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World of Warcraft Expansion News
I was waiting for more news on it before posting, so I imagine some of you are already aware of the screenshots and news of the first World of Warcraft expansion out there in the wild. Voodoo Extreme has the highlights, and Joystiq is carrying some beautiful screenshots. So far the three features that have my eyebrows raised are: Blood Elves as a new playable Horde race, a high level Flying Mount for the Outlands, and (most exciting) cross-server Battlegrounds. This last would be a huge boon for the currently questionable organized PvP play, and I really hope they swing it.
Those screens look like crap compared to how the game looks now. WoW is acutally really good looking with all the details maxed.
Even the screenshots on the offical WoW site don't always do it justice.
City of Villains can be played as a standalone game, so those who didn't have City of Heroes and only wanted to play a villain only have to spend $50 for CoV, not $70-80 for both. Also there is no additional subscription fee for playing both games. Then there is the fact that CoV adds a lot of new zones, many new enemy factions (both hero and villain), and 5 new archetypes for villains to play that are not rehashes of the hero archetypes.
Quite a lot of time is spent grinding for level 60 armour, epic purple armour which if the level cap is increased will be deemed useless. Furthermore, all the instances are designed around this level 60 cap, if they wanted to raise the cap they would have done it much earlier.