Nov 13th huh? They've got a metric fuckton of work to do unless they want people beta testing a live product...wait...this sounds familiar...

Yeah Burning Crusade was a horrible launch..

I was looking over the patch notes for World of Warcraft 3.0.2 on the public test realm - the ones that aren't even complete yet - and they're fucking ridiculous. When they said you'd need to spend a billion dollars to beat these guys, I assumed it was like raising your hackles, or thrashing your venomous tail - a predator's warning on entering its territory. Maybe its closer to an actual fact.

The alterations here are vast, but this is only the most recent reinvention. The World of Warcraft people are playing now isn't the one they launched, the one that was so unstable we had to withdraw our earlier praise. It isn't any of the innumerable alterations they've made to classes, or raids, or any of the savvy swipes they've made from user modifications. The game is a completely living document. How do you design against it? And even if you wanted to play something else, who would you play it with? Everyone you know is raiding tonight.

(CW)TB out.