2.8 Million People Are Playing Wrath of the Lich King

5. You’re not that far behind. The game has been adjusted to allow new players to level faster. Quests now give more experience points, and the experience points needed to go from level to level has been reduced. To boot, characters can now obtain mounts at level 30 instead of level 40, making questing easier and faster.

Totally saw this coming, seriously, who didnt?

Believe me, you're not alone. I thought I kicked it a long time ago, but I'm right back into it, and going harder then ever.

it is not really surprising  . World of Warcraft  is the world's largest MMORPG  ,

I'm glad i never got into this crap

2.8 at the time of this posting, 11 by morning :p

My Collectors Ed is sitting on my desk, waiting to be opened. So far I am 3 weeks clean though. This is a serious test and I feel myself slipping..

BRANDY PLAYS?! I always say im not going to play anymore, but yet, i do. So far I like wotlk a lot. Death knights are really fun to play.

Managed to stay clean all my life. Although WoW looks fun, i'm not sure my social life can take such a hit.

I played the game from closed beta to BC and now WotLK little for my brother and wasn't excited at all. The game doesn't bring anything new to the experience for me and still feels like a money grabbin scheme more or less. I think I would have gone playing it again if they would have dropped the monthly price atleast to half and make character transfer from server to server free. Especially now when the whole world is feeling the coming economic depression.

WOTLK is fun, Northrend has a really nice oldschool vanilla WoW feel to it. And it kinda feels like Frozen Throne too, it's hard to describe, but the "feeling" and atmosphere is extremely important in games and how much longevity they have - and Blizzard has nailed that completely here.

Thumbs up to Blizz for great expansion

Maybe if I didn't have a job and 2 kids (which means limited free time to game these days) I would get back into it, but for me playing from Nov. 2004 until July of 2007 was more than enough.
Plus owning a competent computer, Xbox 360, and a PS3 give me more than enough non-WoW gaming options these days.
You know games that have an end.

2 friends of mine started playing WOW about two month ago... i never see them any more... RIP guys... RIP...

man, whats up with this game? it sucks the life out of you, this is why i don't have any interest in these kinds of games.

 People need to stop buying this shit honestly, I'll never understand it. Its a 4 year old game with nothing new bought to the table since then besides new areas to run around in, and level up another 10 levels now just like the first time. I wish people would go play a real game.

I gave up the WoW junk last year shortly after I hit 70 and I haven't looked back. I have absolutely no desire to begin playing again, but it's beyond maddening to watch all my friends disappear back into it.

Look, it goes like this. If you liked wow, you'll like lich king, that's it. Its not reinventing nothing, its just more better, shinier, cooler wow, but its still wow.

Im playing it right now and im having a blast with my friends. THAT'S what matters in a game.

I say go for it, Brad. Northrend is worth your time.

"Look, it goes like this. If you liked wow, you'll like lich king, that's it. Its not reinventing nothing, its just more better, shinier, cooler wow, but its still wow.

Im playing it right now and im having a blast with my friends. THAT'S what matters in a game.

I say go for it, Brad. Northrend is worth your time."

Hmm... yeah... still don't care.

"demonbear said:

"Look, it goes like this. If you liked wow, you'll like lich king, that's it. Its not reinventing nothing, its just more better, shinier, cooler wow, but its still wow.

Im playing it right now and im having a blast with my friends. THAT'S what matters in a game.

I say go for it, Brad. Northrend is worth your time."

It really isn't. Brad has better things to do, he has real games to review. Going back and playing WoW now would be suicide."

More of the same *shrug* That satisfies a hell of a lot of people though, clearly

@pause422

Are you really that stupid? How could you say World of Warcraft isn't a "real game"? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it's not a real game...Ignorance FTL

It isn't ignorance, I know exactly what I'm talking about, and I have no need to explain it to you. Believe what you want, and I'll do the same.

I never got into WoW, and it's unlikely I ever will.

I play WoW. I'm in college 16 hours a week, and I work 24 hours a week. I do my homework, I hang out with friends, I play my Xbox 360... AND play WoW. To say that it sucks your life away is pretty lame. Don't hate on someone just because of the games they play. Games are for fun, and if you think WoW is fun, good for you.

I'm 6 months clean myself. The sad thing is, I would probably pick up Lich King if I had a working computer at home.

"It isn't ignorance, I know exactly what I'm talking about, and I have no need to explain it to you. Believe what you want, and I'll do the same."

"I play WoW. I'm in college 16 hours a week, and I work 24 hours a week. I do my homework, I hang out with friends, I play my Xbox 360... AND play WoW. To say that it sucks your life away is pretty lame. Don't hate on someone just because of the games they play. Games are for fun, and if you think WoW is fun, good for you."

I've played this for about a month and a half, back when Burning Crusade was released.  Ultimately, I don't really like the structure of this game.  I want to take my time and enjoy exploring, hang out with my friends, but the game is always pushing you to level up, level up, level up. It's like they want to rush you as fast as possible toward the end game content.  Why?

"pause422 said:

"It isn't ignorance, I know exactly what I'm talking about, and I have no need to explain it to you. Believe what you want, and I'll do the same."

It IS ignorance. Brad reviews games during his office time and he'll make room for his duties. If he starts playing wow, he's obviously refering to his personal time. He's a professionnal. The fact that you can't even realize that proves you don't know what your talking about. Leave. Thanks for posting."

You say things that are incorrect. These are not opinions, its bull****. Impliying that Brad's eventual return to wow would be anything negative is quite stupid. I stand by my statements. Think they are dumb? yeah whatever. But please, you can leave the thread now and avoid further embarrassment. Thank you. I'm done now. Moving on.

I'm not sure where this idea of WoW sucking the life out of people comes from. In the last expansion I was able to raid all the available content, yet still have time to go to class, do homework, and have a good time with my mates. In the 4 some odd hours people play games per day instead of playing 3-4 different games, I just played one.

"I've played this for about a month and a half, back when Burning Crusade was released.  Ultimately, I don't really like the structure of this game.  I want to take my time and enjoy exploring, hang out with my friends, but the game is always pushing you to level up, level up, level up. It's like they want to rush you as fast as possible toward the end game content.  Why?"

Its funny that you seem to think I'm the one embarassing myself, even if that is somehow possible in a thread over the internet, by the statements you're using. Brad Jeff/Ryan here at GB themselves have admitted they want to stay away from 'the crack' (the game) plenty of times because they don't want to get sucked back into it, due to having no interest in playing a single game for so long, and that's what it does to you. When you get some facts to backup anything you're claiming, let me know. You can continue attempting to give orders now on the forums though, tough guy.

I will never go back to World of Warcraft.

For what it's worth Brad, the questing in Lich King has so far been pretty good. That seems weird to say, as if to go "this is the best garbage i've had yet!" but seriously, the quests are a great deal more entertaining than before. Most of what's going on feels pretty cohesive, this is the closest WoW has been to having an overarching story. That, and there's some neat technology at work with their dynamic quests. I don't know what it's called technically, but basically stuff will change depending on what quests you've done, making the bits of storytelling more meaningful. For instance say a friendly NPC dies during a quest, they'll stay dead rather than respawn for the next guy to come do the quest. That's not to say the world is going to be radically different by the time you're done with a zone, but there are some nice touches to make it feel you're playing a campaign or something.

but there are 11million subscribers.... i would have expected more.  i suppose many wait until xmas or at least another weekend

People have died from playing WOW.

I was a wow-addict for 16 months.

Got a beautiful HDTV.
Got awesome speakers.
Got a Xbox 360.

After having it (xbox)break the other day, the thought of returning to WoW seems... likely.
Somewhere in Spring 09 though, I am going to be on Left 4 Dead.

too expensive for me at the moment with all these other games
I would enjoy getting back into it though

... thus obliterating my hope for a new Warcraft RTS.

Not a surprise, after BC I stopped WoW for about 5 months but now im thinking of getting back into it, all my friends are playing. 

Damn ... I want to return after an 11 month break ! ...

Been playing WoW since launch.  I've stopped a few times, even deleted my gear and left my toon naked face down dead floating in Booty Bay to keep me from coming back.  But I did, and once I got into a guild and geared my guy up, I've had more fun in WoW this past six months than I did the years before.

WotLK really builds on what was done before and is arguably what many wanted when BC came out.  The quests are fun, short, laden with story so it's not just a fetch quest.  The zones are fleshed out and feel much more like they belong there with less obvious borders and limitations on level requirements.  It's also very clear that Blizz is catering to the casual crowd for much of the content. 

My guild raided up to mid BT and cleared Hyjal.  So we aren't an uber SWP guild decked out in full T6 gear.  My rogue was still very much in T5-T6 and badge gear when Wrath came out.  I'm now level 76, and I've not yet seen one upgrade to my gear, meaning everything up to now is aimed at players who hit 70 and did little to no raiding with probably the only epics being PVP gear or a crafted piece.  So if that describes you, you've got plenty to do and upgrades galore.

I was skeptikal before it shipped.  More of the same and harder stuff to suck my time away was looking like all I had to look forward to.  But so far it appears that it's quite the contrary.  Quests have been fun, offering new things not done or done only once before in the old content.  I'm already exalted with a faction merely by doing quests, not weeks of daily quests or turn-ins.  Raids have been cleared by the top guilds and are being called "too easy" already.  But if that means I can raid a couple nights a week and still get to see it all without making WoW a second job, that's a good thing.

Never had a Wow addiction, don't plan to either

World of Warcraft's voodoo jedi mind tricks still don't work on me, and I'm proud of it! But 2.8 million people isn't really a surprise for me.

It's been a good expansion so far. Music is awesome, and they have done a really nice job of further expanding the games art style to pull off some pretty cool locals. Just way to many other games out right now for me to invest to much time, wait for summer I suppose. 

WOW is like Smack. I have never tried either.

Awesome! Made a new character some time ago though, so I'm only level 30. I guess I'll get it... whenever I hit 70.