World of Warcraft Patch 2.3 Coming Next Week

Blizzard has officially announced that World of Warcraft Patch 2.3 will be dropped onto live servers next Tuesday. It's a huge update to the behemoth of Massively Mutiplayer games, including elements like a new raid zone called Zul'Aman, significant class changes, new questing content in the Dustwallow Marsh zone, and an increase in leveling speeds between 20-60. The full patch notes are available on the official site. "Elsewhere Guild Banks let you keep track of and organize your stocks much more efficiently, the Auction House has been revamped so it is easier to use, and you will be able to pick up daily quests so you have something to keep you from falling asleep as you go back to the same dungeons or battlegrounds again and again. The old 40-man Alterac Valley battleground has been fiddled with, too, so it should now have extra added fun, and those of you around the mid-level mark should head to Dustwallow Marsh for new quests and speedy leveling."

Re:Slashvertisement?

[SydShamino]

Those numbers are from someone who clearly stated he's only mined about half the available armory data. And the armory only includes characters from North America and Europe, not Asia.

So about 9 million active characters in 2 of 3 game markets, and Blizzard claims 9 million total accounts active right now (and they explicitly exclude closed, expired trial, etc., accounts from "active").

Pretty much lines up, really.

Re:BEST ACRONYM EVER

[Surt]

Having a good acronym was one of the reasons we picked the name 'world of warcraft'. There was even an email very near the start of development suggesting that anyone talking to the press/outside world should say 'wow' if they were going to abbreviate, to make sure that would catch on, and not 'wuhwuh (ww)'.