World of Warcraft: Beta Begins

[Spanky McGee]

Can you access the servers and play though?

[Rumpy]

Mainly WoW should just serve as a reminder as to why we should all buy Guild Wars.

I haven't been following up on GW, but the stuff they let us do during E3 bored the hell out of me.

[FirstBlood]

I just got accepted to the new phase. Huzzah!

I have a feeling this is going to reflect very negatively on my artwork.

[Rumpy]

"When it's done" has just happened. Blizzard has announced that WoW is done and is going on sale November 23rd.

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.

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.

[Victrix]

Figured some of you might enjoy this

http://binus.rsdio.com/gallery/World-of-Warcraft?page=1

I got tired of seeing people posting crappy low res converted screenshots with the interface and their ugly character obscuring the game, so I took all of my screenshots over the last ~6 months of closed beta gaming, picked out my favorites, and put them online with comments.

You can click through for a full screen view, there's 13 pages and over 100 screenshots there in total, all high quality.

Some of my favorites

http://binus.rsdio.com/gallery/World..._Healer?full=1

http://binus.rsdio.com/gallery/World...re_isle?full=1

http://binus.rsdio.com/gallery/World...kwithin?full=1

http://binus.rsdio.com/gallery/World...moonlit?full=1

I explored pretty much the entire game from 1-60, Horde and Alliance. Until you've done the instanced dungeons with a good group, you don't know how cool the game is... Hundreds of hours later and I still love it. Now thanks to the stress test and open beta, I can finally play with my friends. Woot.