Pre-purchase for Warlords of Draenor begins today.

Today Blizzard announced that you can pre-purchase Warlords of Draenor and go ahead and get your free boost to level 90 for a character.  Please notice that this is not the official pre-order notice, you are still unable to pre-order the game from various retailers.  This is pre-purchase, only.  Which is good, because unless you pay for it RIGHT NOW, you don't get that free boost. You can still purchase a boost for $60, if you'd like.  I like to have the physical copy of the game, thankfully I've got everyone to 90 that I want so far and I've got about 6 months until I will need to have the other couple of characters leveled and ready for another expansion.

They have release a relatively cheesy, but very Blizzard-like, video about this breaking news.  This is good news for people who hate to level, but really must hit cap right now.  I am hoping that this helps bring some players back to the game and since the pre-purchase is required and the game is still so far off, this is great for business.  A person who has been gone for some time will decide to come back and check the game out prior to WoD and still be on the hook to come back and play WoD.  I know quite a few people who left during Cata or WotLK and would not feel like leveling through a couple of expansions just to play... and I don't blame them.  I am quite sick of leveling, myself.

While I am not entirely excited, because I'll be pre-ordering, this is still great news.  GREAT NEWS!  This means that Blizzard has a fire under their ass to get it finished and tested and out the door.  We should see lots of testing during the summer and another September to November release date for the game.  This will give us all something to do over the Christmas break.  I look forward to moving forward again in WoW and I really hope to be able to dedicate some time to raiding in the next expansion.  Probably something super serious, but a couple of days a week for a few hours to really work on content.  Just gotta hang in there for a few... more... months.