the open beta for the highly awaited (by me?) warcraft mmorpg is finally out. world of warcraft weighs in at a 2.4 gig download! but thankfully it is being distributed over bt so the load is distributed and you can resume the download. even then, it’ll take a couple of days to download.

the funny thing is that the game is supposed to be released on november 23rd, exactly two weeks from today. so they’ll need all the beta feedback and changes in fairly soon in order to release to manufacturing. that means we won’t actually be playing it for that long. i can see blizzard letting us play until a couple of days before the release, then starving their hooked fans and making them more eager to rush out and buy the game.

i also wonder who’s bright idea it was to start the open beta on the same day that halo 2 is released? that would surely cut into the people who would actually try the game since halo is so hyped.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: warcraft