World of Warcraft’s long awaited Wrath of the Lich King has finally dropped, and fans are off and fuming.
WotLK is the latest expansion in the WoW universe, taking place in the continent of Northrend and includes the newly minted hero class: the Death Knight.
Of course everyone flooded their local retail center to purchase the expansion only to get the game home and find that – shockingly – that they really couldn’t play the game due to lag, bugs, and sudden server overpopulation.
To all you cats and kittens out there that have yet to partake of this newest timesink, let me drop some much needed clarity on this issue.
No game is one hundred percent when it drops. None. I’ve been playing Fallout 3 since it came out and while it’s a great game, the bugs and glitches make for some tedious game play – and keep in mind that’s not even an MMO. When Warhammer Online came out there were – and still are – bugs aplenty. Consider the insanity that is a newly minted MMO or expansion that finally drops upon our wearied brow. Sure, it may have gone “gold” a month ago while they start pressing disks but that doesn’t mean bantha poo-doo. That just means the majority of the code is golden; minor glitches and bugs will be ironed out in forthcoming updates.
That problem is magnified with a game like WoW – is a victim of its own popularity. Today, right now as you – gentle reader – traverse this blog and my own brand of nerd narcissism millions of WoW players are trying to get their grind on. Right now.
That means long realm ques. That means lag and not just any old lag will do in this situation. I mean laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag. You’ll be lucky to be able to even log on, much less down a mob.
A friend of mine at another site jumped on and tried to check out Northrend ASAP, only to have his game CTD – or “crash to desktop” for the uninitiated – when he tried to take the boat from Minithel Harbor to the Great White North.
And that’s just the technical rubbish. What about resource camping? Mob ninja’s, and of course everyone’s favorite general chat spamming of “ZOMG COME JOIN MEH GUILD IT IS TEH GREATESTZORZ!!1!!!1!ONE!!1!”
It’s enough to make a grown man cry. Or at least punch a Murlock.
I’ll be checking out WotLK, but a month from now and if you’re smart you’ll do the same thing. Let some of the bugs get fixed, let some of the lamers and spammers thin out and then go and roll the new content – or at least give it the Pepsi challenge.
Oh, and do yourself a favor and keep far, far away from the collectors edition of WotLK. This box set is so bad it gave me a facial tick.
So be warned: you try to play WotLK right now and the only think that you’ll be beating up will be your own will to live.
And now a video that has absolutely nothing to do with video games but will make you feel better after spending money on a game you can’t play right now. Huzzah!
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