Russian WoW to debut August 6th
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Jul 31st 2008 at 2:00PM
Here's a heads up for all our Russian speaking readers: Starting on August 6th, WoW Europe will begin selling the fully localized Russian version of World of Warcraft and Burning Crusade, complete with a Russian-speaking support team.
The game will be sold in DVD and CD versions and will include 1 month and 14 days of free play time respectively. There will also be a special Russian pricing plan starting at 399 rubles per a month for a 1-month subscription.
In addition, current European account holders will have the option of playing on the new Russian servers after downloading the localization pack. There will also be free transfers to the Russian servers for a limited time, and the opportunity to convert a European account to a Russian account.
For more information, you can check out the official Russian site.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Roman Jul 31st 2008 2:11PM
In Soviet Russia, World Of Warcraft plays you.
innajunglestylee Jul 31st 2008 2:10PM
Draenei on Russian servers should have poorly done American accents imo.
Jallandhara Jul 31st 2008 2:13PM
WTB original res version of the draenei picture.
sezmra Jul 31st 2008 3:18PM
This image is one of my screenshots from BC Beta, originally appeared here: http://thallos.net/journal/pretty-pixels/
perseus Jul 31st 2008 2:25PM
Correct me if i'm wrong, but did you cover the new latin-american realms and game version?
ILikePvPbuthatePvPers Jul 31st 2008 3:11PM
Yah they did.
Kellhus Jul 31st 2008 2:28PM
I realy hope us client will suport cyrilics, currently you cant type in game, but forums suport it, (always had). Could not find any info on that on that info page. Any know?
Siggy Jul 31st 2008 2:54PM
Odd. From what I've seen the US client handles Cyrillic lettering quite well.
Elmo Jul 31st 2008 2:30PM
Great news, maybe PuGs will improve a bit :3 because my Russian wont.
sezmra Jul 31st 2008 3:09PM
Cool, a screenshot of my beta draenei made it on WOWinsider. :P
Daniel Whitcomb Jul 31st 2008 6:27PM
Heya, Sezmra!
I've had the screenshot sitting around in my image folder for a while and honestly couldn't remember where I had got it from, or I would have attributed it. I think it may have been from the official forums.
It's a great shot, regardless.
Dightkuz Jul 31st 2008 3:15PM
When are the scandinavian servers coming? :
BadBart Jul 31st 2008 3:26PM
http://coinmill.com/RUB_calculator.html#RUB=399
Thats $17.04 US dollars a month
LXj Jul 31st 2008 3:48PM
Actually there is a mistake in an article: the fee is 359 rubles per month or 329/299 rubles per month for longer subscription plans. While using this special pricing plan, one can only play on Russian servers
stonehead Jul 31st 2008 4:15PM
do you mean 399 Rupees? Is WoW-Hyrule coming soon?!?
Zoidberg Jul 31st 2008 5:57PM
Blizzard often adds something that's culturally relevant to new localizations of WoW. Off the top of my head, I can think of:
Korea got some wedding dresses.
China got a holiday.
Germany has Oktoberfest.
Latin America got Don Carlos.
I suspect that there are more that I haven't noticed.
Any ideas on what might be appropriately both Russian and Azerothian?
PimpyMicPimp Jul 31st 2008 8:19PM
In before people with a cold war mentality comment.
Also, this is a very interesting point. I can't really think of anything, but it would be interesting. How about in honour of our new Russian players we introduce seasons into WoW! Snow in Ashenvale! You know you want it.
Peeveepee Aug 1st 2008 2:28AM
Dwarf dance is actually russian :D