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World of Warcraft Hits Europe
Mikkel Tscherning writes "Blizzard has released World of Warcraft into the European market. The game was not long ago released for the Northern American and Korean audiences, and has recently hit more than 1.4 million characters."
Your question is twofold:
are allowing more subscribers now or will the EU players be on their own segregated hardware and unable to play with the US players?
French, German and English clients are restricted to european servers only. Any US account can be turned into an european one, but I have yet to see that. So yes, segregation it is (good thing imho, sometimes RPing in french is just easier).
and..
Have they fixed their problems
Heck no!!!
Most people I know can't activate their accounts, the website is knocked heels over head with the swarm of new players. I had a very hard time finishing the even most basic quests, the newbye areas are saturated with newly called heroes!
Of all the times, now is the worst to be a Trogg in Duhn Morgan!
Actually, Census+ snares everyone that's online at the time that it is run, although it takes about 10 minutes to do so. It does this by using the /who command with progressively finer filters until it gets a list of characters back that contains less than 49 characters (the maximum possible to display in any /who search).
/who 55-60 /who 58-60 /who 60 /who 60 r-"night elf"
How it usually works on my server is like so:
Found 35 characters
And so on. It keeps doing this until it reaches the level 1 characters, then lets you know how many new characters it has found, and how many old characters were updated.
The user can then choose to upload their data to the WoW census site.
Still, it's not 100% accurate by any means. There are people on several servers that make a point of sampling data from several different time periods in an effort to make the stats as accurate as possible, but as with any census some people will still fall through the cracks