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Is Cataclysm the Next World of Warcraft Expansion?
ajs writes "There has been no official announcement yet, but a number of moves by Blizzard Entertainment seem to indicate that the next expansion for World of Warcraft could be titled Cataclysm. Speculation began when Blizzard trademarked Cataclysm recently, and then later when a test server briefly popped up with the word 'Maelstrom' in its name. If true, the name would fall neatly into the WoW lore and expected expansion list. The Cataclysm is another name for the Great Sundering, an event that created a swirling vortex of water and mystical energies (the 'Maelstrom') that has appeared on the world map in-game since release. There are also indications that early design work included some of the islands in this area, which has long fueled anticipation of a Maelstrom-based expansion involving the former Night Elf noble, Azshara, queen of the Naga and the Goblins whose main city is in the south seas."
I was hardly trolling or I would have got an instant negative mod. Mods just left it because it was true but didn't want to see me get flamed into oblivion by WoW fanboys like yourself that can't take any kind of criticism of your beloved game.
This is just amazing. You really are in some fantasy world where you're this all knowing fountain of gaming knowledge aren't you? This is better than I thought. A true post gets insightful mods. Your incredible self delusion that a post left at 1 is not simply because no one is reading it but actually because the mods know it's the truth but don't want to see it sullied by ... positive karma? is just amazing. I don't really know what to say, but anyway, picture me reading that with slack jaw and a head slowing turning side to side in pity.
Shit like yours gets left at 1 because no one reads it. This is mainly because criticising WoW is what all the pseudo-intellectuals do, because itâ(TM)s such an easy target, and shooting fish in a barrel doesnâ(TM)t make for insightful or interesting reading. The same garbage is re-hashed over and over, when is issue people are taking to task are the core elements of a streamlined, casual MMO. Yours is there with the people that shit up these comments with stuff like telling people to go outside and get a life. People that play MMOs want to have an easy game experience where they can feel a sense of achievement for a lower level of input than a proper RPG. Thatâ(TM)s the whole point of the game, and if your main arguments are that MMOs arenâ(TM)t enough like single player, dynamically changing RPGs then youâ(TM)re going to have find little argument because youâ(TM)re not making an actual valid point. All people can do is take issue with the fact that youâ(TM)re completely missing the point, and that your trolling bullshit is just that, at which point people are apparently just getting defensive about their beloved game. Describing people calling you out for being stupid as WoW fanboys that canâ(TM)t take criticism of their game makes it sound like you just dribble shit and go la-la-la-canâ(TM)t hear at any responses.
You want to blame someone? Blame the action-RPG. Blame Blizzard, but blame them for Diablo, not WoW. WoW is little more than a 3D client for a Diablo game model, but with quests tacked on so itâ(TM)s isnâ(TM)t as transparent an XP grind. Action-RPGs are the bane of the core-RPG existence, and MMOs just allow everyone else to see your purple gear instead of you gently caressing the screen by yourself. The funny thing is that the action-RPG genre like Diablo or Titanâ(TM)s Quest is much more lowest common denominator than your standard MMO, itâ(TM)s just bare bones kill/loot/kill with no interesting background outside of âStay a while and listenâ, yet that phrase is known much more than anything Minsc might say. Yet dumping shit on MMOs is what all the blowhards do because it makes them feel like theyâ(TM)re making a point - when they really arenâ(TM)t - because they are much more popular in the general gaming, and casual gaming, population.
I had my âoesick of bullshit on the internetâ release with my first response, so I canâ(TM)t be bothered going any further than this. We argued on the internet, so, just like the special olympics, even though you believe you won (and that the mods donâ(TM)t +1 you because of ⦠I just canâ(TM)t get over the fact that you believe that, have I just fallen for an amazingly good troll?), from the outside looking in, weâ(TM)re both so very retarded.
Ha ha ha do I need to comment on the fact that youâ(TM)re now +1 and Iâ(TM)m flamebait. OH NO THIS MUST MEAN THE MODS DONâ(TM)T AGREE WITH YOU, or something. How does this work in your fantasy world again?