nobbie is in the EU Final Beta!

[nobbie]

Just remember that in release, someone may decide to report either of the names for being a real world reference. ;) Of course, it's not really a worry considering a lot of the names that don't get reported. It'd only be a worry if you did something to aggravate someone and they decide to report it just for spite.

Real World References

This category includes both clear and masked names which:

* Are references to very well known people, characters, places, or icons (i.e. Britneyspears, Austinpowers, Mcdonalds, Georgewashington, Newyork)

If a player is found to have such a name for their character, guild, or pet, he/she may:

* Be assigned a randomly generated temporary name, to be changed via email

Geographic location or planet names, for example, cannot be copyrighted afaik and thus their usage can never be forbidden. Also, the name "Desdemona", an Uranus moon, is quite familiar in fantasy.

Are there realms for the final beta? If yes, which one are the European lurkers on?

There are English, French, German and "Other" language realms. The German final beta realm has currently 8 servers, 4 PvE and 4 PvP, named "DE Final Beta X", where "X" is a number from 1 to 8. I'm playing a Night Elf Druid called "Desdemona" on the server "DE Final Beta 1", account "nobbie".

I should be in in about two more days of downloading.

Thanks god, a moderator friend from D2Network has sent me the 2.4 GB installer 1.1.2 + patch 1.2.0 on 4 CD-R's. The latest WOW client patch 1.2.1 was just a small 500KB downlaod when I logged in .. phew! :D

Also, I am wondering how the servers are catagorized(sp?).

Are they seperated to PvE/PvP only or it's also language seperated (aka french servers, german servers and english servers)?

See my above answer.

Buying regular games for 50$ is sorta fine but buying MMOs without a chance to check them out first is not something I wish to do, it's simply too much money for 1 month thus if I buy one, I want to know I like it and am planning on playing it for a while to make the money spending excuseable.

Well, I've found the solution for my part by simply ordering the (English) Collector's Edition for 70 Euro instead of the "normal" client version for 50 Euro. If the final game should turn out bad, which I really highly doubt after my first impressions today, then I have at least the valuable, limited edition collector's stuff incl. a 208-page WOW hardcover(!) artbook with loads of stuff from the fabulous Blizzard concept artist Samwise Didier and a 60-minute "WOW - Behind the Scenes" movie at Blizzard on DVD, which I always wanted. Add to that the free month for about 13 Euro, and you "throw away" about 20 Euro (at most) if you don't continue to play, because that limited edition stuff alone is worth at least 40 Euro.
I'll now have to read a lot offline (the WOW manual + the new GameStar WOW special magazine from today) to become familiar with everything. When I've done that (in about 2 days), I'll start to test my Night Elf Druid as far as I can and report back here soon. As I've said, the game looks really good so far and I can imagine that it's damn addictive, so the possibilty that you throw your money (the 50 Euro) out of the window is really, really slim - if not non-existent :)