After yet another friend recommended World of Warcraft to me this weekend, I was about to cave and pay for the full game to try it out. Luckily, the same buddy told me about a free 10-day trial that is available.

Some things to note that aren't immediately clear from the trial offer:

Technically, it's only for the European servers and it does require a credit card (but that can be a US one and the subscription is not automatically charged after the trial period).

Other drawbacks are a huge download (3Gb+ with all the patches/updates), which could take a long time depending on your connection speed.

Been playing 2 days so far and am really having a blast. I have played other MMORPGs: Good ones such as City of Heroes and terrible ones like Star Wars : Galaxies and I can definitely say that WoW looks like being in the first category. I can really see myself upgrading to the full version when my 10 days is up!

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