Are the WoW updates free for PC? Do you have to download them to your desktop and install or download them through the game somehow? I've never played WoW so these are all things I don't know. I only know that the expansions cost money.
Yes, the updates for WoW are free. You can not play the game until you download and install the update. Server maintenance is every Tuesday. Sometimes they do server side upgrades, sometimes they just make sure everything is in working order. Of course, the cost of all that is offset by the monthly fee to play the game.
Anyway, I ask all this because as the GT5: Prologue demo and Warhawk has shown you can have DLC that is done through the game itself. In the Prologue Demo we all signed on to find the unveiling of a new car and then we could go into GTTV and download free videos, most recently was last week with Kazunori Yamauchi driving and testing out the new GT-R. This was all implemented server side and downloaded through the game.
WoW does something similar. They have a background downloader that will download all but the last 5mb of a patch up to a week before the patch release. On release day, whenever you launch the game, the last 5mb of the patch will download and start to install. Relaunch the game and you can access the new content.
The same for Warhawk. There have been multiple server side updates and even one free client-side update downloaded in-game. These were patches, but I am sure new material could easily be implemented in the same way.
True, it should be fairly easy to implement them, but do you really think Blizzard would offer the same ammount of updates for a console version of WoW as they do with the Mac/PC version? And free at that?
Or if new free content were offered as DLC; Motorstorm received a free download through the PSN to increase the online aspect. It gave a whole new, free, gameplay element. Really with the hard drives and whatnot the consoles will not be limited by DLC and whether or not it will cost money is purely up to Blizzard.
True, but again, do you really think Blizzard will make the same ammount of updates regularly with the same quality as the WoW PC counterpart for free?
From a business standpoint, you're making your customers happy which should be their ultimate goal, but on the other hand, they would be putting in the same ammount of effort and work as they do on the PC version, but not getting any of the money.
All this said, Blizzard has said before, and says now, their focus is purely PC and if they decide to go to consoles down the road then they will discuss with Activision about making that happen, but there are no plans as of yet.
Good, As much as I like WoW and would love to be able to play a version on my 360, I don't think now is the right time for that kind of game on a console.
PS3s have keyboard and mouse support, it only has to be implemented by the developers.
As far as I know, the 360 has that too seeing as it has 3 usb ports.
