Won two purples in one AoC raid.

MOVIES:
Finally watched the “Avater” trailer http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/800318/avatar/videos/avatar_trl_082109.html not commenting at this time.

MMOs:
Star Wars: The Old Republic is more awesome than you can possibly imagine.

Ok so they released a trailer for WoW expansion. I already told you about the new races. But they are adding, how shall we say, a lot… Not just new content. They are revamping the world and are adding completely new advancement systems. Obviously a lot of details are not shown. But it appears to me, they are finally doing what they’ve never done, raising a barrier to entry. They are adding a LOT of new systems and it seems like they are making the game pretty complicated. This flies in the face of what made them the kings in the first place, an MMO 8 year olds can play. One might say “evolve or die”, and at WoW’s ripe old age, that seems pretty logical. You have to give these 11 million people some new and interesting things to do, you’ve got to raise the bar, and you got to make everything a little deeper. Ok sure, I guess, but you know what this tells me, Blizzard is finally looking toward the future of their new MMO. They are readying WoW to be their MMO that just keeps going. They’ll keep adding stuff for the people who are never going to give it up (like the EQ 1 people who have been playing for 11 years). They are finally looking at WoW as a thing of the past, thus, no longer afraid to stop the flow of new people by complicating the game. After all, who is going to want to play in a world that is completely “Cataclysmed” when they never got to experience the game in its original form. Most people are going to feel like they’ve missed the boat and not bother, waiting for “the next big thing”. Blizzards next MMO is closer than we imagine.