After some nightmare stories of buggy 20 gigs installation I wasn’t expecting to play WoW the same day I started installing. Against that idea the trial only required 80 megabytes and was pretty much a flawless victory installation. On the other side registering took me a while because blizzard was updating its servers.
Once I created an account and my character, a Night elf named orionblack, it was time to play. I had no idea which server to choose, so I went to a “new players” one, Drakkari. I had to download some extra files, but I was finally there, I was playing WoW.
I don’t really enjoy tutorials, so as long as the semi-forced presentation with the HUD and basic controls ended I just started walking. I’ve played a lot of games and it has been a long time since I felt that sensation of being in front of something huge. I think it’s a mixture between the music(I really liked it), the graphic style(magic creatures everywhere, the purple sky…) and knowing that there’s millions of people playing WoW concurrently. It’s hard to explain, but I enjoyed just exploring the World of Warcraft.
I wasn’t expecting to have a gaming session that night(remember the whole 20 gigs download process), so after an hour or so of lurking around I called it a day.