We knew a month ago but now it’s confirmed:

BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT® ANNOUNCES WORLD OF WARCRAFT® EUROPEAN STREET DATE – 11 FEBRUARY, 2005

02 February, 2005 – Paris, France
Blizzard Entertainment® today announced that World of Warcraft®, its subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will be available at retail outlets throughout Europe on 11 February, 2005. The European launch of World of Warcraft follows a hugely successful debut in North America, where it broke day-one sales records to become the region’s most successful PC game launch and fastest growing MMORPG. On Tuesday, 18 January, the game was released commercially in Korea, and by the following day had already reached a total peak concurrency of more than 100,000 players.

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World of Warcraft will be available in Europe for Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP and Macintosh® at a suggested retail price of 44.99€ (£29.99 in the UK), and will include a free one-month subscription to the game. ** The game and packaging have been fully localised in English, French and German; a localised box and manual will be available for Spanish and Italian players.

After the initial free one-month subscription ends, players of World of Warcraft will be able to continue playing under one of three different subscription plans. The basic month-to-month subscription plan costs 12.99€ per month (£8.99 in the UK), while the three-month plan costs 11.99€ per month (£8.39 in the UK), and the six-month plan costs 10.99€ per month (£7.69 in the UK). World of Warcraft subscription fees can be paid with all major credit cards, many local cards, direct debit (such as ELV in Germany) and pre-paid game cards, the latter of which will be available in retail outlets where World of Warcraft is sold.

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