I downloaded it last night. Took 5 hours on Fileplanet. I got it installed this morning and made a character. I’m on server 5 as a human. All I’ve done so far is get into the game and try to figure out the controls.
Dunno if you’ve found it yet, but under Computer Options (hit “Escape”), there’s a place where you can map key bindings; this is also the only place I could find a list of what all the different keys do. Knowing about K vs P vs B makes all the difference :).
Daniel
Man, this game looks good! I’ll probably get in on the open beta in a week or so. So many good games comming out! Halo 2 and EQ2 next week as well…good times!
So, can we make a guild or anything?
It’s been announced at worldofwarcraft.com. November 23rd. I guess it wasn’t too close to jack around with. 
argh, tried, 13 is PVP and I can only have evil, so I am thinking of deleting evil lillitha and making a good warlock named lillitha. I have aruvqan on server 1 up to level 7=) and am in a decent guild there=)
Yep, I saw. Our merchants are, um, less than pleased.
Grr…my post yesterday got hamster-et.
I’m playing Aghund, an orc warlock on Server 13. Look me up if you’re playing Horde!
And I just discovered yesterday how wonderful the auction houses are, both as a great source of cheap equipment and as a much better place to unload good equipment that you can’t use.
Has anyone here taken the enchantment tradeskill? At what level does it start to become useful?
Daniel
I was looking at the websites for WoW and it looks like they are going to make people pay for the honor of playing it by the month. Ugh. I really don’t like that, and Blizz was the one company that I thought wouldn’t do that.
Why should I play this instead of EQ2 now?
Well, the going thought says that WoW will be cheaper than EQ2 and the system requirements will be lower.
I’ve been keeping an eye on people who’ve been in both betas, it seems more people like WoW better but that may just be my impression.
By the way, go to the warcraft.com site and check out the game trailer. I want to see Blizzard make a movie next, the trailer rocks.
They’ve said since the beginning that this will be a subscription-based game, and that’s got its own benefits and perils to it.
The drawbacks are obvious: depending on how many months at a time you pay for, you’re paying between $13 and $15 a month for the game. That’s in addition to the fity bucks or so you shell out at the beginning. (Which, admittedly, includes one month’s play).
The benefits aren’t as obvious: with this steady stream of income, we can expect to see the game be very well supported, with patches, new material, events, and so forth. In addition, the projected stream of income is what’s financed the game’s development: without it, the game wouldn’t be nearly as fun as it is.
For myself, it’ll probably be my only game purchase for the next several months: I’ll let it satisfy my gaming bug, so that I don’t spend fifty bucks every other month on a new game.
In other news, they just added a major patch to the game some two weeks before it goes live, and a lot of players are really unhappy with a lot of the changes. They don’t seem so significant to me, but I understand that they make significant changes to PVP, which I’ve not been doing.
Daniel
Don’t forget what I am hoping will be a big benefit from having to pay: keeping the “riff-raff” out. Seriously, I’m hoping that having to pay a monthly fee will keep out some of the flavor of the week “l33t c0ol dud3z” and piraters who tend to simply play to cause problems for others and hack the game.
Time will tell; I haven’t played other MMORPGs to date, so I don’t know if it has this effect, but assume it does to some degree.
Quick question: On the PvP servers, is it every man for himself, or can the Horde and Alliance only attack each other? (I’ll probably be waiting for retail to play.)
I’m almost certain that you can only attack members of the opposite faction in PVP. The difference between PVP servers and regular servers is, I think, that on PVP servers you’re automatically put in PVP mode when you enter certain zones (such as your enemy’s home territory, or certain contested areas); on the regular servers, you have to choose to go PVP.
However, you can always duel with someone: as far as I know, duelling has no permanent consequences, but is a fun way to test out your abilities.
Daniel
Well, speaking as a now-ex guide in EQ 1 who just spend some dearly earned $[birthday monies] to transfer all my good characters from 4 accounts to 1 account, and changed my eq2 pre-order to a WoW preorder, and canceled the other 3 accounts DO IT!!!
The program is smaller [2.5 gb vs 6 or 7 gb] there is no zoning unless you are on the gnome trams, the stress test loads are not causing any more lag than I run into on a good day in PoK and only in certain areas [where there are lots of players and npcs] the UI is simple, easy to manage [though not as flexible as EQ for customizing] questgivers are dead easy to find [they have a ! or ? over their heads] people you have to look for in quests are marked with a ? overhead. No trying to figure out what phrase to say to a quest npc, you get the cutest little interaction box…I hate to say it, but it is a game that an 8 year old would enjoy, this 43 year old enjoys and many other players of EQ seem to agree with me when we talk in general chat…
That sounds cool. There’s nothing I hate more than constant PvP mode and everyone attacking anyone whenever they want. It can be fun, but not all the time. AC1-Darktide almost ruined me on PvP altogether. That, however, sounds like a setup I would enjoy.
It’s he-e-e-re! For some reason, Fileplanet is saying there’s a limited number of keys, which doesn’t sound very open-beta-like to me. And WoW’s beta page is down. But it looks like you can go to FilePlanet right now and get into the beta for free.
Daniel
And by “right now” I apparently mean “as soon as their server quits crashing.” :rolleyes: FilePlanet doesn’t seem to have much of an infrastructure.
Daniel
An hour later, the WoW page is up and very slowly running, but fileplanet keeps crashing.
Opening it in another browser announces that they’re gone. I, unfortuneately, got a broken image when it told me to “enter the letters and numbers above,” because I had a firewall running.
Well, onto trying from the WoW page.
I got my key a few days ago but can’t get the download to work. I’m out of patience with it now.
Unfortunately, I can’t release that key for anyone else to use as Fileplanet don’t seem to have an option for ‘return this key to whence it came; I have lost all desire to play this game’.
(Hey, that rhymes!)
I’m downloading the open beta client. It’s ridiculously slow. If I’m lucky I’ll get to play tomorrow night when it finally finishes downloading.