World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade release date officially announced.

Pholus · 24 Oct 2006 at 15:50

It's official, the World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade will be released in January 2007.

Forum announcement here: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=71337407&sid=1

Phalanx · 24 Oct 2006 at 15:57

Pholus said:
It's official, the World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade will be released in January 2007.

Forum announcement here: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=71337407&sid=1

I was really hoping to start a Draenei Shaman before christmas

wordy · 24 Oct 2006 at 16:47

Meh, gives me chance to get to rank 10(Champion) without starting all over again after all

Dunks · 24 Oct 2006 at 17:50

Glad it's been delayed, now I actually have time to make some progress in Naxx before it's realsed.

Dark_Injection · 24 Oct 2006 at 18:58

Knowing Blizz it will get pushed on futher and futher. But hey ho.

TBC was the only reason i quit wow anyway

Edinho · 24 Oct 2006 at 20:36

I love being right

Edinho said:
They will release it when its fully ready. Cant see any release date being a problem. Lets face it 99% of people who have an account is going to buy it regardless of wether its before or after christmas.

Wouldnt be surprised if it turns out to be a January/February release.

BloodWolf · 24 Oct 2006 at 20:39

Everything gets pushed back..

wordy · 25 Oct 2006 at 08:21

Yeah Blizzard seem to be good at only releasing stuff when it's ready and not before. Thats a good thing tho imo

ICEMAN133 · 25 Oct 2006 at 09:21

actually think its a good thing

as an above poster said, more time for naxx. currently only 4 bosses down ;<

also gives the chance to get a new main to 60 pre-release, and not having to worry about your gear being pants whilst in a raiding guild

Kheldar · 25 Oct 2006 at 10:15

would have liked to have seen it out for Xmas but not totaly unexpected.

hoping for early jan as i have some leave booked.

Tute · 25 Oct 2006 at 11:22

wordy said:
Yeah Blizzard seem to be good at only releasing stuff when it's ready and not before. Thats a good thing tho imo

That's a joke, surely? :confused:

wordy · 25 Oct 2006 at 11:47

Not really, from what I can gather they took their time with WoW and waitied until it was ready, same as their other games. Compare it to some of the other MMO's and they did a great job with WoW's release

Voltage · 25 Oct 2006 at 11:51

this christmas is going to be sooooo boring

everything has been delayed until the new year.

PFG · 25 Oct 2006 at 12:02

Confusion said:
this christmas is going to be sooooo boring

everything has been delayed until the new year.

so do the socializing thing this year so that next year when u become a scoail recluse from playing all those MMO's they will have seen u a lot this xmas

Voltage · 25 Oct 2006 at 12:02

pah @ socialising

Xinn · 25 Oct 2006 at 15:41

LIES!!! Well at least it gives me time to get another lvl 60 before it comes out suppose and more epic for the main.

jas72 · 25 Oct 2006 at 15:59

i'm glad as i've just started and want to get to 50+ to experience the new lands so i'll be around 50-51 by then so it comes at a perfect time.

Some shops are already touting 27-01 as the release date.

R.O.S.S.I · 25 Oct 2006 at 18:18

Edinho said:
I love being right

Lets wait till Jan, and see it get pushed back more, I love being right too!

Tute · 25 Oct 2006 at 20:58

LOL!

World of Warcraft was one of the most rushed games in existence. The servers don't work properly and repetedly have to be taken offline for Blizzard to paper over the cracks. We've had what.... TWELVE patches? And it's still nowhere near being a good product.

I don't blame Blizzard. They did the best they could, what with Activision right up their asses pressuring them to get the game on the shelves.

CliffyG · 25 Oct 2006 at 21:32

Tute said:
LOL!

World of Warcraft was one of the most rushed games in existence. The servers don't work properly and repetedly have to be taken offline for Blizzard to paper over the cracks. We've had what.... TWELVE patches? And it's still nowhere near being a good product.

I don't blame Blizzard. They did the best they could, what with Activision right up their asses pressuring them to get the game on the shelves.

WoW was one of the smoothest releases of all the MMORPG's i've played. Obviously it had bugs but no major ones. WoW's first major problem was the introduction of the Honour system imo.