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Absolutely a must for the serious Wow fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Played to Level 23 Shaman Draenei which completed all the new quests on their home Isle. Very impressed with the new content. Have yet to play through the new high level areas, but if they are anything like the additional low level content, it should be amazing. For long time players of WOW, this is addition content that is critical. If you looking to get involved with the game for the first time, this is not necessary right away... If you play WOW long enough, you will get this eventually.

Don't pick up the habit. Quest on planet earth instead.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: July 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've played wow since it came out. If you want to know about the game then yes The Burning Crusade is an awesome expansion.

The only problem is that it never ends, Blizzard did an awesome job making a game that is fun to play. The problem is there is never enough. There is always better gear, as well as alternate characters to grind. It's fun to play with friends but its highly addictive, this sounds weird but I highly suggest avoiding this. Pick up a hobby instead.

Rotten Cheese

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 16 / 45
Date: January 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have never seen a worse expansion since Scar of Velious for EverQuest. This by far is the worse I have encounter throughout my years of gaming. Blizzard and their intrepet coders have accomplish an act of laziness and stupidity. All the zone in the new continent are shared by both alliance and horde alike, as well as quests and mobs. One small continent with HUGE zones screams out of pure laziness in scripting out territories.

Instead of following the original game they take PvP to a server wide event. Whatever server your on, wether it be a majority of horde or alliance, the game in the new continent becomes a HUGE gankfest. If you engage a mob the oppossing(majority) faction needs, you WILL be ganked. 100s of players going after the same 10 mobs reminds me of the mob camping of EverQuest. Given the diminished value of PvP gear with the new items available, you would think PvP wouldnt be as prevalent.

The game is suppose to regulate spawn times to the amount of people in that given area, believe me in some areas, it doesnt(regular spawn times while you waste time sitting around waiting). While in others as soon as you kill one mob, another spawns right on top of you, giving you no time to rest. All though Blizzard has added many many new quest, they failed to have actually scripted a balanced well thought out continent where both faction can either quest or PvP as they see fit.

While 100s of new quest have been added some are bugged, as well as one I know of that can be ninja looted by other players even though they did not start it. Online support is a joke in the worse sense of the word. In most cases one recieves an answer of "we know this is a bug and are addressing it, have a nice day". Dont bother writing petitions all you get is the same contrived replies and emails.

After the first week of playing the expansion a dozen of my friends and collegues have already left the game. I myself along with my lady friend have cancel our subscriptions.

If you like PvP by all mean buy this expansion, but make sure you are the majority faction on the server you play.

I rate this expansion lower then the medium a toadstool mushroom grows in.

never preorder expansion software from amazon..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 24
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

preordered 2 months in advance and still havent received it, from tracking i can't even be sure its actually even been sent out yet....
1st day out and i am sitting in ironforge watching peeps who are already 65 and not even knowing when i will get the expansion, well it plain sucks.... local stores didnt have it either.

So basically i recommend buying preorders from *gaming sellers only* if you expect to have it on time! Seems they are the only ones who understand the concept that preorder means its in the buyers hands the day BEFORE release, or at least the same day.

There are just so many things wrong with this game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 40
Date: February 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In short:

1)It takes an insanely long amount of time to download/install.

2)The new races are very poor, both in terms of detail and background. They look really sloppy and unfinished.

3) This is just my opinion, but the whole concept of "blood elves" for the horde is ridiculous. And the argument: "there were a lot more people playing alliance than horde because horde characters were ugly" just cant' suck more... Plus allowing blood elves to be paladins (and Draenei to be shamans) clearly kills the strategic uniqueness and importance of these classes for their faction.

4) Some of the European servers are SO crowded that you can barely move at those times of day where most people can play. I have a DSL 3Mgs internet connection, 2g ram and my Pc's specs are A LOT more than the minimum requirements state. On low occupation servers I can play my characters smoothly, while on high occupation servers I even become Idle. Still blizzard's technical support staff will give you ALL sorts of explanations... all of them suggesting it's because YOUR system or YOUR connection has issues. Bottomline: Servers suck, blizzard take no responsibility.

5) The content of the game is absolutely monotonos. More of the same?? no!worse of the same. This time, not only do you have to kill-collect-kill-go from here to there-etc, but you have to do compete with thousand's of other players for mobs. Queing is not an option for people are just savage around some areas and they will steal your kills time and time again.

6) Everyone is forced to start the new expansion hih level content at the same area: hellfire peninsula. Resulting in the above mentioned problem. Killing the most casual enemie requieres you to steal the kill from someone or be robbed.

7) It's all about collecting items and showing them off...

If you have better items than anyone else... you have played more than anyone else... means that you have put more time into this game... and less time into sports, reading, tv, going out, working or having sex... still... some people are proud and show-offy of being "all epic geared" etc.

8) Too many kids playing this game. (Selfish, spoiled, self-awared, etc, etc.)

9) People who steal, act in bad faith, insult, make racist comments, etc, etc, etc are NEVER banned so reporting someone to a game master makes ABSOLUTELY no difference. The developers are only concerned about the [...] euros a month they are making so banning someone means... [...] euros a month less for them.

Bottom line... DOT NOT BUY this game. I am afraid I have no alternatives to offer to you... I have wasted all my gaming time with this [...].

Good luck to all

A Returning Player's Perspective

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I consider myself a casual gamer. I swore off ever trying an MMO for a long time - and have bounced from MMO to MMO sort of trying out what each has to offer. WoW is the game that I've found myself coming back to more than once.

Having lost my original account due to a hack, followed by a subsequent banning by Blizzard because of the actions of another player - it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I decided to put my fate back into range of the itchy trigger finger of Blizzard.

I spent nearly $100 on launch day for a new copy of WoW, the Burning Crusade, and a time card. I have had so much fun, for so much time over the past couple of weeks with the game that I do not have any regrets over my purchase.

I created a Blood Elf, one of the new races added with the expansion. The back story of the 'pretty' Horde race is captivating and adds a lot of depth to what at first glance seems like a simplistic game.

True enough, the game is very simple. I find myself enjoying a formula that "just works" however, because Blizzard seems to have balanced a multitude of systems, story, quests, etc. and if it took the old K.I.S.S. principle to do so, so be it.

The new starting area for the Blood Elves is gorgeous, and the quests in the first couple of starting areas around Silvermoon will take you nearly to 19 or 20 before you have to set off for the Barrens/Stonetalon/and the areas you are probably used to.

As always, even if I am doing a random quest in the middle of nowhere, it is almost assured that I will come across more players on the same quest that I can group with if the difficulty is too high.

These quests and activities you perform are not "Oblivion" deep, but they are sufficiently compelling to keep you interested in what happens as a result of your quests, or starting another quest in the middle of another that causes you to have to improvise and deviate from your plan prior to heading in.

So the breakdown is - if you've never played WoW, I can still recommend the original game and this expansion ($60 combined) for players. If $40 is too much for the additional content in music, areas, races, professions, levels, resources, items, etc. then I feel like you will be missing out on a larger part of the overall game that the Burning Crusade has added for players.

Does it add enough content to justify the price? Yes - I can say that this expansion does. I cannot speak for future expansions, but if Blizzard puts the same time and effort into the small details as they did in this expansion - WoW will be a destination many of us will take for some time to come.

Good and game but beware!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 35
Date: March 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game where you can (as in many MMO) play alot of time.

My story:
I played this game for over 2 year. I was a very well equiped character with tons of Honor Kills (a PvP score) and money (level 68 of 70). I'm a very caution player so I always have an Anti-Spyware and an Anti-Virus with regular scans every 2 weeks. Also I never used any third party Add-ons, hacks nor bought "Golds" (in-game money) because I heared that does may expose my game to hackers, key-loggers and other problems.

Then suddendly on march-23-2007 got kicked from the server w/o reason, maybe a connection problem -i said- and tried to re-enter into the game but BAM! my account password was changed! I tried and tried but i couldn't retrive my password... So i decided to call Blizzard's support team but BAM! they dont work on weekends... so I had to wait until next monday to call them.

By phone, they told me that my password was changed by someone the same day I got kicked from the server. After asking me some personal information they gave me a new password which I used to re-enter into my Character.

And guess what... My character was in a different place where I was before being kicked out and with no items, no money, no weapons... no nothing!!! What an horrible thing... someone entered into my account and stole everything I had!

After that horrible discovery I contacted again Blizzard's support team in-game and they told me that "Probably someone stole my account and password" so they where going to investigate my issue.

The investigation time for "possible stolen accounts" takes 2 weeks or longer... only after that time they may restore SOME of the items I had, as stated by their Policy:
"...we cannot guarantee that you will receive the same modifier you had on your original item. We are also unable to guarantee the restoration of trade skills, as well as enchantments or add-ons (such as gems, scopes, etc.) that your character's items may have possessed."

CONCLUSION: BEWARE of this unsecure game (even if you run anti-spyware + anti-virus regulary) because not only your account and in-game stuff may be stolen, but also the support team is only able to retrive you a 10% (yes TEN percent) of what you lose.

Outlands are in

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well it took me a whole three weeks to get to level 70. Along the way, my mage raided orc camps in Hellfire Peninsula, thwarted the naga's plans to drain the lakes of Zangarmarsh, and hunted exotic beasties in the sweeping plains of Nagrand. To play World of Warcraft without this expansion should be a crime.
The new races are interesting, and their zones have some of the coolest low level quests I've ever seen. Outlands and everything in it are the best questing experiences the game has to offer past level 60. Quest rewards are better than Blackwing Lair epics, and the higher level dungeon loot even outshines Naxxramas.
And all this without mentioning ten more levels you'll never be able to gain without the expansion, and new class abilities to go with them. If you play World of Warcraft and don't have Burning Crusade, you're missing out on the second coming of the best MMORPG ever made.

A worthy expansion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

World of Warcraft is a marvelous game. Blizzard managed to pretty much get it all right, both in the gameplay and the gradual adding of content via patches over the two years since the game was released. Now, they're delivering a payload that's far more than what a mere patch can do; while the patches often clocked in at ~500mb, this contains 4 CDs of content to install. Clearly, this is not just a new instance and some additional armor.

This is a whole new world, among other things.

With the Burning Crusade, Blizzard has increased the level cap to 70, added two new playable races, and given players an entire new continent (Outland) to play in. Not to mention the addition of new dungeons and quests in the existing world. There's a lot of new things to do, and it helps breathe more life into a game that was still (arguably) fresh.

The new content is excellent. Outland takes advantage of the face that newer technology has been released since 2004, and as such computers can handle higher-quality graphics, allowing the designers to make the textures and such in Outland look stunning. The world of Outland offers some good World PvP action in addition to quests/instances. And flying mounts! Oh, the flying mounts. I don't think much more needs to be said about those; you hear those two words and you want one.

As for the two new races, the Blood Elves bring the paladin class to the Horde faction for the first time, with ups and downs (most notably the surge in Horde population on almost all servers, especially new ones). The Dranei bring the Shaman class to the Alliance, with somewhat less fanfare than the Blood Elves. Both of them have new starting areas, and they look superb. One might considering rolling a new character just to see these new lands.

All in all, The Burning Crusade is a highly-worthy addition to an already top-notch game. Blizzard's reputation for quality is only strengthened by this, and while other MMORPGs have followed the trend of constant, small expansions, Blizzard's decision to take time to make this expansion truly expansive has paid off.

World of Warcraft - Nothing better for the next few months

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: January 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is the best out there at the moment. I am not entirely happy with their customer service or how an account issue was handled, but to be as unbiased as possible about the game itself, it looks good and has given some added content for those who have done all in the initial game. I think that for an expansion, it seems to lack as much content as one would expect to get. Overall I think for those that like WoW and its gameplay, this should make you happier then a pig in mud, but hopefully some company will come out with something that breaks the mold and makes it fun to immerse yourself for hours in a game again.

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