This News.com story reports that while Blizzard has generated tons of sales for its MMORPG expansion pack World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, the original game is being abandoned by WoW players as they move into the content of the expansion pack. Here is a snip:

For Kelly Wallace, an Atlanta attorney who had been playing with four level-60 characters in the original game, BC is an entirely new experience. "In my opinion, it's really made WoW a very different game for those folks who had been playing at level 60," Wallace said. "It is as if a big reset button was pressed." Wallace said she has had little trouble transitioning to BC, but notes, like Glerum, that the expansion has basically rendered the original game moot. "This is now the game of Warcraft," she said. "There is absolutely zero reason for players to ever go back to (the original game) because the rewards available in (BC) are better and, for the most part, easier to obtain." But she noted that central locations from the original game, like Ironforge, an important city, are now nearly empty.

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