Official burning crusade release date announced, WoW now has 7.5 million players

[lamaros]

Knee jerks for the win.

[Azazel]

To say that "being popular doesn't make it good" does not imply that "being popular makes it bad".

No, but only uding examples from one side of the argument, and not clarifying your intention in any other way certainly acts to create an implication.



"These non-game-related popular things suck balls. I'll be playing my niche game in the corner, thanks." certainly carries with it an implication that popular things are defined as the suck.



For the record, I don't care if he loves or hates WoW. It doesn't hurt me if he likes or hates any game (or musical act). I overall like the game, but it certainly doesn't need me to fanboi-defend it. It's the argument he's using I take issue with.

[Simond]

http://zombiesloveburningcrusade.ytmnd.com/

 :-D

[bhodi]

that's awesome.

[Nebu]

I like some popular things, I loathe others.  It's not whether something is popular or not that makes it good.  Everything exists on its own merits. 

Like other entities that go mainstream, the popularity of WoW is both a blessing and a curse.  I think you all know why.  (hint: emulation vs innovation)

[Miasma]

So, how do you guys think the login servers are going to do this week and what size of queues are you expecting?  Have they announced any new servers to handle the influx of people resubscribing?

[Jayce]

Like other entities that go mainstream, the popularity of WoW is both a blessing and a curse.  I think you all know why.  (hint: emulation vs innovation)

Y'know, this statement made me think. I think it would be true to say that WoW took a genre that we (at least) all knew had potential and actually brought it to some minimum level of polish and gameplay that the general public can stomach.  Pre-WoW was the genre's beta, post-WoW is the genre's release.  The innovation was how to actually make the model work.

One day someone will figure out that WoW success does not mean "figure out some way to shoehorn elves into your game" *cough* moon elves, but rather, it means make a game that is challenging without being soul-crushing and stable enough to play once you get there.

See, was that all that hard?  (the answer, of course, is yes)

[Rasix]

So, how do you guys think the login servers are going to do this week and what size of queues are you expecting?  Have they announced any new servers to handle the influx of people resubscribing?

Launch faq.

Will new realms be opened when the expansion is released?
We are planning to open new realms with the release of The Burning Crusade. Please click on the link below to see a list of new realm:
https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=67406754&sid=1

There were a lot of servers that got free transfers to new servers.  This may help the TBC crowding issue a little.