Monday 22 January 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 12 am Eastern Standard Time: The world stalls for a moment, then gives a little shudde♏r as the lucky few run through the sickly-green, glistening portal, leaving behind the masses who could only stare enviously after them, then quickly mouse over the clock on the mini-map, to see how many more hours it would be before they could purchase their copy of The Burning Crusade.

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the first expansion to the phenom of massively multi-player online role playing games, World of Warcraft. Publisher 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Blizzard Entertainment, after more than a year of hype🐲 and delays and carefully leaked teasers, released the expansion at staggered intervals across the world starting at 12 am EST, January 16. Players have reached level 69 (TBC raised the level cap from 60 to 70) in less than five days, playing for 26 hours straight and longer. Apparently sleeping, eating, talking and using the bathroom are all secondary to grinding out the levels.

So clearly, some folks are fanatic. But for the rest of the world☂, did TBC live up to the throbbing anticipation? Or was the build up so intense that players could only wander the Outla🐼nds in a fog of anti-climax?