A year of WoW in Europe
World of Warcraft has been available in Europe for a year now, and to celebrate, lead produce Shane Dabiri has written a letter to the community. According to this, some of Blizzard's 2006 goals include fee-based character transfers, more content for casual level 60s and even more world events. It's difficult for Blizzard to work with such a diverse community, so "personal" attention like this is very welcome.
As part of the celebration, the anniversary contests are now open to enter, so get those chat-up lines ready.
February 11th, 2006 was a turning point for me; I started playing WoW on release date and I haven't looked back since. As a European player there are a few things that are very high on my wishlist. My main problem is not being able to play with American friends; despite hints from Blizzard that such a thing would be possible, they have since said that nothing is planned along these lines yet. I can understand why Blizzard segregate their customers, but for those of us who game internationally it can still be annoying.
Character transfers will take care of another wishlist item, although it's going to take a lot of organisation amongst my various WoW-playing friends and acquaintances to consolidate our servers. Finally, I would really like some European-themed events, and--admittedly, this is a minor point--localisation of in-game text to British English ("honour" kills would be excellent). Despite this, we've had a great year together; thanks, Blizzard!
