New WoW Expansion: Wrath of the Lich King

[bobber205]

Hero class.
Changeable hairstyles.
Inscription Profession.

All I can say is HOLY CRAP!


lizzard is proud to officially announce the next World of Warcraft expansion set, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King! With the opening of the Dark Portal, and the renewed war to stop the Burning Crusade's destruction of worlds, the heroes of Azeroth have given little thought to the frozen wastes of Northrend – and the terrible, ancient powers that wait there. Yet the brooding evils of the fallen Nerubian empire and their malevolent sovereign have not forgotten Azeroth...

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King™ will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game's first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.

For more information, make sure to read the official press release and then check out our new expansion site for screenshots, concept art, the new expansion's announcement trailer, and much, much more!

[Nermal]

I'm looking forward to it already :)

My only request is that this time they release it in NZ on the same day as in the US.

[aspro]

Yay, I've been wanting to go to Northrend since rumours of the first expansion started leaking out.

[bobber205]

For some reason this makes me want to think that they're nearing completion on SC 2. :cool:

[PCRanger]

All I can say is 'WoW!' :p

[miniConvert]

Oh god, I haven't had time to play the Burning Crusade properly yet!

[harveypooka]

Hero class.
Changeable hairstyles.
Inscription Profession.

All I can say is HOLY CRAP!

Is this for purchase or is it a freebie? All I can say is...suckers....:p

[theLimit]

I sure hope they don't get into the same routine as EQ currently is, ie. a minor expansion every six months that adds almost nothing to the game. Burning Crusade was pushing it by adding very little content for the price.

[miniConvert]

I sure hope they don't get into the same routine as EQ currently is, ie. a minor expansion every six months that adds almost nothing to the game. Burning Crusade was pushing it by adding very little content for the price.
I have to agree, I hope they don't let WoW get too fragmented. They should be generating new content to keep the subscriptions flowing in, not worrying about 'expansions' IMHO.

[Nermal]

Burning Crusade was pushing it by adding very little content for the price.

Huh? BC added 11 new zones and heaps of new instances, and was cheap too. I'm confused.

[applekid]

Burning Crusade turned me away from WoW. Although this expansion sounds promising, I hope they could add some content that would get casual/people-that-don't-want-to-invest-so-much-time-into-one-game to play it. Getting drops from raids has never worked out for me and every guild I've been with disbands. My friend has been trying to PvP his way to epic which seems to be the best option, although requires a decent investment still.

[aspro]

Alot of people think that Blizzard should be able to finance these "expansions" in the same way as the normal patches, i.e., through subscription fees. While I think that would be a better way (I pay less :), no fragmentation of playerbase etc.) Blizzard knows it can charge for them and subsequently will.

[theLimit]

Huh? BC added 11 new zones and heaps of new instances, and was cheap too. I'm confused.

A mere ten dollars less than the original retail price of the game is a bit much for an expansion that contains less than a quarter of the content of the original game. I know it's only my opinion, but as much as I love RPGs, these MMOs really seem to lack something for me.

[Nermal]

A mere ten dollars less…

Ah. I'm not in the US and the pricing was different here, I think BC was 60% of the cost of the original.

[raykhrud]

Northrend costs it.

[Flaki]

"Welcome to Northrend!
Please collect 15 magic ice":p

Well it will the same farming cycle, what's the point, it's not even fun anymore,

level cap to 80

And 1% of the WOW players haven't ever discovered naxx!
they put new content witch reqier hardcore raider and to be in it you need good gear(the farming cycle which is why i have stopped playing WoW)

I hope Warhammer Age of Reckoning life up to the hype.
It will be more casual friendly.

[MyJelleo]

My flame of love for WOW has fizzled out. Before I would have been very excited about this news, but all the fetch and deliver quests have left their mark. O and getting reported to a GM for saying Masturbate didn't help much either.

City of Heroes on the other hand has caught my eye.

[Jovian9]

I am looking forward to this expansion. It does get old questing for xp/gold/etc. and raiding endlessly for purples that are outdated 2 levels into the next expansion; but I've been playing Warcraft since the original and I enjoy the story in the games (regardless of how they have to be altered/manipulated every so often). WC3 and WC3 The Frozen Throne were lots of fun for me. Now that game and story are going to be the basis for an expansion.....so I can't wait :)

[Rocksaurus]

Am I the only one who doesn't care about this and wished they'd announced Diablo 3? :mad:

[combatcolin]

Is this for purchase or is it a freebie? All I can say is...suckers....:p

RRP of £30 in the UK, bought mine online day of UK launch for £18 - price dropped to £10 with a few months of release.

Pretty good value i reckon, although thay could have gave away a months free play.

O and getting reported to a GM for saying Masturbate didn't help much either.
.

LOL

Not allowed to type Peninsula either.

[ezekielrage_99]

I sure hope they don't get into the same routine as EQ currently is, ie. a minor expansion every six months that adds almost nothing to the game. Burning Crusade was pushing it by adding very little content for the price.

I agree, BC added very little dimension to the game. Besides new instances, races and zones the basic game is STILL the same, the "updates" were cosmetic and didn't do anything new for the whole WoW experience. You still do the same things in quests, PVP and instances BC just added more of the same thing except it looks a little different and there were some critical hardware support Blizzard finally got around to update.

I was very disapointed with WoW BC and I guess that's why I've stopped playing..... And I guess I wont be buying another update.

[BillyBobBongo]

I was very disapointed with WoW BC and I guess that's why I've stopped playing..... And I guess I wont be buying another update.

Amen, brother!

[miniConvert]

Amen, brother!
Mhm, then I finally went and played in Hellfire Citadel the other night - had an amazing time! :D I guess it's all about expectations and styles of gameplay. I'm firmly casual.

[rtdgoldfish]

As long as Blizzard doesn't pull an Apple and say "we had to take some key players off the Starcraft 2 team and put them on the WoW team..."

I played WoW from the beginning until right before the first expansion and I'm so glad I stopped. Its the same old boring quests over and over. It started off as such a great game and now its gotten pretty lame. Bring on Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3!

And maybe make another Warcraft title besides WoW, Warcraft 4 anyone??

[merc669]

All I can say is what others have said. They need to add some content to both the Original and the BC to also offer new challenges to the veteran players and more for the new players to entice them to buy not only BC but the new one. I bought BC and still have not found much use for it yet! "You Listening Blizzard!"?

Bill.....:apple:

[patseguin]

How can anyone complain about new content in BC? There are new instances in regular and heroic modes, new raid instances, and more. Anyone who complains about nothing to do in BC is not playing the game right.

[SilentPanda]

For some reason this makes me want to think that they're nearing completion on SC 2. :cool:

They have separate teams working on Startcraft 2 and World of Warcraft. While there may be slight resource sharing I doubt there is very much. In my workplace we have *many* groups of programmers all working on different projects and aside from asking for help on bits of code here and there between friends there is little resource sharing.

I sure hope they don't get into the same routine as EQ currently is, ie. a minor expansion every six months that adds almost nothing to the game. Burning Crusade was pushing it by adding very little content for the price.

Anybody who had been playing the game from release had plenty of time to get to 60. Anybody that hadn't had the time didn't have to purchase the expansion. For the price there were 11 new zones added, 13+ instances added and a bunch of other things that one may or may not consider trivial. 2 new races is semi-trivial but there are still other considerations past "new model and we're done". Same thing with Jewelcrafting, flying mounts, quests, quest plot lines, new models for creatures and environment, textures, etc...

I have to agree, I hope they don't let WoW get too fragmented. They should be generating new content to keep the subscriptions flowing in, not worrying about 'expansions' IMHO.

This is new content to keep subscriptions flowing in. Most people that were 60 on release of Burning Crusade are easily 70 at this point and somewhat bored. I have 2 characters at level 70 and consider myself casual.

A mere ten dollars less than the original retail price of the game is a bit much for an expansion that contains less than a quarter of the content of the original game.

Unfortunately it's the norm for expansions in most all MMORPG's. I do agree that the price should be less (maybe $30 or so) but it's fairly irrelevant because people are willing to pay that much for it anyway. Oddly enough they spent a ton of money marketing the expansion when in reality if they hadn't advertised at all it would've sold just as much. The advertising was mostly to draw new people into the game I would imagine.

And 1% of the WOW players haven't ever discovered naxx!

Naxx was released at a horrible time. I'm sure the devs figured that out quick and I doubt that will happen again. At the time I was in a fairly high end guild (although I didn't raid much if at all) and they were not even far into Naxx when BC was released. Of course now you have your whole guild wanting to get to 70 and pushing Naxx aside. It looks like they are redoing Naxx to Northrend to make the content unwasted.

All I can say is what others have said. They need to add some content to both the Original and the BC to also offer new challenges to the veteran players and more for the new players to entice them to buy not only BC but the new one. I bought BC and still have not found much use for it yet!

Why should they add new content to the old world? Even now when I level up a new character I still have too many quests that I skip and for the most part those zones are nowhere near as populated as they used to be. A veteran player doesn't care that 5 new quests were added to each old zone and a new player wouldn't even realize they were new. If you bought BC and haven't experienced Outlands you probably made the mistake of buying it early. I've done this in previous MMORPG's where even though I was level 40 I bought 3 expansions for level 80 players... just try to resist... it's hard I know... but don't buy the new expansion until you've hit 68...

Personally I have stopped raiding except maybe one night a month to fill a spot. I'm currently progressing through PvP rewards since they are self paced. Yes there are some hardcore PvPers out there that can get all their epics in a few weeks whereas mine might take a month or two per piece. But it is progression and I enjoy PvP. If you have no desire to PvP and hit 70 I could see the game being incredibly boring though.

[eruvisu]

Panda...all I can say is...thank you. Without being critical you found reason in everything.

I was reading through these posts and was a little put back by some of the stuff I was reading, it did not make sense to me, sometimes I have to stand back and tell myself, that others have an opinion, just like I have one and it always isn't going to be the same.

At times I think that maybe I don't see WoW the same as everyone else cause I just started playing not too long ago, other times I think it is because other people just have a better knack for that game or games in general...I can see them getting bored more easy because frankly they don't realize that they just play better than someone like me.

Other times I think people think a little too narrow. It's easy to say...add new content, when your not the one building the game, and having to take the game as a whole into consideration, or understand simply how long it actually takes to do what they are asking.

And maybe I am just too relaxed a person or think too simply, but lets say as an example, you make a charrie and get it to level 70. You then max it out elite, well your done...right? Couldn't you always start again with another charrie of another class? Even switch from Alliance to Horde or vice versa? I know I know, its still the same content...well, maybe, but the challenge is different...sometimes, its all about mindset.

In the end, its just a game, just relax and have fun.

[michael85]

I'm desperate for OSX driver-improvements :(
I hate booting WinXP for WoW, but it performs so much better in it..
Really sucks, anyone knows of any driver-updates anytime soon, or how to solve this matter?

,Thanks

[pcorajr]

I'm desperate for OSX driver-improvements :(
I hate booting WinXP for WoW, but it performs so much better in it..
Really sucks, anyone knows of any driver-updates anytime soon, or how to solve this matter?

,Thanks

Is this on the new Aug-07 iMacs or White iMacs? I know for a fact that the new iMacs need driver improvement but i was under the impression that the older model had its driver optimize already?

[SilentPanda]

I'm desperate for OSX driver-improvements :(
I hate booting WinXP for WoW, but it performs so much better in it..
Really sucks, anyone knows of any driver-updates anytime soon, or how to solve this matter?

,Thanks

From what I've read the game performs under Windows over OS X period. That being said, the Mac Tech Support forums on the World of Warcraft site are very good for getting help with issues such as this. They may be able to tell you which setting to tweak depending on your setup.

[kitki83]

Wow at some comments here. I think people have different playing styles, I know people who where way to involve in the game got burn out fast and badly because they don't enjoy the little things of the game or just try to enjoy overall. Instead I see people grinding fast to get to max level. Like that phrase its not the end but how you get there that matters. Anyway WoW is fun, I like this game and the community. Looking forward for this patch just because of the hair and dance all the fun stuff.