Do you think so? He says that Wrath is meant for high-end players, but that there’s lots for lowbies as well: recruit-a-friend was actually designed as part of the Wrath feature set, and Blizzard thought it was better to release it earlier. Inscription is also seen as a “whole-game” feature, since you can pick it wow power leveling up right at level one, and Achievements will work for everyone as well. He also talks about how the new gameplay features Blizzard is building in let them do all kinds of things with quests and instances — he specifically mentions one encounter in the Oculus where you’ll get to choose a ride with different abilities, so it’ll be a different experience than your normal class play.
There’s some great footage of air combat in there as well, and even a little tidbit about the official threatmeter. Nice interview, and it sounds like Blizzard is rolling right along with their progress in the beta.
He could have said ‘floop-da wonga diddums’ because *shock horror* it doesn’t matter! What does matter is he is saying everything they have done before will be done better in WotLK. That means /2 Trade wont be any different as they haven’t changed it, the new battlegrounds will be better the old ones wont change as they aren’t new, Northrend rep gaining will be less of a grind the old ones will be the same as they are not from WotLK.Does this mean we will have “Even more grueling rep grinds!”? Or “More prolonged battlegrounds” or “Mindless trade chat banter… times two!”? Certainly that seems improbable, but those are all components of WoW’s game play (in my experience), so they should offer to take to a greater extent every part of the game. Or at least this is how I interpreted vey_cos’ comment, clearly they do not have that in mind, but apropos to certain less pleasant portions of game play, it becomes a frightening promise.
But I don’t think the concern was the choice of words, I believe the problems stems from the fact that not all aspects of the game were truly enjoyable.