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Blizzard Hints At New StarCraft, Launches Burning Crusade

Posted by Zonk on from the you-may-have-heard-of-them dept.

Game Developer Blizzard Entertainment's long-anticipated expansion to World of Warcraft has gone live. Initial impressions are ... not available, since all 8 million players are currently in the Outlands. I'll take that to mean the servers for the most part have not melted yet. At a Burning Crusade launch party, a Blizzard exec revealed we may see a new StarCraft game very soon. But today is all about WoW. If you're not playing, and want to live vicariously, check out WarCry's extensive preview of the expansion. You could read designer Jeff Kaplan's comments on new features at FiringSquad, or Shane Dibiri's talk of inspiration at Next Generation. One new expansion a year, eh? Some folks are already looking to the future, where we probably won't see WoW on consoles, but may see it with security dongles. 0.1% of the Earth's population can't all be wrong.

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  1. I'd have gotten first post... by SNR+monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..but I was busy playing WoW

  2. Grammar lobe broken. by Lethyos · · Score: 4, Funny

    All you need is the key to upgrade your account using the provided key...

    Brain not working. Late night last. Up, leveling new Blood Elf. Damned if they are not the gayest video game characters ever.

    Scrunchie? Scrunchie? Scrunchie!?

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  3. Gender observation. by Lethyos · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the first time ever, World of Warcraft players meet in public. In real life. This allowed us to collect some interesting data about the demographics. Out of nearly 50 people standing around the EB Games where I picked up my copy, I think four were girls. Just saying. Something to think about next time you /flirt.

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    1. Re:Gender observation. by mfender9 · · Score: 5, Funny
      Out of nearly 50 people standing around the EB Games where I picked up my copy, I think four were girls.

      If you only think they were girls, then I'm not terribly excited about them.

    2. Re:Gender observation. by Seng · · Score: 5, Funny

      I decided, just for fun, to run down to the local retailer to grab my copy (hell, they shut the servers down for the update just in time for me to get there at midnight!).

      I was a little surprised... Or maybe I shouldn't have been.

      The people standing behind me were SO obviously methheads (gaunt face, bleeding gums, rotting out teeth). There was one kid that was about 12 in there with his mother picking up a copy (wtf? On a school night? I hope to hell when my daughter's 12 I never lose my intelligence and find myself buying a game at 12 midnight with her on a school night!)

      The rest of the people were semi-normal - but about half of those looked like they could've used some personal hygiene lessons *grin*.

      I'm thinking it was the horde release location...

  4. Burning Crusade flu? by galfridus73 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Gotta love it...

    I have two employees, both WoW players, who are out today with "the flu" (of course they both picked up their copies of BC at midnight and didn't come down with their illness until 4 or 5am...). ;)

    Anyone else have a similar situation?

  5. Re:Starcraft? Dongles? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It seems to me that Blizzard's life couldn't possibly get any better than it already is, why mess with it? Sit back, release an expansion once per year, and enjoy the torrent of cash.


    Damn Blizz leeches. Seed damnit Seed!
  6. If your characters still exist... by StoatBringer · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...can I have all your gold?

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  7. Re:Sweet, sweet freedom! by niconorsk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congrats; I too am enjoying my extra life. Have you been eating green mushrooms again?
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  8. Re:Outlands fun? Think again. by FlopEJoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude! You should have killed 65,340,285 boars in the forest to level up!

  9. Re:Sweet, sweet freedom! by guaigean · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't want to get lost in a world that won't provide me with food, shelter, clothing or sex.

    Wait, you are reading slashdot right?

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  10. Re:Outlands fun? Think again. by plalonde2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I wish I didn't know what that meant ;-)

  11. BE male gayness. by Lethyos · · Score: 3, Funny

    On a scale from average metrosexual to Richard Simmons, I would say Blood Elf males are somewhere around Tom Cruise, bordering on 80s Depeche Mode.

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  12. Re:Outlands fun? Think again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It means you have a life.