Installing World of Warcraft

I was in my local video rental shop and they had a stack of WoW 14 day trial packs on the counter for ???????2 each. Seeing as I know at least one guy who doesn’t go outside the door at the weekend any more because he spends every waking moment online, I decided to give it a spin.

I know my PC isn’t the latest and greatest (a self built AMD Athlon 3700+), but it took 20 minutes to install this from DVD, and then it went down hill from there. I ran the game, created my account and logged in. I then got kicked out to download a patch to v1.12.0. This 485MB file took 2 hours to download… Finally! I can log in!…. I logged in and the same thing happened again. This time a 600MB+ v2.0.1 patch, which I left running overnight. This morning I logged in to see if it was finished…. It had! Result!!!…. but now it needs to down 200MB+ of other patches….. Hopefully I’ll actually be able to spend some of the 14 days playing the game, and not just watching progress bars while stuff downloads.