World of Warcraft Expansion Q&A
New at Computer & Video Games today is this Q&A with Blizzard's Shane Dabiri, asking the lead producer about the Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft. Questions are about the percentage of content for all levels and for level 60 players, focusing on the Outland, the two new races, design considerations for casual gamers, and a few other things.
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replyDid he actually say anything new?
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nope = /
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Actually he said a lot. Basically, this game is continuing down the EQ path. There is no war in Warcraft.
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Yeah. I've cancelled my subscription to this game, haven't played it in over a month. The whole EQ-style uber-guild, large-scale raiding end-game really turned me off. It finally got to the point where if I wanted to see any new content, or get any new gear, I'd have to a) set aside a 3-4 hour chunk of time, b) go through some boring dungeon with a mob of people killing everything in our path, c) hope that the ONE boss in the place that dropped something for my class did actually drop it, and then d) win the /random roll to get that piece.
In other words, the "end game" is a friggin' boring-ass time sink. And they've done nothing but add to the end-game lately, and it looks like the damn expansion is just going to add to it more. I'm glad that 10-20% of the playerbase who does those uber dungeons will get new stuff, but for the rest of us who don't want to play the game for 6 hours every single night, the game has remained static for way too long.
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