As some of you might know, blizzard releases WOW at 23rd november 2004 in Asia and North America. Europe and the rest of the World must wait another 4-6 months for "their" release of the localized WOW servers. The bad marketing thing is, they DONT allow european People to play on the US servers. Read this: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=385040
I also called Blizzard by Phone telling them I never bought localized Blizzard Software and always played the original US versions of their Games. For WOW they told me I cannt do a shit.. only thing to do is buying localized software in 4-6 months.
I now encourage all you people here on this site to express their disagreement whit that policy and write emails to: [email protected] complaining about the unfair threatment. Remember this... a MMORPG is there too meet new people and get online friends. How can you meet new foreign people when they are all shut out and kept separated?
What would you think if i'd restrict www.wc3sear.ch to only germany, austria and switzerland... and tell you ya all need to wait 4-6 months for the lokalized versions of the page for you.... And shut out all foreign people by IP range block.
You'd propably think I consumed some drugs which were not good for me...
So please... all visitors of this page and wow fans who disagree with that policy (also US habitants are invited to complain) please write an email to blizzard and complain.
Alone we cannt do nothing... but if a huge community complains it might fetch an ear there.
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well, you certainly have got my vote! That's both unappropiate and unheard of! I can dig that the European release is a little further away - used to that, however 6 months does sounds like bull and is totally unacceptable - HOW and WHY? Does Blizzard plan to have such extreme changes ín the game, that this is a neccesity? And hells... I don't think any other mmorpg ever had continential seperation on their servers - thats moronish if such a word exist, and I really don't see the problem that would've caused such a reaktion - dishimatishite! AND WTF IS A GUILD GONNA DO IF WE HAVE PLAYERS FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT REGIONS WHO CAN NOT PARTICIPATE ON THE SAME SERVER?
To quote a Guild: "This is a terrible idea. All you are doing is handing international guilds a letter that reads: Go play EQ2, we don't want your money. "
I see your point, and I've allready bugged them by mail
Intercontinental Guilds are all screwed. They cannt play with each other... And after 4-6 monts all guildmates will be level 60 when you fresh start here in europe....
The whole thing is marketing crap... Vivendi screws us all. Please all write complain emails to blizzard... only like this we can change something.
Its not Vivendi screwing us all, its Blizzard. Blizzard made the game, so its all their fault.
I dont understand why they cant just send some copies to Europe... I mean they ought to have like tons of them.
I kinda understand the point of seperating countries... they may have thought there would be some kinda language barrier... but of course then Americans who play on the Europe server whithout knowing jack shit about another language would be kinda stupid.
Although i'm an american and i have on my calendar to get up at like 1 and get copy and play all morning, i still disagree with the regional release! i mean, who would limit dif contenents MONTHS from release! i mean alot of my friends are in europe
I sent my complaints minutes minutes ago... Maybe you can try to get someone in the US to mail you a copy of the game. Or maybe you can buy one at E-Bay or another auctioning site.
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i think we can say that in the usa open beta there were mainly of us true loyalists from europe playing,give or take some folk.The us beta went fine,there should just be mass mixed servers like that,i'm not one to conform to wc3campaigns normality in honest truth,but my complaint has been stated and sent and i am glad you raised the point Darky.
Wow that is wrong......sending e-mail right now.... anyway....I am an American and I like playing with people from other countries. It is interesting and makes the game fun....expecially if they are from Europe.
Nevertheless, we do recognize that players from different regions will want to play together. Unfortunately, because of the current realities regarding local billing requirements, privacy of information across international boundaries, and the aforementioned issues with connection quality between regions, we will be unable to offer cross-regional services at the time of the North America/Korea launch. However, for those players who still wish to play on servers outside of their region, we will look into providing a specific solution that addresses their concerns after launch.
Quote from the link Darky gave!!!
Blizzard will look into it!
I do not disagree with Darky at all but it's not like blizzard just made it impossible. They will make it happen!
and is totally unacceptable - HOW and WHY? Does Blizzard plan to have such extreme changes ín the game, that this is a neccesity? And hells... I don't think any other mmorpg ever had continential seperation on their servers - thats moronish if such a word exist, and I really don't see the problem that would've caused such a reaktion - dishimatishite! AND WTF IS A GUILD GONNA DO IF WE HAVE PLAYERS FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT REGIONS WHO CAN NOT PARTICIPATE ON THE SAME SERVER? 
