Warcraft expansion hits stores
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 | 12:42 PM ET
by Paul Jay, CBC News Online
The long-awaited World of Warcraft expansion, dubbed The Burning Crusade, officially went on sale on Tuesday, and as expected, there were long lines everywhere.
The massive multiplayer online game, set in a 3D swords-and-sorcery fantasy setting, has been hugely popular since it launched in 2004. Blizzard Entertainment, which runs the game, said it has more than eight million subscribers.
As with most role-playing games, the secret to Warcraft is the potential for characters to increase their abilities, get new and more powerful items and explore new worlds, which makes the experience highly addictive for some people. For those who've never played an online RPG, think of Dungeons and Dragons. Now take away the dice and the ceaseless arguing between players and dungeon master over rule interpretations. So it's fun. And addictive.
Amusingly, the BBC posts a number of comments about the game from hard-core gamers, not all of whom are in love with Blizzard's world. As someone calling themselves Thomas Bird writes, Warcraft is "[p]ointless twaddle. Go play Elder Scrolls: Oblivion or something, maybe even go outside! The only thing this game has going for it is that it's addictive. It never gives you a conclusion so you never stop playing."
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Comments
Carrie, M
Ottawa
Very scary when someone only takes 28 hours to reach the level cap of the game.
Posted January 24, 2007 12:47 PM
Jordan
Winnipeg
Does anybody else love how the guy who said players should go outside mentioned another boring RPG to play instead of WoW?
Posted January 24, 2007 09:36 PM
Andy
all i have to say is W.O.W
ha ha ha ha
Posted June 4, 2007 07:01 PM
Justin Burton - Fort McMurray
I love how they comment that the game has no end like it's a bad thing. They obviously have no idea what an MMORPG is supposed to entail.
The fact of the matter is that everyone is up in arms against Blizzard because they have made an MMORPG like no other before, no one seems to care about Star Wars Galaxies not having an end? Know why? Because that game isn't fun.
Posted June 7, 2007 01:07 AM
Luc
Buckingham
Level 70 in 28 hours of playtime is simply impossible.... Try and prove that one please.
Even the fastest grinding/questing classes could never do that in that amount of time....
The only I could think this could be done is by having a host of people following the player just helping in the killing etc. But at that points it's a job not a game, and it only touches maybe 1% of the players ?
I enjoyed Wow for the past year and a half, on and off I might add, to me the fun comes from playing with friends/family and the social interactions with the community.
Posted October 2, 2007 02:43 PM
Monkey
Winnipeg
And if you guys get tired of playing wow, check out Rappelz 4, it's free and doesnt have lvl caps of grinding.
Downsides are that the servers lag a bit since it's still a newish game and finding quests is hard since the map doesnt refresh half the time.
Lotsa bugs but still loads of fun.
Horray! +10 lvl 56 Assassin with a +10 lvl 60 Aqua Pixie!
PWNT
Posted October 3, 2007 08:33 AM