Online game gets new race of characters

In "World of Warcraft," players will be able to join an otherworldly species called the Draenei.
The New York Times

The story "Online game gets new race of characters" published May 10, 2006 at 10:35 AM is no longer available on CNET News.

Content from The New York Times expires after 7 days.

[simcity1976]

WOW Needs help

WOW servers are getting to bogged down, they really need to something about it.

I recently moved to a new game that seems to better handle the load of players on a regular basis eve online.

If WoW would fix there prob they could keep most of there customers.

[freemarket--2008]

New servers

There are probably still issues here and there, but since they added a bunch of new servers, things have gotten much better.

I think they are doing quite well keeping their customers, considering they are up over 6 million at this point. There is really no other game in this class even with the server problems.

[Christopher Hall]

Yeah, that's it...

WoW needs help, all right. 6 million - plus - subscribers and growing every day. And fortunately for them, the volume of people leaving is far outweighed by the volume of people coming.

You should have come on over to Shadow Council. I've been on that server for a year and change and I've only had to wait in line once (a 13 person line) and haven't ever had these supposed server problems.

[Yukimi Konomi]

im pretty sure blizzard is running hp blade systems...

so expansion should be pretty easy for them, if anything its more of a datacenter issue...

[Vurk]

Better games

I agree with simcity, Eve Online is a better game; but thats becasue I prefer sci-fi over fantasy. And also because there is less pointless level-grinding in Eve.
Of course, there is the small matter of Eve being a game that requires imagination and creativity, whereas WoW doesnt.(Naturally, thats why WoW is so popular!)

[bob blob]

CNET needs help

Wow is adding a new race...why is this news? WHY IS THIS NEWS?!??!

[spydreman]

you need help

just because you're not interested in a particular story doesn't mean that it isn't newsworthy or interesting to other people.

And since this story happens to be in CNET's E3 converage, and this happens to be a big story at this years E3, chances are it's pretty interesting to many people who are looking at this website.