Blizzcon happened last week, and Blizzard has announced a lot of videos and info regarding their IPs. Now I wasn’t there, and I don’t know everything they are planning, but from what I have seen it seems that Blizzard is changing. They don’t feel like the same company that I loved years ago. I used to get excited when they would release new videos on WoW. Now with the most recent expansion video “Mists of Pandaria” I feel like they aren’t trying anymore. Back in the day when Blizzard released a trailer for a new expansion, you watched the video and leaned where you were going to go, and the evils you were going to face. For example in this tailer for” Burning Crusade”, the new area looks incomplete and not rendered yet, but Blizz was still was able to show you what you were going to be fighting and and where.
Even more recently, when the patch for “Wrath of the Lich King” came out you knew what was up (even if the expansion title game it away). I remember when this trailer came out, and how excited my friends and I were. We would be able to down Arthas.
But now Blizzard puts out this trailer…..
This shows me nothing. This looks like World of Warcraft ” Kung Fu Panda”. From what I gathered in this trailer is the level cap is now 90, but there is no way to get there because there is nothing to fight in this new panda infested area. What am I going to be killing, what is my ultimate goal, and who is the final boss standing in my way. It’s funny really, they showed all of the other endgame bosses to then show you NOTHING. I looked even further and I found another trailer on Blizzards youtube channel about one of the instances that you can take on. Everyone is commenting on how the music is really pretty, but no one seems to notice that the dungeon is EMPTY. There is no boss preview, not even trash mobs roaming around.
But enough with the new expansions, let’s talk about how it seems like this once confident company is scared of other MMOs. Blizzard announced a deal. If you sign up for 12-months of World of Warcraft via the WoW “season pass” you will get Diablo 3 for free….really? You can still be billed monthly too. so you don’t need to shell out all the money all at once. Not only will you get instant, free access to Diablo 3, but you’ll also be guaranteed access to the next World of Warcraft expansion’s beta. Blizzard will also be giving an exclusive mount, Tyrael’s Charger. Now is Blizz hurting that bad that they are going to give you a brand new game, a mount, and a beta key for “panda paradise” to continuing to play their MMO that you were planning on doing anyways.
What happened to you Blizzard?
Oh and I’m not done here, there is more to come on Wednesday.
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