The World of Warcraft Trading Card Game has a problem.

Wait a minute, let me start all over again: The WoW TCG has a number of problems. However, one problem is overshadowing ‘em all: The game is really fucking awesome. The problem with amazing products is that they tend to attract passionate people. Very passionate people. The kind of people that not only like a particular product, the kind of people that tend to fall in love with a product. Sometimes, this goes so far that they start to identify theirselves with the particular product.

So far, so good. You may ask yourself: What’s the big deal; what’s the problem? Well, here’s the thing: Passionate people also tend to live in extremes. If a product they fell in love with is not living up to their expectations anymore (for whatever reason), their strong feelings start to turn into the opposite – which would be hate in this case. Now this might sound a little far-fetched, however, most of you have seen what happened when Matt Markoff didn’t see his money for a while. It takes more than a little (alright, granted: a very long) wait for someone like Matt Markoff to start an epic rant.

What I’m saying is this: Matt was getting SO very angry because he loves this game SO very fucking much. Therefore, he really wants to see it succeed. And if that doesn’t happen, he gets all crazy. If you’ve ever been in love with someone and the person hurt you in some way, you might have also experienced your strong feelings turning into lots of anger or even something close to hate (and if you were able to clear up the misunderstanding afterwards, reverting back to love once more). Now this ain’t about Matt. He’s far from being the only one, there are hundreds of WoW TCG players that really love this game.

Now, back to the other problems at hand. In case you haven’t heard, the Release Celebrations for the German product of the upcoming WoW TCG set Icecrown have been cancelled. And this after they had been re-scheduled. Twice. What sounds like a very bad joke is the sad truth. One more thing: I consider myself one of the players that really love this game.

Now all you need to do is putting the pieces together and you know why I’m trying to avoid commenting on the latest happenings in the WoW TCG. Therefore, I guess it’s best to pass the mic and ask for your opinion. Let me know what you got in mind for the WoW TCG and what you hope to see in the future.