World Of Warcraft First Impressions on GameSpot UK has their impressions of Blizzards just-announced (story, story) Warcraft-themed MMORPG. One of the things mentioned addresses questions that have been raised by fans already about how the servers will be handled, saying that WoW servers will run parallel to those on Battle.Net, "but using a different type of server administration. It will also have a dedicated support and development team that will monitor, moderate and where desirable, modify the game world - possibly to the extent of updating quests on a regular basis." Here's a bit more on their impressions, as well as Blizzard's Bill Roper's quite accurate comment about a potential release date:

First impressions of the game are good - it remains faithful to the WarCraft ethos, with storybook-style graphics rather than hyper-realistic 3D and the variety of locations in the demo we saw was good with, wheatfields, deserts, forests and a mock Tudor-style village in evidence. However there is a long way to go yet - the game has been in development for a year but no release date has been set yet. Again, words of wisdom from Bill Roper: "We have found with vast experience over the years that if we give you a release date you won't believe us. And you'd probably be right." Honesty is the best policy - remember Diablo II's development delays, not to mention WarCraft III. Nevertheless Blizzard hopes to start beta testing the game sooner rather than later and there will be no shortage of takers, we suspect.