WOTLK Released: 13/11/08

cian1500ww

Thats the supposed release date for WOTLK on theses site:
http://www.wowhead.com
http://www.thottbot.com/
http://projectlore.com/

Theres nothing on blizz's sites. Anyone reckon its official, I'd like to think it is !!

cian1500ww

ITS OFFICIAL !!!!!!!!!!

http://media.wow-europe.com/wrath/en/preorder.html?l=en

Anyone know if gamenash are doing it ?

Dr Bob

Not bothered preordering myself - did it for TBC : collectors edition with Game in henry st.Who were then closed down .Checked with the ILAC st branch and my preorder had transferred to them.Went at about 8:40 on launch day to get it. Long story short , no collectors editions , (well they had one but that went to one of their staff) despite taking the pre-order.on the way out checked in gamestop , who had about 20 collectors editions , and were selling the regular one for about 5 euro less.
I'll just pick up a copy on launch day.

TheDoc

it wont sell out to be fair. Games like this always get over stock

cian1500ww

I'm hoping to get the collector's edition so I might oreder it online and instore

ven0m

Anyone know if any of the stores are opening early to sell this as I booked the day & the following day off work to get me in some valuable play-time & levelling hehehehehhe (oh & I have the week after off too, as I'd taken it as a week off ages ago ..... think some more levelling may be needed then )

p.s. how many of those former addicts will be re-activating ;-)

TheDoc

i reactivated last night in fairness, forgot what im missing

started a warlock for first time, they are pretty fun

ven0m

[DM]-TheDOC- wrote: »

i reactivated last night in fairness, forgot what im missing

started a warlock for first time, they are pretty fun

Welcome back. Might want to have a gander at Mages for the new patch ...... talk about pwnage ..... :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Splinter

just transfered my retri pally over to the PTR... at the moment they are totally unbalanced and knocking the poop out of everything

Anti

ven0m wrote: »

Anyone know if any of the stores are opening early to sell this as I booked the day & the following day off work to get me in some valuable play-time & levelling hehehehehhe (oh & I have the week after off too, as I'd taken it as a week off ages ago ..... think some more levelling may be needed then )

p.s. how many of those former addicts will be re-activating ;-)

Oh great idea. I think ill be booking me some time off work too. Then might have to call in sick for another week or so First hunter to lvl 80 sil vous plait

de5p0i1er

[DM]-TheDOC- wrote: »

it wont sell out to be fair. Games like this always get over stock

What about GTA 4

Woden

yeah i'll be booking some time off work to level also. Will leave it till later though would be sick to have the time off and then the release date changed!

Last time around I booked a collectors edition in HMV grafton street. They where quite good about it and had it behind the counter when I went in first thing in the morning. They also had a few on the shelves. Will probably do the same again.

Ivan

Manties wrote: »

Oh great idea. I think ill be booking me some time off work too. Then might have to call in sick for another week or so First hunter to lvl 80 sil vous plait

If you dont get it in the first week, then I dont think you have much chance of first hunter

Anti

Yeah i can imagine alot of guilds will be helping their members to get titles as soon as it goes live. I wonder what the xp needed to get from 70-80 will be? I can imagine 79-80 will probably be 2-3million

Psycopat

how can they possibly get sold out? upgrade your account online and voila your in northerend

ven0m

Psycopat wrote: »

how can they possibly get sold out? upgrade your account online and voila your in northerend

Yes, & you can sit there downloading approx. 15GB of new material :-p

OR ...

have your arse outside a HMV/GameStop/Zavvi for 9am on Thursday 13th Nov & get your copy, then go home, install it & rip into Northrend....

OR ...

Find one of those few places putting the game on sale as of midnight the 13th November, get it & install!

hehehehehe

I know which option I'm going for, & it's the third one .....

Anti

Hell yeah !

Ivan

Manties wrote: »

Yeah i can imagine alot of guilds will be helping their members to get titles as soon as it goes live. I wonder what the xp needed to get from 70-80 will be? I can imagine 79-80 will probably be 2-3million

In beta at least, 70-71 is 2 million xp

Anti

Then i hope the mobs give 50k xp each and quests more

But thats a crazy ammount of xp for one level !

Krieg

Manties wrote: »

Yeah i can imagine alot of guilds will be helping their members to get titles as soon as it goes live. I wonder what the xp needed to get from 70-80 will be? I can imagine 79-80 will probably be 2-3million

Didn't blizz pull that idea in the end?
*checks*

Yep. linky

Dcully

Big wow fan ever since release but the game is a grindfest now and is set the get worse with wotlk.
The thought of levelling to 80 is mind numbing to me.
I do like the idea of heroics that can be done in an hour or so.
Loving warhammer atm,if it gets boring ill get wotlk but so far its rather excellent
I usually get all mmos so ill more than likely get wotlk either way at some stage.

Psycopat

ven0m wrote: »

Yes, & you can sit there downloading approx. 15GB of new material :-p

You can have it downloaded weeks before it comes out with the background downloader you know. and as for the 15GB im sure thats a little bit of an exageration seeing as my wow folder is 13GB already.

rainbow kirby

ven0m wrote: »

p.s. how many of those former addicts will be re-activating ;-)

Not me, the thought of going back at this stage makes me want to retch tbh.

ven0m

Psycopat wrote: »

You can have it downloaded weeks before it comes out with the background downloader you know. and as for the 15GB im sure thats a little bit of an exageration seeing as my wow folder is 13GB already.

The last expansion pack was approx. 15GB of data once you took into account all updates required if you installed from fresh, I'm taking the 15GB to include the 3.01 prepatch, of which part one in 992MB in size, & the second one is allegedly supposed to be around 500-600MB, & then if there's game discs to be installed, I dunno ......

VinLieger

Anyone managed to pre-order a CE yet? Called a few stores today and some werent even confident they would be getting any.

Dr Bob

ven0m wrote: »

The last expansion pack was approx. 15GB of data once you took into account all updates required if you installed from fresh,

thats odd...my current WoW:TBC folder only takes up 10.6 GB , I've confirmed this as I've copied it a few times and run it from a USB hard disk (well a 20 gb mp3 player ).
I

DarthWraak

And there goes my college year

ven0m

luas_dublin wrote: »

thats odd...my current WoW:TBC folder only takes up 10.6 GB , I've confirmed this as I've copied it a few times and run it from a USB hard disk (well a 20 gb mp3 player ).
I

Yup, I know ut it still doesn't detract from the volume of data across the DVD's from TBC & the downloaded updates to take a fresh TBC install all the way through all patches to current & a repload of part 1 of the new 3.01 patch, total volume comes to approx. 15GB LOL Whether it translates or not into data on disk, I don't know - i only know what the raw data volume size is approx.

DRakE

The following racial skills have been removed from the game: Feedback, Starshards, Consume Magic, Elune's Grace, Hex of Weakness, Shadowguard, and Touch of Weakness. Devouring Plague and Symbol of Hope are now base abilities.

Luring....me....back.................arggh

whatduck

Dunno about it selling out fast, I strolled into a random game shop mid-afternoon on the day of release of TBC and they had a tonne left. I know WoW is popular in Ireland but its not THAT popular.

TheDoc

yeah, and also if you actually waited a week or two, im sure youd find it gonig for a ridic price.

Gamestop and the like know theres plenty of idiots that will shell out loads of money for Colectors editions, and additions that let you play 3 minutes before everyone else.

I'm booknig in gamestop only cause my mate works there, but after hearing how they got no copies in to fill their deposit customers for WARHAMMER im sceptical at best