Guess who’s back….

… Back again. Charnal’s back, tell a friend.

It’s been -quite- awhile, and many things have happened in the time since my last post (obviously.) But what would a post be without spite and hatred towards the game that I’ve inexplicably given a stupid amount of money over the years? I mean, lets be honest, the subscription numbers of WoW have been falling over the past year like a shit from heaven. Rumors abound of a rather strange method that Blizzard uses to calculate their ‘current’ numbers, which allows them to maintain the illusion that all is business as usual.

Enter their latest opus, the Firelands. Now, let me put the cards on the table here – I haven’t raided there.

“But Charnal, you devilishly delightful dastardly duke of despair! How can you pass judgement upon a raid expansion that you refuse to play?”

Simple folks, from what I’ve seen of it due to watching my fiancee run the joint with our guild, I’ve come to one resounding thought which I’ll voice here.

BECAUSE IT’S AN UPDATED AND RESKINNED MOLTEN CORE, MINUS THE CAVE NETWORK.

Seriously, is this the best that Blizzard is willing to offer now? Reskins, restructuring of old instances? What’s next, AQ? Or as a friend of mine insists, “AQ under water.” I’m already betting that Blizzard is going to be putting the ‘Titan’ next-gen MMO up front at Blizzcon, with WoW being an afterthought. And with the way that they’ve been re-arranging their production team, it’s hardly surprising that WoW is in the state that it’s in.

With that in mind, as well as the not-so-recent cancellation of my battle.net account, I’m going to be moving on from WoW to another franchise in the coming months. More commentary will no doubt follow, as I have no doubt that I’ll be able to find the creme-de-la-creme of assbags and fratboy douchebag players who will manage to piss me off in ways that I can’t yet comprehend. So stay tuned!