i got in thursday afternoon, didn't get it installed until friday evening
logged about 13-14 hours between first login and today when they shut off the stress-testers
started as a troll hunter, got him to 5, then started an undead warlock (HORDE 4EVA) and when i got booted today he was 13
what i liked about this game was all the little things. things like no zoning, quest log, radar on the UI, how they handled death, and QUESTS. goddamn there were so many quests! they're well written too-- and the best part about the whole thing is that you're so busy doing quests you don't really notice that you are making great exp as you do it. in eq, the two were pretty separated: you could spend a weekend questing, or you could spend a weekend grinding. in wow it's all rolled into one.
the graphics blew me away too. i never looked at any of the screenshots on the website because i wasn't planning on playing, so when i first rolled up that troll and popped into the little starter valley i spent the first 10 minutes just looking around. same when i made the warlock. i spent several hours just wandering around filling out my map, then i visited the undercity (which was awesome because it was built under the ruins of lordaeron) and then took a zeppelin over to orgrimmar and said what's up to thrall (thrall!).
very smooth, very enjoyable, and absolutely gorgeous. it's everything EQ should have been.
if i can budget in the monthly fee i might just open up my scarred evercrack veins to shoot up WoW.
PS i was running the game at full video detail and highest resolution and it ran just fine-- geforce 5700ultra, 512mb pc3200 ddr ram, duron 1ghz cpu