World of Warcraft
 

I know I'm not the only one here that plays the Warcraft games and I'm sure I'm not the only one waiting for this game to come out so for those of you intrested, World of Warcraft Beta sign-ups start Wednesday.

I figured if I made that the title this topic would die when the game is released or if someone gets in it so I figured if this stays around I'm sure some of us could put it to good use.

Forgot to say the sign-ups are on Blizzard.com and they aren't first come first serve so don't worry about rushing to put it in. Only a week though so don't forget.

i cant waitttt

What what what?

I get next to no news on PC games. :(

OMFG I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!

What news are you looking for? :)

Everything on this new Warcraft game.

:drool:

World of Warcraft is basically a Warcraft game but in the form of MMORPG. There's a little more features added such as first person view too. Sounds like it will be a great game.

For this initial phase of the World of Warcraft beta test, we will only be able to accept applications from Canada, Korea, and the US.

Hahaha Ant got punk'dddddd

Anywho, it looks amazing. I'm definitely at least going to try it for a month.

i'm counting the hours til signups start. i really hope i get picked. for those of you who have done beta test for blizzard before, how do they do it? email you to tell you got picked with a link to the game dl?

Oh, shit! I actually have heard of that game. Hott.

I thought today was Wednesday so I was refreshing the site and it wouldn't show. :o

If they are anything like other beta tests, probably are, they will probably send you an email to tell you that you got in. Then I don't know. Maybe a link or actual beta CD.

i hope they mail cd's, but i doubt they will. it would save me 3 days of downloading :|

mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad

Damn you, and all your Seals, Clubs and Ferrets :foc:

BUT MOST OF ALL, DAMN YOU KOREAN BASTARDS KFSLADFDSLDSKFADSL ^_^ DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE :@lk;jfd;ahl

:'(

BTW Funky just check www.blizzard.com regularly, and the www.diabloii.net website series, i forget the WoW website one, it's on therre somewherre. :wave:

World of Warcraft :drool:

:love:

ROFL!!!

Opens in like an hour, gonna sign up.

oh yeah. the wait to feb 4 is going to be hellish.

:mad: It's up but it won't let me submit. :( I'll keep trying.

same here. their servers must be overwhelmed. i'll wait til later and try again. did you see the fascist mac system requirements? i don't know what to make of it. either the mac version is really poorly written or you can't adjust graphics settings. if the final version is like that, they won't be selling very many copies. requiring testers to have an OS that only just came out in nov is crazy...512 meg of ram min?!?! it's a ****ing game, not autoCAD!!! and 64 meg of vRAM min, when the pc version only needs a geforce "world's shittiest video card" 2. wtf?
:wtf:

LOL

I hear their servers are incredibly lagged right now. I'm glad I upgraded my PC or I wouldn't have stood a chance.

On step 2 right now. :(

Holy shit the site is slow.

And yeah what the **** is up with the mac requirements?!

My computer doesn't even meet the min. requirements for processor speed. I'm 200 mhz short. My video card also might be too slow.

Oh well, I'll sign up anyway. Maybe my friend will get it on his PC and I can play it over there.

i don't think your comp's speed will necessarily be a factor on pc. the system requirements for pc are basically any computer made withing the last 3-5 years :roll: i on the other hand may have an advantage, since most mac owners won't meet the minimum system requirements. i'll have to upgraded my OS to play, and my laptop is only 5 months old :GAY:

that sux :( if you only have an 800 mhz processor, you don't have a video card with at least 64 of video ram...unless you have an old powermac and upgraded the video card. they might not care. you could always buy a POS eMachines online for like $200 lol. i can't imagine that the final version will be as restrictive on system requirements for mac...they would barely make any ****ing money off it. they probably just picked requirements for the range of systems they haven't been able to test yet. or like i said earlier, it is poorly written and they will tweak it later when they have a bit more time.

There are too many people accessing the Web site at this time.

Figured. :mad:

at least you got a message. i just get my browser's 'can't load this page' message. WEAK! i hope this isn't indicative of the kind of performance we can expect from their game network...of course it is still early on the west coast, so i bet they are all flooding the website over there. :-\

That was the first time I recieved that message. It's usually just the "Can't Load..." page.

Finally got done with it.

I have an eMac. I really want a tower machine that I can upgrade. Preferably a G5, but they are expensive. I would go for a G4 though, don't need any special hardware like a printer or monitor, so maybe I can get one on eBay or something. Any suggestions?

Holy Jesus am I glad it's not on a first-come first-serve basis

Went to try earlier tonight and got the same problems as most people here.

Even worse, my PC's internet seems to have gotten the boot, so I can't even really apply. I got a bit through it before my internet went out, and it said something about testing your PC's specs, so I'd rather it test the specs on that one than on this one, so I'll have to wait.

But man, site was going hella slow earlier. I bet it was all them damn Koreans :mad:

Gonna try and register from work and from home, double my chances :cool:

feck, my work computer sucks :(

OMFG I'm mad now.

I decided WoW was a good reason to go get a new computer finally, so I did. Got a new 1.6 GHz G5 mac, and I bring it home, install the OS upgrades, and BAM it won't even boot up now.

The computer gods hate me.

K, got a replacement computer that works, and I signed up. Hope I get in.

what, did the apple store exchange it? yeah, i waited til the next morning to sign up.
went right through....now i just have to wait til wednesday....the torture :(

I took it back to original store, and they didn't believe it was broken or something, so I waited for almost 2 hours as they tried all these different video connectors and stuff. Finally they just gave me a refund, and I drove to the Apple store in the mall, and bought the same computer there.

yeah, i'm not surpised that they didn't take it right back. that's kind of an odd occurance. did you get it at an applestore, compusa, or somewhere else?

It's called Fry's Electronics. I dunno if it's a national store. Seems like it though.

They suck.

haha. yeah i saw them on the apple retailers sections of apple.com. i only go to applestores when i can (like right now i'm about to drive to the nearest one in Richmond, Va), but sometimes i have to go to compusa's just cause they are closer.

CompUSA has some bad customer service too... I tried to buy a laptop with my dad there about 2 years ago, and it took them 45 minutes to come out and tell me that they were sold out. After I paid for it.

ROFL! yeah they must have the worst customer service in the history of retail. everytime i have ever had a question, it took 45 min to find a rep who wasn't busy or actually had some clue of what i was talking about. i usually just look up info on the internet, cause it takes less time or call an applestore. the reps at applestores [in my experience] have always been really helpful.

Yeah the apple store is awesome. I decided I'm gonna take the longer drive to go there whenever I need something for my computer.

where is the closest one to you? i have to drive all the way up to richmond, which is like 70 miles from here....and the traffic is sometimes heavy :-\

Damn, that sucks. There is one in the mall about 15 minutes (with light traffic) away. Closer to a half hour with heavy traffic.

At least an MMORPG can't get stolen (like Half Life 2) so we don't have to worry about it being delayed because of that.

And it looks like a billion people are trying to play beta, so hopefully a lot of the bugs will be caught and filtered out before the final release.

WOW did get leaked actually, just an early alpha build, you can explore the world, look at character models, thats about it

Are you serious man?

F</>ucking people, I swear to god. If WoW gets delayed because of some hackers, I'm going to track them down and beat the shit out of them, and then make them eat their own shit.

anyone gotten a response on their application yet? i know they said it would take a couple weeks. i'm so impatient :(

It won't get delayed.

I wouldn't expect the emails for at least another week.

Emails haven't been sent out yet so if you haven't gotten one don't worry about not making it. Just a little update.

yeah, i'm such a loser. i've been checking my email every ****ing day. :-\

They are posting on the Blizzard.com and WorldOfWarcraft.com that the betas will be sent out soon and that you are going to get the game by the downloader. So expect them to be out by about Friday.

I dont even remember what email I used to sign up :'(

I think it was my current one but I dunno.

http://www.3daffex.com/alex/1.WMV

Wow HOT video that was leaked about WoW. It shows a few of the different mounts and shit in the game. Pretty ****ing hot.

The first round of beta emails has been sent out.

If you didn't recieve one they are going to send more at the start of each phase so there's still a chance.

we just pulled in the other day and i finally got an internet connection hooked up today. checked my email and i got selected for the beta. a 2 gig download on dialup!!! :eek: only 159 hours remaining.... too bad i have to wait until next week for the cable company to hook up cable.

I will pay you 50 dollars for your beta account.

And also RDD from what I have heard it is much more like the conventional MMORPG than it is diablo. This isnt bad, because the way everything all fits together is awesome.

The emails that were sent out are for the first phase of the beta anyway. They are going to be sending more out and most of us will more then likely get in.

:lol:

I am not joking! You should consider this offer.

heh, just got cable hooked up. it took me all week on dialup to get it up to 21% complete. now it will be done in 2 hours :o sustaining >240 kb/s. i think i'm going to ejaculate all over my kb...

I heard this stage of beta isn't that good. It looks quite nice though. They put in a two headed ogre that you can have 2 people play on the same character. ;)

Actually, there are people petitioning to actually put it in now.

the beta is pretty good, but i'm having a tough time. the graphics look nice at 1024X768 with all other settings maxed, but it makes the game lag a bit more...and not my comp, but the actual servers. there aren't a lot of ppl on so i don't see why the servers should be lagging, but they do. it takes like a full minute for your spirit to respawn after dying most of the time. i started as a night elf priestess since the quota for night elf hunters was full; this screws me over since most of the quests (at least those that i've done so far) involve killing progressively stronger and larger groups of creatures...something a caster isn't very well suited for. i can't even recall how many times i've died...i made the mistake of wandering into starbreeze village, which is overrun with angry furlborgs, and had to die 20 times to get out. each time you die, your spirit reforms in the nearest village and you have to run to where your body is: or you can pay this bimbo npc 45 XP to resurrect you right there (**** THAT!). so then each death requires an odyssey back to where you died, and when you come back, your are almost dead. so you run ten steps, die again. rinse, wash, repeat :| . i've had it crash 3 times, and i've gotten disconnected from the server like 5 times. usually it likes to crash on the completion of a quest. not a big deal. just reopen the game and log back on and you are right back where you left off. the quests, for the most part guide you along a plot path...although there are the occasional 'gopher' quests, but they all yield decent experience. some of them are gay, cause they tell you to kill something that there are 3 different variations of, such as night sabers (tigers). one quest you kill 'young' night sabers, then in another you kill 'mangy' night sabers. they look practically the same on your screen and they are not interchangable for the quests. then there are the 'stalker' night sabers that appear out of nowhere (they have shadowmelding that works in broad daylight too :| ) and slaughter you. where it gets frustrating is that i was just start to really level up (i'm at 5 now) but now all the creatures gang up on you. so if you attack something...or something attacks you, all the surrounding creatures come over to **** YOU UP. as a priestess, this is especially damning, because if they hit you twice in quick succession, it interrupts your heal spell...i.e. wimpy priestess gets owned in 5 sec. :nono: and of course you don't even have the agility to outrun even the shittiest enemy.


anyway, if anyone has questions, i'll be glad to answer them if i can...i'll post some screenshots later... :wavesad:

haha, there are not dingos or quill rats in teldrassil. maybe when my adventures take me beyond that.

heh, so i was gonna logon and play, but they applied a new patch to the servers requiring you to uninstall, redownload, and reinstall the game. 2 more gigs of downloading...only at 35 kb/s this time since less people have it. ugh. :|

i finally got on and played it again. this phase is limited to alliances and hordes races, so i can't continue with my nightelf character :/ . i took some scenery screenshots: http://homepage.mac.com/opaldrake/PhotoAlbum6.html
they are big, but i wanted to preserve the quality. here's a link from a guy that does a lot of spell screenshots, which are considerably more flashy: http://www.xennon.co.uk/jadedsouls/viewtopic.php?t=34

http://www.blizzard.com/press/040411-street-date.shtml

BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT® ANNOUNCES WORLD OF WARCRAFT® "STREET DATE" - NOVEMBER 23, 2004
Highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game to release simultaneously in multiple regions for the holiday season

IRVINE, Calif. - November 4, 2004 - Blizzard Entertainment® today announced that its eagerly awaited massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft® will be in stores in North America on November 23, 2004. World of Warcraft will launch simultaneously in Australia and New Zealand, and is planned for release in Korea, Europe, and other countries throughout Asia shortly following. With a monthly subscription, players in these regions will soon be able to experience the epic adventure of the Warcraft® series in an immersive and continually evolving online environment.

In World of Warcraft, players assume the roles of legendary heroes and interact with thousands of other players online as they explore and adventure across a vast world. Whether journeying together or questing on their own, players will engage in heroic battles, develop friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory. The game features customizable character classes with thousands of weapons, spells, and abilities. With an innovative, easy-to-use interface, an action-packed combat system, and thousands of quests that build an immersive storyline, World of Warcraft offers a MMORPG that will appeal to both veteran and casual players alike.

"World of Warcraft has been our largest undertaking to date," said Mike Morhaime, president and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. "When we set out to create a massively multiplayer online game, our goal was to expand the scope of the Warcraft universe by offering an incredibly dynamic game experience. We're extremely proud of the game we've created, and we believe players will be very pleased when they see what we have in store for them."

World of Warcraft will be available for Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP and Macintosh® formats at a suggested retail price of $49.99 in the U.S., and will include a free one-month subscription to the game. The special collector's edition of World of Warcraft will also be available at release for a suggested retail price of $79.99 and will include the World of Warcraft game on both CD-ROM and DVD, a free one-month subscription, a World of Warcraft behind-the-scenes DVD, an exclusive in-game pet, a cloth map of the game world, a soundtrack CD, an Art of the World of Warcraft coffee table book, and a commemorative game manual signed by the development team.

After the initial free one-month subscription ends, players of World of Warcraft will be able to continue playing under one of three different subscription plans. The month-to-month subscription plan costs $14.99 per month, the three-month plan costs $13.99 per month, and the six-month plan costs $12.99 per month. World of Warcraft subscription fees can be paid by major credit card, PayPal, and pre-paid game cards, which will be available in stores where World of Warcraft is sold. World of Warcraft has received a Teen rating from the ESRB.

Me and alot of my wc3 clanmates/community friends are going to be starting up a horde guild if you all want into that.

mmm....November 23rd...

God damn it I'm getting sick of waiting... monday is open beta, and I'm going crazy with nothing to play right now.

Been in the Beta since June, probably not going to buy it.

From the sounds of it, Europeans won't be getting the game until a bit after everyone else.

GG.

Sucks for Why Two Ant

RDD, I hate to be a Buzzkil , but I hope you don't intend on playing with Ant...

My brother signed up for the open beta, then went on an install for his work that took him out of state for 3 days so I got to play it pretty much straight through with the occasional break for work and eating.

I started about 6 guys and got them all to level 15 in the 3 days. One of my friends came over and made a guy that he played for a while.

I like the rogue the most currently. The combo system is really neat. It is very much like the diablo 2 assassin, whereas the have a combo build up skill then a finisher move after you have built it up to its max.

I played a warrior. Not much to talk about with them. They are the standard wack'em class that all games have. They are a bit different in this game though seeings how their attacks work off of rage. Your rage builds up with every attack you do and you can execute special attacks you have at the cost of your rage. It also degenrates if you dont use it.

I thought paladins are cool also. Not only do they have the aura's like D2 but they also have seals that they can use on themselves and party members to do different effects. They have some cool melee skills and also get some clerical healing spells at a slower rate the the priest.

Tried the mage. They are just your standard cast spells that cause damage quickly caster. The priest is also your standard healer like other mmorpg's.

The Shaman is about the same as other games. They cast spells that hurt, spells that heal, and have totems that you can cast that will help/effect your party or monsters.

I watched my friend play a hunter but he never got high enough to get a pet. They are the ranged attackers in the game. The dwarves get rifles, which are cool cause you can get different types of ammo like exploding shells. The also get skills to use for the ranged stuff, and some skills for melee.

I didnt get a chance to play a druid, but I wasnt really interested to play it also, so no loss their.

Game handles very well. I did not get dropped once at all while I played it. It wasnt laggy when I played it either. The graphics are phenominal and the intro video is awe-inspiring.

Definitely grabbing it on the 23rd and becoming reobsessed with another game.

At 41%.. downloading the open beta now. Luckily, I signed up before they closed the account sign-ups, unlike DS... LOL

Fileplanet account is great.. wish I had gotten it sooner.

70% downloaded for me. I dunno how my housemate convinced Blizzard that Canterbury is in the US, but I frikkin love him for it. :D

Played a Druid on closed Beta, they're pretty cool. Can power themselves up quite well and get to shapeshift at high levels. Gonna be playing a human methinks (though I think I'll have to give the Taurans a go as I was an avid Wookiee player on SWG and a big cow is about as close as it gets to a big monkey) ;)

Yes I also happened to jump in again before it closed down. Got it all downloaded and ready to go last night at 4 in the morning, then woke up today on wednesday to find it is down for 2 to 3 hours.

That is so blizzard for me.

:( I'd be really disappointed if the beta was longer then a week but since it's pretty much just the final stress test, I don't really mind. Plus I have Halo 2 and GTA to play in the time from now to the release.

Stupid fileplanet has fucked up files... so after I downloaded it there, I'm having to use the blizzard downloader to go over any corrupt or incomplete files.

Been playing a bit now... great game, and I'm definitely buying it.