World of Whorecraft: Battle for Asseroth

[Caim]

I'd make a comment about people playing WoW on Antartica, but I can imagine that doing SCIENCE and punting penguins eventually gets stale.

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I wonder how fast the internet is over there...

 

[Rivmusique]

The movie will be out before IV. And the movie is never coming out

 

[Wilian]

So currently on PTR if you test the level 90 boost from the in-game shop you also get free 280% flying and profession boosted to 600.

Looks like the F2P model is working really well for Blizzard.

 

[Metro]

They say it's a one-time per account thing for the new expansion. But that plus the recent addition of an in-game store plus the already existing microtransactions up the butt points to some form of F2P mode within a year.

 

[Excidium]

I doubt they'll do anything like that. The game is still doing far better than any MMO ever dreamed in the sub department, and any form of F2P mode causes too much backlash.

The most I see them doing is extending trials, like everything up to the current expansion being free.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

One hundred years from now, people will still wonder if WoW will ever die.

 

[TedNugent]

Worst part about playing WoW was dealing with the fucktards on my realm who just wanted to pet battle and wait until dungeon reset. Took me months on end to get any serious progression done while the rest of these idiots are still leveling alts. How many fucking alts do you need? It's the exact same experience every single time, the only thing that changes is your action bar, and I've watched people piss away months with no serious raid progression, no serious questzone achievements/loremaster, but they will spend half a fucking year grinding just to get the 10,000 critter kills achievements.

It's maddening. The worst thing about WoW is dealing with the people, without a doubt.

If the game scaled all the way down to 1 player, it would be infinitely improved.

By the way, when is Warcraft IV coming out?

 

[Metro]

I doubt they'll do anything like that. The game is still doing far better than any MMO ever dreamed in the sub department, and any form of F2P mode causes too much backlash.

The most I see them doing is extending trials, like everything up to the current expansion being free.

That's what I'm talking about. It's not as if you can't have a F2P version in tandem with a subscription version. It'll be something that maybe limits you to five man dungeons or battlegrounds (since they desperately need more people in the queue) or something like that.

 

[Excidium]

Yeah but anything below the level cap is just a big trial on wow, I would only consider "F2P" if people can play for free at whatever is the current maximum. Playing up to 20 or up to max-1 is the same thing, you don't really get to experience the actual game.

It'll be something that maybe limits you to five man dungeons or battlegrounds (since they desperately need more people in the queue) or something like that.

Only horde has BG queue problems, though. Alliance BG queues pop instantly, while horde queues take like 10~20 minutes. That's because Alliance loses 90% of the time unless it's AV where the reverse happens, so most allies just do AV over and over until they are done farming honor for the honor pvp set. I don't think freeloaders will help this in any way, they might only make it worse.

Dungeon queues don't really have any wait problems.

 

[Avellion]

60 fucking dollars?!? Its almost like Blizzard made levelling as boring as humanly possible in preparation for this.

 

[Rahdulan]

And they're also going to discontinue the Scroll of Resurrection because hey, now they can monetize it instead. And the community is just bending over for ramming speed invasion of the colon.

 

[Xor]

I checked the WoW forums and people were coming out in droves defending this.

 

[Mangoose]

Yeah but anything below the level cap is just a big trial on wow, I would only consider "F2P" if people can play for free at whatever is the current maximum. Playing up to 20 or up to max-1 is the same thing, you don't really get to experience the actual game.

Best part of the game was leveling through vanilla, doing dungeons and PVPing in STV while leveling. Lost a lot of interest when I hit level cap. Battlegrounds were fun for a while but I could never really get into raiding, even though I was in an active guild.

 

[Excidium]

Well, that was in vanilla. Endgame was much more refined in TBC, while the leveling experience was mostly intact. But the game has changed a lot since then. Leveling nowadays is just a waste of time.

And they're also going to discontinue the Scroll of Resurrection because hey, now they can monetize it instead. And the community is just bending over for ramming speed invasion of the colon.

Are they really? They just improved the scroll of resurrection recently, you can now choose from a bunch of different rewards instead of only the zebra, I don't see why they would get rid of it.

I checked the WoW forums and people were coming out in droves defending this.

Because it really isn't a big deal, nobody sane is going to pay $60 for a level boost, considering how fast it is to level nowadays.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Yeah but anything below the level cap is just a big trial on wow, I would only consider "F2P" if people can play for free at whatever is the current maximum. Playing up to 20 or up to max-1 is the same thing, you don't really get to experience the actual game.

Best part of the game was leveling through vanilla, doing dungeons and PVPing in STV while leveling. Lost a lot of interest when I hit level cap. Battlegrounds were fun for a while but I could never really get into raiding, even though I was in an active guild.

I also had much fun doing lvl 60 dungeons and raiding Tarren Mill/Crossroads, lost our interest when we started to raid, damn things had tighter schedules than my work O_o

 

[Data4]

60 fucking dollars?!? Its almost like Blizzard made levelling as boring as humanly possible in preparation for this.

Looks more to me like a thumb in the eye of paid leveling services. Why pay some chinese dude when you can just pay Blizz and not risk an account ban?

 

[Lhynn]

I checked the WoW forums and people were coming out in droves defending this.

Quotes and links please.

 

[Akratus]

Why do you do these things to yourself Lhynn

 

[Ninjerk]

He's simple

 

[Lhynn]

Sounds amusing that someone would defend the company thats selling for nothing stuff that theyve worked long hours to achieve, sounds funny that people are paying not to play. Or to skip the worst part of the game, and if it is the worst part of the game why is it even there.

etc, etc, etc.

 

[Excidium]

ITT people talk about a game as if they know anything about it

 

[Angthoron]

Holy shit, how different from regular Codex broadcast.

 

[Keshik]

Figured they wouldn't make it too cheap. Was expecting $30-40 though, not $60. It is nice to skip the levelling process for an alt after you've done it 3 or 4 times, shame you can't skip an expansion - I'd skip TBC' and Cata's zones for sure.

 

[Black_Willow]

Figured they wouldn't make it too cheap. Was expecting $30-40 though, not $60. It is nice to skip the levelling process for an alt after you've done it 3 or 4 times, shame you can't skip an expansion - I'd skip TBC' and Cata's zones for sure.

RAF someone and do Dungeon Finder. One TBC dungeon = 2 levels.
It's best to have a party of 5 bros - you'll get from 1 to 85 in a few days. After that things will get slow (RAF doesnt work after 85).

 

[Lhynn]

Charging for it is a rip off.