I just got my hand on a working account and have started playing. I must say that so far it looks good, exept for the lagging (hope they fix it soon). What real are y in, I am currently in Test 3. If anyone of u are ever there try contacting me, I am a human (female) Warlock (or wss it called warlord? something withthe word war in it) called Amidala.
I must say though I wwent to kalimdor to help my NE druid friend get bear form.. and I was disappointed that it (the boat from mennelith or the NE port town) kinda teleport/loads kalimdor to azeroth and vice versa instead of doing the trip in real time... but I understand that it would be annoying to wait 30 minutes to get somewhere hehe but I thought it would still be cool.
I'm really glad they don't do real time boat trips, at higher levels (especially as a night elf) you are forced to go back and forth between continents. If you had to wait in real time it would be really bad.
But, I know what you mean, I think it would be cool if they made the boats real time for people who want that, and added a griphon ride for people who want a quick trip. On the boat they could have gambling and shops or something like that.
Not the successful ones, which WoW will certainly be. Like with most big name MMOG's they'll probably add numerous expansions, using both free downloads to add stuff and large boxed expansions. There are already rumors about the first expansion, some such rumors are...
-Arthas being a massive raid boss
-Adding the outlands and Illidan, possibly a new race that lives on the outlands
-New normal classes
-Hero classes
-Battlegrounds
-New areas, such as northrend.
-New weapons and such.
So all of this stuff will keep the game alive for a good long while.