World of Warcraft
Mike (my flatmate, for those not in the know) got World of Warcraft in the post from Play today. Given his addictive nature when it comes to games, I can see this being the death of his 4th year project!
The WoW service seems to be quite oversubscribed though, judging by the up-and-down nature of the new player registration system, plus the fact that it only offers the 120MB or so of required updates via BitTorrent (so he tells me) — and only using Blizzard’s own shitty BitTorrent client — really smacks of doing-things-on-the-cheap.
On the upside, it does look pretty. I’m quite opposed to games that involve a monthly fee for playing, so I don’t think I’ll be getting myself a copy. Half-Life 2 deathmatch and Counter-Strike: Source are enough to keep me going in the multiplayer stakes for a while yet anyways.
