Blizzard Hints At New StarCraft, Launches Burning Crusade

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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Somehow, I just don't care

[RzUpAnmsCwrds]

I have nothing against WOW players, current or past. I have, in fact, played WOW more than any other video game, ever - more than 500 hours, which puts me in the "semi-serious" category.

But Burning Crusade doesn't really interest me at all.

I've done PvP, I've done raid instances (cleared MC a bunch of times and some BWL and AQ20), and I've explored pretty much everything that there is in the game.

We got PvP, battlegrounds, and countless minor and major functionality changes in patches 1.1-2.0. Most of the high-end instances in the game (ZG, BWL, AQ20, AQ40) were added after release, too.

So, what makes BC worth $30? We get jewelcrafting, socketed items, and flying mounts (only in the outlands). Not bad for a content patch (or even two), but an expansion that's been in the works for 2 years and that we have to pay for? That's downright weak.

There's only so much WoW you can play before the game just gets boring. Adding new content doesn't fix that - you haven't really changed the game at all. It's like adding new tracks or courses to a racing game: nice, but, at the end of the day, I'm still going to go play something else.

I think I made the right choice

[Malakusen]

I'm moving in March, I shut my internet off this month and cancelled my WoW account. I'll get back into it in June or July once I'm settled in and once the BC initial release insanity has cooled down a bit. My raiding guild misses me, but I was straight up burned out.