Burning Crusade slips to 2007

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Oct 24, 2006 9:03 am PT

World of Warcraft expansion release date has been pushed back to to allow "finishing touches" to be added.

Blizzard Entertainment has extended the closed beta testing of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and has postponed the game's official release until January 2007. The highly anticipated expansion pack to the massively multiplayer online game has been moved to allow extra time for the beta testers to provide feedback in the final development phase.

Rumors had been spreading that the release date would miss the key Christmas period, and many fans may be disappointed to find out that the game will not make its scheduled November shipping date. Burning Crusade will add two new playable races for characters, as well as higher level limits, new lands, items, monsters, and quests.

The delay is for fine-tuning, according to Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. He said: "We appreciate the enthusiasm surrounding World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, and we're excited about putting the finishing touches on all of the new content. We feel confident that the extra time spent polishing the game will result in the high-quality experience that our players expect and deserve."

297 Comments

  • Johansbro

    Posted Nov 13, 2006 4:43 pm PT

    The delay (they say) is to be 100% that as many bugs are found and killed!

  • mxpenguin

    Posted Nov 5, 2006 9:19 pm PT

    pwnd

  • D_M_172007

    Posted Nov 3, 2006 11:20 pm PT

    hmmm well it wont kill us
    that delay is for fixing stuff meaning making it better so shut up and wait

  • silsbysimons

    Posted Nov 3, 2006 4:11 pm PT

    THEY
    NEED
    TO
    STOP DELAYING THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • BigNudeGuardian

    Posted Nov 3, 2006 9:19 am PT

    I am afraid u r goin to ruin the game completely

  • boo_dat

    Posted Nov 2, 2006 12:39 pm PT

    I'll give you black sensations up and down your spine
    If you're into evil, you're a friend of mine
    See the white light flashing as I split the night
    Cos if good's on the left then I'm sticking to the right

  • jingwa

    Posted Nov 2, 2006 8:01 am PT

    Well im not surprised, already told my friends months back to expect a 2007 release, if u keep tabs on the beta testers and how incomplete the beta version is then it becomes very obvious a 2006 release was never going to happen, fine-tuning? more like trying to get all the content in to be tested.

    After it is finally released im sure we will have several small patches for download because they didnt spend enough time testing with 100% the content implemented.

    Anyways im sure there will be some fun to be had after reaching lvl 70, but the only things im remotly interested in is the new arena pvp, which should be more skill based, then again the best geared grp will probably be the highest ranked.

    Then there is the new 5 man instances which should give my 3 man team some fun, but outside that i have no interest in the new 25 man raids for noobs, all raids ever have been is a large grp of people learning a repetative cycle of tactics and repeating them everytime they go do bwl/Aq40/Mc etc, i got pritty bored of it pritty fast, the only thing which wasnt the same cookie cutter routine was when the server would glitch. Thank god it didnt take to long to get tier2, although it leaves hardly any challenge in pvp when almost all the well geared players have next to no skill.

  • jacash3492

    Posted Nov 2, 2006 6:12 am PT

    Well, this is good and bad because an unprepared MMO is just disaturous. Wel, the same with all games. I still have WoW and all Guild Wars games for MMOs. (Yes, Guild Wars is an MMO you game haters). Even though I was expectng the game to launch this month, I can wait because WoW should't be rushed like all other so called, "Good Games". Well, don't disapoint me Blizzard, you haven't before.

  • Reaper221986

    Posted Nov 1, 2006 7:03 pm PT

    Well, I for one knew they would pull it back again because it was releasing a bit too soon. Like they when they pushed Bully back for about two times and Zelda I think they pushed back three or four times.

    And as for your comment living420, I really must say you are either a complete and utter jackass or you are just plane ignorant. Don't you know that each quest is not the same and are quite different depending on your class and race not to mention your faction.

    Also, lets not forget that every single patch fixes problems and also adds quests and areas to the game.

    At least try and act like you know about what the game is about before you start flaming it. Not too mention, if you don't like this, why the hell leave a review on this forum anyway and why follow up on the news. You are biased and a hipocryte and I would expect more from a fifty-two year old virgin still living in his mothers basement.

  • living420

    Posted Nov 1, 2006 5:52 pm PT

    Who cares, this expansion isn't going to make WOW not boring. Theres no point to WOW, all the quests are the same.. wow , im so glad I don't play this game. Just start making diablo 3 or Starcraft 2.

  • _Sam_

    Posted Nov 1, 2006 5:37 pm PT

    I'd rather wait then to play a bugged game, so I'm fine with this

  • gertish

    Posted Nov 1, 2006 5:08 pm PT

    This is Blizzard for you. At least they aren't rushing the game that has like a million bugs.

  • cyborg100000

    Posted Nov 1, 2006 1:39 pm PT

    Too true redcurlz too true. People always have a problem with anything that happens. Same example with the ps3...

  • redcurlz

    Posted Nov 1, 2006 6:08 am PT

    You know, they just can't win with the public. If they release the game and there's bugs people complain about not enough testing. If they push the release date back to polish and fine tune it everyone screams "just make a patch after the release" I personally am so happy to for once be playing a game that is quite stable and still extremely detailed all while being kick ass to play. Thank you Blizzard! I for one will wait patiently but will still be first in line when it's on the shelves.

  • pathogenb

    Posted Oct 31, 2006 6:14 pm PT

    "ULTIMA-Demon
    I played WoW forever and in the time I spent playing it, I had a blast. Now I've quit and realized that all that time spent was totally worthless for me. "

    a time when you enjoyed playing a game (or doing anything enjoyable for that matter) was a waste? that's a shame.

  • pathogenb

    Posted Oct 31, 2006 6:10 pm PT

    "sony_boy_18
    HEY EVERYONE THE PS3 SHIPS IN 16 DAYS .YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!."

    sweet! maybe you'll get one next year.

  • ssibalnome

    Posted Oct 31, 2006 4:06 pm PT

    There will be updates almost every other day. So whats the "finishing touches" for? Why won't Blizzard just release early like on November like planned and just have updates.

  • SyhnD

    Posted Oct 31, 2006 1:59 pm PT

    Alright seriously, this is ridiculous. You guys who are complaining about the stall of the release... get over it. It happens with EVERY MMO. Especially one as popular as this. They're not willing to take risks. And this argument about GW. Dude... Fine, GW is fun... but it takes a week to get to CAP level, and the Dungeon raids are not that fun. Graphics? Blow me... WoW is seamless and the graphics make it playable for EVERYONE, even those without high-end system. The truth is MMO's take time, and if you have ANY experience with them, you'd know this. If you don't like the game... Fine, play something else, but don't be a dick and ruin it for those of us who can maintain a life, and still have a fun time on WoW.

  • Tom1243

    Posted Oct 31, 2006 11:29 am PT

    At this rate i doubt they are gona make that expansion per year that they want.

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