Cataclysm Release Date?!?

box art has been on launcher for a while now, but it seems from all the mmo-champ posts and stuff its not quite ready to be realsed. beta cap is still only 83 afaik, so plenty of talents and instances and quests to bug test. month or two more sounds about right for them to work out all the bugs and to finalize talents, medium glyphs, guild stuff, and all that jazz. pretty excited, specially since i finally formed a group to get rusted proto drake before 4.0!
 
I've been calling a November release all along. Weird though, Best Buy or some other retailer had their guestimate as Dec 27 though when I checked a while back.



Game couldn't come soon enough though. I'm getting awfully tempted to permanently switch to another MMO.
 
Falkor said:
box art has been on launcher for a while now, but it seems from all the mmo-champ posts and stuff its not quite ready to be realsed. beta cap is still only 83 afaik, so plenty of talents and instances and quests to bug test. month or two more sounds about right for them to work out all the bugs and to finalize talents, medium glyphs, guild stuff, and all that jazz. pretty excited, specially since i finally formed a group to get rusted proto drake before 4.0!
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Painaid said:
I've been calling a November release all along. Weird though, Best Buy or some other retailer had their guestimate as Dec 27 though when I checked a while back.



Game couldn't come soon enough though. I'm getting awfully tempted to permanently switch to another MMO.
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ive been calling october/november banking on the fact they dont need holiday release hype to sell 11million copies within a week. but it all depends on if they iron out enough bugs and finalize talents, glyphs, and a whole slew of other crap to release 4.0 then tweak a bit more while everyone does gnomer/troll & gets used to radical talent change + other precata (iirc) stuff before launch.



icc farming is getting a lil boring. my guilds progression has been lacking the last few weeks, and now the GM is away for a few weeks doin some stuff for the army, so its pretty stagnant atm. got most of the crap i can get in 25m w/o doing heroics, but im at a point where i cant app to a higher end guild b/c class and social restraints. oh well. but if it gets too much i'd just quit. really no plans to jump ship here, never played any of the other mmos (evercrack, aion, etc).



someone in trade mentioned how they got a beta invite for star wars one and that peaked my interest a bit....but on the other hand, its star wars. the dude said it played a bit like wow but i cant really imagine that. seems like it'd be hard to balance jedi against mercs or something like that. and what would you raid, jabbas palace? that can only be fun for so long...."ok, ummm, raid? jabba has +100 resist to blaster fire, and -100000 to being choked by chains. so, mind control leia and choke that nigga out asap!" end boss of the entire game? emperor, and his clones i guess, oops there goes all our expansions they killed the bastard(s). after that its just petty people in power struggles and stuff (if youve read the books you know what i mean)

would be an interesting pvp mechanic if bounty hunters were always pvp flagged, as were their targets. so they could be taken out by anyone if they arent cunning or careful, but they can also pick off anyone they choose, muahaha

idk ill keep an eye on it i suppose, but i doubt i would ever play it. much like draynors vids of the startrek beta looked decent, tho i had no intention of ever playing that one.
 
idk could be
 
I'm actually pumped about the Star Wars MMO. I have great respect for BioWare as a company and I hear they're putting $300 million+ into the game, so it's going to be very high quality. At the very least, it's worth giving it a shot. Plus, I'm a huge Star Wars fan anyway. I'm also probably going to try out FF14 when it comes out, just to see what it's like. Didn't like 11, but who knows.



And yeah, it's set like a thousand years prior. There's still plenty of lore (if you call it that) and such to make it interesting and relatable, but since it's not directly related to the movies, they have a lot more leeway in terms of development creativity and your standard deviation from movie/book -> MMO.



And I actually watched a Guild Wars 2 trailer the other day and it didn't look half bad. I may give that a try.
 
Painaid said:
I'm actually pumped about the Star Wars MMO. I have great respect for BioWare as a company and I hear they're putting $300 million+ into the game, so it's going to be very high quality. At the very least, it's worth giving it a shot. Plus, I'm a huge Star Wars fan anyway. I'm also probably going to try out FF14 when it comes out, just to see what it's like. Didn't like 11, but who knows.



And yeah, it's set like a thousand years prior. There's still plenty of lore (if you call it that) and such to make it interesting and relatable, but since it's not directly related to the movies, they have a lot more leeway in terms of development creativity and your standard deviation from movie/book -> MMO.



And I actually watched a Guild Wars 2 trailer the other day and it didn't look half bad. I may give that a try.
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Yes, I shall be switching over to this upon it's release. Looks EXTREMELY intriguing.
 
not that much leeway. i mean there was KOTOR and books about pre empire stuff, but more room for retconning than if they did post republic for sure.

i still hope they do something like my idea for bounty hunters XD. even on a pve server or something it'd be fun to always have to watch your back (be flagged) but also be able to pick off anyone you choose
 
I'm guessing on a release date to be announced at BlizzCon. Shipping date will be around Dec 23rd, just in time for x-mas.
 
Announcing at Blizzcon would be a smart idea. But I honestly don't think they'll wait til Christmas unless it's really not ready until then. As Falkor said, they don't need a holiday to sell 11 million copies.
 
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