It’s like running with a pack of lemmings that never quite reaches the proverbial cliff…like the ever read/energizer bunny they just keep going, and going, and going…
So here we are again. On the cusp of the great outpouring of hype, or hope, that is the release of every new game. Yes of course eventually there will be Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. But now we are all anxiously awaiting the news of the big one…
World of Warcraft – Cataclysm
The release of the changes that Blizzard once said would never come. Remember back when the powers that power the mighty Blizzard 800 ton unbeatable zombie gorilla said they would never redo classical “old world” Azeroth? Yet here we are – and I am as excited as the rest of you (well the rest of you who don’t loathe WoW with the burning passion of a thousand suns).
Even back when I had just about had it with WoW, between the neck deep asshatery that has become the pick up groups who rate your armor like a credit agency scores your credit…
Even through the days of “getting keyed” for instances in Outland – back when Jeff Kaplan said sure you could skip Karahzan “but enjoy storming the castle”. Yes those were the days, back when static groups had membership so closed it would have been easier to sneak into the gold vault at Fort Knox. Those where the days back when even Jeff Kaplan admitted the keying process was tearing apart guilds wholesale (I was in a few guilds that it ripped to shreds).
Yes even then…
Even then there was still that siren call in the back of my mind. Something that said, “yes other games are fun but what happens in this one really matters.”
Of course nothing could be further from the truth, and if you think those guild mates of yours (with rare exception and I know more than a few) are true blue friends ask them to help you move…as in back up the truck to your driveway and start hauling them cardboard boxes.
Yet just like everyone else I am back again, chomping at the bit like Secretariat about to run the third race of the Triple Crown. I think the big difference this time is that Rob Pardo has been listening to our show and decided to take our suggestion.
Yep. You read that right.
Back before anyone said, “hey wouldn’t it be great if…” Fran was listening to me clamor for a chance to play a goblin hunter named Inktomi. (Don’t even think about taking the name I already have a character with the same name). Now is the chance, and soon is the time.
Exciting times ahead.
See you online.
Julie Whitefeather