I have been a World of Warcraft subscriber since 2005, probably one of my favorite games and I switched from Final Fantasy XI Online.
I am not sure of how many players in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East do play it though. But I am aware of a huge player base in Dubai, UAE and montada.com, one of the biggest Arabic speaking gaming forums, have an entire forum dedicated to World of Warcraft. People there still openly talk about buying gold and private servers though (which are against the rules of the game).
You can buy the game (and monthly game cards) locally from Jarir bookstore… yeah, not just a bookstore, silly slogan.
My issue with Blizzard is that the extra features available to most subscribers are inaccessible for subscribers in Saudi Arabia. For example, a service for reinventing former world of warcraft subscribers, “Scroll of Resurrection” is inaccessible because of “Your account is not allowed to access to this page because of its country”. Same goes to the Recruit-a-Friend program where you get this error “Not all accounts are eligible to recruit a friend. For a full list of restrictions, please see the FAQ“. Contacting Blizzard support is useless since they reply with no information at all, and it sounded like an automated response anyway.
I do not want Blizzard to open local Middle East servers or have an Arabic localized World of Warcraft client, I just want access to those services which are easy to implement.
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Hey Khaled, I ‘m new here in KSA. playing WoW forever before i came here but now i can’t cause of latency problems. Please can u guide as to wihc is the best connection to play WoW? ( no DSL cause i dont have a landline) thank you.
Hello Ronald and welcome to the site!
You could try to connect using a 3G modem from STC or Mobily. I never got to try it though.
I am currently connecting through mobily with a 3G modem but tbh it sucks. after minutes i disconnect from wow for no reason and other times i have latencies as high as 2000ms. please help
2000 ms is too much. Try it from a coffee shop with free wifi
the problem is that i want to play from my home in riyadh. bought a new gaming laptop just to spend my spare time playing it.
I hate to say this buy try STC’s 3G wireless service
will try. thx for your help
no problem, keep us updated
gentlemen
I have a problem I couldnt find a solution could u help me pls
I bought a worldofwarcraft game DVD in jeddah Jarir bookstore for my son
and I came to turkiye for vacation and I gave that dvd to him
He installed that game by dvd and downloaded some patches
and couldnt registered that game because it requires an authentication key but my dvd included an expansion key I have so many questions
1- how can I find my authentication key in DVD
2- how can I use my expansion key
3- How will be able to register my game
thanks
If the CD key isn’t somewhere on the box, package, or manual itself, it will most likely be on some sort of paper insert that came within the box. Once you authenticate the original game, you will be able to use your expansion key to upgrade the account.
I have a question as well; I’m in the process of learning Arabic, is there any way to get the game to display in Arabic? Maybe not the text that I type in, since obviously script would be unreadable to other players, but possibly the buttons, log in screen, anything like that.
In regards to the latency issue, I contacted a wireless internet provider and was told that I should expect at least 1000ms latency from any satellite provider. Of course, that makes sense because of the process, but either way 1000ms is unplayable to me in any endgame content.
شكرا -صادق
Posting months afterward… It’s probably an add-on of some sort, but I’m not sure there’s one in Arabic… And hurol, when you buy it in saudi arabia, it’s on the manual. I was stupid enough to rip it off and throw it away because I thought it was a price tag or something, so I had to buy a new one!
Also, 1000ms isn’t that unplayable… Although mobily gets me 300ms most of the time… when it actually works
Zofrenn of Burning Legion
Interesting, I also tested it out using Go WiMax. I had no problem entering Dalaran.
salam khaled .
can i write arabic ? or english in site?
what site?
I lived in Saudi for 23 years and now live in the USA. I play wow and would love to game with players living in Saudi. Is there any way to join a realm used by gamers in KSA?
Most Saudi players are on EU realms. So you cannot join these realms from a US account
I know that the topic is out-dated but I figured I would add my 2 cents.. as for the “holy” blocking service! this my friend can be unblocked by sending numerous unblock requests to this address:
http://www.internet.gov.sa/resources/block-unblock-request/view?set_language=en
I have tried to unblock some sites in the past and it worked! also, you might think that they block sites out of nothing! and that is ture because they use a bot to go around blocking specified key words, I know this because they blocked Yahoo in the past by misstake and then unblocked it again and explained the reason behind it.
PS. there are many many saudi wow players online than u think
hey guys i’m shinigamisan famous with aka shini
from eu dunemaul anyway i have alot of friends playing wow but wanted to meet more ppl actually playing the game in ksa cya have fun
and ya ronald i have the same prob cuz i’m living in the university dorms i can’t use land line connection so i had to use wireless one and still have alot of dc’s -.- and it kinda sucks when i had to reroll from being the main tank in the guild to other dps class because i love tanking
Dear Khalid
I’ve been playing wow now for 2 years now on horde character on Champer of Aspect a PVE server which I got bored with so I’m trying to get a fresh start in a different server. I’m looking for a PVP server which have a large Arab population on ally side. Do you know any? btw STC suck!
k I’ll go for stormreaver Ty for the tip
well there is couple of realms noticed many arabs most one is kazzak as man9our said , stormscale and stormreaver also got some arab but so few so ain’t gonna work good for u specially few of them who know each other as me and others in stormreaver i know some ppl are arabs either on horde side or ally side but still we don’t gather that much or even do pugs together coz of guild’s etc.
so as summary for the servers there is:
kazzak , grim batol and the ones i mentioned above.
i though kazak had alot of arab there if ur looking for big pvp servers try like stormreaver
I moved to Saudi few months and i have been playing wow before in a private server. I have had my internet cut off twice for playing wow. Anyone know why this is happening?