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Surprising Burning Crusade Details for WoW
Heartless Gamer writes "There is quite a few surprises waiting in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. The raiding scene in World of Warcraft is going to dramatically change once Burning Crusade is released. Here's the long and short of it: all of the new high-end raid content will be capped at 25 heads. Indeed, all the raid content that was mentioned in today's demo, with the exception of Kharazan (which is designed for 10 players) is being designed around a force of 25. Blizzard has completely done away with 40-man raiding; Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, and Naxxrammas will still exist, of course. There just isn't going to be any new 40-man content. How's that for earth-shattering?"
More importantly, who gives a shit?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Hopefully all us clever /. readers will be able to come up with ways to prevent this game from destroying the Earth, killing all forms of life and generally ruining everybodies day.
It kinda puts Global Warming and the War on Terror into perspective doesn't it? They arn't going to destroy the planet! I'm personally sitting here shitting myself, comtemplating the implications of having the Earth shattered.
Shadowbane and Eve both suck. Eve is one of the most stupid games around. Eve to me is a game that fails to deliver. You wait months to train up skills for what. The huge time gap between acquiring new skills after newbie content is what drove me to cancel my Eve account. Eve loves to brag about its automatic skill training system (works on a timer) and how the game has no grind, which is untrue. Cost of skill books (required to train a skill) goes up astrometrically as you progress which forces you to grind for money in game on hours to no end. It could take you about 40-50 hours of grinding just to buy a mid level skill book. The best ones can take hundreds of hours.
After you grind for money to buy skill books you have to grind to buy equipments which can be destroyed in an instant by some 13 year old kids who apparently has more time on their hands to camp for money than you do. Grinding itself is doing the most stupid things you can think of in an online game. That to me is work not fun. PVP you say it is broken in the core. There is no hard player cap in number of people you can bring to fight but the game is lagged and broken beyond recognition by even the mildest size battles. The core flux of PVP is pretty stupid tbh. There isnt much variety in what you can do besides ganging up on each other DAoC style. I really dont see a point to play Eve other than having a space sim GUI to look at.
Talk about gold farmers, Eve has a bunch of macro running bots running on free accounts purchased with in game money. Parent company makes absolutely no effort to ban macro gold farmers unlike Blizzard. Another reason I quit the game.
Thanks to Eve, I really learned to appreciate WoW's 40 man raids after I tried Eve.