Allright...so I've been playing the final (European) beta for 2 weeks now, it's ending tonight. In a way it's not even really a beta anymore, with it being out in the US and all, more of free taste of the game for us here...thanx to that big group of beta-testers on the other side of the pond, in any case.
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So, for a quick evalutation: it's awesome.
I was-unsurprisingly-a dwarven warrior. Wielding a two-handed axe and a gun. 
With mining and blackmsmithing as my professions. I had good fun.
The world is really well-done...I made a hike through a large part of a continent once, and the diversity of areas I was in (and that didn't look anything alike, either) was great...from snowy mountains tops to forests, swamps, grazelands, a big lake, ruins, anything really. And the capitals of each race are pretty neat...I've seen the Dark Elf, Undead, Human, Tauren and Dwarven capitals and they were invariably awesome. (especially the dwarven one, of course
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Like it was mentioned before here; the graphics aren't ground-breaking, but the atmosphere completely makes up for it. Which is what matters, because there's not a single (usable) engine around that can make truly realistic game images anyway, yet.
The party-system is very practical and fair, too. In terms of sharing loot, XP etc. There's a ton more I could talk about but suffice to say that it'll suck you in. The only thing that I didn't like so much about it was the unavoidable running...playing games is fine, but wasting a good part of my playtime by simply running around SUCKS. I know that this is a common MMORPG problem (well, depending on class and skills I suppose, I think mages can teleport in WoW too, dunno) and there are quite a few means of transportation in WoW (zepellins, boats, birds, bats, trams and of course mounts) but I still don't like it.
But, on the bright side: grinding skills is nerfed, and ppl who're online ALL the time get less XP for kills thatn occasional gamers, nice to keep the balance. It's somewhat frustrating that there are ppl around that can-apparently-be online even more than I am, and I basically don't do shit. They must do nothing else but play WOW. 
I'm probably not going to buy it, because of the cost and simply because I don't know if I can afford becoming addicted to a MMORPG. (at least a SP game STOPS you know
...even BG2 does) But, who knows, maybe money falls out of the sky or I will use Satis' beer budget instead. Hehehe, jk.
Attaching some pics. Prolly dark cos I mostly play at night, but bleh. These are from Ironforge, the Dwarven capital...located on a mountaintop, carved into the rocks. Very majestic.
