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Next World of Warcraft Patch Review
Via Penny Arcade, a review of the next patch for World of Warcraft on Blizzplanet. The author takes a look at some of the new art being added to the game and examines details of the new honor system. From the article: "The horde slowly started to show up in the area to attempt to protect their territory. I joined a raid group to counterattack, and noticed that each kill where my Priest character helped with fear, word: pain, or healing counted toward my Honorable Kills, even if I didn't directly caused damage or killed. Healing and Fear count toward your kill points."
They should have named the game "World of Diablo". That would have saved me from disappointment.
The PvP servers actually have a minimal amount of ganking. I personally found that once I hit about 30 the gankings by people 10+ levels higher then me almost stopped. Generally, the only time I get ganked by a level ?? alliance is when I kill people my level too much at one location and they call in for guild support.
Sure, ganking is going to go up, but I have a feeling most the increased ganking will come from people that are roughly the same level. It doesn't bother me much if I get to a dungeon and find alliance waiting if they are my level. In fact, that sounds like a merry old time with hours of PvP goodness as we struggle to control the area.
I joined the PvP server for a reason. Sure, I don't level up as fast because I spent time fighting over hunting areas, but who in the hell wants to hunt mindless NPCs 24/7?
"these trends are in all the other aspects of life right now. There's alot of messed up stuff going on around the world, and no one seems to care. That's my problem."
What trend is that? Trivial shit you don't need costing less then 3 hours of work a month at minimum wage? Most people make enough to pay off their WoW subscription in the time it takes for them take a shit and go on a coffee break at work.
This isn't the world rolling over while you fight on. This is a million plus people deciding that $15 is an okay price for a months worth of entertainment. Shit, if you are gowing to throw a hissy fit over the price of trivial crap you don't need, I would suggest walking over to your local movie theater.
More to the point, WoW is not exploiting the masses. They are selling a luxury at a price that well over a million don't mind paying. I personally hope they are making hand over fist. To me, that just means that they will be putting some of it away in the bank to make another great game that I will be happy to pay a monthly fee for.