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The long wait is over...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 58
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

what more can i say the game WOW finally has an expansion out making WOW that much more awesome.

BEST GAME EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 51
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

PEOPLE IF U THINK THAT PEOPLE THAT PLAY THIS GAME R NERDS U R WRONG ! BC introduces a who;e new alinment to wow . with the lvl cap riased to 70 all wow players no that this will not be the last inraisement in lvl. with 2 new totaly cool!!! new character!!! -and now the horde have pallys!!!-and the alliance have shaman!!! it is evern better than ever! i am looking foward to the next one _ rn't u ?

Don't believe the ravings of the perpetually grumpy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For those of you who are wondering if you should buy the BC expansion and how it is faring on the live servers, let me put your mind at ease. The servers are up, the game is wonderful, and the new content puts the original content of WoW to shame. This is an expansion that Blizzard should stand up and be proud of!

Contrary to other players experiences, I played the expansion for about 10 hours of the first day of its official live release (not the beta), and it is not buggy. The lag in the Outland can be a bit much at times, but then again when every level 60 on your server is in one zone trying to do quests, what do you expect? The mobs are constantly respawning at a rate so fast that once you kill the mob a respwan happens almost instantly (due to the frequency of kills in the zone). I have seen only one "evade" mob bugging out, and been disconnected twice in 10 hours, each time for less than a minute. With the score and breadth of the expansion, these are small problems that will not hamper your gameplay in the least (unless you are a Mr. Grumpy-Pants).

The bottom line: buy the expansion if you play Warcraft. You won't regret it.

Mitigated Disaster

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 56
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As I write this review the expansion has been live for 20 hours. Half the servers are down and the server with all my characters on (Argent Dawn) can't stay up more than 60 seconds. When it's up there are innumerable bugs like non-spawning mobs, unattackable mobs, ships disappearing dumping all of us in the sea off of Auberdine. Those servers that are able to stay up are so crowded that every mob that respawns is instantly attacked by half a dozen players.

It took over 90 minutes just to install the expansion because there are two updates required after installing the software on the CDs and the downloads are sloooowwwwww.

I don't think the people who gave this 5 stars actually played it in production. Maybe they played the beta which was much more controlled and stable. Your experience will not be so pleasant for several more days I suspect.

Blizzard really screwed up on this release. I give them a D-.

Update - Yesterday (Sunday) was the first day since the release that I didn't see any problems with disconnects or broken mobs. That's six days of problems. I changed the title to Mitigated Disaster because they seem to have eventually fixed all the problems.

A Fair review of Burning Crusade

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For those who decide to blast this because of the problems during the first day take into account that the launch could have been a lot worse-and instead of waiting on 2 patches it could have been one huge patch like some other games I have seen in the past. Yes there were problems with the launching of burning crusade while I was installing the game I was thinking worse case that I would not be able to get access for a day or two later, yes I was kicked out of the game a few times Tuesday and yes the downloading the patch took over an hour thats why I gave this a 4 instead of 5. However other people were down loading that they may have closed the server for being slow.

On the merits of the expansion pack itself. From what I saw even for the casual player like me who has maybe up to 2 hours during a weekday I was totally impressed on what I saw. My first item from a quest, wasnt anything real sexy, but it was a big improvement from what I had over doing the instances on the mainland. As for scraping around for money, the quests here have bigger payouts.

The only real and major knock on this game then it can be said of any MMO some people i ran into lately have taken this game way to seriously and instead of being something to relax its become more like work. as of next week checking out age of conan and hopefully can get rid of these current headaches.

60 was more fun than 70

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game plays great from level 60 to 70. Lots of fun quests, great new gear and interesting lands to explore. But at 70 the magic that WOW had isn't quit there.

After 70 getting to the end game is just not fun. To get attuned for it you must run several 5 man instances over and over again. It would not be listless but find a group is a problem. They eliminated the channel used to find groups and replaced it a very limited tool that most players don't like or don't use.

The end game is a shell of what it use to be. There are no new 40 man raid instances like Molting Core. Instead there are 10 and 25 mans. To get attuned to the first 10 man "Karazhan" takes a bit more then getting Onyxia attuned. To get to the main 25 man "Mount Hyjal" takes the equivalent of getting 30 Onyxia keys. It would be do able but with the new looking for group system players are giving up in mass before they even get to Karazhan.

Lots of New Content

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 133 / 140
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This expansion pack introduces the new continent of Outland. This continent can only be accessed with a character that is at least level 58. If you're either just starting to play World of Warcraft, or you have no characters even close to level 58, you may just want to wait to buy the expansion at a later time.

However, the expansion also grants you access to two new races, the Draenei (Alliance) and the Blood Elves (Horde). You won't be able to create characters of either of these races if you don't have the expansion. So, if you want to play one of them you'll need to get it. If you're a new player who's just trying out the game, I'd suggest just getting the basic version and playing one of the original races, rather than spending the extra $40 before you even know whether you like the game.

You should also be warned that if you're upgrading from the original version of the game, even if your copy is already fully patched, you'll have to install the patches again after installing Burning Crusade. This is because they printed the CDs with version 2.0 of the client you use to play the game, but they've issued patches after that which you need to log into the server (up to version 2.05 as of this writing). If you look in the Patches sub-folder of your World of Warcraft folder on your computer, you should already have some of the patches present and be able to simply double click them to install. If you were to try to log in before doing that, you'll have to redownload the patch before it installs instead, which will naturally take more time.

Some people have complained about lag, crashes, and lines to log into the more popular servers. These are all short term problems. A lot of people are very excited about the expansion, and so there are far more players than usual logged in at once, which is straining the servers. Give it a week or two after release and it should begin to settle down.

For the basic version of WoW, the level cap is 60. If you install the expansion, the cap is increased to 70. If you have a level 60 character and want to continue to advance, you MUST upgrade your account with the expansion pack.

Additional level brackets for the Battlegrounds (Player vs Player areas) have been added to accomodate the new higher levels in the game. Also, a new battleground called Eye of the Storm has been made available for characters of level 61 and above. Additionally, around the zones of the new Outland continent, there are PvP tasks you can perform such as taking over control of towers, with the faction that controls all of the towers in a zone gaining a small bonus such as a 5% increase to damage anywhere in that zone.

They've also added a number of new instances/dungeons. The new ones have two settings, allowing you to go through them at either 'normal' difficulty, or 'heroic' difficulty. The heroic setting makes the enemies tougher, and provides increased treasure rewards. This keeps the instances useful for advancement over a larger span of levels than would normally be the case.

Most players will find that, as they do quests in Outland, they quickly begin to get armor that's superior to what they've previously been using. The monetary rewards in the new areas are also increased. Additionally, professions have been expanded to cover the additional levels in the game and tailoring has been expanded to include specialties similar to the way blacksmithing and leatherworking work.

Flying mounts are available on the continent of Outland for those who purchase them. However, these are not available to be used in the two original continents. This is because those areas were designed with the intention that they would only be accessed from the ground and a lot of work would have been required to make all of the quests and visuals work as intended if characters were permitted to fly around freely.

Be cautious about buying this item used. Each copy of the expansion includes a key code that is required to upgrade your account to allow access to the new content. If you buy a used copy of the software where the seller has already used that key to upgrade his account, you'll still be able to install the software upgrade, but the lack of an unused key will mean that you won't be able to apply the upgrade to your account that's required to actually access the new content.

If you install the expansion on a computer where more than one account is used (for example, if you and your spouse each has your own account) then you can only use the key to upgrade one of those accounts. The other account will continue to work, but it will not be given access to the expansion pack content. Therefore, you need to obtain one expansion pack for each account you or your household has if you want to access the new content on all of them.

Edit: As of January 22, 2007 Blizzard has announced on their forums that they're working on allowing players who already upgraded using the basic expansion to then also upgrade using the collector's edition in order to get the limited edition pet. You'll have to call Blizzard's billing service line with the unused collector's edition expansion key, so it's slightly more work than upgrading directly with the CE, but it can now be done.

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.

Extremely buggy and horrible support

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 60
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The original World of Warcraft was a huge leap forward in graphical RPGs. I've never had more fun or been more addicted to a game. As a result, I was extremely excited to get my copy of the expansion pack in the mail. I rushed upstairs, sat through the hour of installation and patch downloads and went to log on. Disconnected from Server. Every attempt to log on resulted in this message almost immediately. Attempts to contact Blizzard Technical Support were a wasted effort. Their phone line is constantly busy, they don't respond to emails, and they ignored every forum post by the myriad number of users facing the same problem. Since you are asked to upgrade your account to a Burning Crusade account upon starting installation, I was unable to go back and play the original game sans expansion pack. I have been forced to cancel my account with Blizzard and will never buy another product of theirs. Highly recommend passing this one up.

BC...Good, but not looking forward to the grind.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

So I went to the game store and waited in line to get my pre-order at release. Got home, installed it in about 45minutes or so with the updates, which was nice.

Lag wasn't bad on my server (Malygos) and had fun getting a few levels on a new Blood Elf paladin. Until the next day...tried to take my lvl 60 into Outlands...Questing was painful with all the lag, then the various world servers kept crashing, no mobs...or insanely fast respawns. No NPC's for quests, etc. I played the beta a bit and release was much improved over it, however I think that this kind of performance should be expected for the first days/weeks after release.

Overall the new content seems to be interesting and the quest reward items seem to be significantly better than what you could get raiding the 40 man instances, which is very depressing for those of us who spent MONTHS raiding to get the 'epic' gear just to have it replaced with green quest rewards in one day.

If you are addicted to World of Warcraft, I am sure you will become just as addicted to Burning Crusade. :)

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