December 28, 2005
World of Warcraft
Since I clearly didn't have enough things contending for my time, I decided to give World of Warcraft a try this Christmas break.
My initial impression was bad. First I tried to just go to the site to download the client. After all, it's an online game, why should I have to go the store? Well, it seems the client isn't available for download. So I went to the store to buy a copy and found out why it's not for download. It installs from five, yes 5, CD's. At that level, they really should just be shipping on DVD. On my first attempt to install, the installer locked up on disk 2. I did eventually get it installed, and then on startup in downloaded about 140MB of patch files since the discs had been made, then an install for the patches, then the creation of an account, then the character generation, and so on and so on. I'd probably put about two hours into the whole thing before I saw my first game screen.
But since then, WOW!!! I'm still getting a feel for the interface and the various world-rules, but it is pretty cool. I tried There a couple of years ago and was non-plussed. It had good graphics and a pretty decent interface, but there was nothing to do. World of Warcraft doesn't seem to suffer from that problem.
Part of what got me going on this is that my brother plays. If this goes well, I'll have to try developing a character on the same server as him and see about doing some adventuring together.
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