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  • Aga 6 Jan 2005 19:22:34 2,148 posts
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    Retail launch was 11th of February 2005

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    Since the launch Blizzard has launched three expansions:
    - The Burning Crusade
    - Wrath of the Lich King
    - Cataclysm

    The latest expansion included major changes to the landscape of the original territory and improving quests lines. It also brought two new races, goblins and worgen.

    World of Warcraft links:

    Battle.net European WoW site for the community.

    Other links:

    World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Eurogamer's information on the latest expansion.
    www.wowhead.com Very good site for items, quests, talent calculator and all game information
    Wowwiki has lots of information on classes, abilities, professions and several guides.

    Penny Arcade WoW strip 1, 2, 3

    Patching

    http://www.wowwiki.com/Patches - list of mirrors for current and previous patches. If you took a break you are in for some downloading.

    - If you have any good WoW links or info on servers, feel free to post them, and I will update this post.
  • Whizzo 6 Jan 2005 19:29:03 41,116 posts
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    25th February

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  • Nemesis 6 Jan 2005 19:35:38 18,323 posts
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    Good links Aga, ta!
  • one-eye 6 Jan 2005 20:42:21 1,213 posts
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    Good work, well as I say I'll be up for hooking up. I think I have a guild lined up with friends I made during beta. Defo be good if we can get together to do an instance or two :)

  • Stachey 6 Jan 2005 20:56:23 418 posts
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    I'll be all over this game!... If my PC is half decent enough to run it:/
  • Deleted user 6 January 2005 21:00:09
    Stachey wrote:
    I'll be all over this game!... If my PC is half decent enough to run it:/
    Same here. Heh. I could run it, but it wouldn't look that good. What are your specs? They'd have to go a long way to be worse than mine...

    1.5 GHz P4, 32MB GeForce 2 MX 200, 256MB SDRAM, Win XP, DVD-ROM 16x

    /shovels more coal in
  • Stachey 6 Jan 2005 21:04:23 418 posts
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    Er deathgibbon that is identical specs to me... except im using win9x atm (256megs of ram + win xp = ouch!)
  • Chris Gardiner 6 Jan 2005 23:00:03 962 posts
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    So who's got a place in the final beta, then? Is it worth forming an EG Beta guild?
  • Aga 6 Jan 2005 23:09:46 2,148 posts
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    I got two places =) Although I plan to give one of them to a friend of mine or let Stachey try and see if his machine can handle it.

    The most vital thing is to hook up on the right server. If you then give your nick here, you add EG'ers on the friends list. However, on PvP servers and I think this applies to all really, you cant make friends with members of the opposite side.
  • Aga 7 Jan 2005 09:30:38 2,148 posts
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    Updated with some links, anyone see anything missing?
  • sam_spade 7 Jan 2005 09:39:34 15,743 posts
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    http://wow.ogaming.com/
    http://wow.stratics.com/index.php
    http://www.wowguru.com/
    http://www.wowcensus.com/overall_stats.php

    I'll let you drop those into the first post rather than link them here.
  • Hicksy 7 Jan 2005 09:41:54 2,585 posts
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    I will definitely be playing the game on release and may dabble with the beta as i talked game into giving me a free disk since play wern't distributing any to pre-orders.

    The collectors edition sold out STUPIDLY fast on the blizzard site and was expensive to boot, my hesitation for about 5hrs left me without a copy so I am gutted :( Play pre-order remains at £18 tho so it could have been worse i guess..

    Anyhow, if anyone hears of any other allocation of collectors editions becoming available please please please post up as i would still like to get one :)
  • Deleted user 7 January 2005 09:43:02
    I'm also like using Goblin Workshop, it's a lot more "friendly" than Thott.

    Also Cosmos is most definitely useful.

    Also, Whizzo, there is no European release date announced yet.

    Edit: I wouldn't mind getting a guild going, but not time to dedicate organising it :-/ Playing Horde in Closed Beta, what is everyone else playing? PvP I presume?

    Edited by matty_art at 10:02:25 07-01-2005
  • Aga 7 Jan 2005 10:26:04 2,148 posts
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    Im playing Horde in the retail on a PvP server, so I will have to experience that more. Will also be spying in on the Night Elves areas ofc =)

    If we meet up on the same server, I would be interested to form up parties for groups and instances for the Final Beta.
  • Stachey 7 Jan 2005 10:45:25 418 posts
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    Yep, provided I get it working Ive been told to go horde on whatever PvP server my friends join.
  • Deleted user 7 January 2005 11:00:35
    You'll be having fun in Ashenvale then, that place is just dangerous!
  • Nemesis 7 Jan 2005 11:16:31 18,323 posts
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    Uploaded the EP music from the CD to iTunes and listened to it this morning.

    Epic stuff.

    /still waiting to get in on the party
  • Chris Gardiner 7 Jan 2005 11:27:50 962 posts
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    Nemesis wrote:
    Uploaded the EP music from the CD to iTunes and listened to it this morning.

    Epic stuff.
    It's good, isn't it? Very evocative.

    By the way, shouldn't their be a law against posting an announcement on the site saying "Final beta will start any time now" and then posting *unrelated news* after it? Everytime I go to the European site and it's got a new news entry I bounce in excitement, expecting it to say that the final beta's begun.

    But no. Today's is some piffle about GMs being available 24/7.

    IF IT'S NOT RUNNING, WHO CARES!?

    Ahem.
  • Nemesis 7 Jan 2005 11:29:48 18,323 posts
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    Very good.

    I've heard some of it before on the movie previews, but it's still excellent stuff. It'll need to be if we're gonna listen to it all the time in-game.

    /taps foot waiting for Beta confirmation
  • Lisias 7 Jan 2005 12:51:49 20 posts
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    I'm definitely getting this.Bad thing it releases just in the middle of my exams period.Well,what to do...
    I have a question though.
    Realms is for servers?
    I mean one server has one realm?No,right?
    And how many servers and how many realms we will have in Europe?
    And....OK,enough for today.

    Edited by Lisias at 12:52:22 07-01-2005
  • Aga 7 Jan 2005 15:40:13 2,148 posts
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    There will be several servers in Europe, and your character cant switch so you have think twice before joining one. One thing is the population, because if its too high you might have to queue to join the server.

    Ashenvale is where all the fun is at matty =)
  • DrCongo 7 Jan 2005 17:47:29 912 posts
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    I've the preorder as well, so I'll be joining Final Beta as soon as it's announced - I already have the latest version of the Euro WoW client installed so I'm good to go.

    Hope it's soon. I'll probably be testing as many different races/classes as I can during FB.
  • TheRealBadabing 7 Jan 2005 18:29:49 1,054 posts
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    Chris Gardiner wrote:
    By the way, shouldn't their be a law against posting an announcement on the site saying "Final beta will start any time now" and then posting *unrelated news* after it? Everytime I go to the European site and it's got a new news entry I bounce in excitement, expecting it to say that the final beta's begun.

    But no. Today's is some piffle about GMs being available 24/7.

    IF IT'S NOT RUNNING, WHO CARES!?

    Ahem.
    Doesn't bode well for the Euro support team. First chance I have after final beta, I'm joining a US server.
  • Deleted user 7 January 2005 18:47:23
    Doesn't bode well for the Euro support team. First chance I have after final beta, I'm joining a US server.
    In what way does having 24 hour GM support not bode well?
  • tannerd 7 Jan 2005 19:51:09 2,691 posts
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    You can now download the game installer!

    Edited by tannerd at 19:53:07 07-01-2005
  • Chris Gardiner 7 Jan 2005 20:37:49 962 posts
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    Go! Go! Go!
  • Chris Gardiner 7 Jan 2005 22:12:56 962 posts
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    Hmm. 2.5 gig download. That's going to take a while.

    / Stares at progress bar.

    / Chews own fingers off in impatience.

    Also, the new forum is weird.

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