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World of Warcraft Details Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the oh-look-a-bear dept.

Warcry has some final details as the World of Warcraft launch looms closer. Pricing for WoW has finally been nailed down, with discounts going to folks who purchase more than one month at a time. There are also sneak peeks available, including footage from the special edition DVD and images from the Brady Games strategy guide. The guide includes Penny Arcade strips that illustrate game concepts. On character names: "I'm really sorry, Xaxziminrax. I tried to warn you, but I couldn't type your name in time. - 'Oh look, it's a bear' might also have worked."

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  1. Why not link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    To the actual World of Warcraft FAQ than to some random news site that just quotes it?

    1. Re:Why not link by fireduck · · Score: 3, Funny

      because random news site gets the ad views. journalism integrity at its highest...

  2. $12.99 by Anusien · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The cheapest possible rate they offer is $12.99/month for 6 months. I remember back when Evercrack was less than $10 a month for a similar package. Will they really keep it going with enough content to be worth that much? Most people I know that play MMOGs drop them after 2-3 months because they get boring.

  3. A warning on the strategy guide! by MWoody · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you buy the strategy guide, make sure you do it for the Penny Arcade stuff. In terms of being an actual guide, it's crap. Information is incomplete or outdated, and typos are at a one-per-page ratio AT LEAST. And we're talking really obvious stuff, like sentences ending halfway through and such, or huge chart titles in colored title plaques being mispelled: "Enchanments". And boy was I surprised to learn, having played the open beta, that I was losing XP when I died and Tauren have to quest for Plainsrunning (both these features were taken out several versions ago), among numerous other inaccuracies.

    In short: this guide was put together EXTREMELY quickly, long before the final version of the game, and it shows. BOY, does it show. Use http://worldofwarcraft.com for info on classes, races, etc., and avoid this book.

    ...unless you want the PA cartoons; those are quite funny.

  4. Re:That's not the worst part by servognome · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The worst part is spending $50.00 or (iirc) $80.00 for the collectors edition.
    I just accept this as the price you pay for early adoption. Same as paying $300 for a PS2 to have it the day it came out, when I can get it for half now.
    Wait a couple months the price will drop, wait a couple years and there will be a free client.

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  5. Re:That's not the worst part by macrom · · Score: 4, Interesting
    MMORPG Economics 101 :

    The price of the game at launch covers the costs to develop them game over the last n years.

    The monthly subscription covers the cost of maintaining the game and adding content as time goes on.

    EverQuest breaks these laws by charging for expansions every y months.

  6. World of Warcraft by linzeal · · Score: 5, Informative
    You can click on anybody's name in text chat and it will respond to them in a tell (/t). So long as you are communicating with them in the first place or at least hearing thme it is easy to communicate with them.

    By the way, community-run guides usually do much better over the long term than paper guides anyways.

    For those interested it looks like Blizzard has also brought the World of Warcraft world to the pen and paper set, for those old-schoolers out there.

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  7. Re:Do they have server names published yet? by AgentTim3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Blizzard's stated reason isn't crap at all, it's perfectly legitimate. Of course you don't realize this, but you're proving that fact just by complaining about it. They want the majority of people, as many as they can, to select their server based on whichever one currently has the least population. Thus insuring a somewhat distribution of players across servers. The only way to make that happen is to have people pick their servers when they first log in and see the screen. If you're already arbitrarily chosen based on server names they've released it completely defeats the purpose.

    If they release the names early, then l33t guild A gets to tell everyone they know that they'll be playing on the Sargeras server because it's uber. Guilds B and C want to be allied [with|against] guild A. The effect snowballs and suddenly Sargeras is unbalanced -- not a good thing.

    Sorry but what they're doing is entirely justified. What they're doing is in your and everyone else's best interest, as it will keep lag down. Quit whining about it.