Funny how this whole blog traffic thing works, I write a simple ‘don’t care about the new WoW xpac’ post, and I get linked from major web sites and set a new single day hit record. Go figure.

Also amusing is the first ping back on the post below is basically a pre-release ‘hope’ article about the possible upside of Wrath of the Lich King, how players should be thrilled at the opportunity of seeing and fighting alongside Arthas, a fan favorite from the Warcraft world. Correct me if I’m wrong here, but before TBC was release, was it not going to be super awesome to fight against Illidan? Oh wait it is, for the .04% of the population who have seen him, or so I’ve read…

Granted its not likely Blizzard will make the same mistake again and tuck the focal character of an expansion away for a few guilds to see, but who knows what they WILL do to alienate fans. WoW long ago hit ‘cash cow’ status, meaning all it must do now is maintain, or at worse bleed slow to continue raking in the cash. At the same time, it’s aging, and I’m sure more than a few people at Blizzard are looking forward to moving on to a new project, if for no other reason that to work on something new. That means the core leaves, and others come in, likely with some new ideas. If those ideas are not what the audience is looking for, you get TBC.

I’m not saying the new xpac will be a disaster, my point was that I have little interest in it for the same reasons I had little interest in TBC, it’s more of the same, and I’m looking for something different. But who knows, perhaps by the time WotLK is released, maybe I will once again be looking for something that WoW provides, but between EVE Online now and the crop of quality MMOs releasing soon, I have my doubts. I wonder if Blizzard has any of those feeling as well…

PS: Thanks for the front page link BBC.