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Yo guys world of warcraft open beta has begun. Are any of you gonna be playing it? I was in the stress test and I really enjoyed it, lets hope it comes here ;)
 
Sorry, to burst your bubble but it <b>won't</b> becoming here because of the following.

- It's a MMORPG so you have to pay a subscription service
- The servers will be international and that will be bad lag
- -=SGS=- nor MWEB won't host it because they have to pay for server rental, which they won't do.

Counting down...
123 days till the end of Hellkom
 
Actually, this is incorrect.

I know this thread is old, but there's some bad thinking in this country with regards to MMO's. SA is a small market (the entire continent of Africa even), which is the main reason we are not specifically targetted in any MMO marketing. It just doesn't make business sense.

They won't ever be hosted locally, but that does not mean we cannot play them.

Personally I've been playing MMO's for about 5 or 6 years now - all on overseas servers. I've played WoW/SWG/EQ/AC/UO and AO. The connections I've used have been 56k modems, ISDN 64k, ISDN 128k and Sentech. The lag I've gotten has not been that bad, except for when I was on Sentech. My lag using ISDN was in the 600 range, which is very playable and not even noticable. The vast majority of MMO's are designed to be latency tolerant to a degree (planetside may be the exception). It's not like playing Counterstrike or any of the FPS's.

A few friends of mine and I are big MMO players, have been for a long time. We're currently playing EQ2 and EVE Online, but are pretty keen to play WoW. Blizzard has introduced some measures recently that are designed to filter all EU players to the EU servers, and US players to the US servers. They have said that they are specifically using billing info as the mechanism, so if you do not have an american billing address, you cannot play on the US servers. However, we're working on ways to get around that. There's no word yet on if they're using IP filtering or not.

We discuss most of this stuff at http://www.arcaneer.com/forum/ so stop by there in a week or 2 if you're interested in this stuff. We should have a definite answer on if we can play or not soon. We've got a pre-ordered copy of WoW on the way, so we'll see what happens.

Anyway, hope that clears up any misconceptions.
 
Yo Rath thx for the reply yeah i will check those forums out i definately wanna try and get this game. Let me now if we will be able to play it in SA. Thx again
 
This is why we <b> won't</b> get WoW.

http://www.nag.co.za/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7292&sid=2489f014ad86ed26d20d604a427f8a4d

Read first post.

Running around, catching a cheetah (without a gun) is like resistance against Telkom - futile.
 
The post that you point out states that we won't be getting local servers for WoW. This is true, and I agree, as I said above. He's saying nothing new. It's also completely irrelevant because, unless you have a Sentech connection, you can play on US and European servers anyway. To sum it up: We do not need local servers to play MMO's like WoW (assuming they do not do IP filtering for WoW).
 
I been playing on the US server since release date on my ISDN 64k Dial, no problems what so ever.
 
A friend the travels allot bought me a copy from the states and e-mail the reg key
 
Karkas,

Where did you order your copy from?

Can you believe that the Blizzard online shop doesn't ship to SA - but they ship to Angola and Zimbabwe no problem?
 
Rath, my sister is coming to visit (works in florida @ the moment) - so it is a non-standard import job ;P

Btw, on whot server are all u SA peeps playing wow hanging out?
 
they ship to Zimbabwe?? ... Zimbabwe?!!!! - wtf - if bread costs u a fortune, whot must bandwidth cost....
 
This is interesting. I only discovered this thread now! Damn!
Where can we get WOW?
Paulo: Is it working fine from SA?

Please give the server where all the SA peeps hang out!
played the beta, loved it to pieces (played every day and night - when working through the beta)

Paulo: how do you pay the monthly sub?
 
Koosbeer, from reading from the official WoW website, it says that if you want to play on a EU server, you must have a EU billing address (so if you don't live there, you must have relatives there)

I can't answer the other questions because I haven't played WoW in BETA or normally.

P.S - The launch date for WoW is sometime in March for the EU.
 
There are probably about 100 South Africans playing WoW on US servers at the moment. The biggest South African guild has over 40 members, and is ranked 10th on the Stormrage server. It is quite possible to play from South Africa. You will need:

- beta copy (which patches to the full retail client)
- a valid account / cd key

For details on how to register with a valid .za credit card pm me. A lot more details about how to hook up from South Africa can be found at:

Prophecy WoW forums
SGS WoW forums

If you do dome browsing in those forums, you'll find contact details for local suppliers of account keys and game-time codes (once registered with your c/c, you get 30 days free. Additional time - 60 days - can be purchased by entering a game-time code)

Once you're hooked up, look me up:
My in-game profile
Our guild profile

Link to local guild forum

Latency issues are virtually non-existant provided you have a good ISDN connection, or either shaped or unshaped ADSL (384 or 512). 56k dialups have reported issues when they enter heavily populated terrains.
 
The problem with internationally hosted MMORPGs is when you use ADSL, everything is dandy in the beginning of the month, but when you get capped, don't even bother.

I would love to play WoW, even if it is international and my ping is a worse than what it should be if I was playing a local server. The problem lies not with Blizzard and its unwillingness to give us a local server ( because honestly the market here for MMORPGs is way to small compared to elsewhere ), the fault lies with Telkom and their damn stingy 3 gig cap!

Infact if you take it further, if there was no Telkomonopoly here, the market might infact be large enough to allow for a local server due to lower tarrifs for faster internet.

Oh well, we will just have to see what the future brings, hopefully alot less of Telskom!
 
WoW client

Hiya guys

Anyone in the Johannesburg area have a copy of the client? The beta does not seem to be available for download anymore.

Thanks
 
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