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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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Re: In summary
Nov 25, 2004, 11:01

Ray Marden

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Re: In summary Nov 25, 2004, 11:01

Nov 25, 2004, 11:01

Ray Marden

Two scenarios:

The system seems to partially base combat off of whatever it last knew. If you start combat and do not land a strike before you lag (you miss, the monsters hits first,) then the system only has a record of you being hit and you doing nothing in return. You can run around all you want, but once the system corrects itself, it realizes you have been getting attacked for the last five minutes and should be dead. It has no record of your movement nor of you ever hitting the monster back.

Did you play yesterday? For that period, I am not joking about the time frame. You would literally get thirty seconds of play, lag out for three to five minutes, get a minute of play, lag, etc. If you are in mob areas, which I needed to be to do my quest, this can be lethal. I am here, nothing going on. Uh oh, lag. Meanwhile, the server is spawning a monster. Meanwhile the monster is right in front of you and attacking you. All this time, you are just stuck in an empty area with nothing going on (note the mobs do not display when the server lags.) Just as above, the server jumps ahead to correct itself and says "Hey stupid, you are dead - you stood in front of that mob for five minutes doing nothing - p\/\/n3d!," killing you in the process.

As I said, death by lag.
Feeling like I am leveling a bit faster, yet having a bit less money,
Ray

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