World of Warcraft is getting on in years. This November marks the 10th anniversary of the world's most popular MMO and Blizzard is celebrating it with a look back at some of the original content.
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The celebration will be a nice walk down memory lane, for veteran players like myself who have not played in years to-oh my god, is that a fire corgi?! I need to play. I need to play this right now or my life will not be complete - any player who logs in during the 10th anniversary celebration in November can claim the Molten Corgi, just about the cutest vanity pet since the Murloc.
Fun fact, World of Warcraft was released on November 23, 2004, on the tenth anniversary of the Warcraft franchise. There are kids playing WoW now who have never known a world without the struggle between Orcs and Humans.
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For you retro gamers, you can relive your first and arguably most frustrating experience raiding: Molten Core, the original 40 MAN RAID for end game players of World of Warcraft is getting a special anniversary edition of MC. Hunt down Ragnaros and get a special achievement and in-game Core Hound mount. No, Blizzard will not help you when your entire raid leaves because getting 40 video game players together in one area for five to six hours is the digital equivalent of herding cats. Angry and annoyed cats.
Ask any old school player and chances are they will tell you that some of their finest memories in game did not involve any raids or PvP areas, but rather the unfettered chaos that is open-world PvP in the Southshore / Tarren Mill area. Rarely a day went by when there were not dozens of corpses littering the ground. Even the guards were not safe in either town. "To recapture that feeling, we'll be opening a Team Deathmatch-style Battleground based on that timeless struggle. However, unlike the old days of Tarren Mill vs. Southshore, there will be a clearly defined victor, so you'll need to work as a team or face crushing defeat."
I'm unsure about the last one. The joy of TM vs SS was that it was not regulated, that nobody ever won, you just survived.
No matter how you slice it, it's a much better 10th anniversary prize than leather, the traditional gift for the first decade of marriage. WoW and I have been divorced for a few years now, but I still check in with her and see how she's doing. Despite losing a bunch of people, she's looking great.
I do kind of miss her. I think I still have her number here somewhere...
