WoW Reviews on Amazon... Japan!

I was just skimming through the customer reviews for World of Warcraft on Amazon Japan.  The majority of them are favorable, and it seems there's even a website somewhere that will give players a rough translation of the quest goals.  The one thing that made me chuckle was the frequency with which reviews referred to the character design being "too American."  Some say they can't build characters they like because of this.  Others say that, while it may turn some off, personally they don't mind so much.

The one thing that was a bit sad was how many people predicted the release of a Japanese version "very soon!"  I actually had the chance to speak to someone from Blizzard's international division at the very first Blizzcon in LA.  As someone studying Japanese, I thought it might be fun to have a Japanese language version of the game (as my Spore is in Japanese... sometimes it's cool and othertimes it's just frustrating.) I asked if a Japanese version was in the pipe.  Unfortunately it seems Blizzard feels that a Japanese version isn't worth the effort.  The game market in Japan is too heavily lopsided toward consoles, so going through the trouble of doing a translation wouldn't pay off in the end.  Sorry Japan, looks like you'll have to be happy with looking up the quest goals online!

Expansion

WotLK is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Release date is listed as Nov 3rd.

Grats!

So...  I hear Top Of Cool's Kara kung-fu is strong.  This is good.  This is very good.  You have done well, grasshopper.

On another note, Sept 15th (Monday) is a national holiday here, which means I'll be off work in the afternoon.  That's Sun eve for you guys.  Some kind of family thing may come up, but at this point I haven't heard anything.

The Grind

Precisely what's frustrating about so many quests...