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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #45 on: January 23, 2004, 08:37:51 PM »
No, you shut up Entropy.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #46 on: January 24, 2004, 12:32:29 AM »
gemm, the logic is something like this:

You're at college
College's purpose is education and academics
College has high speed Internet to help with this purpose.
You DON'T pay market place for this access, therefore, payment for the service is coming out of people's tuition, including those who live off campus
If a large chunk of the student body is using up bandwidth with gaming, and someone can't get a project done because they couldn't get something downloaded, then the purpose has not been served.

Frankly, I don't really have a lot of sympathy for this. It's too bad you don't get the speed you'd like, but you're paying less than me for access and STILL getting more speed. I don't think it's lame at all. I think the priorities are in place.

It's irrelevant that you want to do something besides academics. It is not the college's responsibility to provide you access to any entertainment you want.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #47 on: January 24, 2004, 01:16:22 AM »
you have to know how to wade through all the slime at the forums DR.P.  
http://www.battle.net/forums/wow/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=1033966#post1033966

note that is is the most recent (as in today) of the the 2 post that have been made about the beta starting next week.

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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #48 on: January 24, 2004, 04:32:42 PM »
No europeans in beta, pah!
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #49 on: January 25, 2004, 10:32:21 AM »
that's what you get for living on the wrong continent.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #50 on: January 25, 2004, 11:32:53 PM »
well there's going to be a seperate, date not yet announced, european beta.  
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #51 on: January 26, 2004, 11:02:25 PM »
I quote:

World of Warcraft Beta Signups This Week!
At 6:00 pm PST on Wednesday, January 28th, the signup period for the World of Warcraft Beta Test will officially begin. We will provide a link to the beta-test application right here in the news section at that time. Testers are not going to be chosen on a first-come, first-served basis, so you will be able to submit an application and receive equal consideration anytime during the signup period, which will end on Wednesday, February 4th at 6:00 pm PST. Please note that multiple submissions from the same household will result in complete disqualification.

For this initial phase of the World of Warcraft beta test, we will only be able to accept applications from Canada, Korea, and the US. The test for Europe and other countries around the world will happen later this year. Please do not contact us for further information regarding the beta test; we will be posting a FAQ in the days ahead.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #52 on: January 26, 2004, 11:18:21 PM »
That is the best quote ever.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #53 on: January 29, 2004, 11:07:54 AM »
Hrm... I guess I should have reckoned on it, but the beta requires you to signup from the machine you'll be playing on. So... dont' do it at work (unless...)

So, I guess I won't even play on signing up unless by some miracle I get a working computer very soon.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #54 on: March 03, 2004, 12:25:30 PM »
WoW will include personal mounts at launch, though they will apparently be hard to come by: http://www.blizzard.com/wow/townhall/mounts.shtml

This is the first time I've considered playing anything other than a dead guy--those Rams the Dwarves ride on are awesome.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #55 on: March 03, 2004, 01:02:19 PM »
I'm very sad that the Tauren plainsrunning will be time-limited. That doesn't seem to make much sense, party-wise. If a Tauren is grouped with a bunch of mounted players, will they have to stop and wait for him to catch his breath every so often? That's just dumb.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #56 on: March 03, 2004, 02:05:23 PM »
humm distributeing the Beta via Bit Torrent, intresting idea.  I downloaded the new movie and only got and adverage of 20 k a second.  But if more people would have been on that probaly would have been better.
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« Reply #57 on: March 04, 2004, 03:06:52 PM »
My BitTorrent download was pretty sluggish as well. I didn't stick around to see what the average download time was. It got the job done, and if you have to go eat dinner while you're downloading...that's not so bad. I also noticed that they had features available for restarting your download. With that, and a trial download to test their system, it looks like they've got things down alright.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #58 on: March 15, 2004, 10:23:33 PM »
Blizzard has announced they are prepareing to send out Beta e-mails.  No specific date has been set.  But I'd assume it would be this week or the next.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #59 on: March 19, 2004, 03:27:00 AM »
The first part of the beta actually started. I'm not seeing a beta email in my mailbox yet, sadly. Did anyone around here get one?
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