World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » October 28, 2005, 1:26 pm

Figured I'd start a new thread instead of keeping that moronic thread with the list of stupid "leaked features" going. The expansions website is up, tho it hasn't been officially announced yet, so who knows if it'll stay up for now. In case it does tho, here it is:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/

And here's the scans from the CGW article:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/r ... stpage.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/r ... ndpage.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/r ... rdpage.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/r ... thpage.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/r ... thpage.jpg

Gotta say, this shit looks nice. The little trailer got me even more wet for it. From the CGW article it seems like all of Outland will be PvP enabled, regardless of server type, but we'll wait and see if that's actually true. Have a hard time believing it -- the clamor of people crying over it would be louder than the nerf shamen chants.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » October 28, 2005, 2:39 pm

The trailer they shouled is barely out of the concept art stage and looks like they just started modeling the new areas.

This thing is most likely 12-18 months away at the very least.

Most likely Vivendi will step in in Sept 2006, pressure them to get it out the door again early/late November and most of the features will be cut.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » October 28, 2005, 3:15 pm

I heard May 2006.

Personally, I consider it rather pathetic how late this is coming out. This game released in November of 2004. It's almost November 2005 and they're JUST NOW officially announcing the expansion.

Blizzard has been shitty at getting patches out, shitty at adding new content (or at least doing it VERY slowly), and shitty at maintaining customers after they hit 60.

4 million people play this game. 4 million. You would think they would have this expansion out months ago for the amount of cash they're taking in.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 28, 2005, 3:58 pm

By the time the expansion comes out Vanguard will be in full swing and will hurt sales of the expansion. I am not up on the lore of the game nor have I played the rts games other than the very first one. So I don't know what is supposed to be coming up with new races and such but I really think different textured elves is kind of gay.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » October 28, 2005, 4:13 pm

Bubba Grizz wrote:By the time the expansion comes out Vanguard will be in full swing and will hurt sales of the expansion. I am not up on the lore of the game nor have I played the rts games other than the very first one. So I don't know what is supposed to be coming up with new races and such but I really think different textured elves is kind of gay.

Just more proof that Blizzard has a horrible time schedule, unless of course the expansion comes out much earlier than any of us expect.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 28, 2005, 4:17 pm

I seriously thought it would be out before xmas.

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » October 28, 2005, 7:09 pm

A level 70 flying mount, hmm i shall believe it when i see it.

Wulfran · Post by **Wulfran** » October 28, 2005, 7:32 pm

Rellix wrote:I heard May 2006.

So in other words it will be out for Christmas 2007 and the patches to fix it will be around Easter '08...

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » October 28, 2005, 8:00 pm

Wulfran wrote:
Rellix wrote:I heard May 2006.
So in other words it will be out for Christmas 2007 and the patches to fix it will be around Easter '08...

More than likely.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » October 28, 2005, 9:28 pm

they havent fucking nerfed shamans yet?

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » October 28, 2005, 10:14 pm

kyoukan wrote:they havent fucking nerfed shamans yet?

They did that on release day, just took a couple raids to realize it.

Spang · Post by **Spang** » October 28, 2005, 11:40 pm

Rellix wrote:I heard May 2006.

Personally, I consider it rather pathetic how late this is coming out. This game released in November of 2004. It's almost November 2005 and they're JUST NOW officially announcing the expansion.

Blizzard has been shitty at getting patches out, shitty at adding new content (or at least doing it VERY slowly), and shitty at maintaining customers after they hit 60.

4 million people play this game. 4 million. You would think they would have this expansion out months ago for the amount of cash they're taking in.

i never played the warcraft games. did those games have expansions? if so, how long after the original game, were they released?

i understand it's a different kind of game but it's the same company.

isn't Blizzard notorius for taking forever to release new games? this should come as no suprise to anyone.

only other game in this genre i've played was EQ; up to the DoN expansion. they came out with new shit about twice a year. looking back, a lot of it was garbage. it was rushed and it didn't all flow with the previous content.

i'll take quality over quantity any day of the week.

Toalin · Post by **Toalin** » October 29, 2005, 1:51 am

id take a game where it has a decent iq test to sign up

not, can you enter your parents CC details!

Gemily · Post by **Gemily** » October 29, 2005, 7:43 am

And still no word on what new race the alliance is getting.
grrrrrr

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » October 29, 2005, 8:29 am

Probably one of Naga, Goblin, Pandaren. Odd cause i read an article some time ago about the goblin home of Undermine and the Naga captial city coming with the next patches.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » October 29, 2005, 9:37 am

Gemily wrote:And still no word on what new race the alliance is getting.
grrrrrr

Don't worry, it'll be Draeni and ugly and totally unappealing to shallow vapid people who base everything on cuteness. *peer*

Gemily · Post by **Gemily** » October 29, 2005, 9:43 am

awww Dregor youre so cute

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » October 29, 2005, 10:30 am

lol :/

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » October 29, 2005, 7:30 pm

If anyone is interested, Fileplanet has the video from the official expansion website, but much larger. If anyone would like to see it without squinting their eyes away.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » October 31, 2005, 3:26 pm

If it's out by July of next year, I'll be surprised. They better keep releasing content like the past 2 months as oppossed to the initial 9.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » November 1, 2005, 3:27 pm

One thing I read in that link that I did not like = socketed items.

I always hated socketed items in previous warcraft games and tossed them away no matter how good they were. Isnt that what enchanting is for? why not just make some shitty weapons capable of getting 2 or 3 enchants on them instead.

Morgrym · Post by **Morgrym** » November 1, 2005, 3:38 pm

Sounds like augments to me. Perhaps they can do it LDoN style and add some extra depth to single grouping.