Who else is going to go pick up their WoW expansion at midnight?

[BlancoNino]

<---West coast here, so I've still got 20 minutes! Can't wait to come home and install it and go to outland!!!!

No cookies, please.

Edit: Outland is simply amazing! The quest rewards are incredible and the place is just packed with people. So much fun!

 

[Crusty]

I've got mine already... good thing they canceled classes tomorrow because there is ice. :S

 

[JohnAn2112]

Tempting. The Gamestop down the street is having a midnight launch and I have a copy on pre-order. Too bad it's cold outside. I think I'm going to bed and picking it up after work tomorrow.

 

[KevinH]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
<---West coast here, so I've still got 20 minutes! Can't wait to come home and install it and go to outland!!!!

No cookies, please.

I'm tempted as hell too. It's just too damned cold outside here too.

 

[latino666]

Boss has a copy saved for me. SWEET!!!

 

[neutralizer]

My roommate is out in the freezing cold trying to pick up a copy. The line is already running along the length of the block and he also doesn't have a preorder so he has to wait for everyone else.

 

[notfred]

From their FAQ:

Can I just buy a key online and download?
We are not offering online purchase or download of The Burning Crusade at this time.

I have no idea why they did this. I'd have paid for it if it was offered online, but I'm not going to drive somewhere at midnight to buy a damned video game.

 

[animalia]

addictions. wow.

 

[Mardeth]

Im sure the lag is incredible. EU servers are notoriously unstable. But some have played for 10:36h already...

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: notfred
From their FAQ:

Can I just buy a key online and download?
We are not offering online purchase or download of The Burning Crusade at this time.

I have no idea why they did this. I'd have paid for it if it was offered online, but I'm not going to drive somewhere at midnight to buy a damned video game.

you won't buy it in a week?

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: notfred
From their FAQ:

Can I just buy a key online and download?
We are not offering online purchase or download of The Burning Crusade at this time.

I have no idea why they did this. I'd have paid for it if it was offered online, but I'm not going to drive somewhere at midnight to buy a damned video game.

Well considering it's 4 CD's (i'm installing it right now), I don't think a 2GB+ download is very reasonable, especially for 56k users.

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: notfred
From their FAQ:

Can I just buy a key online and download?
We are not offering online purchase or download of The Burning Crusade at this time.

I have no idea why they did this. I'd have paid for it if it was offered online, but I'm not going to drive somewhere at midnight to buy a damned video game.

Well considering it's 4 CD's (i'm installing it right now), I don't think a 2GB+ download is very reasonable, especially for 56k users.

56K users?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Just got back with mine, had about 100 people or so in line took roughly 35 minutes.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: notfred
From their FAQ:

Can I just buy a key online and download?
We are not offering online purchase or download of The Burning Crusade at this time.

I have no idea why they did this. I'd have paid for it if it was offered online, but I'm not going to drive somewhere at midnight to buy a damned video game.

Well considering it's 4 CD's (i'm installing it right now), I don't think a 2GB+ download is very reasonable, especially for 56k users.

I don't give a crap if *you* want to go to the store and buy it, that's fine with me, but I can download 2GB in less than an hour, which is faster than it would be for me to go out to the store and get it. Hell, it's about 2GB of downloads of patches to go from my 1.0 CDs to the current point release, what's 2 more GB for an expansion?

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: notfred
I don't give a crap if *you* want to go to the store and buy it, that's fine with me, but I can download 2GB in less than an hour, which is faster than it would be for me to go out to the store and get it. Hell, it's about 2GB of downloads of patches to go from my 1.0 CDs to the current point release, what's 2 more GB for an expansion?

I don't know. There must be some reason why many computer games have expansions that can only be purchased via retail.

 

[I Saw OJ]

I was going to pick mine up but with having to wait in line I would have been late for work. I'll get it after work tomorrow.

 

[Zugzwang152]

I won't be getting mine till after work tomorrow... though I may disappear a little early to beat the traffic home...

 

[AbAbber2k]

I never thought I'd see the day that people would line up to buy a video game EXPANSION PACK. WTF.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: notfred
From their FAQ:

Can I just buy a key online and download?
We are not offering online purchase or download of The Burning Crusade at this time.

I have no idea why they did this. I'd have paid for it if it was offered online, but I'm not going to drive somewhere at midnight to buy a damned video game.

Well considering it's 4 CD's (i'm installing it right now), I don't think a 2GB+ download is very reasonable, especially for 56k users.

I don't give a crap if *you* want to go to the store and buy it, that's fine with me, but I can download 2GB in less than an hour, which is faster than it would be for me to go out to the store and get it. Hell, it's about 2GB of downloads of patches to go from my 1.0 CDs to the current point release, what's 2 more GB for an expansion?

$$$ reasons. Blizzard knows everyone's gonna buy it anyway, whytf should they waste their bandwidth? Profit margin++.

 

[Scouzer]

Well this is fvcking fantastic, my installer hangs every time on insertion of CD2.

GREAT.

This is after I spent 5 hours re-installing WoW after 2.0.3 corrupted it for no reason. The fixer tool failed to fix it (5 hours due to hundreds of mb of patches to download)

I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW

 

[Scouzer]

OK I fixed the problem, if anyone else gets this (or similar):

Hold shift inserting the CD. The problem is autorun tries to open another instance of the installer, which of course crashes both.

You can also manually disable autorun.

 

[Jules]

lol

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: notfred
From their FAQ:

Can I just buy a key online and download?
We are not offering online purchase or download of The Burning Crusade at this time.

I have no idea why they did this. I'd have paid for it if it was offered online, but I'm not going to drive somewhere at midnight to buy a damned video game.

Well considering it's 4 CD's (i'm installing it right now), I don't think a 2GB+ download is very reasonable, especially for 56k users.

I don't give a crap if *you* want to go to the store and buy it, that's fine with me, but I can download 2GB in less than an hour, which is faster than it would be for me to go out to the store and get it. Hell, it's about 2GB of downloads of patches to go from my 1.0 CDs to the current point release, what's 2 more GB for an expansion?

$$$ reasons. Blizzard knows everyone's gonna buy it anyway, whytf should they waste their bandwidth? Profit margin++.

I thought it was because they didn't want to piss off their retailers.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: notfred
From their FAQ:

Can I just buy a key online and download?
We are not offering online purchase or download of The Burning Crusade at this time.

I have no idea why they did this. I'd have paid for it if it was offered online, but I'm not going to drive somewhere at midnight to buy a damned video game.

Well considering it's 4 CD's (i'm installing it right now), I don't think a 2GB+ download is very reasonable, especially for 56k users.

AS I heard many times when I had 56k.....get a job and get a better connection..lol

 

[jiwq]

I went to Fry's and picked up a few copies
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