Buy World of Warcraft Today -- Play it tomorrow. (slow 8hr+ install time)

So it takes 30min to install the first DVD, and 30min for the Burning Crusade expansion. Then, you have to download about 6 patches. These total about 1.5G themselves, and I've no access to setup port forwarding so the Peer-to-Peer in Blizzards Downloader doesn't help at all! I upload a little bit, and get nothing. I get 64KB/s from the HTTP connection. You can't set it and forget it, you have to click OK at the end of each patch. You have to install each individual patch released since the DVDs were made. They should roll it up into 1 patch. I wonder how many updates were useless in between patches. I believe it was quicker when I just downloaded the client straight from blizzard. I reinstalled Windows and bought the retail version on the same day. The 6.5GB download took about as long as the DVD install plus patches I bet! These DVDs are useless, but maybe the books will prove useful.

Seriously, blizzard. Why can't you make this ONE patch download, or a "set it and forget it," and allow multiple HTTP connections?? I did opt to get the 850MB patch manually from a mirror, luckily. I got 500KB/s from them, and 64KB/s from you ... ugh.

So it's all ready to go and servers are down for maint for two more hours, then they extend it another two hours. Waste of a day -- I actually scheduled playing time in to my day today but looks like I'll have to wait another day. At $15/m to play, that's $0.50 wasted. I want a refund!! :)