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Listed below are comments made by milkysaysmoo between Friday, 24th October 2008 and Friday, 24th October 2008.

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An apology (in fact several) 7:17pm on 24 Oct 2008 Regarding the World of Warcraft (WoW) patch, it could be considered as a free upgrade from version 2 to version 3, delivering some significant new features as well as some content required to support the "wrath of the lich king" expansion due in 3 weeks. The same content (plus more) is provided on the DVD for the expansion but the servers are upgraded before release day so that people can log in and play immediately after they get it home from the shops, therefore anyone who wishes to play before release day has to download and install the patch. The reason for some expansion content being supplied (rather than just fixes) is that people who don't buy the (optional) expansion would still run into people who did. Therefore their client needs to be able to draw their fancy new level 80 armour and weapons, even if they don't need the new zones as they cannot access them. This is still thousands of new textures and sounds to be stored.

Also: the new content wasn't released in one 2gig patch, but released about 2 weeks prior to the servers being upgraded with the option to download it slowly over time.

ps. FOR THE HORDE!

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