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T-dot



Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang

PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:42 am    Post subject: World of Warcraft Reply with quote

Anyone see or hear any reviews about it?
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jaebea



Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: SYD

PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been playing this non stop.

I can't help it, it's like h and crack cocaine mixed into one.

And this is coming from someone who's never touched MMORPG's before, EVER.

That's how good it is. I spent hours playing this, rather than HalfLife2, which I prebought and preloaded via Steam many months ago.

Frankly, I couldn't care.. :)

jae.
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The Chewbacca Defense



Joined: 29 May 2004
Location: The ROK and a hard place

PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:46 pm    Post subject: ... Reply with quote

Is it available yet? More importantly is it in English?
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rawiri



Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

im so jealous that the koreans can play and i cant!!!!!!how can i hook it up in english?....and you do know once beta testing thing is done, you have to pay to play...mybe ill just wait for cta san andreas.
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T-dot



Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang

PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yo, Jaebea how you get it?

Is it in english? I thought the release date was November 23.

Are you just playing the beta?
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jaebea



Joined: 21 Sep 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah I'm playing the open (and now closed after 500 thousand signups) beta.

If you guys are keen on playing, it gets released 23rd/24th of November in English speaking states, such as Australia and the USA.

Asian territories (only China and Korea will have local servers) get it sometime in Feb, to allow for translation and tweaking of the game for these languages.

I'll definitely be buying up for the final, even with the subscription fees.

Shame is that I won't buy it till I get back from my trip (16th Jan) so many people will be streets ahead by then.. :)

Note that a warez version probably won't pass Battle.net and the fact you have to get a subscription sort of defeats the purpose. There is no single player or LAN mode.

jae.
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T-dot



Joined: 16 May 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What are the chances of Korea selling the english copies near the release date?

Any guesses?
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gajackson1



Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: Casa Chil, Sungai Besar, Sultanate of Brunei

PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A friend of mine in Yong-san told me 'nope' today; the major online stores will NOT ship it directly here.

You could probably buy it, and double-ship it. May be what we wind up doing, as we want the collector's ed.

G.

afterthought: are the bases selling it? Anyone know about that??? I'll try calling someone about that one later . . .
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jaebea



Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: SYD

PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you guys are REALLY keen, maybe I could pick up a few copies and take them over and hand them out.

Depends how soon you want them tho.

Release is about 1 week from now in Australia.

jae.
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T-dot



Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang

PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What will be the service costs for the servers.

Its a good idea, quit playing DIA cause of the lag and hacks And there were too many drops on battlenet during a Warcraft TFT game.

If there is a few of us, we should do a group buy. It would save on the shipping costs.
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Joined: 16 May 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is it out in Korea yet or did anyone buy it? The commercials have the release date set for yesterday in Korea.
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T-dot



Joined: 16 May 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

damn $50 U.S and then another 14.99/month for online.


Is this a new thing or do other games have additional costs for server maintenance and online gaming?
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chronicpride



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jaebea wrote:


Asian territories (only China and Korea will have local servers) get it sometime in Feb, to allow for translation and tweaking of the game for these languages.



Actually, the localization of WoW has been going on in Korea since the spring.

There won't be a backdoor translation patch into english on the Korean servers and there are cross-regional restrictions preventing people from ordering the US client to play over here. And knowing how everything is always subject to change, you might see some relaxing of the restrictions in the new year, but Blizzard has a lot more other things on their plate, before getting around to stuff like that, so be prepared to wait awhile. So, unless you have it brought in by someone, you are SOL.
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the_beaver



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Got it for free.

The Warcraft truck pulled up to the school and they gave out free copies. Four disk set.
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jaebea



Joined: 21 Sep 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What the duck.

Is this for real? That's pretty damn good. Better than paying out AUD100+ for a collector's edition.. :(

jae.
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