Arrr Mateys, There Be a Patch on the Horizon
March 15, 2005 by Foton at 2:52 pm • Filed Under Etc.
Tags: warcraft, world of warcraft
So there’s this Warcraft patch coming up … some week. The mother of all patches. Could take years to download with the shitterrent system Blizzard uses.
(Another one of those things that you shouldn’t have to write down for people but apparently you do … Collecting fixes, changes and additional content for MONTHS = huge ass patch. It also = huge ass headaches after it goes live, but that’s a lesson for another day.)
In anticipation of the nuisance that this patch is sure to create, my guild of e-thugs has come up with a plan. BitterEx-EQMonk has agreed to sit through the patch download as soon as it’s available and upload it to the e-thug website for the rest of us to grab later. In case the official patch system is constipated (like usual always), he has ReloggingGuy’s FilePlanet info as an alternate download source.
We also have a Plan C and Plan D. Ya, we the players are the ones with the alternate plans. (Hail, Irony!)
If only we could mirror the Ironforge zone, we’d be in business.
(For those without their own Plan B, Abalieno at The Cesspit usually has the patches available for registered users and there’s always FilePlanet … nonmembers have to wait in line, paying members are FCFS.)
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Last patch I downloaded for WoW didn’t use bit shit thing. Appeared to be from a dedicated Blizzard download server. Guess you just suck.
Y’know, this reminds me of a story that guildmate CPADude told us the other day.
His firm sent out a mailing from a new office they opened up near a gated senior community about the tax prep, financial planning and estate planning services they offered.
Tasteful mailing, one page with a response card if people were interested. As he tells the story, some of the responses were quite salty. One guy took the time to cover the response card in “Fuck You’s”; another wrote a typewritten letter about he wanted to ram his (ahem) into anyone’s ass that sent him unsolicited mail; another guy sent his reply postage-due and included various anti-US govt slogans. All unsigned, of course.
Apparently the seniors have a lot of time on their hands.
So, in the future, if you want to use my corner of the net to tell me I suck, have the nads to sign with your real name or nick and a real email. Anything less just makes you a pussy, noob.
Yeah, Duh. Go flaunt your ignorance somewhere that it is appreciated like perhaps WoW General Forums. I usually dislike stupid people but I’ll help you out on this one. After downloading the last tiny patch, which yes did actually come from a Blizzard server, I installed WoW on another machine I had in my house and the one cumulative patch that was downloaded did come from Shittorrent since it was huge because it was everything from GA release to present day. So it looks like they have interim patches for tiny 1-up patching (like the internationalization patch) which they put on some Blizzard server and cumulative patches for really big patches or for the poor saps who buy the product new off the shelves which they put on Shittorrent (btw, there are plenty of copies of WoW left in Texas at stores).
Seeing as this will be a motherload of goodies (and not-so-goodies as well; thanks for another nutsack-kicking for Warlocks, Blizz) it will likely be very big. My guild also has a plan (so sad that we need this). I have a Fileplanet and Allakhazam account so I’ll be grabbing the patch come patch day and plopping it on our guild server so our members don’t have to wait for 5 hours after they get home from work to play.
Can I join your guild?
Well, the patch is here, and it seems they broke rogues… any comments?
*insert imaginary thoughtful, articulate commentary here*
I think the new (or broken) system of blocks and rogue finishing moves can suck me off.