World of Warcraft

[MalaCloudy Black]

Yeah. Honestly, the only other time I've ever seen a guild name reported is when someone wanted their guild name changed. I know when the GM in my old guild stepped down the new GM submitted a ticket and had the guild renamed from "Ominous Latin Name" to "Easily Amused".

[apsham]

I hate the fact that I bought this, and after the trial ran out... basically lost interest with the shitty and slow internet connection at my university and let my subscrption run out last... December I believe it did. I liked the game while I played it... however after I left the starting human area and made it to the... desert like place, it got WAY too tedious and I didn't really want to touch it after that. My Horde game was going a lot better, but the EWB people stopped showing up as much as they used to and it just really wasn't that much fun without them.

[MalaCloudy Black]

What server were you playing on, ApSham?

[Mountainous Cleavage]

Fuck this game is hella addicting.

Level 18 Gnome Rogue, 1 Day 9 Hours playtime.

Edited April 21, 2008 by Closed and Moved to Archives

[actionpad]

Rogue >_>

[Mountainous Cleavage]

Rogue >_>

No wonder that /who command wouldn't work >_>

[Mr Evil Guy]

Holy sweet jesus murphy, my friend made $800 selling his warcraft character and taking it back.

Of course, he's getting sued now. But holy shit.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Hahahaha he's being sued?

[Mr Evil Guy]

Yeah. He sold it to some company and took it back, now he's getting sued.

It was like level 50 or something. After he got $800 he just ditched his game and now he has to give them the character as they legally own it, but he doesn't have it any more.

[MalaCloudy Black]

So.. he's being sued by a goldfarming business.

[BlackFlagg]

$800 for a lvl 50? g'damn, wonder how much I could pull in for my acc with 2 70's, a 63 and a 61, heh

[Mountainous Cleavage]

What's even worse than being sued is that theres actually people paying that kind of money for an account, goldfarming or not.

[Mr Evil Guy]

He didn't get the $800 in one sale, he kept taking it back and reselling it. He ripped off a fair amount of people before getting caught.

[Mountainous Cleavage]

Even still, making money off your guy alone is still a little out there.

[Mountainous Cleavage]

I might cry.

After all the hard work I put into my 22 Rogue, it's all gone just like that.

See, my friend let me use one of 'his' accounts that he has to make a guy and play with them sometimes. So yeah, WoW's like heroin. And now, it turns out that 'my friend's' account was really his friend's account, which the password is known by like 4 people including me, and the one who's account it wasn't turned around and sold it, and the new owner changed the password.

Fuck. One second in AB, the next I'm lagging out and disconnected, and that ends my Rogues chapter.

Now I have to start buying gamecards for my OLD account which I luckily got back today, but still, this blows.

Edited April 24, 2008 by Closed and Moved to Archives

[MalaCloudy Black]

And that's why Blizzard discourages account sharing. Sucks.

[Mountainous Cleavage]

Yep, exactly why. Nothing I can do either except hope the original owner gets it back.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Unrelatedly, one of my new favourite guild names is "Kenan and KelThuzad".

[Chris the Human]

I play WoW on and off these days, but I get the feeling I'm done with the game, for now. I'm not a huge fan of world PvP, since it generally exists only as ganking - and there's no real roleplay or character development to be done beyond number crunching. Even that would be bearable if the storyline was compelling, but too often I find I go from something epic in feel to something that is, at its heart, 'collect twelve of these mushrooms and bring them here so I can cook them for you'.

The world is too static. Nothing changes, aside from the opening of an occasional instance or the addition of a new, high level area. A little progression that didn't come in the form of 'OMG! NEW AREA YOU CAN REACH' would make things interesting. After a year away from the game, I come back to the same aimless lowbie missions and the same exodus from actually interesting places like the Plaguelands and Silithis.

That, and finding a guild I enjoy playing with is nigh on impossible. Everyone's either a twink or a hardcore raider.

Edited April 24, 2008 by Merry ChrisWalkerBushmas

[MalaCloudy Black]

So, with WOTLK's beta opening and all it should be out pretty soon. Anyone plan on buying it? I probably will, and I'll mess around and see the new content and hopefully reach level 80 before I get bored with it again. The only thing that sucks is that I'm worried about Paladins. Blizzard's saving all the Paladin and Hunter changes for last because they're overhauling both classes.

For Paladins (which is what I'm concerned with since I play a ret pally) they're retooling how much damage tanks do, giving healadins a new spell that's supposed to be like a "single person version of Prayer of Mending" and they're redoing itemization too. For example, Ret paladins' gear will be more similar to a warrior's gear. I'm kind of on the fence about it all though. Some people are cautious but receptive of it, while some others are much more cynical (big surprise) and critical of Blizzard.

More realistically, though, as soon as I unwrap it I'll say "fuck a paladin" and try a Death Knight out.

Edited July 11, 2008 by Cloudy Of The Rebellion