Vhite said:
Oh, his laugh. He knows that he can completly fuck it up and they still make milions because everyone who ever owned WoW will buy it no matter what.
Except for the part where they make most of their money from recurring subscriptions and the money made from selling the disks that would usually contain the actual game is a drop in an ocean. WotLK proved they can't go wrong though - I mean, 98% of people I talk to about it, myself included think it sucks arse compared to TBC and we still play the damn thing.
Hoping SWTOR kicks them up the arse and gives them some good competition. Sadly though, I don't see it happening... apparently 20% of WoW's population are women (who wouldn't touch a Star Wars franchise with a 50ft pole) and even the guys are a lot less into the whole Star Wars thing than a separate fantasy franchise. Not to mention the prospect of 10-14 year old screechers ugh x.x
Back on topic though, Cata looks really amazing. I'm trying to keep myself as far away from any spoilers and would/will outright refuse a beta invite. I've been in Wrath beta and it felt extremely shit actually walking into it when it launched cause I've already seen most of it so there was little amazement to be had at start. Still, the idea itself is really awesome cause it's so massive - as Chilton said, the original Azeroth world with its two continents completely overshadows Outland and Northrend by sheer size, which also gives it greater potential to make different zones (weather conditions/ground terrain etc.).
The prospect of flying mounts in the old world is amazing as well - a lot of people don't like them cause they feel the flying mounts make the world smaller. Thing is, they do, but that's not the real problem, the real problem is that they were introduced in much smaller worlds - Outland and Northrend - that are already small enough to travel without an extremely fast mount that can move in 3 dimensions. With the two huge continents where flight path time itself can actually take 5 full minutes from one end to another, they will not just be useful but awesome, simply watching the great and awesome world from above - kinda hoping for a similar feeling to that of Morrowind, where you could navigate the huge continent by flying over it (constant Levitate enchant with Boots of Blinding Speed, if anyone remembers ^^).
My only real fear is the raiding. I like the changes I heard of in general, but I just hope they don't obliterate 25 man guilds or force them to do 25 mans and 25 mans alone (assuming decent numbers). One of the things I miss most about TBC is that you could be in a 25 man guild, and when you needed a bit of a breather and a rest on a lazy weekend, just jump into a new, different and challenging 10 man rather than a scaled-down version of a dungeon you're already running during the usual raid schedule.
Ah well, either way I don't think it can be anything but an improvement on WotLK... so bring on the release date
