Now Blizzard have that, I actually wonder how much effort Blizzard really puts into its retail operations, its my suspicion that SOE never really did put much, but now they don’t have Everquest 1 driving things its showing, the expansion pre-release shows the level of cluelessness when it comes to the international situation.

SOE certainly can do much better, other companies like Turbine are getting their products onto retail shelves in the UK, often these products aren’t as successful either. Maybe they’ll learn from this pre-release and get things organised there, I find it ironic that they put things like station cash in and then miss out on the most fundamental money making scheme of all - selling the game.

As for WoW, I’m kind of wondering what this new expansion really gives a player, revamping the new content sounds good in one sense, personally I preferred that style of content to what came after it though and they are messing with the very content that made them successful. By making it so uniform contentwise across the game it could also make the game harder to get through, the changes in pace before did use to be refreshing as however you cut it 1 to 80 is a longtime.

Its a bold move though, and its certainly interesting to see how this pans out.

I can understand the digital copy not getting the physical items, but no head start? That seems wrong somehow.