.  So implying other companies cant do the same, doesnt really hold water.  it is all about quality versus rushing an unfinished product out the door --  its a choice, and game companies reap the rewards of that choice.

Originally posted by coffee

2. premium bnet2 account, a small monthly sub and you can play agains other premium account holders, kind of a way of flushing out the kids and idiots.

"I paid extra money to play against people dumb enough to pay extra money to play against me."

Just get hooked on heroin, for goodness sake. The end will be more pleasant.