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Originally posted by Earley
Wow, I would expect an editorial like that from a magazine like People or the New York Times weekend magazine, but from a site that purportedly IS an MMO specialized site, its pretty obvious that you haven't really dug into this topic very much. Most of these things are clearly specified in all the literature and posting or general info freely available about the Burning Crusade beta, which is NOT covered by any NDA and therefore freely available to all.

Clearly you have spent a lot more time writing about WoW than playing it. I think that any reasonable person who's reading the BC beta info can see that BC is going to be very different than the current client. And DEFINITELY anyone that has played before the honor system even went in will be happy as a clam with the new game. I was one of those that mourned the loss of world pvp with the Honor rank system that went in a year ago.

New:
No more Honor ranks at all. Whole honor system replaced by a new system where you spend your honor points to 'buy' gear.

An entirely new PvP arena system, which works a bit like smaller versions of Guild Wars guilds.

New battlegrounds with new objectives.

30% More land area.

No more 40-man dungeons, ever again (MC, BWL, and AQ40 will remain the last of them). 5- and 10-man instances are de rigeur now, and 25-man being the new cap. Some of the 5- and 10-man instances can take a week for a team of players to complete, playing nightly.

Redesigned world itemization, with new resist and damage types.

Improved combat mechanics, with the idea being to make PvP fighting last longer (more health / level, better itemization and resists, etc).

World PvP goals and new battle grounds designed actually to modify the world and game play for the faction holding landmarks.

Shaman and Pallies on both sides, which will change the way both factions play (glad they changed this back, it was a good idea, but didn't work).

Obviously 2 new races, with new starter areas (a whole zone each, with a bit less than 3 dozen quests each), not to mention that the whole world has been updated with new and modified quests to accomodate the new races in the lore.

I don't think it takes much imagination to see that WoW version 2.0 is not just going to be more of the same, because the same endgame and the same pvp are what we're all tired of. Blizzard has tried at least to address these major issues, and I for one, believe they've done a great job with this expansion.

Earley

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In my opinion...

This expansion isn't adding anything major to the core gameplay (modes of play, different ways to play existing classes, new classes, etc...) and is more building on the existing formula. Seeing as how it took them 2 years to bring this expansion out, I think the expansion is fairly weak in the grand scheme of things. Another thing to note, given the speed you can advance in the game and the level of power you attain in a relatively short span of time, I fear new content may reach 'farmable' status too quickly.

Don't get me wrong, I don't love or hate the game. I just got tired of it, I had little to look forward to beside constant PvE raiding for gear. I could go PvP for a bit, but for my $15 a month, a few hours of PvP was not worth it. I know there is a bunch of new content being added. I'm looking for new TYPES of content. It is very possible that there is something I've missed that falls into that category, if so please let me know.

There is still the chance that there are some other goodies in the expansion Blizz hasn't talked about yet. It would be cool to see them really add new activities to the game.

-Kash-

i think new comer come to play this game more than player who quit wow,blizz open new realm 3-6 realm per month that garuntee they get alot customer.

ps.I like this game so much i won't quit it for sure.

I also agree with the Editorial.  BC is going to be same stuff different zones.  Raising the cap instead of Hero Classes is probably going to throw the game out of whack.  Imagine Mr Hardcore is in full tier 3 epic gear but then Miss Casual gets some 70 blues that are equal or better.  It trivializes what the Hardcore guy been working on for months.  MC will start being farmed with 25-30 people who are 70 instead of the normal 40 man raid.

They absolutely can't wait another 2 years though to release another expansion however.  Blizzard needs to realize that you can't take your sweet time releasing expansions with a MMOG that you can with a RTS or action/rpg.  Also making the content patches more meaningful would be good progress.  Uh there is an AQ War going on now, hadn't noticed.  Scourge is invading?  Really, haven't seen them recently actually invading anything...

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Originally posted by DrowNoble

MC will start being farmed with 25-30 people who are 70 instead of the normal 40 man raid.

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Originally posted by Ranak1

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Originally posted by DrowNoble

MC will start being farmed with 25-30 people who are 70 instead of the normal 40 man raid.

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Level cap, anyone?

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Originally posted by Tuche

such a bad review . . .

such review is the reason i almost dont come here anymore . . .

reviewer should die . . .

 

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Customer advisory

THIS GAME IS

NOT

FOR MORONS!

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WoW is a bit lame. Grinding like the asian MMOs really, when you get to the endgame. It's just a matter of stubborn persistence and not skills or wits.

But no matter how bad WoW is (or isn't), it is still the best MMO around in my oppinion. It's a bit sad really, but I do hope WAR and AoC will bring something fre´sh to the genre.

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Originally posted by JerothG
My biggest beef is the balanced system... IMO it's too balanced, it's a deadlock in some cases. What I'd like to see in WoW in the future is imbalance. the ability to build your toon the way you want to, adding the element of unpredictability to the game.  Adding the ability to craft truly unique items, let the other professions actually do what they are meant to do (ie Let Armorsiths repair armor, weaponsmiths repair weapons, etc)

I think the classing is too strict, and in some cases in makes no sense. For example, Why can there not be a human Hunter? or a Dwarven Warlock?  I'd like to see some real changes to the game, as it stands I've grown tired of the faction grind, MC/Ony/BWL grinds... I've let me membership lapse for the last 3 months and will probably let it go until the expansion comes out. But how long can the expansion contain 'new' content? I think it will get old fast.

C'mon Blizz! Make it right!!

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Dude, you got your wish. They completely redid the itemization. Now socketable items have sockets for you fill with discovered, refined, or purchased gems that add whatever effects and bonuses you want. This will allow you to customize your character finally.

Earley

i am sorry to say this review has appearantly been done based on the reviewer reading the original press release from blizzard and not much more.

i mean, no mention of zone pvp objective, new recipes from the existing professions adding costumization to a characters, jewelcrafting and socketing items for costumization, arena battle system, etc, etc.

really, at least try playing the beta for a while before trashing the game, while WoW is not perfect or anything, this review can be summed up as bashing hte press release and not much more.