BlizzCon 2010: Cataclysm login screen
by Alex Ziebart 
Oct 23rd 2010 at 9:00PM
The new Cataclysm login screen has been unveiled this weekend during BlizzCon 2010. Our hopes and prayers for a login screen without a screaming, ear-shattering dragon were all for naught. Deathwing is certainly much cooler than Sindragosa, so I'm sure we can live with it ... for a few weeks. After that, my mute button and I will be becoming close friends again.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
CallMeIrd Oct 23rd 2010 9:02PM
"After that, my mute button and I are becoming close friends again."
Word.
lexxroth Oct 23rd 2010 9:15PM
Idk, it's kind of fun to race the roar. Either I log in, or my ears start to bleed.
txnicole Oct 24th 2010 12:45AM
Amen to that.
byoonie Oct 23rd 2010 10:46PM
@lexxroth Oh man, I'm so glad you mentioned that. I thought I was the only one who tried to race the roar xD
Vodkamartini Oct 24th 2010 1:22AM
Headline in the future ...
DEATHWING IMPATIENT WITH 'WHOLE FINAL BOSS THING'
Dragon annoyed by delays, cameo appearances, lack of starring role
AZEROTH - For years, he struggled beneath the earth of Azeroth, listening to maddening voices of the Old Gods, but this is a torture Deathwing cannot stand.
"Frankly, I'm annoyed by these geeks, nerds and unappreciable riff-raff firing up their systems and just passing me by on the authentication screen. Do you know how many retakes it took before they got my roar just right? No, most of them mute me or just fly by and authenticate before I can show all my glory," said the leader of the Black Dragonflight on a hookah and gin cocktail break.
And Deathwing wants to show he can do more than just perch himself atop Azeroth's Human capital. "All I've done for my own expansion is this title screen few bother with, some face shots for media, a couple of roars, a bit of mediocre dialogue and a cameo appearance here and there. Nothing solid. And I'm still waiting for my lair to be constructed. How long does it take? I've lived in a hole before, it can't be that hard to slap together a dragon's lair. It's frustrating for me, the players, the NPCs to see my abode and there's a sign 'Under Construction - Opening When It's Done!' Do you know how embarassing it is for my kids to know their great and powerful father is homeless?"
Deathwing recently had his agent suggest a "fightable appearance in human form" in both Ironforge and a Horde capital - "I relish the thought of ravaging Thunder Bluff, though some people are pushing for a Silvermoon appearance to boost travel there," he said - but he has yet to hear from the development team. He also asked for a combat scenario similar to former Lich King Arthas Menethil's in the Halls of Reflection, "just so I can get some air time."
Deathwing did add there was footage of him atop Orgrimmar's city entrance, but the director of the shoot had some problems with it. "First and foremost, of course they're Horde biased, even though I've heard some PR guys say the choice was to inspire Alliance folk in getting behind their arrogant, out-of-touch uppercrust douche of a king," Deathwing snorted. "Second, Orcs like putting wooden stakes into everything they build, so I think I would've burned their town to the ground with my molten frame. It was already a tough place to find a big dragon like me a good place to stand with all the stakes. Well, at least I'm not a giant vampire. Finally, the director and producers thought Orgr was already suffering a catastrophe enough with Garrosh Hellscream taking charge."
Previous expansion bosses expressed sympathy to Deathwing, albeit limited.
"They kept pushing me for advertisements, promos, small cameos in missions and instances, but I really felt like I wasn't even in my own expansion," said Arthas Menethil, former Lich King of Northrend, recalling years of sleeping on the porch of Utgarde Keep. "At the end, it was drips and drabs, teases, until I finally got my due. Maybe it was because they were pooped out of having to think of new, challenging stuff and they feared I'd get run over by some Eurotrash guild in 24 hours. Which is exactly how it turned out. It will probably be the same for him."
From somewhere in the Twisting Nether, Illidan Stormrage agreed. "For years I waited. But in the end I was not prepared," he said with a sigh. "Hell, I wasn't even the final boss of my expansion. But neither was that dork on the Frozen Throne. At least I had a good following act. I mean, Barney the Dinosaur ain't Kil'jaeden. I wonder who will be the closing act when Hookah Breath meets his end at the hands of the anonymous jerks."
Sphen Oct 24th 2010 4:03AM
Best thing I've read all day.
Toothy Oct 24th 2010 8:51AM
Apparently many other folks HATE the roar like I do. I was lucky enough to run across the following a while ago, and love never hearing that sound:
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13973-Eliminatethesoundeffectsontheloginscreen.html
Hope this works in Cata
Baneraven Oct 24th 2010 11:26PM
Awesomest rawr ever. You fucking heathens. :)
Jason Oct 23rd 2010 9:02PM
Dragons? In MY Stormwind?
xenothaulus Oct 23rd 2010 9:16PM
It's more likely than you think.
DeGei Oct 23rd 2010 9:28PM
Ask Bolvar if he ever thaws out. It certainly wouldn't be the first time.
Sumadin Oct 23rd 2010 9:32PM
The Defias Brotherhood, you say? Well, you're certainly the bearer of wonderful news, aren't you? Next you're going to tell me that Deathwing is still alive and attacking the city.
Elling Trias.
He had to say it.
Husher Oct 24th 2010 2:45AM
I want it on my android as a live wallpaper!
Possum Oct 24th 2010 7:46AM
Well to be fair, Elling is in the know.
renick Oct 29th 2010 2:32AM
There is an android live wallpaper of it
Sagretti Oct 23rd 2010 9:03PM
I wouldn't mind a dragon roaring, if it wasn't for the fact that Deathwing's roar is some kind of shrill, ear shredding metallic sound. I need to start campaigning for a "mute login screen" option.
Anathemys Oct 23rd 2010 10:29PM
I direct you to Penny Arcade for an accurate description of Deathwing's roar:
(Warning: Wildly funny use of bad language.)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/1/14/
Third panel: "9.1 Audio Forcibly Penetrates the Ear Canal"
"Your ears (and skulls) may never be the same"
Noyou Oct 24th 2010 12:55AM
Log in faster!
xzor Oct 24th 2010 10:08AM
Please Blizz, if you're listening, please for the love of my hearing add a static login screen or at the very least an option to mute the roar/music in the beginning. Some of us use headphones and would love to hear past our 50th birthday.
That said, what is that roar? It sounds like someone broke a glass bottle or something.
Honoke Oct 23rd 2010 9:04PM
Is it just me, or is his death screech kind of girly?
In my head I always imagined the roar from the Tyrannosaurus in Jurassic Park come out of Deathwing.