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WoW Expansion Playable At BlizzCon
Gamespot has the news that the World of Warcraft expansion will be playable at BlizzCon this year. Our own ScuttleMonkey will be there, and should have some sort of first hand impressions for us when he returns from the wilds of the west. Relatedly, MMORPG.com has a lengthy look at the Battlegrounds, analyzing what works and what doesn't in Blizzard's PvP emporiums. Finally (and confusingly), Battle.net seems to indicate that some sort of announcement should be coming our way today. Update: 10/07 23:13 GMT by Z : As discussed in the comments, the "new thing" for today was a redesign of the battle.net site.
A while back, blizzard made a similar splash screen for battle.net with a countdown timer and a fuzzy background image. for something like a week, people claimed that the announcement was to be Starcraft 2 or diablo 3. And then Blizzard disappointed everyone with the Starcraft:ghost announcement. This game isnt even complete yet. Now, will they do the same? They know people have been dying for sequels to Starcraft and Diablo, yet, they continually tease fans with vague replies. I hope this is it, cause I don't care for a WoW expansion.
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I'd rather they produce new game content, instead of working on an expansion. There are over 30 locations that still need to be added to the game, and this isn't even including the actual walled off areas that appear on the map, but are not accessible in-game.
Then again, it would be nice to see the level cap raised a bit.
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I'm guessing the announcement will be about the Diablo series. Of all the screens, the Diablo one is the most rare. It takes a ton of reloading to come across it. Also, the Diablo one seems to be a new piece of artwork while all the others are taken from previously seen stuff.
As long as we don't have to pay extra for the expansion, I'm okay with it.
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I checked out the .Net and all I found was a some ascii art I needed to highlight to see. It kinda looked like an owl with the word "Narly" under it. If this is some sort of announcement, color me confused.
Just loaded Battle.net, and got the new Battle.net website design. (Actually, I got a lot of Flashblocked content, but...)
Apparently the announcement is soley that they redesigned their website. (To use tons of Flash, at that.)
It's, uh, Flashy.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
It is up now... new battle.net website is the mysterious page... Just when I was going to decode that ascii on the image to see if it meant anything...
Lame.. a flash site redesign.. Even worse, someone forgot to make it 'live'... Try clicking on a headline.. location.replace('http://battle-net-test/index.sht ml#'+newsHeadline[whichHeadline-1]);
Test != production
I dunno about 30 locations. It might depend what you defined as a "location" though. Here are some off the top of my head (with Google as a refresher):
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Quel'Thalas - North of the plaguelands. Former home of the High Elves before Arthas sacked Silvermoon and the Sunwell
Northrend - Arctic continent. Azjol-Nerub, Icecrown Glacier (Arthas' current digs), Dragonblight plains, Drak'Tharon Keep, etc, etc.
Tomb of Sargeras - Tiny island/dungeon east of Stormwind.
The Broken Isles - Buncha islands west of Stormwind. Includes the Tomb of Sargeras and Balor.
Emerald Dream - Mystical pseudo-dimension. The gates are placed around the world, but aren't yet working.
Draenor (Outland) - via the Dark Portal which is *supposed* to be opened at some point.
Gilneas - Peninsula south of Silverpine Forest, currently blocked by a massive wall (Greymane wall).
Well of Eternety (Maelstrom) - Possibly an underwater/naga location between Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms (in the Great Sea)
Dalaran - Former mage capitol near the Alterac Mountains. Currently sealed off by a giant magic bubble.
Zul'Aman - Troll homelands, east of the plaguelands
Kul Tiras (kingdom) - A bunch of islands west of the eastern kingdoms, including Crestfall, Zul'Dare, and Tol Barad (citadel).
Grim Batol - A future (red) dragon dungeon location in the wetlands, home of Alextrasza (red Aspect)
Ahn'Qiraj (south Silithus) - Home of those weird bug things, coming soon!
Uldum - Another Uldaman-like dwarf/titan cave, in southern Tanaris.
Ulduar - The third of the dwarf/titan caves, though I have no idea where this one is (Northrend?)
Caverns of Time - Dwelling place of Norzadmu (blue Aspect), located in the Tanaris Desert.
Karazhan (Medivh's Tower) - Bigarse tower in Deadwind Pass, not yet finished.
Mount Hyjal - Final battle site in WC3, home of the World Tree, Barrow Deeps, etc.
Undermine - Small continent SE of Kalimdor. Ruled by the trade princes, and inhabited largly by Goblins.
Kazan and Hiji - Two small islands in the south Great Sea between Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. Rumoured to be home to the Pandarians..?
Thats about all I can think of. But it'd be good for maybe a dozen new zones and 20 cities or dungeons. Certainly enough to keep Blizzard (and their fans) busy. And hey, if they ever run out of room on Azeroth, they can always start adding on (read: making it up) to the Outlands, Emerald Dream, or maybe even the Twisting Nether
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