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World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Release Date

By John Walker on October 4th, 2010 at 5:22 pm.

This is a picture of the game.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm comes out on the 7th of December. Thank you for your time.

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  1. 04/10/2010 at 17:26 Flaringo says:

    Cool

  2. 04/10/2010 at 17:29 Fred Wester, CEO of Paradox says:

    Right.

  3. 04/10/2010 at 17:29 bob_d says:

    I’m curious.

  4. 04/10/2010 at 17:31 Web Cole says:

    What a shame.

  8. 04/10/2010 at 17:36 Razz says:

    Awesome!

  9. 04/10/2010 at 17:36 President Weasel says:

    No.
    No no no.
    You’re not. No.

  10. 04/10/2010 at 17:37 Man Raised By Puffins says:

    TIGHT

  11. 04/10/2010 at 17:37 tomeoftom says:

    Hmm.

  12. 04/10/2010 at 17:37 Mr Pink says:

    Nice.

  13. 04/10/2010 at 17:38 The Hammer says:

    I’m chuffed!

  14. 04/10/2010 at 17:38 wcaypahwat says:

    Indeed.

  15. 04/10/2010 at 17:40 Peter says:

    I have yet to see such a mix of emotions under one article.

  16. 04/10/2010 at 17:40 RC-1290'Dreadnought' says:

    And?

  18. 04/10/2010 at 17:45 TheApologist says:

    Fine.

  19. 04/10/2010 at 17:45 Heliocentric says:

    More of this.

  21. 04/10/2010 at 17:47 Alex Bakke says:

    World of ‘War’craft?

    BAN THIS SICK FILTH

    [Captcha: APBb]

  22. 04/10/2010 at 17:47 Robert says:

    Goodbye december!

  23. 04/10/2010 at 17:51 Rosti says:

    Lovely.

  24. 04/10/2010 at 17:53 ts061282 says:

    Are “people” still playing that?

  25. 04/10/2010 at 17:54 Demon Beaver says:

    This should be up for GJACD.

  26. 04/10/2010 at 17:54 Dwergi says:

    Shame.

  28. 04/10/2010 at 17:57 stahlwerk says:

    within the week?

  29. 04/10/2010 at 17:58 Dean says:

    It’s on a Tuesday, so making it quite awkward to take a long weekend off to play it…

    Okay you’re right there’s no real story in this.

    • 04/10/2010 at 18:23 Cradok says:

      So were the prior two. I’m still undecided if I want to take the day off and go to a midnight opening and play it until I can’t see anymore, or if I want to be sensible about it…

    • 04/10/2010 at 20:51 Hmm-Hmm. says:

      Patch day. C’mon, you could’ve known. For shame, I say!

  30. 04/10/2010 at 17:58 Shagittarius says:

    NERDS!

  32. 04/10/2010 at 17:59 Dominic White says:

    Yawn.

  33. 04/10/2010 at 18:00 tomwaitsfornoman says:

    GJAIF will hear about this.

  34. 04/10/2010 at 18:04 cjlr says:

    Within the week.

    No. Within six months.

  35. 04/10/2010 at 18:04 Daniel Rivas says:

    Ha! I have an assignment due that day.

    Good job I don’t play World of Warcraft, really.

  36. 04/10/2010 at 18:06 Skusey says:

    I see.

  37. 04/10/2010 at 18:06 Andrew Farrell says:

    Are you out of interest at any point going to write about the most top-to-bottom reworking of the biggest pay game on the planet? I’d like to assume so, but you’ve been very sniffy about it.

    • 04/10/2010 at 19:40 rei says:

      As far as I’m aware the point of this site has always been that they write about things that interest them and that they’re excited about, rather than what they “should” write about. I’m pretty sure they’ve said in the past that none of them have been playing the game for a long time. I’m sure they’ll still report on it, but I wouldn’t expect any passionate dissertations.

    • 05/10/2010 at 09:44 Ian says:

      I know Alec dipped back in for WOTLK at which point I believe he’d generally stopped playing, and Quinns wrote summat for The Escapist about it so at a guess there may be one “Cor look at what they’ve done to Azeroth” post after release and that’ll be that.

  38. 04/10/2010 at 18:10 Flobulon says:

    Electronic old men.

  39. 04/10/2010 at 18:11 Clovis says:

    “A date which will live in infamy!”

  40. 04/10/2010 at 18:16 Tiktaalik says:

    Bothered?

  41. 04/10/2010 at 18:17 Choca says:

    ZZZZZZZ

  42. 04/10/2010 at 18:17 duncanthrax says:

    And not a single fuck will be given that day.

  44. 04/10/2010 at 18:21 The Great Wayne says:

    Shenanigans.

  45. 04/10/2010 at 18:22 Ansem says:

    I remember when this site was about Minecraft, not World of Warcraft..

  46. 04/10/2010 at 18:22 Zinic says:

    NEWSFLASH: Cataclysm hits the world on December 7th. Story at nine.

  47. 04/10/2010 at 18:22 Flaringo says:

    WHAT HAVE I DONE

  48. 04/10/2010 at 18:23 Mereli says:

    Goblins!

  49. 04/10/2010 at 18:29 Commander Gun says:

    Two days earlier and they would have lots of parents buying it for their kids in the Netherlands (December 5th is our Santa Claus variant).

  50. 04/10/2010 at 18:30 Wulf says:

    “Are “people” still playing that?”

    And mothers will weep as sons descend into their basement domicile, not to be heard from for another year.

  51. 04/10/2010 at 18:33 Kid A says:

    As a representative of the Alliance, I find the depiction of Horde characters as likeable in any way disgusting and an affront to our troops. I hereby demand the Horde be renamed “OPFOR” and turned into faceless mooks for us to slaughter in the name of freedom, justice, and Beer-Basted Boar Ribs.

  52. 04/10/2010 at 18:34 stahlwerk says:

    Why contain it?

    ‘s cool!

  53. 04/10/2010 at 18:35 Tei says:

    Games with *craft.

  55. 04/10/2010 at 18:40 Bascule42 says:

    WoW?…What…is WoW?

  56. 04/10/2010 at 18:41 Wang Tang says:

    Lame.

  57. 04/10/2010 at 18:42 tom says:

    FIRST!

    …. oh wait

  58. 04/10/2010 at 18:45 Nero says:

    Thank you sir!

  59. 04/10/2010 at 18:47 Freud says:

    Heroin. Now with goblin flavor.

  60. 04/10/2010 at 18:48 laikapants says:

    So it goes.

  61. 04/10/2010 at 18:48 Heliocentric says:

    To think they said things would change when KG left.

  62. 04/10/2010 at 18:49 Chris Hansen says:

    You know what I’d like to see?
    A ban on WOW articles. And a ban on MInecraft articles.
    Das ist gut!

  63. 04/10/2010 at 18:52 westyfield says:

    Warcraftcraft?

  64. 04/10/2010 at 18:52 stephan says:

    Down with this sort of thing.

  65. 04/10/2010 at 18:56 Alex F. says:

    Desperate.

  66. 04/10/2010 at 18:59 Danny says:

    There you have it. RPS AI is not being paid per word anymore.

    Or they are focusing on that 56k-only-PC-gamers niche.

    What do I know.

  67. 04/10/2010 at 18:59 Joe Maley says:

    I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS.

  68. 04/10/2010 at 18:59 yabonn_fr says:

    … so we put a gobo in your shaman, so you can…

  69. 04/10/2010 at 19:10 Jez says:

    Oh God.. here we go again.

    Just when my veins have healed, my family were starting to look familiar and I weigh more than the Undead Rogue I used to command.

    At least I don’t play a Druid.

  70. 04/10/2010 at 19:12 Chris Hansen says:

    For quoting Father Ted I love thee.

  71. 04/10/2010 at 19:18 ScubaMonster says:

    Stopped playing WoW ages ago, and this won’t bring me back. I’m pretty much done with mmo’s until Guild Wars 2 comes out.

  73. 04/10/2010 at 19:23 Severian says:

    now with more hats!

  74. 04/10/2010 at 19:39 neolith says:

    Looks like this’ll be the first WoW addon I won’t be playing.

  75. 04/10/2010 at 19:45 arioch says:

    Oh god… This isn’t going to be healthy for my relationship…

  76. 04/10/2010 at 19:59 Jerricho says:

    I think I’ll be busy washing my hair… craft.

  77. 04/10/2010 at 20:03 Edgar the Peaceful says:

    Right-o.

  78. 04/10/2010 at 20:27 Meat Circus says:

    I think this thread needs more Tei.

    Or perhaps less. Either’s good.

  79. 04/10/2010 at 20:31 frosty says:

    this looks like american release date, matches their patch day & game release day’s, as euro patch day is weds any idea if europes going to get it a day later ?

  80. 04/10/2010 at 20:36 Flappybat says:

    I got all excited but then I realised it wasn’t Guild Wars 2.

  81. 04/10/2010 at 20:42 donmarker says:

    Big = popular =/= good.

    Example:

    Jersey Shore = big = popular =/= good.

    WoW is big, it’s popular, but it’s not very good and brings nothing to the table except the ability to stagnate an already slowflowing mmo river.

    • 04/10/2010 at 20:55 Hmm-Hmm. says:

      I’d disagree. But I think it’s subjective anyway so.. ‘meh’.

    • 04/10/2010 at 21:40 nekomancer says:

      “WoW is big, it’s popular, but it’s not very good and brings nothing to the table except the ability to stagnate an already slowflowing mmo river.”

      Opinions…

      Also big = popular =/= bad. But chatting about that is waste of time I guess (bored…).

    • 04/10/2010 at 22:35 GHudston says:

      “WoW brings nothing to the table” is hardly a subjective claim. The game is getting on a bit, but nearly every modern MMO is heavily inspired by/totally ripped off from WoW, as are numerous single player games and the recent “RPG elements” craze. What you know as an MMO wouldn’t exist without WoW and it deserves more credit than that.

      Why can’t you just accept that it’s not your sort of thing and be done with it? WoW is a very good game. I has a huge amount of content and is more than worth the subscription fee. You don’t agree with this because it’s not your sort of thing and, as such, I don’t expect you to enjoy it.

      I’m sure there is something that you enjoy that I would hate also, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t any good.

    • 05/10/2010 at 00:54 Nick says:

      The things they rip off from WoW were ripped off by WoW in the first place, from EQ, that also ripped them off. So yeah.

    • 05/10/2010 at 01:40 GHudston says:

      Note: I said that it sparked off the current boom of the “Modern MMO”, not that Blizzard invented the MMORPG.

    • 05/10/2010 at 02:17 Nick says:

      And I’d argue that even if WoW didn’t exist the current boom of MMOs would still follow the same formula, as it was EQs big success that sparked that style of MMORPGs popularity of design in the first place.

    • 05/10/2010 at 10:05 donmarker says:

      Naturally I was expressing my own personal opinion and in no way presuming that it is the general one of everyone else. Each to his/her own in all ways and manners, even when it comes to the internets.
      If I somehow gave the impression that I was trampling or disrespecting those who actually enjoy WoW and are present here on RPS, I sincerely apologize.

    • 05/10/2010 at 17:00 GHudston says:

      Thanks for that. It’s a rare thing to see a genuine apology on the internet!

      Also, I agree that MMOs would still be familiar, but there wouldn’t be any where near as many of them without the success of World of Warcraft and they would be missing a lot of features that we all take for granted (remember this next time you see an NPC with a quest marker above their head, for example!)

      I played EQ a LOT, along with a handful of the other MMORPGs available at that time and they are all barely recognisible compared to what we have now. I loved EQ and it deserves as much credit as WoW for being yet another step in the evolution of my favourite genre, but hopefully you can see my point.

  82. 04/10/2010 at 20:59 MrSafin says:

    Deliscious.

  83. 04/10/2010 at 21:14 Starky says:

    Eeranoo…
    Oovavoo…

  84. 04/10/2010 at 21:25 Chris Hansen says:

    Sir, I say Sir! The quotation I was talking about was a commentators, “Down with this sort of thing.” So yeah. Try not to fail again, simply because the reply function is inevitably poor.

  86. 04/10/2010 at 22:39 smokingkipper says:

    Ffs stop World of Warcraft spam RPS. Can we not talk about Notch some more?

  87. 04/10/2010 at 22:50 Baka says:

    Isn’t absolutely every player freezing his account until then?
    Zero content for half a year (or even more?) should be pretty boring even for the most addicted I presume.

  88. 04/10/2010 at 23:34 Jez says:

    I love the way they were like: “..we can’t give people too many abilities… so you can only go to 85… oh, actually, we’ll fuck over the talent trees so you can’t have any hybrid builds.. you’re limited to 41 points, but you can still only go to 85… this means that hopefully in the future we can lube you up, double your heroin dosage and get our dicks wet while you play. Also, we can’t be arsed to rebalance 4.0.1 for LIVE, so you’ll probably get dicked by 40-yard spell ranges, magi who cast while running, and Boomkin who hit harder than a 21-year-old Tyson attached to the front of the Japanese Bullet Train. GG loljk subscribe!”

  89. 04/10/2010 at 23:38 DMJ says:

    I have no opinion about this, so I’m doing a little dance instead.

  90. 04/10/2010 at 23:49 Diomedes says:

    That’s it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas

  91. 04/10/2010 at 23:51 Jeffthewonderbadger says:

    So say we all.

  92. 05/10/2010 at 00:25 undead dolphin hacker says:

    “Tch. Stupid WoW-plebes. What a total boring joke of a game.”

    Translated from beret-wearing-elitist to english:

    “Already preordered, see you in the pickup line at 11:59pm on December 6th!”

  93. 05/10/2010 at 00:49 mezron says:

    I see what you did there…

  94. 05/10/2010 at 01:34 Dorian Cornelius Jasper says:

    Hey.

  95. 05/10/2010 at 01:57 Arnulf says:

    That goblin looks so awful.

  96. 05/10/2010 at 02:24 DevilSShadoW says:

    what was that about an enema?

  97. 05/10/2010 at 02:29 Dastompinata says:

    Nice one

  98. 05/10/2010 at 03:18 Dao Jones says:

    This is what happens when Kieron leaves!

    I kid, I love this post! Though… why is Quinns STILL not one of the named on the bottom of the page? :(

  100. 05/10/2010 at 09:50 Ian says:

    I’m looking forward to reading about people who camped out since October to be front of the queue bragging about how early they got the game when I received it in the post two days early.

  101. 05/10/2010 at 09:53 Nallen says:

    +1
    no wait…

  102. 05/10/2010 at 10:17 Gundrea says:

    I just want to be able to tell my kids I was there.

  103. 05/10/2010 at 11:24 MonkeyMonster says:

    jims cribbins!

  105. 05/10/2010 at 13:45 Brohiem says:

    I think I may be one of the few people to never once play this game. Seriously, just never thought it all that interesting.

  106. 06/10/2010 at 20:32 Nobody important says:

    LAME is not An MP3 Encoder.

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