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“Burning Crusade� Midnight Launch!


Last night hundreds of fans stood for hours in sub-freezing temperatures to be the first to buy “Burning Crusade,� the first ever expansion for “World of Warcraft.� Also braving the Arctic temperatures were iTG’s Hogan “kam-RA� Carter & Rance “djRoME� Costa, as well as your faithful correspondent, Avataritoria’s Erik “Kunochan� Even.

By midnight, roughly 250 people were in line at the EB Games on Universal City’s storied Citywalk. The earliest arrivals had been waiting since 8:30am, but most arrived sometime after 5:00pm. EB employees worked the line and gave out prizes such as t-shirts and posters, while Blizzard reps set up the booth where WoW developers would sign “Burning Crusade� collector’s edition boxes.

We interviewed dozens of fans, and these clips will be featured on “Epileptic Gaming� this Thursday. I did learn few important facts:
1. Some people do actually care about the plot and characters of “World of Warcraft.�
2. No one, and I mean no one, actually role-plays in WoW, “MMORPG� notwithstanding.
3. Many WoW players actually have jobs. But the best way to level-up fast is to be a home-schooled teenager.
4. Lots of fans are disappointed because BlizzCon was too expensive.
5. Horde FTW.
6. Undead females are sexier than Tauren females.

And now for the pics:


One woman asked us, "what are they waiting in line for?" Yes, she was standing under this banner.



The line starts here...



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Posted by Erik Even on Jan 16 2007 5:56PM

Comments (17)

 TosspoT
Jan 16 2007 6:32PM
I was there today, they still had all the posters up. I wondered whether it'd be
featured anywhere, nice :)
 -crow-
Jan 16 2007 6:38PM
tosspot you geek
 TosspoT
Jan 16 2007 6:56PM
How much did u pay to get your wow account levelled crow? :x
 Kunochan
Jan 16 2007 7:06PM
Toss is DA MAN!
 IamDoydy
Jan 16 2007 7:59PM
world of walking
 freakesp
Jan 17 2007 1:28AM
http://www.worldofraids.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3441
 A_Spec
Jan 17 2007 2:44AM
The end is nigh. (+spelling)
 Malystryx
Jan 17 2007 2:56AM
yeah lvl 70 in 1 night, quite sad ;D
 sp4orce
Jan 17 2007 6:47AM
I know crackheads with more of a life then the WoW crowd. At least something got them
outside for a day. Even tho it was just to go get more WoW..

wait that sounds kind of funny...
 Black2lip
Jan 17 2007 6:59AM
Ok I also play WoW, but it's crazy to get in line instead of waiting a few more hours
and just grap it from your postbox. Whats wrong with those people its like not a
console launch where it will be sold out the next day :-)
 sweep
Jan 17 2007 8:13AM
Damn bastards... I've just seen a lvl 30 Draeneri... 41 hours after the European
launch... :o
 A_Spec
Jan 17 2007 10:12AM
that lvl 70 in one night is just a prime example of devotion. We could use people
like that.
 kam-RA
Jan 17 2007 11:03AM
some of the fans said that they could have LEvel 70 within a week... and that's the
lowest figure that we got... and we talked to a bunch of people... so for #8 to say
he did it in one night makes me question his boldness.
 kam-RA
Jan 17 2007 11:06AM
awesome photos Kunochan... the captions made my morning!
 Khonsu
Jan 17 2007 11:15PM
You mean BC wasn't digitally distributed?
 atdt
Jan 18 2007 12:31AM
bought mine at walmart... was in and out.. 5 minutes.. no party or anything.. like
buying any other game.
 GBT-DonKing
Jan 23 2007 8:21AM
If WoW players put in that much effort to get laid... well, they still wouldn't get
laid but at least they would have tried!!


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