Dungeons & Dragons Online comes to Europe

By Jennie Lees

Atari and Codemasters have launched a dedicated European website for Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach (aka DDO), the massively-multiplayer incarnation of D&D. However, as usual European gamers seem to be losing out–the "online portal" currently consists of a link to their forums and a link to the beta test signup. Smashing.

Fortunately, the forums do contain a few nuggets of European-specific information about the game, which is heavily anticipated amongst MMO players and D&D purists:

  • European and American servers will be separate
  • Language-preferred servers are likely to be offered
  • Transferring characters from realm to realm won't be offered
  • There are no publicised dates for the start of European beta, or the game's launch–but all should happen in Q1 2006
  • A simultaneous European and American launch is planned
  • There are no plans for Mac or Linux versions of DDO

Simultaneous launch? Not quite what GameSpot said–but here's hoping.

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