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  Edmund
  February 9th, 2010 on 12:43 am

  Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

  I bought this for my son, since I had only bought him WoW without the expansion.
  With the assumption that you’ve decided you want to play WoW, all the way through to lvl 70, this is the pack for you. You get WoW and expansion, which would cost 50 bucks if bought separately. You also get two strategy guides, but the strategy guide for the expansion (see my review for it here World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Official Strategy Guide (World of Warcraft)) is terribly lacking, so we’re really looking at one valuable guide, one crappy guide. What you also get, and not even the box mentions this, is the game on DVD! Oh, how many times I’ve installed and reinstalled the original WoW on multiple computers at home and at my friends place, swapping disks. Well, no more! Unless you were lucky and bought the original Collector’s edition World of Warcraft Collector’s Edition and World Of Warcraft Burning Crusade Collector’s Edition, you’re stuck with 4 CDs each instead of 1 DVD.
  Overall, I would buy (in fact, I did).

  Update December 2009:
  I’ve bought my 4th copy of this battlechest (yeah, I try to enlist friends and families to play WoW, so call me the Wow drug dealer….), which arrived the week before Thanksgiving 2009. Instead of 2 DVDs (one for WoW and one for The Burning Crusade), you now get everything in one DVD, with the two activation codes both printed on separate labels on the DVD cardboard sleeve. Not very different, but it’s nice that they at least save a bit of plastic by packing it all in one disc. Still comes with one month of play included, contrary to what the one comment on my review claimed.

  And until they release a new battlechest that will include Wrath of the Lich King (which I doubt Blizzard will do until right after they release their next expansion [to be titled Cataclysm {which I preordered my max of 3 from Amazon already!}]) this battle chest is still the deal to buy. Also, in my opinion, including the Burning crusade makes sense, since it does include 2 new player races as well as their corresponding zones in Azeroth, which can be played from the beginning, whereas pretty much all of Wrath of the Lich King isn’t available until you’re at least lvl 55, and then Blizzard sinks in the extra hook. Would have been nice if there was a battlechst that included all 3, since that would have potentially saved me money, but oh, well….

  Still greatly recommended for the person wanting to start playing WoW.
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  Xander
  February 9th, 2010 on 2:11 am

  Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

  I got this after doing a free 10 day trial from Blizzard. After about 3-4 days of the trial I was pretty hooked and decided it was worth the money to get the full version of the game. (Very limited differences in the trial version so it’s definitely worth testing out before you buy the full version.)

  I’m not usually into long play games like this, but after seeing a bunch of different things about the game (including a very funny South Park episode) I decided to check into it a bit further.

  I will say the game is much more fun if you can play with people you know, but you don’t have to. I’ve found almost every person I’ve met in the game to be very helpful and understanding to new players so it makes it easy to get into the game and get what you want out of it.

  I’d encourage people to definitely do the trial software and see how you like it, but I’m confident most people that play video games will find some portion of this entertaining.

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