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World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria: Jade Forest Zone Preview
SBFord
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The World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria site has been updated with a new zone preview of the Jade Forest. The preview features an interview with Quest Designer Helen Cheng as well as some cool sound files and brand new images.
Jade Forest is also the zone where the Alliance and Horde first make landfall on Pandaria. The Alliance will land in the southwest and will begin a search for Prince Anduin Wrynn, who has gone missing in a recent naval battle. Meanwhile, the Horde arrives on the northern shores. In both cases, the conflict in the rest of the world spills into Pandaria, and they’ll be fighting from the moment boots touch the ground. The tension between trying to explore a new land while simultaneously fighting a war drives a lot of the action in Jade Forest.
Read the entire preview and check out all the sounds and screens on the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria community site.
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You winner.
lol- sorry i dont like togo back in time...' Blizz 2004 is callling -they want their textures back.'
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lol- sorry i dont like togo back in time...' Blizz 2004 is callling -they want their textures back.'
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Hmm, thought they would have upgraded the graphics a little, have to agree looks exactly the same. I didn’t like Cataclysm much but at least they added the DX11 API which did improve the water quite a bit. Even all the mobs look like they have been reused, shouts "lazy" development to me.
in all honesty- WoW has a 'style' to it, they have banked on it. Blizz can do awsome grahics (SC2-D3). just WoW dosent scream WOW! 'for me' anymore.
hence the play on words there...for those gramatically challanged.
LOL So I guess were going to now have to spend the next few years discussing what game or expansion to an old game is going to kill Guild Wars 2 . Sounds like we've moved on from the WoW killer debate and have shifted it to the new cool as we accept WoW is in decline .
Will we be calling all new mmos GuildWars2 clones as well or argueing that there will be a drop off as we did in the first year or two of WoW .
It does seem GW2 is carry the torch forward and hopefully more games will do so in the future . I think MoP will sell well but by Blizzard terms it wont do anywhere near as well as previous expansions . The last patch wasn't very well recieved in game .
To me this does seem more of the same . Sadly I think the pve side will be moslty very casual , will do little to bring back world pvp to the bulk of the game leaving the only fun elements to offer any degree of challenge to the battleground and arenas .
I like some of what WoW still has to offer but I'm under no illusions this game is very stale and well past its best . I wont rush out an buy MoP but if I see it with 75 percent off or I get it for free like Cata I ll still play for a month or two a year . .
Other than that its GW2 for me .Its a breath of fresh air . And no subs . BARGAIN .
Exactly what I immediately thought when looking at the screenshots.
As for full servers when the expac goes live, sure they probably will, but I'l bet you most of them will go back to the way they where after a month of MoP being released, alot of low pop servers.
I know my old server Dragonmaw EU is suffering badly, our WoW section has lost alot of players to other games, they have said they will come back for the expansion, but most of them want Blizzard to do something about the servers, they don't want to play on a dead server or pay for a transfer, when they already see new games that can offer free transfers between servers.
There are still full servers in the EU . Normally only Outland is the only english speaking server I see full . Just logged into check theres 15 high population servers 20-25 medium and the rest are low . I was quite shocked when I recetly played again for a month while I was away from home on a lappy that wont play much other than WoW . I think there will be a bounce for a month or three but not that much of one long term . Most people intending on playing the expansion went back for the patch as they normally do . 5 levels of content in WoW are easily possible in 10-15 hours of play . (maybe less) . Play through that with a few alts you will easily see MoP in a month or two . Theres not much really to stay for after that . Bit of pvp bit of raiding . No friendy community or fun world pvp to speak of ( although I must say the community seems better than it did a year or so ago) . WoWs a casual game so expansions will bring a few people back but its unlikly to keep them .
Try playing on one of the low servers . These really need to be merged . I play on one low sever Deathwing because its the first server I played on in 2005 I still know people there . Its good community there but we all agree Blizzard needs to merge servers now . There never going to be much of a bounce on these servers because what new player whats to join a low one . MoP wont change that .
I also play alts on medium and high ones .
Easy when your the only soul in Orgimmar AH on Dragonmaw EU server at 5pm.
And as I said in my other post I certainly do not want to pay for a transfer away from my guild to a more populated server when I can see that a new MMO like GW2 has free server transfers, and with no limits either, why can't Blizzard do that?????
They squeeze more than enough cash out of ppl already, my son was daft enough to pay for a full year so he got D3 for free, as I pointed out to him, you just coughed up all that money, more than the game was on teh shelf and you quit it in 2 weeks flat, now your stuck with a game you don't play and a year long subscription to a game you log into once in a blue moon, Blizzard weren't stupid when they did that.
No, it's actually really easy. You must be new :P
I'll be there day one; there's nothing better to replace it. I'm still waiting on Titan info!
Blizzard invested a lot in game and game community server infrastructure a few years ago when WoW was in expansion phase. Reality is it probably doesn't cost them anything to keep low pop servers open, and they can nickle and dime you when you finally want to pay for transfer in the end.
Ive been playing the beta for a lil bit.While playing the graphics look a lot better than this picture.Jade forest is kind of like stranglethorn vale with crazy savages,pandas and monk temples.It's actually really fun and there is new types of quests and i might buy the expansion later on.I heard they are unlocking every race for every one with just vanilla but i would rather have every class unlocked.
WOW will always survive because you can play it on a low end gaming pc...
i just logged onto Ravenholdt US server 17 ppl in Stormwind, and 25 in Org. MOst of them afk just showing off mounts and gear.
lol made my day!
I'm actually looking forward to MOP and the pandas, gw2 will be mostly forgotten in three months..
I dont quite believe that, I posted this about 2 weeks ago and this is in the usualy lull in players just before the pre-expansion patch hits.
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/status as of 18:57 GMT (Peak)
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/status as of 19:02 GMT (Off peak)
I don't think that the time is wasted. After all, millions of people will play that and have fun. And I'm pretty sure that the main focus of Blizzard is somewhere else.
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)