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What's Up With WOW's Rage of the Firelands?

Well, I can tell you it's patch 4.2. Beyond that you'll have to just watch this!

Jun. 16 2011

Posted by: Brad

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Edited By sjschmidt93

Hell yeah.. Ragnaros is back.

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@Larannis said:

@Soap said:

Dear Blizzard,

Please release vanilla WoW as a stand alone single player PC game with basic AI companions to fill in for a team, I will happily pay £40 for it, thanks xxx

I think you are looking back with rose colored glassess. I played WoW back in those days the questing was not that great the raiding outside of AQ 40 and naxx was also not that great MC was such a borintg grind. If you want to pick an era in WoW's history that the PvE content ws at it's peak I would say TBC.

Blizzard has made alot of good changes to WoW unfortunatly they have mad many bad ones to like Wraith.

Molton Core? More like Molton Bore! Am I right?

...I do miss those days, dude, I was in high school!

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Holy shit Harold Camping was right! Rapture IS coming! Only to WoW. Sell your house, abandon college, start putting shit load of billboards, spread the word again!
 
Anyway...
 
PS: I foresee shit load of +Fire Resistance gear in the WOW players future.

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Watching this, I'm actually embarrassed I spent as much time playing this game as I did.

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Oh my god. I am so tired of hearing people complain about where Blizzard has taken the game. 
 
"Wahhhh the game is too easy for casuals, wahhhh its old content, wahhh wahh wahh" 
 
First of all, why do you think they have heroic versions of raids? If the normal content is to easy for you, get over it and try some heroics. None of these crybabies have even stepped foot in a heroic raid and cleared it "so easily" guaranteed.  
 
Obviously there are guilds that have heroics on farm now, but the expansion has been out for 6 months, what do you expect? Eventually you are going to hit the ceiling with gear and need to wait for the next major content patch. That is how the game works.  
 
Why in the world do people want to ruin the fun for others? The majority of people who play the game play it for fun, regardless of what anyone thinks. I guarantee the hardcore raiders are in a minority now. Blizzard did what any smart company would do. They made the game more accessible for a larger subscriber base, while leaving the OPTION (like heroic raids) for those who think they are super leet and can down that content with no wipes.  
 
Get your ego and your elitism out of here. I am a progression raider and understand how raiding works, but what they have done to the game in no way affects what I do with my guild. This game is not about YOU, it is about a 12 million subscription base.  
 
I will probably get super flamed for this, but I feel like a lot of people just do not get it. 

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@seanfoster said:

I'm actually embarrassed I spent as much time playing this game as I did.
 

This.
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Until they change the talent tree for Priests and make it so I don't have to stupidly grind for Justice or Valor points, I am totally not going back. Oh, and make more freaking dungeons! I did the one with the Djinn so many times! :/

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Cancelled my WoW account last week. None of the new stuff lately has been interesting, including this new patch.

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Canceled my WoW account. Those games are counteractive to a normal healthy lifestyle.

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Glad I played it for about two weeks and that pretty much sums up my entire WoW history.

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There are so many negative comments in here along the lines of: "Blizzard ruined WoW" or "WoW hasn't been good since Vanilla" or "Cataclysm sucks because Blizz just re-hashed old content".

If you don't like the game why do you feel like you have to share it with the world? Are you just trying to troll players that still have some interest in the game? Perhaps, the time wasted posting comments on games you don't like, would be better spent playing games that you actually do like.

With that out of the way. I am still enjoying the Cataclysm heroics and raid content and I am looking forward to the new Firelands content. Bring on Ragnaros!

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"There's nothing you can do to stop it". The fiery demon chap isn't wrong. The thing about WoW is everything you do in game has zero effect on the story. Nothing changes. Where's the fun in that? I briefly lapsed back into WoW just after Cataclysm and that was without a doubt my final foray. I like to change things in games - something I can't do in real life!

- Edit to say -

All that up there /\ seems overly harsh now I read it back. I had fun in WoW, but the whole MMO mechanic is flawed I feel. I'd like to see risk and experimentation now, I have the grind in my daily life. If you guys want to keep playing WoW, go right ahead. I'll be sat over here playing single player games.

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That would explain what happened to all the drummers.

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@EgoCheck616: I'm afraid so. But I'd say its perfectly understandable why I might be peeved off that Blizzard killed off an enjoyable RTS franchise that was making money and was deemed a critical success and for no other reason than making MORE money made it into a repetitive lackluster MMO. Starcraft 2 has proven Blizzard still makes some of the best RTS' on the market but because people keep throwing their money into the bottomless pit known as World of Warcraft they don't want to risk it. I guess it just sucks to be a fan of quality singelplayer and meaningful competitive multiplayer experiences, but hey if you enjoy endless grinding I'm sure World of Warcraft must seem pretty amazing.
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Patches are getting their own 4-minute trailers now? Wow.

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Alright! Been looking for a reason to jump back in this year, this could be it.

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@Jonnyflash80 said:

There are so many negative comments in here along the lines of: "Blizzard ruined WoW" or "WoW hasn't been good since Vanilla" or "Cataclysm sucks because Blizz just re-hashed old content".

If you don't like the game why do you feel like you have to share it with the world? Are you just trying to troll players that still have some interest in the game? Perhaps, the time wasted posting comments on games you don't like, would be better spent playing games that you actually do like.

With that out of the way. I am still enjoying the Cataclysm heroics and raid content and I am looking forward to the new Firelands content. Bring on Ragnaros!

It's that way with ANY MMO. People just don't like change and MMOs are made to change rapidly.
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Omg the new commenting is fucking fantastic, I will keep on saying it, looks amazing!

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You know, after playing the entirety of wings of liberty and watching the leaked ending of heart and swarm and its trailer, and now this... I'm pretty sure Blizzard no longer employs any screenwriters and has instead developed some sort of automated, epic-one-liner-filled-script generator program where you click a button and it instantly creates this bland, generic-ass epic-ish action fantasy dialogues and stories for them instead. Yes. I'm pretty sure that's what happenned.

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Yo dawg we heard you like fire levels...

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This reminds me that I miss playing WoW.

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Edited By goulash_enjoyer

Yeah sure, a fire elemental comes out of the water. That's fine. No problems there.

I saw a half a dozen (that's not very many) new models in there, and they all had recycled animations. Yawn. They make a zillion dollars every year and they can't employ someone to create new animations?

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Man. Almost tempting.
Almost. 
 But not quite. 
I hadn't played WoW for eight months before Cataclysm, and stopped playing 3 months after it. For me, WoW is played out -- it's not the changes they make, it's the ones they don't. 
 Still, nice to see Thrall again. He's the greatest and I'm digging his megabeads.

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Were I need of a time waster, I would go back to WoW in a heartbeat. 
But no, must be more productive.

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@AuthenticM said:

Patches are getting their own 4-minute trailers now? Wow.

This trend is older than you think ;)

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Looks pretty neat. Quit before 4.1, so I'm starting to feel a little out of the loop.

@gakon5 said:

This trend is older than you think

BTW, hiya, Rawfle. Hope the Giant Bomb guild is doing well! ;)

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Makes me more anxious to pay another month of WoW :DDDD

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So... is Azeroth ever going to get its crap together...? Or at least be destroyed, or something? Because horrible, horrible things keep happening to it. I know they want to add more content to the game, but everybody in the entire world (of Warcraft) should be dead by now. EVERYBODY.
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I can't go back now. There's too much to do.

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@Jiquk said:

@EgoCheck616: I'm afraid so. But I'd say its perfectly understandable why I might be peeved off that Blizzard killed off an enjoyable RTS franchise that was making money and was deemed a critical success and for no other reason than making MORE money made it into a repetitive lackluster MMO. Starcraft 2 has proven Blizzard still makes some of the best RTS' on the market but because people keep throwing their money into the bottomless pit known as World of Warcraft they don't want to risk it. I guess it just sucks to be a fan of quality singelplayer and meaningful competitive multiplayer experiences, but hey if you enjoy endless grinding I'm sure World of Warcraft must seem pretty amazing.

You sound like you come from inside Blizzard Headquarters making accusations like that?

Blizzard pushed Titan as a new IP just for fans like this. They wanted people to realize that Warcraft isn't dead, but they do intend to move the MMO market away from current IP. This allows them to flesh out new starcrafts, warcrafts, and diablo's without people whining about ruining the franchise in the MMO Market.

Not to mention, isn't it a bit early to be worrying that Blizzard wont be making a WC4? For all we know its been in the making for 7 years and will be announced tomorrow.

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@csoup: Ok I'll admit my accusations that Warcraft as an RTS franchise being dead was indeed premature and I'll also admit I haven't really been paying to much attention to Titan but from what little you've said about it makes it seem like a wonderful idea. This changes my opinion entirely. Thank you for informing me of this.
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@RecallBerserk said:

@Raviyn said:

from my point of view, blizz has completly lost it, cataclysm has been nothing but re use of old content, and they just keep doing it

How have they lost it when millions of people still play and are beyond addicted? Blizzard have only "lost" it when everyone stops playing.

perhaps read what I wrote

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Bring lots of water.

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Gotta give it up to blizzard. As old as that engine is, they can still make compelling trailers.

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@ 2:16 Moltres?

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so much POWER!