World of Warcraft Gamespot GOTY 2004

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 24, 2004 @08:32AM from the for-gnomeregon! dept.

Gamespot's annual awards have drawn to a close, with the Reader's choice awards finishing up tomorrow. Announced on Wednesday, Gamespot's Game of the Year for 2004 is World of Warcraft. Relatedly, there is an interview with the WoW composer at World of Warcraft Guru, and a piece on Wired.com about Virtual Trade and Blizzard's efforts to combat the trend. Finally, Blizzard's annual holiday festivities have resulted in a hilarious holiday mp3 being made available on the official World of Warcraft site.

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Quests are same old courier/corpsepile stuff by leftie · 2004-12-24 08:56 · Score: 1, Troll

I was really looking forward to WoW until I got to play the beta. It became obvious in the beta that WoW was almost the same crud as every other MMORPG. There's still no overarching plot that MMORPG players can participate in and affect. I certainly wouldn't give out Game of the Year honors to a game with only some refinement on previous games and nothing innovative in it.