The time has come to look at the bigger picture in Azeroth and see what else is going on outside of Darnassus and Orgrimmar.  World of Warcraft has obliterated subscriber and subscription records for any online game to date by creating a solid world with oodles of things to do – even if you aren’t a gamer – and holding the attention of those signing into the servers more than any other... 

As Rafe mentioned in his coverage of the forthcoming WoW expansion, I am utterly dismayed and disappointed that Mists of Pandaria will be the new future of Azeroth. And I am most certainly not alone. To have Chris Metzen, VP of Creative Development for Blizzard Entertainment, make an announcement during BlizzCon that their big reveal was “definitely not a joke” is testimony to the fact that the...