Eleven million players worldwide.   Two expansion packs. $1.2 billion a year in revenue. 16GB on your hard disk .  Trillions of hours spent in front of monitors all over the world  . Miles of press coverage.  A black market for trading in gold, characters and equipment for billions of dollars. An episode of South Park.

Well, you guessed right.    I’m talking about the next expansion pack for World of Warcraft – World of Warcraft Cataclysm.  This year it will release.  However, it is not certain when in 2010, but it will be this year for sure! Beta tests are running now – now also open for guilds to participate.  And it’s only getting bigger and presumably also better!   Not only because there are two new races but you can now level up to level 85! But it is not the only new thing. There will be a new Horde race, new Alliance race, new race / class combinations, new monsters! Of course, there are also new dungeons and raids, and obviously also the world has seen some changes. 

Of course, we all know that World of Warcraft is the biggest online game of all.  … But how big is it? It’s massive!  You can just walk around for hours if not days exploring new parts of the world or new dungeons! There will always be something new to explore! Especially when the new expansion pack comes it gets larger! There is more to explore, there are new quests! Nothing in the gaming industry really compares to WoW! 

It’s probably not a surprise to those playing the game, but people not playing the game, have a difficult time understanding the attractiveness of this Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game – or MMORPG as it’s abbreviated. 

But this is just all the hype in the media and has nothing to do with what is really the World of Warcraft. Because it’s when you are playing the game that you realise, that this is huge, and then you understand why so many people spend so much of their time playing the game. 

World of Warcraft is such a fantastic game. Forget all those who say it’s geeky! Go ahead and play it!  You will enjoy. Believe you me  . You can also learn new people in WoW because there is so many who plays it that you will meet someone you starts peaking to, adventuring in teams  .

It is a game created with great skills and a perfection of the exceptionally talented team of people behind, Blizzard Entertainment. And now we’re wating for the fourth chapter in the WoW story. Of course it all began with The World of Warcraft, then came The Burning Crusade followed by The Wrath of the Lich King –  and now 11 million players all over the world are waiting  for Cataclysm – and it will be huge .

One good thing.  The Blizzard team didn’t prioritize graphics over gameplay. So don’t expect so much of the graphics, but just think about get started  . The game is perfect, but the graphics could in my opinion be better.

World of Warcraft Cataclysm is expected to hit stores all over the world  in November 2010 – but it’s only a guess at this stage, that’s something  with Blizzard wanting to dominate Christmas again this year and at the same time they probably want to give  Starcraft 2 (releasing 27 July) a couple of months for capturing the gamers’ game budget  …