Launch Date for WoW Expansion Announced!

Blizzard announced the date for the next World of Warcraft expansion.  After the mess that was the current expansion Cataclysm I am not really excited to see what happens in the next expansion.  I was so excited for Cataclysm it looked cool.  But in the end it sucked – my guild stopped playing I never got into any of the end game content.  In the previous expansion (Wrath of the LIch King) I was part of a fun guild, we crashed through all the content, we mastered the raids, and we rocked.  Now I have not played WoW in weeks and will probably unsubscribe.  WoW is just not fun any more.

World of Warcraft Patch 3.2

So far and to my surprise I am really enjoying the latest World of Warcraft (WoW) patch. Even though the patch did not address any of the issues I am concerned about, like returning the talent Titans Grip to a decent damage percentage. The patch added the Crusaders Colosseum instance (Trial of the Crusader dungeon) which is not only a fun fight, but one my toon can play in without getting killed over and over again. The Ulduar Instance is way way to hard for a person who does not spend their entire life playing World of Warcraft. I have only seen the first few rooms before giving up in disgust. While a lot of the time the changes to WoW seem to be made only for changes sake or to make those who do not play WoW 24/7 lives miserable. This patch seems to have been a good patch.

But the one and true reason I like this patch is the loot drops in my favor! The first time we ran the Trial of the Crusader quest I was the only person who could use the equipment (3 DPS plate drops). One reason I could never compete in the "big" raids is I just never got the equipment drops (either it never dropped or I lost the roll). On the second night I got one of the two plate drops (also got a neat item in another dungeon). So I'm really biased on the quality of this patch. ;-)

The good points:

• More daily (and fun) quests
• Oracle and Frenzyheart orphan quests
• The TOC instance (more fun)
• Graphic upgrades again!
• Loot drops in my favor!

The BAD!

The failure to return Warrior melee DPS characters to a competitive level with other classes. One day WoW will stop hating on warriors. I don't want to be better than the other classes I just want to have a level playing ground where my skill will help. I'm tired of losing to people with no skill beyond picking the "Uber" class in WoW.

PS2 is Outselling the PS3!!

It was bound to happen, I was reading this article on Yahoo. The article reminded me that the PS3 is a good gaming system and give you a Blue-ray player to boot. But the thing is $400 or more and the games are not always that great or have much content (note my personal research is outdated here). While the PS2 is cheap or still working - in my case I have a PS2 from the second shipment to the US thanks to a friend. There are lots and lots of games available for the PS2 both new and old to chose from.

Even when the PS3 drops in price I still may never buy one since my PS2 games will not work on a PS3. Or then again there are a few games that get good reviews that might get me to buy the PS3 once I have the cash saved up.

All in all I just had to comment after reading the article - I was surprised that in the end the Wii has won the next gen video game wars. Though a couple of games on the Xbox360 are really good.