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| World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade | 
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| From: Blizzard Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $16.63
You Save: $13.36 (45%)
New (42) Used (15)
Avg. Customer Rating:  167 reviews
Sales Rank: 325
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Macintosh
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 72618
Model: 72618
UPC: 020626726184
EAN: 0020626726184
ASIN: B000BWZY7Q
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: This video game is brand new, never opened and never played! Buy today to be one of millions of satisfied B-Logistics customers.
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| Customer Reviews:
A Fair review of Burning Crusade January 17, 2007
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
For those who decide to blast this because of the problems during the first day take into account that the launch could have been a lot worse-and instead of waiting on 2 patches it could have been one huge patch like some other games I have seen in the past. Yes there were problems with the launching of burning crusade while I was installing the game I was thinking worse case that I would not be able to get access for a day or two later, yes I was kicked out of the game a few times Tuesday and yes the downloading the patch took over an hour thats why I gave this a 4 instead of 5. However other people were down loading that they may have closed the server for being slow.
On the merits of the expansion pack itself. From what I saw even for the casual player like me who has maybe up to 2 hours during a weekday I was totally impressed on what I saw. My first item from a quest, wasnt anything real sexy, but it was a big improvement from what I had over doing the instances on the mainland. As for scraping around for money, the quests here have bigger payouts.
The only real and major knock on this game then it can be said of any MMO some people i ran into lately have taken this game way to seriously and instead of being something to relax its become more like work. as of next week checking out age of conan and hopefully can get rid of these current headaches.
 Extremely buggy and horrible support January 17, 2007
8 out of 59 found this review helpful
The original World of Warcraft was a huge leap forward in graphical RPGs. I've never had more fun or been more addicted to a game. As a result, I was extremely excited to get my copy of the expansion pack in the mail. I rushed upstairs, sat through the hour of installation and patch downloads and went to log on. Disconnected from Server. Every attempt to log on resulted in this message almost immediately. Attempts to contact Blizzard Technical Support were a wasted effort. Their phone line is constantly busy, they don't respond to emails, and they ignored every forum post by the myriad number of users facing the same problem. Since you are asked to upgrade your account to a Burning Crusade account upon starting installation, I was unable to go back and play the original game sans expansion pack. I have been forced to cancel my account with Blizzard and will never buy another product of theirs. Highly recommend passing this one up.
 Don't believe the ravings of the perpetually grumpy January 17, 2007
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
For those of you who are wondering if you should buy the BC expansion and how it is faring on the live servers, let me put your mind at ease. The servers are up, the game is wonderful, and the new content puts the original content of WoW to shame. This is an expansion that Blizzard should stand up and be proud of!
Contrary to other players experiences, I played the expansion for about 10 hours of the first day of its official live release (not the beta), and it is not buggy. The lag in the Outland can be a bit much at times, but then again when every level 60 on your server is in one zone trying to do quests, what do you expect? The mobs are constantly respawning at a rate so fast that once you kill the mob a respwan happens almost instantly (due to the frequency of kills in the zone). I have seen only one "evade" mob bugging out, and been disconnected twice in 10 hours, each time for less than a minute. With the score and breadth of the expansion, these are small problems that will not hamper your gameplay in the least (unless you are a Mr. Grumpy-Pants).
The bottom line: buy the expansion if you play Warcraft. You won't regret it.
Mitigated Disaster January 17, 2007
12 out of 56 found this review helpful
As I write this review the expansion has been live for 20 hours. Half the servers are down and the server with all my characters on (Argent Dawn) can't stay up more than 60 seconds. When it's up there are innumerable bugs like non-spawning mobs, unattackable mobs, ships disappearing dumping all of us in the sea off of Auberdine. Those servers that are able to stay up are so crowded that every mob that respawns is instantly attacked by half a dozen players.
It took over 90 minutes just to install the expansion because there are two updates required after installing the software on the CDs and the downloads are sloooowwwwww.
I don't think the people who gave this 5 stars actually played it in production. Maybe they played the beta which was much more controlled and stable. Your experience will not be so pleasant for several more days I suspect.
Blizzard really screwed up on this release. I give them a D-.
Update - Yesterday (Sunday) was the first day since the release that I didn't see any problems with disconnects or broken mobs. That's six days of problems. I changed the title to Mitigated Disaster because they seem to have eventually fixed all the problems.
60 was more fun than 70 January 17, 2007
The game plays great from level 60 to 70. Lots of fun quests, great new gear and interesting lands to explore. But at 70 the magic that WOW had isn't quit there.
After 70 getting to the end game is just not fun. To get attuned for it you must run several 5 man instances over and over again. It would not be listless but find a group is a problem. They eliminated the channel used to find groups and replaced it a very limited tool that most players don't like or don't use.
The end game is a shell of what it use to be. There are no new 40 man raid instances like Molting Core. Instead there are 10 and 25 mans. To get attuned to the first 10 man "Karazhan" takes a bit more then getting Onyxia attuned. To get to the main 25 man "Mount Hyjal" takes the equivalent of getting 30 Onyxia keys. It would be do able but with the new looking for group system players are giving up in mass before they even get to Karazhan.
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