Final Verdict

It’s almost perfect. I hadn’t played WoW since launch, but playing The Burning Crusade in beta had me reloading my old account and now I’m hopelessly hooked. Everything is firing on all cylinders for Blizzard, pretty much. If anything, the high quality of the new content is a problem because it puts the old zones to shame. Someone is going to have to go back and clean up the quests and instances, or this could seriously be a problem in the long run.

What more can we say? It runs well, it’s almost completely bug-free, the servers are good, the game scales mob spawn rates to keep up with demand, the quest log always has something for you to do and the instances are brief and enjoyable. There’s no clearing of crap before you get to the Dead Mines or Maraudon proper, you no longer need to get 40 people together for a raid… it’s not next-generation, but The Burning Crusade is as good as this generation of MMOs is going to get. It’s hard to fathom how Blizzard plans on improving matters in their next expansion.



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My very life today