World of Warcraft Details Announced 41
An anonymous reader writes "The last of the races and classes for World of Warcraft have been released. Check WorldofWar.Net for a good summary of the details." They've added new classes for rogue, priest, and paladin, as well as hero classes for high-level players. There's a few new races as well, such as trolls and gnomes.
I couldn't have said it better myself (Score:1, Troll)
Re:I couldn't have said it better myself (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I couldn't have said it better myself (Score:1)
It sucked when they shut down Freecraft, but it was understandable. Hell, the name alone warranted some kind of smack (the developer wasn't smart for choosing *craft as a name).
Blizzard do consistently churn out quality titles. One of the few developers that seems to GET how games should be. IE, NOT RUSHED!
WoW is the first MMORPG that could tempt me. Not sure I could afford it (wait and see how much it cost
Re:I couldn't have said it better myself (Score:1)
Re:I couldn't have said it better myself (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I couldn't have said it better myself (Score:2)
conversely, one could look at it as every dollar you send to blizzard simply allows them to create more quality software. Blizzard is one of the few developers who consistently makes quality software. People are still playing (and demanding patches) for software than is upwards of 5 years old. This type of quality / replayability / addiction is rare in the computer game world. so why not
Re:After the freecraft incident? (Score:2, Flamebait)
Re:After the freecraft incident? (Score:5, Informative)
You seem to be confusing freecraft, a RTS pretty similar to Warcraft II, to bnetd, an open-source battle.net server.
It is pretty likely thta bnetd, despite having legit uses, was in some way hurting Vivendi's bottom line. However, I don't see how freecraft can hurt their bottom line at all. What do they gain by killing a Linux freeware game?
Re:After the freecraft incident? (Score:1)
As for the open source battle.net server, I can understand why they smacked that as well. They had no control over it. I mean Blizzard are very harsh on cheaters. While the CDKEY means you have to own the game to play it online, there's also the fact that that key is associated with a particular player, meaning if they're caught using a maphack, Blizzard can (and do) nuke their account. Not just the account, but if you're caught cheating
Re:After the freecraft incident? (Score:3, Informative)
Note that my idea is not to insult you - unless you consider "raving Blizzard fanboy with no clue whatsoever" to be too insulting. I'm merely dismayed by your misconceptions.
Errrrrm. It was a program that allowed people to play Warcraft II right off the CD, or build games of their own that resembled WC2 using custom data.
I would hardly call Freecraft FCMP free data a "carbon copy" of WC2 - it was more like "relentless, unadultera
Re:After the freecraft incident? (Score:1)
If you go back and actually READ what I said, I said blocking an IP address or range of IP addresses wouldn't work. If you block a RANGE of addresses, you would most likely take out other legit players. If you block one IP, fine, just reconnect, bingo, new IP, and go back to cheating. To get a new IP address, all I have to do is unplug my DSL modem and reboot.
CDKey banning i
Re:After the freecraft incident? (Score:2)
In short, people running their OWN servers for online play i
Re:After the freecraft incident? (Score:2, Insightful)
Regardless of the whole FreeCraft debacle, Blizzard remains one of the few game developers out there that consistently deserves the profits it earns. Let's face it: Blizzard makes good games. Exclusively. How many other developers can make the same boast?
Until WoW, I've never had any desire whatsoever to try out a massively m
No need to wait (Score:1)
Re:After the freecraft incident? (Score:1)
I voted -1, DMCA wielding jackbooted thugs.
Blizzard Makes Quality Games. (Score:5, Interesting)
WoW, I cant wait!!
This just in... (Score:5, Funny)
"This is a great win for us", announced Ulog Beg, President of USGPC. "Could you imagine an RPG without people like fighters, wizards, or thieves? It would be chaos!"
This win represents the largest gain for the union since Morrowind in 2002. Also involved in talks with Blizzard are the Union of Standard Weak Creatures (representing large rats and skeletons) and the Union of 'Ye Ol English' which hopes to make everyone use words like "sire" and "liege". It is unknown whether the Union of Undead has approached Blizzard yet but many industry insiders agree that they will.
Yes, yes, I am just being sarcastic. I'm sure the game will rock. Although I didn't enjoy Warcraft 3 as much as I had hoped I think Blizzard has a great track record so far.
Re:This just in... (Score:4, Funny)
Forfend that I shoulde suggest that originality might be a goode thinge for it's own sake, for 'pon my troth I am a believer of the creed 'If broken itte be not, then attempt ye not to fixe itte'.
However, I cannot believe that alle fantasye RPGs neede to bee as constrayned in thier imaginnings as they do in troth appear to be.
Whatte parte of 'fatasye' doo thse brayne-addled simpletons notte understande?
Re:New Races (Score:2)
If you think that's bad, you should see the jokes about a lack of nerfs [starwars.com] in SWG, as contrasted with the abundace of nerfs [emr.net] to SWG. =)
Most important line of the article (Score:2, Interesting)
"Blizzard wanted a MMORPG where the player felt legendary and heroic from the first day."
This is exactly what most MMORPGs currently lack, the feeling that you character serves no purpose in the game, and that you need to do a whole lot of stuff to get higher. If you enter the game feeling like a Level 1 Hero in WC3, and then work up to being a Level 40 Hero... well, thats exactly the kind of game I can see myself playing. The goal of the game should be to ensure that
Re:Most important line of the article (Score:1)
I played Everquest for years from level 1 to 65, (No it does NOT take years to get 1-65, 4 months casual).
Thing is, you feel totaly worthless untill lvl 55. You're wearing junk, you miss 60% of the time, you swim slow, you can't tell north from south etc.
But that's exactly what makes leveling to 65 worth it, the desire to become a "hero". You WANT to be a powerful char and you want to have good gear and a good guild and so on
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I remember doing that with my friend at 7. We got mauled by a lion halfway there a few times. When we finally made it we jumped up and cheered. Then the bastard went and drowned in the sewer.
*coughs*
Right, but someone like me, who doesn't have an infinite amount of time to sit on the computer playing a game, who wants to have his fun *now*, not
Finally! Consistent math (Score:4, Funny)
Wish I could play War3. (Score:1)
I don't know why (DVD's?) but I expected to be able to.
If anyone wants to trade a valid German War3 CD for a valid English War3 CD (OSX), please feel free to contact me... I've considered EBay and the like, but its a bit more hassle to go that route
Re:Hi. (Score:1)
The important questions, here... (Score:1)
Most importantly...can they be smashed into thousands of little ceramic pieces when hit with clubs, run over by vehicles, thrown great distances, etc., etc....