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WoW Street Date Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the azeroth-here-i-come dept.

OneMadOgre writes "Ready or not, here it comes. Blizzard has announced that the World of Warcraft will be released to NA/AU/NZ on November 23, 2004."

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  1. Not Yet Ready by HeavensTrash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been in the closed beta for some time, and seeing this announcement earlier today made me cringe. There are TONS of things yet unimplemented and I don't see them being put in by the 19 day release. For example:

    Paladin/Hunter talents haven't been put in the game yet. Other classes have had talents for a while and have had time to test/rebalance... Pally/Hunter will be thrown in and then instantly nerfed at retail because of no time for testing.

    Warlock pets aren't finalized yet.

    Battlegrounds aren't in whatsoever.

    Hero classes have yet to be put in as well, and blizzard won't give any information on them.

    Racial traits aren't in yet

    No raid content yet.

    Tradeskills aren't complete yet

    Horde lacks quests and content, especially high level content

    Numerous quests still missing rewards/are bugged

    I was upset to hear Closed Beta had ended as soon as it did - Honestly Vivendi is rushing this one out the door to compete with EQ2. Blizzard usually takes their time in games and are notoriously late, but... Guess it's gonna be just like every other MMORPG where the first 6 months are a paid beta test.

    All that aside though, WOW in it's current form is STILL the best MMORPG out there. Crazy

  2. Re:Not too impressed actually by Richard+Whittaker · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The better skilled player wins the battles, not the highest level player.

    That's the difference between an online game and an online role playing game. In an RPG the player (that's a real person) takes on the role of a character - it's the characters skill and level - NOT THE PLAYERS - that is supposed to determine how good the character is at things (fighting, for example).

    Remember:
    Player : the actual person playing the game, this person doesn't necessarily actually know how to shoot a gun, fight in melee combat, pilot a spaceship, etc.
    Character : The in game "person" that the player controls. This should be considered a completely seperate persona that is not necessarily related to the player in any way. A single player can "posses" multiple characters, who may actually have opposing agendas, goals, etc.

    That's why it's called a role playing game.

    Perhaps this kind of game (RPG) just isn't for you - many people hate them and want their own skill to make the difference, but thats not how an RPG is supposed to work - the characters skill is everything. In an RPG, the way a players skill comes into play is in knowing how to make use of the characters skills in any given situation.

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