Why I buy this one ?
- Includes both the World of Warcraft base sku and the Burning Crusade expansion pack
- Official Battle Chest strategy guides: one for Burning Crusade and one for World of Warcraft
- Game manuals
- WOW guest pass (14-day trial)
- Blizzard catalog included

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What our customer's say!

"Deeply disappointed.", I was deeply disappointed with this game. First of all I was hoping there would be a version where you did not have to go online to play. Sort of a one player home version. Alas it only has an online version. I would have been happier with a Sim.

Secondly I could not load the whole thing into my computer, so I could not even play the online version. I just wasted my money for a game I could not play, either alone on my computer or online with others.

"Bend over and take it from Blizzard", So I tried to get into this game recently and here was my experience,

Start up with vanilla(no expansions) for 2 1/2 months, besides the occasional day where the servers are down, which did happen more that I would expect for $15 a month, the game was fun.

Then my account was hacked and I lost my two characters. I called blizzard and despite trying for 4 hours I could get a hold of anyone. The message kept saying that they were too busy try again later. So I emailed them and was basically told it was my fault for not buy a wow authenticator.

So to sum up to start playing and go a year it would cost $280(not counting the upcoming cataclysm expansion) for a video game. If your willing to fork over that kind of money you expect a certain level of customer service for the company and I got none. I will never buy from blizzard again. This was easily my worst gaming experience of my life.

"Excellent game", This is a very good game, If you are looking for a good game to spend a lot of hours with out bored this is your game.

"World of Warcraft Battle Chest", This game was bought for my son, all my grown children are Warcraft addicts.
My son is very pleased with the game.
I've seen my son play the game and it's a massive world, I can see how they
spend more time then they should playing this game.

World of Warcraft Battle Chest.

"Worth the money", World of Warcraft can be really addictive and fun depending on the person. Try the trial. If you feel like you can play that for a thousand hours, then I guess you should buy into the world of warcraft. I think this is a great starter pack if you decide to play because it comes with a month free and a couple of game guides to help you understand how everything works. If you like it you can always buy a game card and wrath of the lich king later (the other expansion)and continue to build on your success.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"bought the game for my son", my son loves playing the game. as a parent, i think the game is great makes the kids think, work with others, it help them learn more about money,

"Old reviews need not apply", After reading a lot of the bad reviews for this game, I see that a lot of complaints are about things that are not even true anymore. Then I look at the date of the post, and see that it's a very old post, and back when they posted it, it was before they changed that problem!

This is like complaining about legitimate problems with Windows 95; something nobody uses anymore.
I know that no game is perfect, but a lot of these complaints literally no longer apply, yet their bad rating is affecting the overall rating!
Even my review will be outdated as more customer complaints are fixed.

So, to counteract some of these low star ratings that don't apply to the game anymore, I figured I would post some of the features you currently get with game, including some fixed complaints.
It's worth mentioning that my review is not comprehensive, it's mostly in response to some outdated bad reviews. (From reviewers who likely agree with me if they still play.)
It's also worth mentioning that some (only some) of the stuff I'm talking about is `max level' stuff requiring some additional expansions.

"Leveling in this game is really slow and long!"
At the time of my review, the max level is 80 (and the next expansion is announced, making it 85 soon). And yes, it does take a lot of time to go from 1 to 80. But leveling is much faster now. You can go from 1 to 80 in about the same time it used to take to go from 1 to 60.
Combine this with the fact that hitting a new level is a fun aspect of the game (giving you access to new powers and abilities), this makes leveling a lot more fun than before because you can see your character getting stronger at a faster rate, and that's enjoyable.
Examples of what makes the game faster for leveling:
- Less experience required to go from 20 to 70.
- More experience gained from doing quests from 30 to 70.
- Mounts at an earlier level. (Faster travel sooner in the game; plus mounts are fun.)
- Experience can be gained in battlegrounds. This makes it less of a grind because you have more options if you get bored with quests.
- Leveling a second character up (on the same server and faction) is much easier because of heirloom items: Items that scale with your level and make you noticeably more powerful.
- The Dungeon Finder tool (explained a bit more below) makes another avenue of leveling (doing 5-person dungeons) more common. This also decreases the feel of a grind, if you get bored with quests.

"When you get to level 60 [or whatever the max level currently is], the casual player has nothing to do!"
This game has been improved in many ways to make a max level casual player still have fun:
- Battlegrounds cause you to earn honor points, and these points are spend like money to earn items. It used to be that you got a rank, and you had to grind like crazy just to MAINTAIN a higher rank. Now there is no penalty for not playing, or taking a break. You just accrue points slower (because you get none while you don't play), and thus you get gear slower than a hardcore player. In other words: It scales with your playtime, as it should!
- Every casual player can obtain level 80 epic gear for every slot their character has, even without PvP. It takes a bit longer than hardcore players, and it's not the best of the best (something casual players are usually cool with). Back when this game was released, only hardcore players had epics, and now even casual players can get a character who has lots of epics. This is because doing 5-man dungeons earns you emblems when you kill bosses, and these emblems can be spent like money for really good gear. The emblems are something everyone gets too, so even if the boss doesn't drop a cool item for you directly, you still benefit from the kill, every time.
- There are easier versions of raids now. There are `heroic' versions and `normal' versions, as well as 10-man raids and 25-man raids (4 different kinds total for the same bosses). The 10-man version on `normal' is easy enough that the words `casual raiders' actually applies to the game now.

"People kill you a lot on PvP servers!"
People who try to legitimately use this complaint, legitimately shouldn't be playing on a PvP server. I agree that this is annoying and makes the game less fun, when I tried it. But I mostly play on a PvE server, where this doesn't happen, causing the complaint to vanish.
There is no benefit to PvP servers other than the fact that you get to be a mean high level player too, if you want to.

"Guilds require you to put in time like this is a job, and many guild leaders are mean, etc."
This is a specific problem, not an issue with the game itself. I'm in a casual guild, and they don't force me to raid. They're my friends.
I will say this: Because of the idea of easier raids, etc (mentioned above), it is easier for guilds to be more casual about things. So `casual guilds' seem a bit easier to come by these days. And smaller guilds can still do 10-mans.

"Battleground queues are 60 minutes long!"
They're usually 15 minutes for me. It got a lot faster when they made it so that you queue with other people from your entire battlegroup (multiple servers together), and thus it became easier to fill the slots and get all the required people.

"It's hard to find a group for a 5-person dungeon. I keep asking people, but everyone is busy."
Now you can join a Dungeon Finder queue (again with other people in your battlegroup) and it finds 3 DPS, 1 tank, and 1 healer FOR you. Then it teleports you right to the dungeon!
DPS wait about 15 minutes, healers about 2 minutes, and tanks find a group in seconds while waiting in the queue. And you don't have to do anything other than sign up, and click that you're ready when the group is found.
There is an additional benefit: You don't have to be the max level to use this Dungeon Finder tool. You can start using it at level 15. Because the queues are not super long (and you can quest while you wait!), this tool has essentially revived doing 5-mans at lower levels! (You can also level as a tank or healer now if you want; it's not faster than questing, but it's much faster than it used to be before this tool.)
This Dungeon Finder tool is quite possibly the best addition to the game Blizzard has ever done.

"PUGs are notorious for being failures, and having people steal gear."
Most of these cross-server PUGs (Pick Up Groups) actually go well if you're geared well, because it puts you in groups with similar gear to you. (So it's harder when you first hit 80, and your gear isn't good yet, but that's temporary.)
And again, most people are there for emblems (which everyone gets) and the loot is vender trash. Even if someone `ninjas' it, it's not a huge deal, and most people don't because it's not nearly worth ruining their name over. Also, certain items can only be `need rolled' by certain classes.
Over half of my PUGs are cake-walks, and most of the rest are relatively easy. Bad PUGs are the rare thing now, not good PUGs.

"I shouldn't have to rely on websites like wowhead.com and thottbot.com to figure out quests!"
First off, there is a really good add-on that makes most quests (that don't have some trick to them) easy. It's called Quest Helper, and it shows you where quest objectives are.
Second, I think based on the popularity of that add-on, Blizzard added destination markers for a lot of quests. You see them on your map. This helps tremendously.
Some of the harder quests still require explanation from websites, but tricky things in video games often do. That's why Zelda games have strategy guides, after all. And the WoW sites in question are free, and have good search tools.

"Most classes are shoe-horned into specific roles. Warriors are the only raid tanks, and most people ONLY let them tank."
Not true any more, though some hardcore raiders who like to min/max and overanalyze everything will disagree on some specific cases. But a Priest and be a Shadow Priest and never heal if they don't want to. A Warrior is not forced to tank in raids, neither are they the only tanking class. (There are 4 different classes that can tank at the raid level.)
Combine this with the dual-talent specialization, which can be purchased at level 40 or higher for 1000 gold. It allows you to have two different specs and you can change between them in seconds (out of combat).
Combine this with the fact that there is no `healing spellpower' in the game anymore (or at least not on the level 80 items, and I think some talents contradict this). All `spellpower' on gear effects healing and damage. This means a Priest's (for example) healing set is almost the same as their damage set. If they raid as a healer, that same exact gear is good enough for getting emblems as a DPS in 5-mans, they just need to change specs.

"Blizzard doesn't listen to customer complaints!"
Then why have they implemented all these changes ;)

Final note: I give the game 5 of 5 stars due to rounding. No game is perfect.

"Just a Box", I thought I was buying a used CD with the files so I could at least install the files. When it came in the mail there was no CD just a box and the manuals in side it. It could have been on my part when ordering because I might have missed where it said that there was no CD included but just in case anyone is ordering this please understand that it is only a box and manual.

"This game is so good, it is the crack-cocaine of the video game world", This is the best video game I've ever played. Very addictive, but only because there are so many different ways to play the game. Lots of character customization and many different ways to play (solo quests, group quests, group dungeons, group battlegrounds, day-trading). Well worth the monthly fee to play. This game must be played with an internet connection because you connect to a server (realm) where you interact with other players.

"!!!!DONT BUY!!!!", DO NOT BUY IT, YOU WILL GET ADDICTED TO THIS GAME LIKE YOU GET ADDICTED TO DRUGS I SWEAR, I GOT ADDICTED TO IT AND I COULDN'T QUIT IT, IT TOKE ME 2 YEARS TO QUIT IT!!!!!! I WASTED OVER $700 ON THIS GAME AND MANY DAYS THAT ARE UNCOUNTABLE, I ALMOST GOT KICKED OUT OF MY JOB, MY GIRL-FRIEND LEFT ME, I COULDN'T SHAVE, DIDN'T CARE ABOUT SHOWERING, IT WILL DESTROY YOUR LIFE!!!!!!