Today, while mooching about on the internets I came across a 10-day free trial of WoW. Now I have never ever gone anywhere near this game for 1 very good reason. Why should I have to pay blizzard every month just so I can play this game? I've got GW, which is free after the original payment to buy the thing.

Anyway, so I decided I'd give it a look in to see what all the hype was about, seen as I was getting 10 days for free. So i pressed the button to download the thing and set up an account. The account setup was done in a matter of about 3mins. The download was pretty quick too .... or so i thought. The program I downloaded wasnt actually the installer, it was just an application that downloads the installer to a directory of my choosing ... an installer thats 3.16Gb big O_o

Now, me being me and having a 20mb internet connection, didnt think this would take that long. However I was pretty wrong. I set this off at about 3:15pm. It finished at about 11pm. Ok I thought, that should be it. I then proceeded to install the game, which again went pretty quickly. At this point I was starting to get a bit excited that I was finally going to play the game ... but no.

No sooner did I login, than did it tell me that i needed to download another patch - v2.1.0. This patch is 529mb. After checking on gamespot it appears this isnt the latest patch either, so it looks like I may be here a while. A couple of days maybe?

So much for the 10-day free trial, you spend more time downloading updates and having your time wasted than you probably do actually playing the game!