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Warcraft III Expansion Goes Gold, Due July 1st
Thanks to several readers for pointing out that the Warcraft III expansion, The Frozen Throne, has gone gold - it's due in stores worldwide on July 1st. The add-on has an extensive official site describing new features, including extra campaigns, units, maps, an enhanced world editor, and new multiplayer clans and tournaments. The press release describes "initial orders of over 2.5 million copies", which is even more impressive considering Warcraft III has 'only' sold "well over 3 million copies".
When they say initial orders of 2.5 million copies, they are talking about orders from STORES. Not consumers. Blizzard always does that with their press releases and most take it to mean that millions of copies have been preordered by consumers when that's just not the case.
The expansion DOES require its own CD key to work. On the other hand, I think that Blizzard's expansions are big enough to deserve paying for, Broodwar was as long as the otiginal Starcraft.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
If Blizzard wanted the whole world to be playing their betas, they would make it an open beta.
Sounds to me like you're just ranting cause you didn't get picked.
I was a war3x beta tester.
If you like war3, you will *LOVE* war3x. War3 is an incredible game and war3x expands upon it adding numerous new features that truely enhance game play. It really isn't just some expansion slapped together with a few new units and a new type of map to sell copies. It was well thought out and has quite a few gameplay improvements. Blizzard really deserves a hand for war3x, it was above and beyond what I was expecting in an expansion (after seeing Broodwar that is!)