10-05-2004, 08:55 PM
nobbie,Oct 4 2004, 03:24 PM Wrote:While the Amazon.com site lists a release date of November 2004, the German Amazon.de says January 2005.
Blizzard has always said that the European launch would be later than the American/Korean launch, so this is consistent, whether the actual dates are right or not.
My primary issue with the game at this point is the completion and balancing of the character classes. Additional high-end content, PvP upgrades, battlegrounds, minigames, and all other such things can come after release as far as I'm concerned. However, all character classes need to have their talents and skills completed, tested, and polished well before release. And I'm not talking about just paladins, hunters, and warlocks, who are still waiting for their talents to be implemented. (The current warlock talents are a rough draft joke. I don't consider them implemented). Classes that already have their talents implemented still need some tweaking and perhaps some additional high level spells and skills added to make those classes more interesting and fun to play at the high levels. I've posted some ideas for priests on the Blizzard forums to make them less one-dimensional in high level raid groups. These kinds of things absolutely need to be looked at, polished, and tested before the game is released.