Is this game worth buying?

[MongoJerry]

I am a huge Blizzard fan but i am unsure of this MMPORG.  I loved the Warcraft series but won't this just be a poor man or better man's version of Evercrack.  For those Beta testing what are some of the features of the game that would make this a worthwhile investment?

I see a lot of potential in the game, and a lot of potential ways that Blizzard could screw it up. I was happy with the way things were looking in the last push, but this new patch has irked me. It's like they had several teams working in parallel with noone having finished anything, and yet some manager said, "There's going to be a riot if we don't get a patch out of *some* kind. Just give me whatever you have!" Really, I would almost have rather have had the old patch for another month than this thrown together one. Oh, well, we'll just have to see what comes out in the next or the following patch to get a better idea of where Blizzard is headed. And, we'll have to wait until before the release to find out if we want to spend actual cash on it.

Also, the August dates you've been seeing are dates pulled out of, er, the air by those retailers. They have no relationship to any timetable Blizzard has set. Blizzard has said that they're looking for a US and Korea release sometime in the final quarter of 2004. Most likely, that date will be pushed back, but it's possible that it could happen by the end of this year if there is a lot of stuff that has been worked on or designed but hasn't made it into the current patch, yet. I think we need to wait for two more pushes before we can see in what shape the game is really in.