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 - Great graphicsLooks impressive, but we weren't ready for the extensive downloads and pay to play. We gave up when we saw a 12 hour download time, after already spending 3 hours downloading the game and signing up. Only for the strong of heart! Rating:  - Removing A Game's FunI bought (WoW Battlechest) as a Xmas gift for my hubby. It was one of the few PC games I thought we could play together. After setting up his account, I set up my characters to play with him on a trial account. Now, with the trial about to expire, I find that (to continue playing) we must drive an hour and 30$ worth of gas to the nearest city and physically purchase a 2nd set of software disks or wait 2 weeks for a mail order (with his characters stuck in limbo since we were cooperating & I can't continue). They won't even make a second key available for purchase online. When I bought the game I was told that we only needed one copy. It's fair for Blizzard to charge their monthly for two accounts but this is completely unreasonable. Furthermore Blizzard absolutely inundates a player with legal contract mumbo-jumbo over and over and over again just to play. As a semi-retired software designer, game designer, and graphics artist, I can say that Blizzard has done excellent work in these fields. However, their bean counters and bureaucrats have managed to take all the fun out of the game for me. I'm not willing to put up with this short term stupidity and will recommend to hubby that he cancel (though he loves it) after his subscription expires. This is consumer fraud and extortion up with which I will not put. Should Blizzard correct this policy I shall change this review. Meanwhile may their slimy lawyers get exactly what they put out. Rating:  - WOW is a good name for itWhen a friend told of WOW about 3 years ago, I blew it off as he gets excited about games a bit too easily. However, as each year went by, he kept talking about this game and how great it was. So great that he stopped buying a new game once or twice a month as he had been. So I tried it. In fact not only did I like it, but my daughters liked it and wanted to play often enough that we were competing for time. They have their own account now! Looks like a kids game, but great play value for this 40 something. Rating:  - Big game that will keep you busyIf you plan to enter the world of this game, I suggest you to go slowly, as you may not like it. A friend convinced me to try the game, as I am much a Guild Wars fan than this. So I tried out the free 10 day trial and the game is kinda sticky, so I decided to go further and bought the original game (not the expansion), as they give you a free month. Well I have being playing this game for almost 3 weeks and I must admit it is a big game, it has a lot of content and things to keep you distracted with. It is easy to make money with this thing called "professions", you can have two at the same time, my friend told me to pick up two gathering professions to make easy money at start and is working! One thing I definitely LOVE in this game is the Auction House, one thing I don't like about this game is that it's users are separated by Servers or "Realms", so yeah it has over 9 millions of players online blah blah blah, but it has over 100 servers, so what, you barely see people inside unlike you are in a capital city or pvp areas (I haven't being on pvp areas yet). Another thing I don't like about this game is that you can't jump into PvP action from the beginning, something that Guild Wars definitely will always shine for, two separate contents PvE and PvP. So over here you gotta lvl up your way to the cap and get good equip, but PvE content will keep you busy. So in the end, I think I will be playing this game for a while (definitely will stop, not indefinitely, but to play the upcoming Guild Wars 2), IF I still playing it when I am high level, I will purchase the expansion to be able to go to outland, some new world introduced with Burning Crusade. Player beware, as for a game that collects monthly profits (and I am talking about GOOD profits) you expect at least no bugs, but there are few strange bugs that you say "this is a very common bug, why if the game has a lot out there has bugs like this one?" It is very strange that this happens to you but, sometimes if you kill a mob, it "dies" but appears to be alive yet and frozen... [...] Rating: - God of WarcraftWatch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R13FK8RGOCPSEZ A warcraft parody of God of War hehe
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