Right, been doing a little reading up since I've been having a rather good time in good ol' DDO, and I've come up with a VERY important point we need to keep in mind IF we decide to poke a bit at it:
The whole free-to-play, buy-stuff-in-stores thing is ONLY being released in the US for the time being - Codemasters (the company handling DDO in Europe) are apparently afraid that they'll lose all income if they introduce it here. So, we will have the option of starting old accounts (or new) up again and paying subscription fees to play on the EU servers, OR we can start up new ones and play on the US servers once it leaves beta stage.
I'm personally most for trying out the US servers - I get the feeling a LOT of europeans will do the same, so there should be players available in our timezones as well. Time will tell. Till then, I just wanted to give those of that might be interested a wee heads-up.