World Of Warcraft, the MMO Juggernaut which was created by Blizzard all those years ago is one of the most successful video games in history and is, without doubt, the most successful MMO – or Massively Multiplayer Online – game in existence.
Challengers for the title have come and gone over the years but none of them have managed to come close to taking the belt. This is because World of Warcraft has gone a long way toward destroying MMORPG’s
Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.
Danish from eXputer: "Despite Blizzard's attempt to give a fresh new spin to World of Warcraft, some fans still seem to be stuck in the past."
HG writes: "Blizzard is usually pretty bad at keeping secrets, but the company somehow managed to keep this one under wraps until now. Plunderstorm is a special limited-time event that’s basically World of Warcraft’s take on the Battle Royale genre."
If it makes you feel and better, I never played it. Not even when it went F2P. I have chuckled a bunch of times at the countless used copies of WoW Expansion Packs I find in thrift stores. I even spontaneously combust when I see a nine year old kid buy it for a dollar.
I read the article made some good points. But did just seem like a pissy rant at the same time.. Wow is a good game no matter which way you look at it.. I haven't played for years and I'm a former hardcore mmo gamer, legend of mir, lineage 2 etc. But most new mmo's suck. They rarely try to be original or just have terrible support.
It's another case of dumbing down the game for the casuals and ruining it for the people with the real passion for the hobby.
Guild Wars 2 comes out soon though, and while it might not be perfect, from what I read it's a step in the right direction.
The problem with WoW nowadays is its over diluted with high levelled players meaning new players no longer get to go in the high level dungeons and raids as higher gearscore players will always get picked over them. Some will say thats not a problem you can just go out get better gear and raise your gearscore. But how are you suppose to raise it if you cannot get in the dungeon groups and raids to get the armour needed?
Thats whats ruined WoW it's now a game for the elites only in later levels and it's a shame as it was a decent MMO as it did most things right. You can also see it's dying too I wen't on my server the other day and there was 200 people on my European server 200!! Theres about 2 million registered people per server. I am on Blades Edge and the servers practically dead. Finding raiding groups is near impossible nowadays.