World of Warcraft European Release

Blizzard finally announced the European release date for WoW. It will be 11 February 2005. Hey, thats next Friday. They sure don't believe in advance warning.

They report that the Korean release had 100,000 players online simultaneously one day after release. In Europe they had 400,000 players registering for the beta (no wonder I never got in), and already 110,000 copies of the game pre-ordered. So lets hope they put up enough servers in Europe to handle this demand.

What makes the European release a bit more complicated is languages. In Europe WoW will not only be offered in English, but also in German and French. The Italians and Spanish only get the manual in their language. As far as I understood it, there are three different clients, English, French, and German. But you can use for example the English client to play on the French server. In which case you will *not* be able to listen to the main French chat channels, but you will be able to hear /say, /tell, and guild chat.
- posted by Tobold @ 7:50 AM Permanent Link