I ask you for a favour

i just complained, they BETTER allow pplz in europe to play earlyer by atleaste 5 months

Its limited to different continents because its a lot harder to get the type of servers they need there then it is in the US. And they wont allow you to play oversea games because of the extremely intense traffic flow on the bandwidth. For every 1 Oversea client playing on a direct server they use as much badnwidth as I belive its 6 US players due to the fact they have to link up via satalite. Although I do agree they should have started trying to get their WoW stuff up in europe a lot sooner. Ive left a complaint with them.

@Shael - about the oversea bandwith issue
yes... but has this been a problem in any other mmorpg, prior to WoW? No!

@Shael

Australians can connect to US servers... so its certainly NOT a oversee bandwith issue ;-)

whoever who think up this idea, should be fired immediately.
Its a nonsense calling a game MMORPG if they apply server boundaries to it
i see all of their arguments are simply unreasonable. Other MMORPGs like FF or CoH work well even without this silly server restriction. Payment should also not a problem, since as far as i know, you can always pay almost to everywhere with paypal or visa

im very disappointed as i read this, since i usually also play with friends from overseas. I was so exicited of WoW and it doesnt even matter to me that we get it 1-2 months later. But this, this is just disappointing.

I reviewed the FAQ and found a spark of hope.
I'm unsure if it helps, but look around the middle of the page...

blizzard normaly have there reason for doing such things esp something as drastic as this but it is in business sence a bad idea to ignore such a request or a plee. its blizzards job to make a game and make it for everyone all over the world not just to surten countrys exluding others who probably have been waiting for wow and long to play online with friends they have made in all countrys.
i have made friends online from different countrys and the thought of not geting to play online on wow with them is very disopointing. i would e-mail and make a complaint but i feel its not going to be heard. wich is why i propose you take it further than an e-mail and you rally people on the outside who are fan of warcraft and games and make your opinion heard in a much biger scale, not protest because that never works either, write to a game magezine are something. i feel theres not much that can be done and if blizzard choose to ignore this then they all suck and or a disgrace to game makers for turning there backs on all fans all over the world.

ARGGGGG!!!! This is WOW's first and biggest mistake!

Sure the european release is later...sure its 6 months...sure its fixed servers i can live with those but making us have to play on a fixed continental server is idiotic! MMORPGS are fun cause youy can interact with peopel all over the world not jsut nearby.

I always sincerly believe Blizzard looked out for the enjoyment of the fans rather than the biggest profit availalbe....i guess i was wrong.

I know alot of people dont like Final Fanatsy (i love it im just usig it as an example so dont flame me for liking it) but FFXI's server base is a good idea. You are locked into a server with people from all over the world however if you have a friend who has already played they can get a world(server) pass and give it to you so you can start in thier world/server. When servers get tooooo full they implement immigration allowing you to travel to a less populated server.

WoW's biggest mistake was not overseas problems, but that all chracters are restricted to 1 server. If you were able to transfer characters over to other servers at will, then it would solve the localizing problem.

Then all bllizzard has to do is allow you to access any sever; they do it all the time at b.net! I'm EST and can connect to any euro sever I wish. I don't see why the same can't be done with WoW, esp. when you allow the afformentioned character transfer.

This is an outrage. Im going to complain right now

Sounds like Blizzard's racist

Darky What 6 months are you talking about?!?!

If you are waiting for a german version then it's your own fault..

All europeans that use an english version will have to wait 3 days!!! then Blizzard will hold an OPEN EU beta of WoW!!

I agree with everyone here that it's one big injustice but it's too naive to think our petitions or complaints will change anything. Blizz will do as Vivendi says, isn't that clear? And for Vivendi we are the secondary target audience since gamers in US and Korea bring them much more $$$. We can do nothing, sad but true.

Besides, as Muldav said, we'll have an open EU beta very soon. I personally see nothing wrong with it, it's even better cuz it's free

BTW, in EU WoW will be released in mid February 2005, that's 3 months not 6

That's true. But I like to try at least (I've recently written to Khatami, the President of Iran, to obtain the grace of a 13 years old woman sentenced to death!) We can't do much, but doing the little we can is better than doing nothing, because if everyone did little then the sum would be astronomic. But of course we must keep in mind that WoW is not a matter worthy of our intention compared with world peace, people dying from hunger, slaughters...

well if at last half of us write a message, then maybe something heppen...