WoW Reaches 1.5 Million Subscribers

Alarash writes "Blizzard just announced that its latest video game (and first MMO), World of Warcraft reached 1.5 millions of subscribers world-wide. Blizzard is now second only to NCSoft (over 5 millions users spread on Lineage, Lineage II and City of Heroes) according to the MMOG Chart."

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Character transfers

[Lobishomen]

Blizzard also recently started offering the first batch of selective server transfers.

Blizzard Character Transfer FAQ.

People from high population servers are being given the option of a transfer to a Blizzard selected lower population server free with gear. This isn't the "Pick any server" transfer people were hoping for, but it should help ease out the congestion on the high load servers.

That and there's a huge new content patch coming off the test server in a few days. Things in the game are looking good. Good news for those of us still hopelessly addicted.

Re:Brief synposis for a newbie?

[Surye]

Imagine you are a hero from WC3. You only control yourself, but must rely heavily on your party/guild to make real progress. You get to be in the mind of one character in the be scale of the war. I must say, it's great fun if you can immerse yourself. (And Alliance vs. Horde is well played out, from one on one fights to whole scale raids on opposing towns). This will be more so when Battlegrounds and the PVP Honor System hits.

Re:Excuse me?

[Digital11]

A suggestion: Shift Right-Click will auto-loot, thereby causing you to not have to worry about grabbing every item individually. It will pick up everything off the corpse.

Re:Lineage

[crashfrog]

Can someone please explain the appeal of Lineage to me? I played the original, and while I liked the anime style graphics, there was zero variety between characters, no customization really, it was laggy as hell, and not very exciting.

I tried it for like a couple of days (until I realized how slow the leveling was). What attracted me to the game was that a certain class of character could assert a claim to the throne and attract followers, take over castles, battle other leaders, etc. Sounded fun. Unfortunately it was going to take almost a year to get involved in that. Not fun.

World of Warcraft has a lot of that gameplay, and will have even more when Battlegrounds come out. And I'm nearly lvl 60 after only a few months of casual play.