If that's the best news yet, then this expansion's not going to be so impressive.

I dunno, clumping litter probably tops the list for me.

The con has literally been going for 20 minutes and like 19 minutes of that have been spent introducing what's coming up.

Bah. Why do I get downrated?

They rebuilt the entire old world for you. Two new races? New class/race combinations? Exciting new secondary professions? Flying anywhere in the world?

Nah... I'm downloading mine digitally!! THAT'S THE BEST NEWS OF ALL!

Seriously.

@Josin: It's no good having all that stuff IN THEORY if you can't play it for 2 weeks due to bad postal services/postal strikes/game being out of stock everywhere/god hating you/the Pie-devil starting his armageddon.

This means that I can play that stuff when I want it, i.e. ASAP.

btw he said you could download in advance and just activate when the servers go up.

I agree with Josin. Digital Download is awesome, but BEST Cata news? No way.

It is definitively the best cata news for people who live in other countries, like Brazil, who had to, in the past, to send money to friends in the USA so they could guy the game and send us the key.
What ? Order online ? Sure. 2-3 weeks to get the game here. And that from the very few places that would ship internationally.

Assuming they set up a torrent, definitely the best news.

If we're stuck trying to download from a dedicated server...

But...it's just...it doesn't make sense. Yes, digital download is awesome. Obviously. But it's not the BEST news. You're only excited about it because you are excited about Cataclysm. Something about Cata excites you and thus having Cata is exciting. Some feature or two of Cata is the "best" news. Digital download is simply "awesome." Cataclysm will still be awesome in 2 weeks. Or 4. It's not going to suddenly disappear. If being able to download it is the best thing about Cata, the expansion is going to be pretty poor.

That whole paragraph was probably a waste. Oh well. Thus is the Internet.