This is me venting. Be warned.

So I'm like one of the biggest Blizzard fanbois ever. I've played every single fucking title they've ever released except the Lost Vikings for Gameboy. Yes, I still remember how to get Olaf as my driver in Rock & Roll Racing.

Here comes World of Warcraft. And to be honest, I sort of jizzed in my pants when I heard about it the first time like 3(?) years ago. It's... an mmorpg... in the Warcraft universe... blizzard, oh my blizzard, how I love thee... yada yada.

So what now. First, no euros officially allowed into the US beta. So I get into the beta anyway (thanks Edge, if you read this gimme a holler on icq). Then, shit goes sour and I lose my account. No biggie.
So then I hear about Blizzard's plans to locally host World of Warcraft in Europe. At first, I blow up. I've been sold out! Blizz is gonna pull some halfassed copout and lease their servers to a third party host! But fortunately I was proven wrong when they announced that they'll host their own shitz with a local staff in france.
France? Warning bells are screaming in my head.

No offense to the frenchies, but I hate your guts. You can't speak english and you couldn't find the short bus if it mowed you down GTA style. Having played with Europeans for most of my EQ career the lingo was to label retards French. Or Hungarian. Alright, I'm getting sidetracked. Just spreading the love here people.

So then they start talking about translations. And I'm like "cool, at least the extra frenchy frenchies get to baguette themselves well away from me", then it hit me that the hungarians won't have a translation of their own, and thus will crowd towards the english servers. Oh well, I guess you gotta roll with the punches.
Alright, I'm all coped-up here. I can deal Blizzard, I can deal. Hit me up with that WoW-y goodness.
"No," the almighty Blizzard spoketh, "thou shalt be buttfucked with a crippled and retarded customer service. Also, thou shalt burn in the fires of hell until the time we deem you are ready for thine own beta, and indeed, possibly a release with an as of yet undisclosetheded release date -oh fuck it- dude, we're not gonna tell you when we're gonna release the fucking game over in "here be dragons"-land".

So yeah, no Euro Beta yet (at least not open), and since I am the Blizzard Fanboi I am I took heed to their word.

First, I recruited some french people to my imaginary WoW guild. Then I decided to roast in the pits of hell. Aka, the Korean beta. For I am the Wowzer, motherfucker.

http://www.gbg.bonet.se/krigstomten/images/troll.gif

Easy solution Kiv, move out of Europe :)

Just join the cool kids and make the biggest stateside Fanboi hook you up with a US billing address. Can't you talk about that on the sekr1t Mod repression batphone?

I would have gladly hooked him up, but since he took my mod status away, fuck him. 8(

If I wanted to, I could ebay a US copy 0_o

It's just that raiding on EST isn't as much fun as it used to. I'm not the studly youngster with a caffeine addiction I once was :(
Well I still got the caffeine addiction.

No offense to the frenchies, but I hate your guts. You can't speak english and you couldn't find the short bus if it mowed you down GTA style. Having played with Europeans for most of my EQ career the lingo was to label retards French.
Fuck you.

Then, I completely agree with you. This "localisation" thingy is the worst idea (I thought world regional separation was bad, but this new one is teh win of 2004).
The worst (too many "worst", but it's a vent post right?) is that english version is ready (obviously), but we have to wait Blizzard to translate WoW in french and german. If you can call that a translation, more a massive babelfishing unchecked piece of work. I mean, how can you translate "chest" slot with "coffre" (chest the object, where you put treasures) and "back" slot with "retour" (back like the back arrow in a browser...). That's professionalist translation!

Give us the game in english, and leave the uneducated young frenchies and germans wait the precious "localised" version!!! :mad:

I'll help you pass the time by posting one image, every hour, detailing my whacky adventures so far in WoW!

You can see these, and soon other images, at http://tit-guild.org!

Here's what happens when you try to power level your brother, a 36 warrior, through Razorfen Downs! (http://tit-guild.org/images/vhex/trainz.jpg)

Since we're into pointless pictures, here's what I've done in my WoW abstinence. Gogo WoW message board photochops!

http://www.gbg.bonet.se/krigstomten/images/angwywabbits.gif
http://www.gbg.bonet.se/krigstomten/images/angwypurple.gif
http://www.gbg.bonet.se/krigstomten/images/banner.gif
http://www.gbg.bonet.se/krigstomten/images/rifleman.gif

And, naturally, the troll in the above post.

What the hell is that wowser thing? Looks like a troll from hell.

And yeah,the whole euro's getting fucked thing is messed up. On all their other games they let you play on whatever server you wanted to. :confused:

I'll help you pass the time by posting one image, every hour, detailing my whacky adventures so far in WoW!

You can see these, and soon other images, at http://tit-guild.org!

Here's what happens when you try to power level your brother, a 36 warrior, through Razorfen Downs! (http://tit-guild.org/images/vhex/trainz.jpg)

The best part about that screenshot, is that I'm the one off the screen on the left, producing the poison/skull effect... i.e., I ran first.

It's ok kivorn, I am sure hubbe can keep you busy by beating your ass in hand to hand combat.

Kiv, not sure if this would be appealing to you or whatnot, but I was in the same boat as you as far as getting ahold of WoW goes.

The thing is, WoW also requires a US/Canada/Australia/NewZealand credit card and home address, so even if you ebayed a US copy, you'd still be unable to play it.

Here's where a website I found steps in.

Go to www.gamersloot.net (http://www.gamersloot.net)

They sell copies of the game, or rather, CD Keys.

They give a bittorrent link to download the US Beta Client which with a single 56mb patch patches up to the US Retail version (and actually auto downloads it via the Blizzard Downloader Patcher). They also sell Account Activation for a few dollars (they activate the account with a username you provide and send you a temporary password that you can change in the billing options) and they also sell 60 day pre-pay cards (they send you the code via email the same way they send you the CD Key (a photo from a digital camera to prove authenticity) and you just pop it in and extend the playtime on your account the same way the prepay cards work in EQ.

I was up and running in a little over an hour after waiting 2 weeks for Dvdboxoffice.com to tell me they were out of stock, but I already had the US beta client still on my HDD after being in the beta through Fileplanet.

www.gamersloot.net (http://www.gamersloot.net) was a bit more expensive than buying the game retail (it was around $74 USD for the cdkey, but I'd have likely paid far more than that from customs tax and such. Prepay cards are $34 for 60 days, so these guys are clearly making a profit, but when you consider that you'll get your copy almost immediately rather than even waiting for shipping, its not bad at all.

I hope this helps.

-Zag

What the hell is that wowser thing? Looks like a troll from hell.

i dunno what the picture is but

http://www.worldofwarcraft.co.kr/

the official WoW korean site might answer your question

yea it freaks me out a bit too

The troll is a witchdoctor from WC3. Actually, it's fanart of a witchdoctor from WC3. That I blatantly stole. The Wowzer is the korean WoW logo.
Troll priest on the Korea servers.

Get it? :)

The troll is a witchdoctor from WC3. Actually, it's fanart of a witchdoctor from WC3. That I blatantly stole. The Wowzer is the korean WoW logo.
Troll priest on the Korea servers.

Get it? :)

The only thing i dont get is what the hel does "You are the Wowzer" mean?

And its on the freakin korean site. Does blizzard have some really odd sense of humor putting weird ass shit like that on the korean main site? Are the koreans under the impression that this "You are the Wowzer" means something?

I find it hilarious.

So did I. Hence the sig.

http://www.gbg.bonet.se/krigstomten/images/motherfuckers.gif