I started the other day.
I'm level 11, and liking it so far.

&It seems like everywhere I go, I see kids saying things like, "omg i lyk thiis gamm su much mor then wOw gaise."

whats lotro?
lord of the rings?

I had a beta tester account, although due to some rough-ins with the staff my account was banned. It didn't help either that a friend used it to troll all over the community forums, either. In any case, I lost all interest in playing the game after all of that happened.

Yeah, I got into the closed beta, but I didn't ever feel an urge to play it.
Then, once I started looking into it, a while later, I wanted to play.
By that time, you had to pre-order.
So, I did, and there are a few perks of doing that.

Anyway.
I'm liking it so far, with the acception of a few bugs in the system.