World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
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Video Game Reviews of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
Customer Review: WoW has become nothing more then a never-ending grind...
Summary: 1 Stars
After playing through WoTLK, hitting 80, raiding and getting geared, I finally just stopped one day and said "Why am I playing this game?" All the game is, is one long grind session...whether you're grinding for experience, grinding for gold, grinding for pvp points, grinding for gear, grinding for rep, etc. And then once you have all epic items and think all the grinding is behind you, GUESS WHAT? An expansion pack or patch comes out and you have to grind all over again for your end game gear, rep, gold, etc. This game is an enormous time sink and at the end of the day what did you really accomplish? Customer Review: A bad future lies ahead for blizz...
Summary: 1 Stars
i was hesitant to write this review for quite some time but after having my high expectations ruined at the end i decided to just go ahead and write this,hopefully i'm going to get corrected if i'm wrong;or-if i'm lucky enough-maybe get the chance to have my review read by a blizz senior who will actually fix the fatal flaws that wow has been suffering from lately...
1)technical issues/tech support:wow is the only game that freezes on me EVERYTIME i play it,other games-even ones that are even more graphically intensive-like dead space work just fine.but what's even more amazing,after trying to play wow for a minute-literally-the rest of the other games i got in my pc went bad right away!!the only solution available to me was un-install wow and restore my pc to an earlier date,and voila,everything became as good as before.so what does that say??what's even worse,wow's tech support is amazingly irresponsible,these guys will sometimes tell you stuff like "it appears that the item that you had was sold away to a vendor(even though i didn't).have a good day"i swear i'm not making any of this up!!i was NEVER able to get any help from these guys,ever!! google the words "freeze" and "wow" and you'll be amazed at how many players complain from this issue,but blizz simply doesn't seem to care...
2)pvp-system balance:ask ANY wow-er,is wow's pvp system balanced and fair??and YOU KNOW the answer:it isn't!!it's amazing how blizz was able to become one of the world's top video game developers but isn't able to balance its player-vs-player system no matter how long-and hard-they try/tried!!i mean,in all honesty,how does blizz expect its pvp system to be balanced if the death knight has an ability that makes him summon +10 ghouls on you??and why the heck can't anyone arena in 1vs1 matches??how many times did wow's players BEG for this lovely would-be-feature only to find a deaf ear(blizz)insisting that you can't arena unless you are ready to pay for someone else's mistakes.and why??so you can "experience wow's social aspect" *sigh*
3)social aspect:i understand that wow is a social game and you have to play it in groups to really appreciate its fun.but what happened with the lich king expansion??heroics now aren't worth crap-unlike their worth in the burning crusade expansion-and to get the best gear you have no choice but to join a guild that has hundreds of players now!!in the end,i PAID to enjoy wow just like everyone else,so just because i like my friends and insist in staying in that little guild i dont have the right to get the best gear as everyone else??blizz is killing off smaller/rpg-oriented guilds that way and you are indirectly forced to leave your small guild and join a bigger one!!in all honesty,is that completely fair to everyone??
4)patch/class specialization inconsistencies:ok,i'm a survivalist hunter.need i say more??hunters now can't even dps/pvp as well as they used to!!go to [...] to listen to the-logical-complaints of this player addressing these concerns(interestingly,this blizz member acknowledges the absence of hunters in arenas,duh I wonder why).hunters have been nurfed down more than ANY other class(apparently it's not bad enough that hunters can't heal or tank,only dps)!!A)deterrence used to be one of the best skills any survivalist hunter has now its completely worthless!! B)volley's damage has been cut by %50!!it USED to be one of the best AOE moves any hunter could have but now it's somewhat worthless!! etc...
5)repair expenses are just SO HIGH in wow,ALL my plate armor-wearing friends complain of how they NEVER have any money.as a hunter,mail armor repairs are expensive too!!is that blizz's concept of "fun"??a friend of mine told me that repair expenses are so high he actually knows some players who adventure without armor!!
i'm sorry,but i'm honestly not having much fun with wow anymore,thank you blizz for screwing up your game,and turning a deaf ear to your players.if you want your game to succeed,you will have to please US,not YOURSELVES!!
Customer Review: Best. Expansion Pack. Ever.
Summary: 5 Stars
You shouldn't be reading reviews on a video game on Amazon. Go to [...] or something. But for what its worth: as far as MMORPG's go, THIS is how expansions for games should be! TONS of new content, not too pricey... Really you can't play World of Warcraft without it. Customer Review: Fun but...
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a fun game but leveling takes forever.
I stopped playing at level 76.
Just takes too much time to level!
I have 4 other characters to get from 70 to 80
and I don't have that kind of time to spend on it
anymore. If you have the time to kill I highly
recommend this game!
Customer Review: A lot Harder than Burning Crusades
Summary: 4 Stars
If, like me, you burned through the Burning Crusades expansion in about two weeks and are thinking of doing the same with this one, you might be mistaken. It takes forever to level in the 70's, which is probably to be expected. Getting around Northrend is a big pain in the butt too. You can't fly from one end to the other even if you have the flightpath on each end. You basically have to connect them in "baby-steps" from one end to the other. So for about a month it literally took about 30 minutes to get anywhere I needed to go because I would have to catch the boat. You can literally go cook yourself some dinner while waiting for the boat ride to end too. It takes forever. Depending on your sever, you may find yourself playing in an abandoned land. Imagine the frustration of not being able to find any PvP action or people to group with for instances. If you are in Dalaran, expect SW type lag X 20, and every 20 seconds there is some gold selling website spamming their site all over the place. Despite these downfalls I still enjoy the game because of the PvP. WinterGrasp is really fun even though they should cut short the wait time. (2 hours 20 min or so) Also, in order to get any Arena Play you have to sign directly from a capital city whereas for BG you can do so anywhere. They should fix this too as some people would like to work on their skills without having to camp the Arena Master in a capital city.