 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft:
The Burning Crusade,
the first expansion set for the world’s
leading subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing
game, World of Warcraft, is now on sale throughout North America
and Europe.
The expansion will be available in Australia, New Zealand,
Singapore, and Thailand on January 17, with availability in mainland
China and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau to be announced at
a later date. World of Warcraft is played by more than 8 million
gamers around the world.
“The Burning Crusade is the single
largest expansion we’ve ever created, and we’re
grateful for the support shown by our beta testers and the millions of World
of Warcraft players worldwide during its development,”
said Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment®.
“We’re excited to
share all of the new content with players, and we’re
certain that they’ll enjoy the quality and
breadth of new experiences that The Burning Crusade offers.”
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade adds a tremendous amount
of new features and content to World of Warcraft, including
Outland, a massive new continent for players to explore, as well as
flying mounts, which will allow players to reach locations in Outland
that would be otherwise inaccessible. Over the course of their new
adventures, players will be able to take their characters up to level
70, gaining powerful new abilities along the way. Hundreds of new quests
and monsters and several unexplored dungeons will offer exciting new
challenges, while the new Blood Elf and Draenei races, each with capital
cities and starting zones, promise a fresh start to current and new
players alike. The jewelcrafting profession, socketed items, and
expansive new player-vs.-player features round out the offering in World
of Warcraft’s first expansion.
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is now available at
retailers nationwide for Windows®
2000/XP and Macintosh®
at a suggested retail price of $39.99. A special Collector's Edition of
the expansion is also available, at a suggested retail price of $69.99.
This limited-edition package includes the expansion on both CD-ROM and
DVD, the Art of The Burning Crusade coffee table
book, an exclusive in-game pet, a behind-the-scenes DVD, two World of
Warcraft Trading Card Game card packs and three exclusive cards, a map
of Outland mouse pad, and the official soundtrack CD. The World of
Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion requires the original World
of Warcraft game, which is now selling for a suggested retail price
of $19.99. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has received a
Teen rating from the ESRB.
For more information on World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade,
please visit the official website for the expansion at www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade.
World of Warcraft’s
Subscriber Definition
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a
subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of
Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are
within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have
accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as
subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free
promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and
expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees’
territories are defined along the same rules.
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