Good news for European players!

[Leshy]

BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT® ANNOUNCES WORLD OF WARCRAFT®
RELEASE PLANS FOR EUROPE

22 November, 2004 – Paris, France:
Blizzard Entertainment® today announced the launch plans in Europe for World of Warcraft®, its highly anticipated massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Blizzard also confirmed that the game will release in Europe in early 2005. Pre-orders for World of Warcraft will be available at retail on November 26, 2004.

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European Product Packaging and Pricing
World of Warcraft will be available in Europe for Windows ® 98/ME/2000/XP and Macintosh ® at a suggested retail price of €44.99 (£29.99 in the UK), and will include a free one-month subscription to the game.

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The special collector's edition of World of Warcraft will also be available at launch, in limited quantities, for a suggested retail price of €69.99 (£44.99 in the UK).

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After the initial free one-month subscription ends, players of World of Warcraft will be able to continue playing under one of three different subscription plans. The month-to-month subscription plan will cost €12.99* per month (£8.99 in the UK), the three-month plan will cost €11.99 per month (£8.39 in the UK), and the six-month plan will cost €10.99 per month (£7.69 in the UK).

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For those European gamers still wishing to play with their American friends on the North American servers, and vice versa, Blizzard will provide a means to make this possible after the European launch.

Source: http://www.blizzard.co.uk/press/041122.shtml

Especially the last part is very good news for us European Lurkers. And the prices seem to be pretty good, although slightly higher than those in the USA, but with dollar-euro fluctuations, that's to be expected :)