World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Blizzard Entertainment took online role playing by storm with their hit title, World of Warcraft. With mind-boggling improvements in graphics, gameplay networking, and interface -- really every category -- this game became the crown prince of the genre. World of Warcraft players will be excited by the approaching release of the new expansion pack: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. This pack expands the already massive, award-winning multiplayer online role-playing game… Product details and pricing info |
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166 Customer Reviews Posted
- Patience will work wonders
- I preordered my copy next day air and received on the release day around 2PM my time so the expansion was waiting for me when I got home. Download took about an hour and included 2 patches which were relatively slow due to the fact there were probably many other people trying to access the same connection.
When I logged in and began playing I did not expereince any sorts of issues except a few bugged quests although I did have some people mention the servers had gone down for short periods earlier in the day. As with any new game there is going to be downtime to be sure everything works as it should, even the best tested software can be found to have bugs when put into full production.
BC is all I hoped it would be and more! Having been at level 60 for a while and seen a lot of the end game content, I am happy to see the opportunity to level up and accomplish something new.
This is a definate must have for anyone who likes WoW, just be careful not to become too addicted. :) - 2007-01-18, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A Fair review of Burning Crusade
- For those who decide to blast this because of the problems during the first day take into account that the launch could have been a lot worse-and instead of waiting on 2 patches it could have been one huge patch like some other games I have seen in the past. Yes there were problems with the launching of burning crusade while I was installing the game I was thinking worse case that I would not be able to get access for a day or two later, yes I was kicked out of the game a few times Tuesday and yes the downloading the patch took over an hour thats why I gave this a 4 instead of 5. However other people were down loading that they may have closed the server for being slow.
On the merits of the expansion pack itself. From what I saw even for the casual player like me who has maybe up to 2 hours during a weekday I was totally impressed on what I saw. My first item from a quest, wasnt anything real sexy, but it was a big improvement from what I had over doing the instances on the mainland. As for scraping around for money, the quests here have bigger payouts.
The only real and major knock on this game then it can be said of any MMO some people i ran into lately have taken this game way to seriously and instead of being something to relax its become more like work. as of next week checking out age of conan and hopefully can get rid of these current headaches. - 2007-01-17, 9 of 12 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Don't believe the ravings of the perpetually grumpy
- For those of you who are wondering if you should buy the BC expansion and how it is faring on the live servers, let me put your mind at ease. The servers are up, the game is wonderful, and the new content puts the original content of WoW to shame. This is an expansion that Blizzard should stand up and be proud of!
Contrary to other players experiences, I played the expansion for about 10 hours of the first day of its official live release (not the beta), and it is not buggy. The lag in the Outland can be a bit much at times, but then again when every level 60 on your server is in one zone trying to do quests, what do you expect? The mobs are constantly respawning at a rate so fast that once you kill the mob a respwan happens almost instantly (due to the frequency of kills in the zone). I have seen only one "evade" mob bugging out, and been disconnected twice in 10 hours, each time for less than a minute. With the score and breadth of the expansion, these are small problems that will not hamper your gameplay in the least (unless you are a Mr. Grumpy-Pants).
The bottom line: buy the expansion if you play Warcraft. You won't regret it. - 2007-01-17, 17 of 19 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Mitigated Disaster
- As I write this review the expansion has been live for 20 hours. Half the servers are down and the server with all my characters on (Argent Dawn) can't stay up more than 60 seconds. When it's up there are innumerable bugs like non-spawning mobs, unattackable mobs, ships disappearing dumping all of us in the sea off of Auberdine. Those servers that are able to stay up are so crowded that every mob that respawns is instantly attacked by half a dozen players.
It took over 90 minutes just to install the expansion because there are two updates required after installing the software on the CDs and the downloads are sloooowwwwww.
I don't think the people who gave this 5 stars actually played it in production. Maybe they played the beta which was much more controlled and stable. Your experience will not be so pleasant for several more days I suspect.
Blizzard really screwed up on this release. I give them a D-.
Update - Yesterday (Sunday) was the first day since the release that I didn't see any problems with disconnects or broken mobs. That's six days of problems. I changed the title to Mitigated Disaster because they seem to have eventually fixed all the problems. - 2007-01-17, 12 of 56 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- 60 was more fun than 70
- The game plays great from level 60 to 70. Lots of fun quests, great new gear and interesting lands to explore. But at 70 the magic that WOW had isn't quit there.
After 70 getting to the end game is just not fun. To get attuned for it you must run several 5 man instances over and over again. It would not be listless but find a group is a problem. They eliminated the channel used to find groups and replaced it a very limited tool that most players don't like or don't use.
The end game is a shell of what it use to be. There are no new 40 man raid instances like Molting Core. Instead there are 10 and 25 mans. To get attuned to the first 10 man "Karazhan" takes a bit more then getting Onyxia attuned. To get to the main 25 man "Mount Hyjal" takes the equivalent of getting 30 Onyxia keys. It would be do able but with the new looking for group system players are giving up in mass before they even get to Karazhan. - 2007-01-17, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
