World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Release Date Announced
Posted 25 July 2012 by Rushster
The Pandas are Coming!
Not Diablo 3 news but related as I know some of you may be playing WoW or have come from WoW to Diablo 3. This afternoon Blizzard has announced that MoP will be released on 25 September. The game will costs £29.99 ( $39.99 USD) in the UK with the CE coming in at £59.99. They are also releasing a Digital Deluxe Edition for £39.99 ($59.99 USD) which gives you all the bonus in-game items from the CE.
While I have not played WoW in a few years now since it went all sugary and mass-market, it will be interesting to see how many WoW players that are playing Diablo 3 now will put Diablo 3 down for good. A lot will depend on whether this WoW expansion gets the franchise back on track, there were a lot of complaints about Cataclysm which Blizzard acknowledged after relase. As we know from Diablo 3, whether they actually listened to the community feedback is another matter.
The digital version can be pre-purchased from today.
Source: IncGamers.com
> since it went all sugary and mass-market
Huh? That’s what it was from the start. It used to be really good, though.
WoW vanilla and TBC (well, until the very last patch which nerfed stuff) didn’t cater to bads like the current incarnation of WoW does.
WoW and it’s first expansion were a real, challenging MMO in both time and skill. At the second expansion, Blizzard dumbed the game down so any noob could play and be successful. And Blizzard has continued down the noob/more accessible path ever since… and IMO their games now suck because of it. But what do I know. Blizzard seems to be happy with their millions of subscriptions and millions of boxes sold.
That is precisely why I quite once in WotLK, tried cata for awhile and then quit again. It lost some of it’s challenge, but mostly they made the raiding content way too repetitive. You kill it once on faceroll mode and then have to kill it like 3 more times per week even though you already killed the end boss with little to no effort. And then if you have alts you have to clear it like 6-8 times per week… ugh.
TBC was the height of WoW, it has gone down since then. This panda expansion is looking to be the worst incarnation yet.
I loved everything about TBC. From the music & atmosphere to the boss fights. It was so much fun entering zones for the first time in that game. It was the peak of WOW in my opinion. Vanilla world PVP was fun though… What happened to you, Blizzard?
wow that was really fast…. they have just started to beta test it like a month or two ago, and now they are releasing it.. hope D3 addon will be done as fast as MoP
And less fruity than f-ing pandas…
They are never going to take the ‘my little pony’ out of it. I hope you aren’t hoping for that because you will be disappointed.
The shark is so far beneath the feet of the WoW developers, they need binoculars to tell that it’s there.
But it is.
WoW has more in common with Pokemon than Warcraft in this installment. Forget Hitler, we need to go back in time and kidnap Bill Roper. Those mission voiceovers in WC2 were truly epic.
“…and return with the head of Gul-Dan!!!”
Oh yes that was awesome. This was one of the reasons I know English well today! Reading school texts in Bill Roper’s voice was FUN.
If you are a fan of conspiracy theories, you would think that the D3 devs kept all the cool end game stuff under their belt until MoP is out. And once that is done, we’ll get the full Diablo 3.
Probably not the case. A more realistic theory is that the issues with Diablo were not intentionally planted there but their fixes are conveniently postponed until a bunch of unhappy fans return to WoW. Then once all the WoW hype has ended they’ll launch Diablo PvP.
I’ve never played WoW but I imagine if Diablo 3 was an immense success and patched properly and regularly then barely anyone but the most hardcore WoW fans would continue to pay monthly for WoW.
Oh, I have just filmed a teaser trailer for MoP, and I dare say that it will be an immense success.
Weren’t you the guy who swore up and down that you had inside info telling you the game would be out april 25th?
A slap to Torchlight II’s predicted success
How, exactly?
simple , coz TL II suck balls !!!
D3 owns hard and maybe mop to
Looking forward to it, tho probably not going to return to raiding (done that for years and years) since they kinda killed 25-mans in favor of unfun and un-epic 10-mans.
Is this exactly 1 month after GW2 release?
Guild Wars 2
2012 August 28
so, pretty close to one month
I’m pretty excited about that tbh. Trying to get my wiki stuff done before then. >.>
25th if you prepurchase GW2 >_>
At least the WoW team knows how to make their game.
Then why did they put a bunch of pandas in it?
I’ve tried it. I’ve played through the beta, a good deal of the content, and it is just mediocre at best. This expansion will be what finally kills the game.
Everyone always says “x” game will be the “wow killer” but I have always said that only wow can kill itself. And here it is.
Fully agree Risingred. This expansion is complete nonsense. There is no sensible plot and there are no antagonists. The gameplay videos, preview video, blizzcon demos and presentations only made the expansion look worse and worse. I will definitely not be trying it… I wish they went back to their TBC philosophy :/ The game was so much better then.
and yet there were a couple people on my facebook that announced this expansion release and were excited about it, sigh.