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Ships Ahoy - World of Warcraft
[Nov 23, 2004, 3:01 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

'World of Warcraft' Now Available (thanks Frans) is the press release announcing the North American retail launch of Blizzard's highly anticipated MMORPG:

Blizzard Entertainment® today announced that "World of Warcraft®," its eagerly awaited massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is now available in North America, Australia and New Zealand. With a monthly subscription, players can experience the epic adventure of the "Warcraft®" series in an immersive and continually evolving online environment. "World of Warcraft" is already in Open Beta in Korea and Closed Beta in Europe, and further details regarding the Final Beta Test in Europe and additional beta tests in Asia will be announced in the near future.

Update: On a related note, Slashdot | Vivendi Jilts WoW CE Pre-order Customers (thanks Mike Martinez) outlines problems some customers have experienced getting their pre-orders for the Collector's Edition fulfilled.

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Nov 24, 2004, 02:12

Ray Marden

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Nov 24, 2004, 02:12

Ray Marden

Very sad on my part, but I am playing WoW on my meager 26.4 connection. Let's not discuss my latency, but I can definitely solo and chat with a slight delay.

WoW's graphics can be broken down in two. Looking at pure design, the graphics are really good; they will grown on you over time, they are consistent, each land is different, there are a lot of little touches, etc. On a technical aspect, the game is a joke; limited view distance, textures are relatively clean yet low in resolution, it is kind of like playing in a giant Mario 64 world (lots of big, flat polygons,) Blizzard should be slapped for how little character creation there is, etc.

The one saving grace of the big, lower-resolution polygons and textures is that the game runs fairly well. The game ran well in the first stress test and it runs even better now at retail. Still, for us graphics whores, it is a bitter pill to swallow. But as noted, the overall design does grown on you.

Got up to level seven, almost eight, before major lag spikes. The server cannot currently find my character so I am presuming things are down. I will check back in a bit.

I did try joining the unwashed heathen masses' server in the Central zone, but it had a backlog of 350 people and about sixteen minutes. I ended up opting for a Pacific server, the one under the name of "Kilrogg." I did bump into Dagok (w00t) in the n00b zone and we were chatting a bit, but I have not seen anybody else.

Maybe I did something wrong, but it seems like the game overwrote my capitalization. It is bad enough that I cannot even use spaces, but I wanted to at least use a name of "RaymArden" to imply a first/last name that was not quite the same as my own. Typing that into the character box......everything got flattened and my character is just name "Raymarden." It is not a huge thing, but heaven forbid Blizzard let me at least do that. :(

We can switch servers, right? That "More info" note today basically states that, as far as I understand. Perhaps down the road, if I can get Dagok and friends to come :o, I can move to the heathen servers once the player limit is increased.

FFS, stop this! Too much to play. PoP out in a week (PC.) Riddick a week after that. Amost done with HL2 and VtM-B, but still MGS3 and MP2:E. AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH! It hurts...but in a good way. :D

The only thing that would make my panda cooler was if it looked even dorkier. ;)

Edit:

I do need to, again, mention what a CE that is. The moment you pick that sucker up, you feel how heavy and stuffed with gaming goodness it is. In retrospect, it does show how much Valve was trying to push the "Gold" Steam package and/or be a bee-yatch with VUG's retail version.

Off to check my ~~baby~~ character,
Ray $%@#%%@$ COMCAST HURY THE %$#%%$ UP!!!!!111

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This comment was edited on Nov 24, 02:22.

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