Last week on Massively: WoW-related stories
by Dan O'Halloran 
Feb 19th 2008 at 9:00AM
This week's round up of WoW-related posts on our sister site Massively covers many different angles of the MMO universe dominated by World of Warcraft. You can click on the links below or subscribe to a special WoW-only Massively feed.
Wrath of the Lich King could be very very sneaky
Is Wrath going to launch as early as Spring? Kyle Horner explores the possibilities.
Are games Art? It doesn't matter
Does an MMO have to qualify as "art" to be good? Akela Talamasca looks into the theory and how it applies to our beloved World of Warcraft.
MMOs: the finishing schools of the Internet
Are MMOs the online equivalent of real world girls schools for social training? Chris Colon thinks so. Read on to find out why.
Wrath of the Lich King could be very very sneaky
Is Wrath going to launch as early as Spring? Kyle Horner explores the possibilities.Are games Art? It doesn't matter
Does an MMO have to qualify as "art" to be good? Akela Talamasca looks into the theory and how it applies to our beloved World of Warcraft.MMOs: the finishing schools of the Internet
Are MMOs the online equivalent of real world girls schools for social training? Chris Colon thinks so. Read on to find out why.Filed under: Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
vildand Feb 19th 2008 9:33AM
I think I remember one time where Massively wasn't off by more than a few months when it came to one of their date speculations, but why do we care about self-said prophets who are always wrong? :p
peaglemancer Feb 19th 2008 9:37AM
"Is Wrath going to launch as early as Spring?"
Without the marketing engine & PR push in effect already? No way.
On a related note, I enjoyed the couple articles about "Spore" that were linked from there.
Bloodchills Feb 19th 2008 10:34AM
Spore is set to be my patch-Tuesday video game of choice.
Qanaesin Feb 19th 2008 10:16AM
I seriously doubt they would put the expansion out that early after putting all that time into make the sunwell only to have people skip to get to lvl 80
Bloodchills Feb 19th 2008 10:32AM
Spring for Wrath? I don't believe it's possible or desireable. No this expansion will launch AFTER Warhammer has picked up a large audience. Many players have vowed to leave wow again, and once again many will go and try Warhammer for a bit but they will be back when it doesn't live up to expectations. It's just not that good of a game compared to wow. It hasn't had the years of expertise drawn from trial and error that wow has had.
Wow has done a big release or change after every other competitor has released something in order to draw the players back into wow. It always works and it will work this time. Nobody will return to Warhammer if they leave, however.
Those guys fail. If you ask me they should have done the 40k instead of vanilla Warhammer. Space orcs would have made me switch but more orcs that are bipeds on the ground, stuck in the past? Meh.
Milktub Feb 19th 2008 10:51AM
I sure hope 2.4 is a ways off (like, six weeks, even though that's an unlikely hope) and the expansion isn't until after summer (likely, since summer is an awful time to release something like WoW.
My reason? Because I'm so close to exalted with the major Outlands factions that I want to hit that before starting on the Shattered Sun reputation grind. And it'd be nice if my oh-so-casual guild could have enough time to at least clear Kara a couple times before the expansion (doing Kara once a week doesn't give much in the way of progression).