Check this out:

http://www.blizzard.com/press/031705-worldwide.shtml

And they're still growing. WOW!

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Yeah, I was about to post that. Pretty amazing eh?

WOW indeed! [img]smile.gif[/img] That IS amazing! I knew, the second *I* got hooked that it was something addicting, because I normally HATE MMOGs. But frak, it's so fun to play!!

I agree Z. I hadn't PvP-ed before, and then all of a sudden Auberdine got invaded by level 35+ Horde (I was level 18 at the time), but MAN was that fun!

Localised version of WOW is coming in 3rd quarter of the year! So the rate should be much cheaper than the American one. I can't wait already. :D

The higher the climb the faster the fall.

That's a really crappy way to look at things. lol. Why not enjoy the game NOW? Live in the moment, and all that....

Exactly...with MMORPG's I think the higher the climb the longer it'll be played by more people. People get hooked, and when they add that next patch with the battlefields, it'll get even better.

Of course..I'll drop it in a heartbeat when D&D Online comes out lol.

Well hey, they are allowing character transfers on overpopulated servers, just further showing that Blizzard was unprepared for this.

Yeah, having a Warcraft MMORPG is like having a liscence to print money.

Honestly, from the mere selling of licencses alone they've probably reaped in around 60mil.

And they're getting like 15 mil / month from subscribers.

That's more than some movies make in a YEAR. No wonder the video game industry outsells music and movies COMBINED.

Anywho, yeah, it rocks my socks. Beats EQ by a longshot. EQ blows ass compared to WoW. Would you rather spend 5 days to gain a level in EQ, or gain 5 levels in WoW? The lack of losing xp on dying is a HUGE plus. Makes the game SUPER noob friendly. Hell, that's one of the hugest reasons that I hated EQ. That and the players are asshats in EQ. In WoW some priest will walk by and cast improved fortitude on me for no reason. It rules.

The super high regen rate is also noob friendly. It makes it WAY easier to solo than EQ. Classes are relatively balanced, and there's a place for every one of them. Travel is comparitively WAY quicker than EQ, and the skills actually do stuff. Quests actually have a point to them, and their difficulty is already indicated. Elite monsters are the flipping bomb. I must say they are the best thing in the entire game. I'm currently farming Mo'Gorosh ogres with my Warrior. Mad XP and some good coin from the uncommons.

Dial-up users can actually play! Lag is a non-issue for melee classes because your attacks are queued. Heck, even like 600ping does practically nothing to delay anything.

Definitely worth $15 / mo. It kicks EQ's ass. D&D will never be as noob friendly as this game is. Never. Plus the fact that D&D will have a level cap of like 50 tops. Unless they gimp up the experience system everyone will be level 50 in like 3 months.

over here we like to call it "War Crack", and to play it is called "cracking out". it is insanely addictive, no? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I agree that the game is extremely newbie friendly, which is a great plus. Being able to play on dialup is another great plus.

Levels in D&D are a lot different. A level means a lot more in D&D than it does in any MMORPG I've seen, and it can take a long time to gain a level in a D&D game, depending on the DM (Be it the computer in Icewind Dale or a person). I kinda wished they had permanent deaths in D&D Online, assuming the level gain is half as fast as you indicated that it could be.

I've never heard of levels above 30 in D&D..what could you do, be a 1-man regiment in the Blood War? You really think they'd let us go that high?