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World of Warcraft becomes largest MMORPG in the world

After the successful launch of World of Warcraft in China, reaching 1.5million subscribers within only 1 month, WoW is now officially the biggest MMORPG out there.
The previous record holder, Lineage 2, has lost a part of its market share to the Blizzard game.

That being said, the european WoW servers are much less packed with players these days than they used to be. Could be because of the holidays or because people stop playing - fact is that especially the RP realms suffer from a recently low population.

I mean, where's the "massively multiplayer" part of the game when you don't meet a single person while questing from level 30 to 32 and the only actual people you can talk to are your guild mates ;)

The ESL, as the biggest german and european esports league, is once again hosting a Live for Speed league. There will be 4 big grids of 20 starters each this time. This is the standing of the hotlap qualification 19 hours before the deadline:


oh and if anybody can tell me why this table does not align at all in IE6, I'd be grateful ;)

1.	ocr . ATI * Rudi Reinkort	2:13.050	3:05.500	+0:00.000
2.	K² Oliver Kalbitzer	2:13.900	3:06.010	+0:00.510
3.	ocr . ATI * J.P. Feil	2:13.510	3:06.010	+0:00.510
4.	Vincent Staal	2:14.050	3:06.540	+0:01.040
5.	tHR Karoly Kincses	2:13.920	3:06.560	+0:01.060
6.	K² Andreas Grauel	2:14.240	3:06.580	+0:01.080
7.	mtx .gh|Simon Stange	2:14.600	3:06.890	+0:01.390
8.	n ! Nils Naujoks	2:14.120	3:06.890	+0:01.390
9.	ocr . ATI * BusterOne	2:14.560	3:06.900	+0:01.400
10.	n ! Dennis May	2:14.330	3:06.920	+0:01.420
11.	tHR Peter Hum	2:14.840	3:07.040	+0:01.540
12.	Markus Johansson	2:14.100	3:07.110	+0:01.610
13.	Christian Hübener »pm	2:14.810	3:07.440	+0:01.940
14.	FAC  Topi Korteniemi	2:15.070	3:07.620	+0:02.120
15.	K² S.Gehring	2:14.570	3:07.670	+0:02.170
16.	Lehnitz | René Buttler	2:14.720	3:07.700	+0:02.200
17.	Maxime Trepreau< >allian	2:15.250	3:07.920	+0:02.420
18.	-WF-Jesse Turunen	2:15.530	3:08.130	+0:02.630
19.	Lehnitz | Danny Engels	2:15.600	3:08.560	+0:03.060
20.	facto Florian Boukobza	2:16.170	3:08.690	+0:03.190
	Next Grid (2)
21.	JJ Nylander	2:15.980	3:08.690	+0:03.190
22.	Jonny Brown	2:16.090	3:08.850	+0:03.350
23.	Tiago Moreira	2:15.530	3:08.920	+0:03.420
24.	F. Wiart	2:15.880	3:08.940	+0:03.440
25.	eckh1	2:16.380	3:09.130	+0:03.630
26.	Risto Laidla	2:16.640	3:09.150	+0:03.650
27.	ocr . ATI * Martin Søndergaard	2:15.460	3:09.310	+0:03.810
28.	dE | Robert Björkman	2:16.800	3:09.390	+0:03.890
29.	plan-B | Juergen Unger	2:16.470	3:09.500	+0:04.000
30.	Xavier Tournadre< >allian	2:16.730	3:09.560	+0:04.060
31.	Philip Kempermann	2:16.310	3:09.650	+0:04.150
32.	K² Michael Bauer	2:16.450	3:09.800	+0:04.300
33.	Timucin Güvenin	2:17.060	3:09.810	+0:04.310
34.	Pierre Closset	2:17.180	3:10.030	+0:04.530
35.	triso `Tim Rieger	2:16.320	3:10.050	+0:04.550
36.	Felix Simoes	2:17.050	3:10.230	+0:04.730
37.	Yves Rey	2:16.960	3:10.240	+0:04.740
38.	Thomas Arends	2:17.420	3:10.490	+0:04.990
39.	Miguel Nicolau	2:17.060	3:10.520	+0:05.020
40.	Renee Kooli	2:16.920	3:10.550	+0:05.050
	Next Grid (3)
41.	Jonathan Pailler	2:17.850	3:10.750	+0:05.250
42.	Mafiosi	2:17.240	3:11.080	+0:05.580
43.	Mark Jeangerard	2:17.530	3:11.290	+0:05.790
44.	Kshyhoo	2:17.500	3:11.300	+0:05.800
45.	Lehnitz | Marco Aarts	2:17.210	3:11.380	+0:05.880
46.	E-Z.BasTi	2:18.800	3:11.640	+0:06.140
47.	Hendrik Tries @ DkH	2:17.770	3:11.690	+0:06.190
48.	grc . Mario Trott	2:18.510	3:11.750	+0:06.250
49.	Pierre Chatelin	2:18.860	3:11.780	+0:06.280
50.	Volker Weins	2:18.210	3:11.830	+0:06.330
51.	Lars Witthuhn	2:18.230	3:11.910	+0:06.410
52.	ocr . ATI * Peter Begeman	2:18.350	3:12.050	+0:06.550
53.	PudelHH	2:18.830	3:12.070	+0:06.570
54.	Michel Huisman	2:18.540	3:12.090	+0:06.590
55.	Stéphane Lebourhis	2:18.700	3:12.140	+0:06.640
56.	Roy Diederen	2:17.600	3:12.250	+0:06.750
57.	facto Laurent Laot	2:18.830	3:12.450	+0:06.950
58.	Szymon Klimek	2:19.480	3:12.600	+0:07.100
59.	ocr . ATI * Richard Torp	2:18.500	3:12.600	+0:07.100
60.	mb Michael Radmer	2:19.400	3:13.100	+0:07.600
	Next Grid (4)
61.	K² Björn Behrens	2:19.090	3:13.190	+0:07.690
62.	Tube	2:18.770	3:13.280	+0:07.780
63.	Simon Murphy	2:19.640	3:13.470	+0:07.970
64.	Geforcy	2:19.520	3:14.030	+0:08.530
65.	billymos	2:19.240	3:14.240	+0:08.740
66.	Ricardo Cruz	2:20.420	3:14.520	+0:09.020
67.	Ed Pond	2:19.930	3:14.540	+0:09.040
68.	Jonas Hülsermann	2:20.130	3:14.560	+0:09.060
69.	Thomas Schuster	2:20.230	3:14.620	+0:09.120
70.	Ilkka Kotisalo	2:20.150	3:14.820	+0:09.320
71.	HeerBommel	2:21.400	3:15.580	+0:10.080
72.	Thorsten Schelter	2:19.350	3:15.970	+0:10.470
73.	Benjamin Chenal	2:21.880	3:16.100	+0:10.600
74.	BC | B.Lehmann	2:21.290	3:16.130	+0:10.630
75.	facto Johann Bourgouin	2:22.260	3:16.190	+0:10.690
76.	Nazari Devesa	2:22.560	3:16.680	+0:11.180
77.	Adrian Czuchaj	2:23.240	3:17.060	+0:11.560
78.	Mark Turner	2:23.030	3:17.430	+0:11.930
79.	D.Durchholz	2:22.880	3:17.830	+0:12.330
80.	Andreas Kafurke	2:22.980	3:17.920	+0:12.420
	Next Grid (5)
81.	Farin79	2:22.760	3:20.300	+0:14.800
82.	Christian Hosselmann	2:26.520	3:21.170	+0:15.670
83.	Psyk0sis	2:24.560	3:21.770	+0:16.270
84.	Johannes Steibel	2:30.510	3:25.630	+0:20.130
85.	ocr . ATI * Mark Ralea	2:30.700	3:25.740	+0:20.240
86.	Daniel Böse	2:31.810	3:27.660	+0:22.160
87.	mb Philip Feldmann	2:35.310	3:31.050	+0:25.550

World of Warcraft 1.60 patch available for download

Yesterday Blizzard patched the EU versions of their MMORPG up to version 1.60.
It supposedly fixes some character related bugs and was intended to be specifically a fix for Hunters and Warlocks. Also, the talent trees of Warlocks and Warriors were changed so all players using these chars get all their talent points back and can redistribute them for free.

On another note, the european WoW site was down nearly all day yesterday and patch downloads were horribly slowed down.

And then there was hell on earth when all servers were shut down later in the day. I'm awaiting another free compensation day before my subscribtion runs out :)

WoW patch downloads:

Jul 12, 2005
20.3 MB

wow-1.5.1-to-1.6.0-enus-patch.exe
US/AU retail v1.5.1 -> v1.6.0 patch
Jul 12, 2005
190 MB

wow-1.6.0-enus-patch.exe
US/AU retail v1.6.0 full patch
Jul 13, 2005
20.3 MB

wow-1.5.1-to-1.6.0-engb-patch.exe
UK retail v1.5.1 -> v1.6.0 patch
Jul 13, 2005
178 MB

wow-1.6.0-engb-patch.exe
UK retail v1.6.0 full patch
Jul 13, 2005
21.7 MB

wow-1.5.1-to-1.6.0-dede-patch.exe
German retail v1.5.1 -> v1.6.0 patch
Jul 13, 2005
179 MB

wow-1.6.0-dede-patch.exe
German retail v1.6.0 full patch
Jul 13, 2005
24.1 MB

wow-1.5.1-to-1.6.0-frfr-patch.exe
French retail v1.5.1 -> v1.6.0 patch
Jul 13, 2005
189 MB

wow-1.6.0-frfr-patch.exe
French retail v1.6.0 full patch



Download Source: http://www.3dgamers.com/games/worldofwarcraft/downloads/