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Blizzard really screwed up on this one

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 41
Date: January 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got the expansion the day after it came out, no problem, I didn't care about playing opening day so that was no big deal. I logged onto my account the next day and upgraded to BC. I then inserted the CD. the License Agreement pops up, I scroll to the bottom to click the "Agree" button and it never grays out so I can click it. I turned off pop up blockers, completely uninstalled my viruscan, uninstalled/reinstalled the original game, no luck.

I go to the support forum and find out a bunch of people are having trouble with the CD's with many kinds of errors. Blizzard claims they will eventually make key files available for download, but several days later, nothing. Also, its been several days and no replies to my emails from tech support either.

What makes matters worse, once you upgrade your account online to BC, you can no longer play World of Warcraft period.

With all the money they have made on this game, the support should be much better.

I'm giving them till the 23rd when my account is due for renewal otherwise I'm cancelling. There are many other games out there or soon to be released I can play.

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.

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.

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

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.

Same old same old...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 35
Date: January 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

More of the same, mind numbing content. Save your money and try a new game.

WARNING Burning Crusade can only be played on internet

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 84
Date: February 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First there was WARCRAFT, Reign of Chaos, which is Warcraft III; this took a very graphical rise from Warcraft I and II; oddly, I liked those games better, to be honest.

But at least Warcraft III and it's expansion set, FROZEN THRONE, you could play by yourself *without* going on the internet. Suprise, suprise some people do not like to play online!

I'm just not the kind of person who likes to go on the internet to play games. It's just a preference of mine. I purchased WORLD OF WARCRAFT EXPANSION; BURNING CRUSADE from Wal-Mart and had to return it. Why? YOU CANNOT PLAY BURNING CRUSADE WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION; IT IS IN FACT MANDATORY, so I said forget it and returned it. I was NOT aware of this fact when I purchased it; I assumed it was just another expansion like Frozen Throne.

YOU HAVE TO READ THE VERY FINE PRINT--SO BEWARE, IF YOU PLAN TO PLAY THIS WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION--DO NOT PURCHASE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T.

For the millions of online Warcraft addicts out there, more power to you--and it requires a subscription to keep at it. Which means ongoing costs. You are also required to have BROADBAND internet (mandatory). That by itself (along with cable television) is about $80 a month. (By the way, I'm one of those people who rarely turns on the television-and when I do it's almost always to watch DVDs).

I'm giving this one star due to the requirement of Internet only and NOT being clear about it--you have to read the VERY FINE PRINT. It's not obvious on the box.
SHAME ON YOU BLIZZARD!

Expansion made me quit what WAS a great game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This expansion should in fact be given less then 1 star, it was not only terrible on it's own right but it also destroyed World Of Warcraft the original release for me. It is a fact that had this expansion not been released I would still be playing WOW today.

Why did it make me quit? The developers completely ignored the itemizaation balance and encounter balance that existed in the entire original release. Level 60 requirement epic (purple) items dropping from dragons that take 40 people to kill were all of the sudden worse then level 55 requirement common (green) items that drop from trash in BC. In one fell swoop the developers destroyed any reason anyone had to play in the old world beyond level 55. There is no more point to fighting in Molten Core, there is no reason to ever work towards BWL access, the gates of AQ might as well stay closed from now on. One can go to the auction house and pay 10 gold for a green item that they can use at level 55 that is better then you can get doing all that work to kill Vael in BWL.

Why did they not keep things consistent? Why did they not make a level 60 requirement item in BC comparable to a level 60 green item in the old world? Why did they not make a level 60 epic item from BWL still worth having at level 60? I have no clue. Maybe they thought that people would avoid BC without the impetus of easy loots that warp anything that drops in the old world, like the insane exp rate that again warped the old world is not enough. Maybe it is as they say to equalize the PVP of the game, but alot of us were not really there primarily for the PVP and furthermore many of us liked the fact that success in PVE made you more of a threat in PVP as well. Some people lived in the PVP grounds and became very skilled in PVP combat while also gaining the valuable loots obtainable with high rank, some people instead focused on PVE spending just as much time getting the skill and keys it required to become comparably equipped. It was fairly well balanced, but Blizzard went and messed with it and screwed it up.

BC might as well have been WOW 2. There is no point of having it as an "expansion". It destroyed the point of the old world and as such people now live solely in BC or they quit playing. An online game like this must release expansions that are in line with the previous content. You must not make the new content on a new higher scale or you destroy the old content and in essence shrink the useable size of the game world. EQ managed vastly better then WOW with it's Kunark and Velious Expansions. Items that were comparable in level requirement and difficulty to obtain were likewise quite balanced. A level 46 named frog in Guk was dropping similar quality loot to a level 46 named dinosaur in Traks Teeth. That is the way it should be. Now 10 expansions later EQ's balance is utterly dstroyed but in the beggining through the 1st 2 expansions they actually got it pretty close to perfect.

Blizzard screwed this up royally, not because the models were bad, not because the new areas were not interesting, not because the quests were not entertaining, but because they could not keep from ratcheting up the loot to an absurd level utterly trivializing the old world.

This expansion made me quit playing WOW. Without an expansion at all I would still be paying $15 a month, that is how bad it really is in my eyes.

Class Balance Lost in this Expansion

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: July 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This expansion ruined WoW.
Got my character to 70 bought the flying mount, then canceled my subscription.
Why? you may ask, class balance has been ruined.
I spent more time being corpse camped by random mages, then I spent playing.
To be sure, I understand that corpse camping is a part of the game, what I don't understand is how a level 70 character can be basically 1 hit by another 65 plus character.
Solution? simple, put a limit on the amount of dots a mage can stack on another character in pvp, have different limits applied to pve.
Anyway, If you enjoy WoW you may be disappointed by the BC expansion.
Side Note, IF you are a WoW junky that spends every waking hour in game, and have all the best gear, then BC may be just what the doctor ordered, for the casual gamer though, its a game stopper.

Opinon from a disgruntled gamer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: August 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First I would like to say that I loved WoW. I played it hours and hours a day. I was indeed addicted. I invested thousands of hours into my main character to get to lvl 70 (Burning Crusade). Then one week I went out of town. I return to find that my account has been randomly banned by Blizzard for "exploitative" activities. I e-mailed Blizzard several times about the issue. No answer. All that time and money lost. I have spoken to at least a hundred people who had the same issue and there are thousands of blogs online discussing random account closure. So think about it: do you want to invest thousands of hours and loads of money only to be banned from the very thing that you worked so hard at?

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