Computer Hope
Software => Computer games => Topic started by: honvetops on October 24, 2006, 12:57:37 PM
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An eagerly awaited expansion pack to the online video game "World of Warcraft" will not be ready in time for the key Christmas holiday season, the game's maker said Tuesday.
Gamers will instead have to wait until January to plumb the depths of Outland in "The Burning Crusade," the "World of Warcraft" expansion pack that adds quests, locations and character levels to the persistent online role-playing game.
"WoW," as it is often called, has become a global phenomenon since its November 2004 launch and now has an estimated 7 million subscribers, each paying about $15 per month to kill dragons like Onyxia or engage in player vs. player combat.
Earlier this month, "WoW" maker Blizzard Entertainment, a unit of French media company Vivendi SA, began testing the expansion pack with select players to help work out bugs.
On Tuesday, the Irvine, Calif.-based company said the January release affords a few extra weeks to polish the game.
"We feel confident that the extra time spent polishing the game will result in the high-quality experience that our players expect and deserve," Blizzard president and co-founder Mike Morhaime said in a release.
[highlight](here's a link to "the burning crusade" trailer... hope it works~[/highlight]
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/