Third World of Warcraft Expansion (WoW): The Cataclysm

Blizzard Entertainment have registered the trademark Cataclysm, its related to World of Warcraft (WoW) The Great Sundering better known as the Cataclysm. Which was a world event which reshaped Azeroth approximately 10,000 years ago at the end of the War of the Ancients..

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[Da l33t Monkey]

Good thing Blizzard isn't milking WoW..

[jav0918]

Official word from Blizzard that that is what the trademark Cataclysm is about?

[Antar20]

Now, that's funny... Blizzard, you fail...

[TitanUp]

i don't see how blizzard would be milking it the amount of content the patches plus expansions is unbelievable most people still aren't completely epic out on lich king and its a lot easier then burning crusade.

[xdye017]

Whats so nice about WoW? its so gay.
No story, ugly graphics, buggy gameplay.

[dreamtheater87]

No story? WoW has the most richly created lore of any gaming universe that springs to mind. Just because you don't read anything doesn't mean it lacks story.

[danarc]

Well to start, there is probably a lot more story and lore to Warcraft than you would realise, it's just done in a different way to most games in WoW (shown in quest descriptions, in dungeons etc), if you had played Warcraft 1,2 or 3 you would see a lot of the story done in a more linear way.

The graphics are a bit outdated for a four year old game, but the art is fantastic, every zone looks unique, and to be fair there have been graphical updated in each expansion (better shadows, better particle effects etc).

The only bugs I've found in WoW is armour clipping (rarely, and usually gets sorted out) and getting stuck somewhere (between rocks for example) and not being able to move, which is sorted by pressing the character stuck button, so not much of a big deal really.

It's worth at least playing the trial and seeing if you like it (worth trying even if you dont plan at all on getting it because of monthly fees too :P).

[Myze]

@4.1

I'm assuming you mean rich lore in the game itself, because there is an MMO called Lord of the Rings Online you know, and the lore around LotR is more than Warcraft. If you are referring to lore in the game, I would say FFXI has more than WoW (since a lot of Warcraft lore isn't really in WoW, other than vague references), although FFXI in terms of size is also probably 10x as big. Note, I'm not saying anything about quality of games. (although I think WoW was better than LotRO, LotR lore is far beyond anything warcraft could come up with).

edit: Oh, I also forgot about Warhammer Online. While the game itself doesn't have a ton of lore, the Warhammer universe is probably bigger than all these games' lore combined. As well as Star Wars Galaxies, upcoming Old Republic game, upcoming Star Trek mmo. There are just too many MMOs with huge huge amounts of lore to compare them, which makes sense, since the point of an MMORPG is to make you a part of a "living" world.

[Percy]

Even the realm of Lotro books comics games does not beat warcraft lore. I have a feeling you have never actually looked how much warcraft lore is out there. FFXI really does not have much for in game lore until you get to end game because you do not do quests to lvl you get zero involvement until you try to do expansion missions which if you can get a group for suck trying to complete. i played ffxi for 4 years and never finished rize of zilart or CoP. Warcraft lore is incredibly deep and very east to get sucked into i encourage you to listen to some of it. warcraft radio has a podcast entitled But wait there's lore if you listen to one of there episodes you might get sucked in or check out the scrolls of lore website/forums. WoW is the only rpg ive ever felt like rping in since pen and paper.

[danarc]

@Percy

Lotr lore > Warcraft lore

Theres loads to lotr too, read the silmarillion.

[Dead_Cell]

Go read up on Warhammer 40,000 and see how WoW is just a drop in the ocean compared to that.

[danarc]

I'll admit to not knowing WarHammer 40k lore, but there is an awful lot of Warcraft lore, you should check it out on worldofwarcraft.com, theres LOADS, and its pretty good :)

[Dead_Cell]

Just seems so....plain to me and never really appealed,each to there own I suppose.
The 40k storyline is pretty deep,Filled with psychology moral lessons and nothing is black and white,most moments in the timeline are told from both sides of the fence as well so you have to think a bit to find your own opinion of it.
It's going to apparently take 40 books to tell a single 3 year part of the storyline,so there's plenty to sink your teeth into if Lore is your kind of thing.

[saggo]

Well it could also be a next-gen mmo :) - It could be pretty nice with a mmo announcement on blizzcon, but i doubt it, cause the whole maelstrom idea is fitting perfectly to WoW..