WoW: Burning Crusade launches tonight

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » January 15th, 2007, 16:51

WoW: Burning Crusade launches tonight
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs, MMO, Business

The Draenei will be unreleased, the Outlands shall be explored, millions of people will log on to experience Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade expansion -- and the servers maintaining Azeroth will, more than likely, crash. If history teaches us nothing else, it's that whenever WoW receives an upgrade of any form, Murphy's Lawis hiding just around the corner. Besides the Burning Crusade launch itself, Gamestop is having special midnight events and a Blizzard game designer spoke about the idea of porting the game to consoles.

As previously reported, Gamestop will be holding midnight launch events at many of their stores this evening. Some will have special contests going on and it's best to call your local Gamestop or EB Games to find out if they have anything special planned.

British website Pro-G has an interview with Blizzard game designer Jonathan LeCraft where he speaks about porting the game to consoles. LeCraft says, "You really do need a keyboard to play WoW ... I've seen some mods where people have hooked up WoW to their Wii. When I saw that I was like, well, that's got to be pretty easy to PVP against, honestly. It's not something we're looking at right now." LeCraft goes on to say that due to the money WoW is bringing in we can expect to see another MMO from the studio. We're expecting some kind of major announcement from Blizzard at, or a little before, Min-E3.Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Post by **Grimmie** » January 15th, 2007, 17:31

That wordfilter never ceases to amuse me.

randomgazz · Post by **randomgazz** » January 15th, 2007, 19:11

it is a bit good. I like the idea of another MMO from them, starcraft perhaps?

Lee · Post by **Lee** » January 15th, 2007, 19:26

randomgazz wrote:it is a bit good. I like the idea of another MMO from them, starcraft perhaps?

Possibly, it'll likely just end up being wow with different graphics though since they know that works.

Post by **FatherJack** » January 15th, 2007, 21:47

Magical Gaaay Space Land

The Blizzard fanboys were wanking over this at work today. They'll probably be L70 by lunchtime tomorrow.

Post by **deject** » January 15th, 2007, 23:56

we should change "Burning Crusade" to "Burning STD"

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » January 16th, 2007, 0:46

The thought of this release fills me with dread. I really hope it goes well, for all the people that love the game, but it will be utter farce.

I might pop over to the official forums tomorrow to witness the mayhem

Lord knows, it's bad enough on patch days.

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » January 16th, 2007, 18:23

deject wrote:we should change "Burning Crusade" to "Burning Gonorrhea"

FTW