World of Warcraft...

[seawasp]

... actually downloaded and tried the free version for a bit yesterday. (Well, given how honkin' huge it is, I actually had downloaded it over the prior night).

I doubt I'll be playing it again. It's pretty enough, I guess, and the FMV to start it was impressive, but the controls suck (not surprising, I'm using a keyboard), the tutorial features aren't sufficient, the flexibility in creating a character was minimal, and the icons and text are printed in teeny-tiny print I can barely read even when holding the computer up near my face.

No character interaction or intro; I get more character in Oblivion. And the controls on the PS3 just are totally lightyears beyond anything on a keyboard. (yeah, I presume there's probably some awesome USB joysticks or something out there, but I don't have one).

But I'll leave it on my HD for a bit; I may change my mind and give it another shot. 

Comments

[seawasp]

Are there more character choices if you're paid up? I chose "human" and it seemed they could only be one character class (priest or cleric or whatever it was); same for the others. Do you get to choose different classes?

[argonel.livejournal.com]

You should have more choices even in the free sample. Each race has around 6 or 8 different classes with 3 specializations per class. In the free version you probably can't play as a panda or access the death knight and monk classes, but everything else up to level 20 should be there.

IIRC on character creation the races are selected on one side of the screen while the classes are selected on the opposite side. I don't recall if they dim the classes you can't pick or hide them, but the choices should be available.

[seawasp]

Weird. I couldn't find any way to change any of the races; they had a default and there was no obvious way to change that. I'll try it again.