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WOW: Burning Crusade - $40

I think that's the place holder price.

Because if this is the Blizzard we know and love this game is coming out in 2007. But since they're FREAKING HUGE now, the game might come out in 2006.
 
The Caverns of Time area is the best part of the expansion in my opinion. I can see that aspect having more content than the actual game in a year or so.
 
Whether Diablo 2's expansion was worth $35 usually comes down to whether you played on battle.net or not. The new act was pretty pathetic (long and boring, like act III); the value came almost solely from the new item stuff (mostly runes and uniques that didn't suck) and features that were cut from the original product (persistent hirelings).

$40 seems even more unreasonable to me, but in this kind of game, people will pay whatever it takes to be able to max out their character.
 
Open Source said:
Whether Diablo 2's expansion was worth $35 usually comes down to whether you played on battle.net or not. The new act was pretty pathetic (long and boring, like act III); the value came almost solely from the new item stuff (mostly runes and uniques that didn't suck) and features that were cut from the original product (persistent hirelings).
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I liked act 4 more than the others. Plus the new classes kicked ass. I thought it was well worth it, and I hardly ever played on battle.net.
 
MrAngryFace said:
D2X made Diablo II so much better, and it was good to begin with!
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The difference here is that the WoW expansion isn't free to play online. :)
 
meh usually these things are 20 to 30 bucks depending on how big the exp is, but from what i've seen the expansion lands should be just as big as azeroth, with is friggin huge, and plus many locked off areas in the game now will be added into the original world like Kul Tiras and Hyjal.
 
Blizzard charges more for ever single game and expansion they have released since Warcraft 2. You're fooling yourself if you think Burning Crusade will be any different.
 
MrAngryFace said:
The new act was what?! was what?! Youre fucking stupid. Shut up. Sit Down.
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It was better after you got the waypoints and could go to the 3 or 4 interesting spots quickly, but other than those it was one long-ass trudge through a dozen look-alike snow and ice cave levels.
 
Schafer said:
Blizzard charges more for ever single game and expansion they have released since Warcraft 2. You're fooling yourself if you think Burning Crusade will be any different.
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QFT. It is a fact that Blizzard's games have always cost more than every other PC games.
 
A) this is probably placeholder stuff, including the date.
B) Blizzard *always* charges exorbitantly for their expansion packs and what not
C) Expansion packs in MMORPGs usually add quite a bit. You can't compare an MMORPG to your standard game by saying "Oh you pay to play it." That's ridiculously stupid.
 
Working in the industry myself I know that the very early dates that EB world has posted are purely theoretical and meaningless... Judging by the games I have shipped and release dates I have seen from them in regards to my games.

It still is interesting how early they have it slated. I still put the expansion at December.
 
It should live up to the cost and the hype. The content in the expansion pack looks like it's going to be absolutely massive in size; there's quite a lot of new dungeons getting added and they sound like the quality of Deadmines, Shadowfang, and Gnomeregan (not Molten Core). There's even a faction-city/dungeon sort of like in both EverQuest games where the dungeon is a massive city that multiple factions rule over and war in. You get to basically choose which faction you want to side with, and their dungeon turns into your home-base for the region, and the other factions turn into your dungeons to raid (and PvP, I presume, since other players will use them).

Reminds me of Calimport for some reason from the Forgotten Realms world.
 
I would buy it for 100$, so no problem ;)

I am pretty sure it will come in 2006 but for Blizzzard, you never know.
 
Blizzard isn't Blizzard anymore.

The people that took forever and a day to release anything all left Blizzard.

There probably 3 people left at Blizzard that worked on Diablo 2 and that includes Bob, the crazy accountant that lost an eye in an after hours poker game.
 
Teknopathetic said:
B) Blizzard *always* charges exorbitantly for their expansion packs and what not
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I payed 22€ for WC3: TFT vs. 39€ for WC3 (don't know how it was in the USA), so that's clearly the exception (and it's not like Blizzard has released two dozen add ons ^^).
 
40 bucks is nothing considering I will get more play time out of it then probably all of my 60 dollar console games combined in the year :lol
 
Frankfurter said:
I payed 22€ for WC3: TFT vs. 39€ for WC3 (don't know how it was in the USA), so that's clearly the exception (and it's not like Blizzard has released two dozen add ons ^^).
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TFT debuted at $35-$40, I forget which and WC3 $60.

Anyway just say no to this soul destroying EQ-lite.
 
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$40 is completely expected. I'll be picking this up on day 1 without a doubt.
 
Every other MMO expansion in history has been $30 or less (City of Villains is a stand-alone). Not sure who "completely expected" it to be $40, or how completely expecting is different from plain ol' expecting.

I'm sure the same number of people would buy it if it were $20 or $50, so why not gouge your loyal customers, who will only post about how completely expected and welcome this anal intrusion was?

BTW I played WoW for about 5 weeks and got bored.
 
"Every other MMO expansion in history has been $30 or less (City of Villains is a stand-alone). Not sure who "completely expected" it to be $40, or how completely expecting is different from plain ol' expecting."

Every other MMO didn't have 3.5+ million subscribers and growing. (outside of Lineage, but I don't believe Lineage released an expansion pack). And every other MMO hasn't been by Blizzard who has a record of relatively high expansion prices.
 
I'm pretty sure Blizzard will release a new expansion (ANOTHER NEW 10LEVELS!) every year for the next many years stopping in 2010.

So that's 5 games (4 expansions) and 60 months total if you buy every addon and play every month that is.

~ 200 $ for all the games.
~ 700 $ for all the monthly fees.
~ 900 $ all in all.

I'm still excited for the new expansion!
 
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