[WoW] This is how the world ends

[adderslj]

Today, they wiped the World of Warcraft Europe Final Beta servers in preperation for the launch on Friday. It was as if thousands of voices cried out in horror and were logged out...

To mark the occasion, the last few hours were marked the Day of Judgement. Demons assaulted the main cities and lands were invaded by the opposing forces. Ermonsude, my level 13 Tauren druid joined a large raid in Crossroads in the Barrens, and spent the last few hours of his existence fighting off the treacherous Alliance.

In best bruceb tradition, pictures follow:



The ghost of Ermonsude inspects the Level 500 (!) demons that block the Thunderbluff lifts and lead to his spectral state



Ermonsude contemplates the futility of life, knowing that his demise is just over an hour away. Meanwhile, people fly to Thunderbluff to see the demons...



Minutes from the end, Ermonsude has joined a vast raid, dealing with the swarm of Alliance scum pouting into Horde lands. Today is a good day to be server wiped...

Spent much of the day feeling very grotty. This cheered me up. :)

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[adders.livejournal.com]

Last night was amazing fun; there was some really good, apocalyptic roleplaying going on in places. "Let's show them how the Horde dies" from the raid leader as we swarmed a bunch of high-level Alliance types minutes before server wipe was a favourite. Brought a small tear to my eye. :)

I actually tried MacEQ for a while, once I could get hold of a copy through the .Mac renewal promoation (it was never released in Europe), but found that everybody was so high level by then that I didn't see a single other player for days on end.

At the moment, EU players will be restricted to the EU servers (hosted in Frankfurt and Paris, fact fans!), but they have plans to allow us to play on your servers and vice versa further down the line.