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1. Slemons says

   I have an intel imac and this game works great on my imac. I am playing humans and already reached many levels. This game is much better to me since I couldn’t play Starcraft on my imac and had to return the product through Amazon. When I have mac os x and Starcraft didn’t work, just didn’t make sense. Anyhow, this game is great and I am actually following the storylines.

   December 3, 2009, 12:52 am
2. Frew says

   Video game technology may have progressed in the last 6 years, but fun is still fun. This game set the bar back then and continues to entertain today. Plus, you don’t have to worry about whether or not your computer can handle it! Just set all the graphics settings to “11″ and off you go. The strategy guides are useful and compact, easy to have at hand while playing. Still a great game.

   December 3, 2009, 1:06 pm
3. Delfin says

   This is a core game for most people. If you don’t have it you are missing an awesome game.

   December 4, 2009, 12:45 am
4. Elliott says

   I’ve been playing this game with my friends online for free for years and we’re still playing it. I recommend this game to everyone

   December 4, 2009, 12:29 pm
5. Teeters says

   Ok, well I bought this warcraft war chest because 24-7 World of Warcraft (minus the 8 painful hours of maintenance on Tuesdays) just isnt enough. I actually played this game years ago, before WOW came onto the scene (and from what I can tell pretty much killed the PC gaming market). It is still great fun, very smart, and if you are a WOW addict gives you some nice back story and a way to get up close and personal with the various WOW bosses. If not, it is a great blizzard RTS (real time strategy — I think this is the category this game falls into anyway). And if you are waiting for Starcraft 2, this will entertain you during your wait (or during the 8 hours of WOW maintenance on Tuesdays!)

   December 5, 2009, 12:25 am
6. English says

   I attempted to try this game out to see what some of my nerdy friends where all ecstatic about and what consumed all their free time. Since I’m a gamer and enjoy just about everything except perhaps this game and a few others. This is so addictive for some because of its simplicity and it fills those people’s voids of realistic social interactions. Now about the game, graphics are horrible cartoon like characters. When you customize you are only changing the color and a few minor things. Basically you look like everyone else with a different color pair of pants. When you play you are dealing with people who have poured their lives into this so for anyone who is a beginner well I feel sorry for you. You will just be called a “noob” and disregarded. I from start didn’t like the fighting styles there is no movement just noises. I have played other MMO, RPG’s. I am just sending a fore warning Do not purchase this game and become one of blizzards nerd raging minions. The game isn’t fun at all. There are new games coming that have tons of more depth and enjoyment instead of year long grind fest that will continue with new DLC. Worst game ever made!

   December 5, 2009, 1:12 pm
7. Ibrahim says

   The shipment is free and quite good. Though a little bit slow, but condition is good. If anyone wanna the free shipment, he has to buy it earlier than usual.

   December 6, 2009, 12:37 am
8. Rabe says

   I played the game for two years now extensively. This new release is great but the online upgrades to it have been much better also. This review is primarily about what’s better about this release over the first and second major releases of this game. There had been many inexplicable annoyances in the game which went uncorrected for many releases, but they were cleaned up over time in the release of Lich King and afterwards.

   1. In player versus player, I see continued attempts, most successful, to balance classes and the different skill types within those classes. I am very happy about that and hope they continue. For people not familiar with the game, a class is chosen at the beginning which used to have a high impact on the level of success in large parts of the game. For example, it used to be that Paladins were horrible in player-versus-player, and rogues and warlocks were way overpowered. They are now competitive in the game.
   2. The terrain is more navigation-friendly.
   3. Quest chains are more fun now.
   4. Player versus player: There is no longer a gross imbalance in battlegrounds due to the allowance of players to sit at one level and get all the maximum gear possible from that level, effectively making them 10 times more powerful, but from gear only, not skill. It is really more skill based now, but some battles still can be lopsided; they are just far fewer lopsided ones.
   5. Queue times for battlegrounds are significantly lower, meaning less waiting and more fun.
   6. Battlegrounds are much less lopsided than they used to be. There were major issues where one team would get like 40 players and the other would sit at 26 for a long time. Now, generally speaking, people are let in more evenly.
   7. The graphics and sound are pretty nice.
   8. The terrain of many zones more pleasing to the eye.
   9. The release of dual spec was huge. This allows all players to have much more diversity in the roles they choose, reducing the boredom of a one role character and reducing class burnout.
   10. Battleground experience is awesome, especially from levels 70-80, but for me, I pvped a lot at lower brackets too. This allowed one to increase levels by playing battlegrounds instead of what sometimes gets monotonous: questing (what some call ‘grinding’).
   11. There are very few bugs. They have always been pretty low in quantity but this miracle easily goes unnoticed during enjoying playtime.

   There have been many little things that make the game so much more tolerable. There are far more graveyards, making the extreme annoyance of a 5 minute run after death much less likely. One can sell back epic items accidentally purchased with non-monetary currency. Spending skill points has an ‘Are you sure?’ box so if you choose the wrong skill point, you don’t have to spend a fortune to undo it. One does not have to travel the world to apply a glyph, which is skill item. Mounting takes 1.5 seconds now and was a lot longer before. Entering water does not dismount you! Awesome!

   Game issues
   - Imbalance between factions in battlegrounds. There are two factions which play each other in battlegrounds: Horde and Alliance. Horde have an extreme advantage in the game. Many people state that it is because ‘kids’ play alliance. That argument has never been substantiated by Blizzard, who are the only ones with the ages of players who play, and regardless, I don’t care why. I want a fix done so games are generally fun, competitive and evenly matched. It has improved some, maybe due to other game changes, but it’s still laughable at times.
   - I just don’t like raiding much. It is monotonous after awhile. Raiding is going with a group of players in a large dungeon. It takes hours to complete, sometimes over several ‘runs’ multiple days a week. That’s nice, but after I do a dungeon and killed all of it’s main monsters 20 times, I’m bored. Apparently, though, lots of people love to do that. I think they ache for more content but it’s hard to churn out content. It probably costs a lot of money. That being said, Blizzard has improved content production rates a lot in my opinion. Communication in raids is typically is done verbally on a communication server so all players can talk to each other and get to know each other.
   - Permanent ‘ignore’ list is way way too small. I want to permanently ignore a lot of people in this game. There are many extremely rude people playing this game. I’d break their face if they said some of that stuff in real life, but not only that, some people ’spam’ or post the same or similar messages. They need to expand the ignore list to allow for 5,000 people, not 50. On the plus side, ‘report spam’ allows me to at least temporarily block these people, and that’s unlimited in size.
   - Crowd control (skill) in 5 mans is not required, even on heroic dungeons, the hardest type of content. It should be required. It was an awesome part of the game.

   I can’t think of any major issues at this time. As long as they churn out content, keep pvp class balance, and disallow for absurdly overpowered power in pvp, then I’m very happy.

   December 6, 2009, 12:52 pm
9. Sitther says

   I have been playing for a long time, but we took a break just before this expansion came out. So by the time we came back everyone was 80.
   A lot of new content was added to the game. Its still a great time sink and you still need friends to do a lot of the content.

   December 7, 2009, 12:47 am
10. Lagattuta says

    The World of Warcraft phenomenon certainly beckons enticingly to computer gamers. The huge world, many plot lines, multiple options for creating your own character and interacting with others – all wonderful, right? Well, yes, if it only worked.

    Here’s what happened to me. I started with a trial account, found it fun, signed up for a regular subscription, and had a pretty good time for about a month. And then came the first “patch.” For the uninitiated, a “patch” in World of Warcraft isn’t just a bug fix – it’s a game overhaul, involving changes in the rules, in the quests and dungeons (“instances” in WoW terms) available, and, most problematic, in how the software works. Immediately I started having game problems, such as unpredictable shutdowns and computer freezes that required a hard reset. Tracking down the cause proved impossible. If you send a request for technical help you’ll get a cookie-cutter list of things to do like uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Other players try to help on the online forums, but as the weeks went on I had more and more trouble, until, after the most recent patch, the game became impossible to play because of graphics and crash problems – on my 8-month-old, hardly bottom line laptop. I quit playing and allowed my subscription to lapse.

    So, before you buy into the WoW system, where you’ll pay up front for the program and continue to pay every month for a subscription you may or may not be able to access, think hard. The game will change at the whim of Blizzard. Other players’ conduct can make a particular session unbearable. You may spend weeks developing a character only to find that the latest patch has drastically changed the rules that made that character attractive to you. And despite Blizzard’s promise to keep the game playable without the very most recent hardware, patches that only disable a few tens of thousands of players aren’t going to be modified by a company that boasts a subscriber base in the millions.

    One last warning: the whole game will change quite drastically once the next expansion is issued, probably within the next few months. Even if you’re not worried about hardware compatibility problems, since so much will change with the new expansion, you may want to wait and let that be released and allow time for the inevitable avalanche of bugs to be sorted out before you commit the time and money to play this game. The official World of Warcraft site has some preview information about the expansion you should take a look at.

    It can be a lot of fun. If you can keep it running enough to play it. If you’re willing to put up with constant changes. If you can tolerate the multi-player premise of the game, which can be a lot of fun or a lot of misery, depending on who the other players are. In the end, the answer to all those “ifs” for me was, “no.”

    So before you buy into this game, at least spend some time browsing the public forums on the official World of Warcraft website, especially the customer service and technical support forums, so you can get some idea of the problems other players have and that you, too, might face. And then think about the money and time involved, do searches on the specific hardware you own, especially the video card you have, to see what problems (or maybe lack of problems) others have had, and then think about it some more. It’s painful to look back and see I’ve spent nearly $100 in software purchases and over $100 in subscription fees and am left with a game I can’t play any more, because of the way Blizzard has chosen to change the software.

    December 7, 2009, 12:37 pm
11. Christopher says

    This was the most exciting collection of Warcraft books since the “War of the Ancients” series. All four books within take place within the same time frame. All of the Authors from Richard Knaak to Christie Golden seem to create the images through words and when you read their stories it feels like you are watching them on the big screen. If you are new to Warcraft then this is the book to read.

    December 8, 2009, 1:06 am
12. Roby says

    Really enriches my game playing by absorbing me in the history of the places and races in the game!

    December 8, 2009, 12:42 pm
13. Huerta says

    My son is a WOW-head and plays the game all the time. Being a parent who wishes he spent more time reading, I found these books to be a great way to extend his interest in WOW, and have him read as well. They aren’t ‘game guides’ but actual stories set in the World of Warcraft. This contains four stories and he seems to love them.

    December 9, 2009, 12:43 am
14. Finney says

    Obviously if you have not heard of Warcraft, played any of the previous games, or just logged on and started playing, you would not know some of the background encapsulated in the lore of the world. These books bring a lot of the characters to light, and allow you to immerse yourself in the world surrounding you. Decent reads all…

    December 9, 2009, 1:14 pm
15. Hanley says

    =SPOILERS AHEAD=

    Day of the Dragon – 3.5 Stars – While I liked the writing style, I found the constant (and sometimes pointless) action a bit tiresome. The novel is very plot-driven, and characters often act and think exactly the way they need to in order to keep the story going. Apart from this, I loved Day of the Dragon. The characterization was rather well done, and the sexual tension between the protagonists was especially enjoyable, as it was both simple and well-developed, without any of the Deux Sex Machina idiocy that tends to occur so often in fantasy novels. Finally, I found Day of the Dragon especially enjoyable because it dealt with a part of WarCraft storyline that I knew little about – that being the dragon aspects, how the Orcs enslaved Alextrasza, and the semi-peaceful period following the second war.

    Lord of the Clans – 5 Stars – Kudos to Christie Golden for writing this novel. It is, by far, my favorite in this collection. It tells the tale of Thrall’s life before WarCraft III, at the same time giving us an insight into what the world of Azeroth was like between the second and the third war. The writer focuses on emotions and character development, and wastes no time on unnecessary action scenes. Christie Golden shows great skill when it comes to handling her characters, even managing to present a stereotypical evil baron as a human being that elicits pity, as well as hate. After reading Lord of the Clans, I’m definitely going to buy other novels by C. Golden. Even if you have no interest in purchasing WarCraft Archive, you should consider getting standalone Lord of the Clans – it’s well worth it even if you aren’t a fan of the genre.

    The Last Guardian – 4 Stars – While the hero of this novel is Khadgar the mage, the story itself revolves around Medivh and his gradual degeneration into “madness”. It gives us an insight into the guardian’s personality, and reveals his motives, as well as the outside influences that made him the man (monster) he was. The story is well done, the writing style manages to be ornate and concise at the same time, and the characters are quite believable. Sadly, The Last Guardian was probably written under a deadline, resulting in more then one language mistake, as well as word combinations that are so badly thought out (“most mighty”), that they hurt the story. The thing I dislike about The Last Guardian is the final confrontation; I expected Medivh himself would defeat the evil that corrupted his soul, and then willingly submitting to his punishment. Instead, we get to see Medivh, whose powers are such that he could single-handedly destroy an army of demons, getting stabbed to death by a frail old man. As a direct result, Medivh’s pre-death redemption lacks the impact it so rightfully deserved. Overall, The Last Guardian is a very good novel, one that I recommend to any fan of epic fantasy.

    Of Blood and Honor – 4 Stars – Shortest of the four novels, Of Blood and Honor concerns one paladin’s fall from grace. It is a powerful story that bears a strong message; it is easy to keep to one’s code of honor in times of peace, but what about the moments when one has to pick between beliefs, and material safety/social standing? The protagonist of this novel makes his choice, and suffers severe consequences at the hands of human hypocrisy, once again proving that good extremes are unacceptable just as much as bad ones are. Characters in this book are masterfully done. Chris Metzen manages to create a believable paladin, a man who lives up to extreme beliefs without turning into a complete idiot, or an inquisitor. Alas, mr.Metzen’s writing style is average at best. There are way too many adverbs, and way too few strong nouns. In his fear that the reader won’t understand him, the author often explains things that don’t need to be explained, like telling us exactly how a character feels, even thought the dialogue, the preceding events, and what we know of the characters, already allow us to draw our own conclusions. Despite its technical flaws, Of Blood and Honor is an outstanding story that I recommend to everyone, regardless whether they play Blizzard games or not..

    For those who don’t know, the worlds of Azeroth and Draenor provide the setting for Blizzard Entertainment’s World of WarCraft MMORPG and WarCraft RTS series. The overall setting has been running for well over fifteen years, and when it comes to depth and sheer size, it is one of the greatest fantasy settings of all time.

    DISCLAIMER: I’ve given WarCraft Archive five stars not because each novel in the collection is a five-stars fantasy novel, but because the collection itself is a five-stars fantasy collection. Its overall quality is superb for a game-based novel series.

    December 10, 2009, 12:59 am
16. Irish says

    First, let me say that of all the World of Warcraft novel authors, Richard A. Knaak is among my favorite. With that being said, this novel fell short of my expectations.

    Night of the Dragon is the sequel to one of Knaak’s other novels, Day of the Dragon. It follows the adventures of some of WoWs most prominent figures (though strangely enough, not ones you find much in the game). I got the feeling, unfortunately, that Knaak was trying to fit in the “game of WoW” into the novel. Don’t get me wrong, he could even have done that if presented in the right fashion, but instead it was done quickly, without much story weaving.

    If you are a reader of WoW novels, then this is a must read. If you are LOOKING to read a WoW novel for the FIRST time, DO NOT start with this one! While it is decent, it is not in the “top 5″ so to speak.

    December 10, 2009, 12:28 pm