Another extension of the free trial for Warcraft: 48 hours this time. (please don’t cancel, please don’t cancel … and for heaven’s sake, don’t call our offices asking how to get a refund of the box price) Although, I really don’t want to get started again with this shit, if I played on one of those perma-down servers, I’d be furious, too. The apologies are wearing thin.
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Wow.
This past weekend in the Warcrap world can be summed up in a word: catastrophe. Although any word that means “fucked up big” would do. (Blizzard’s most recent apology)
Some background: I don’t have queues on my server yet. But, performance has been dwindling rather steadily as of late, so it’s probably only a matter of days before the queues arrive. My first Warcrap character was on one of the large PVP servers, and after a few weeks and 20 levels, I had enough of the multi-hour queues and fled to my current server, which had a population of roughly 12 people.
At first, the low population was kinda the suck, since nothing was ever on the AH and there weren’t many players to do larger instances, etc., but as other refugees arrived, the situation improved … and went beyond improved back to sucking again.
My server’s woes are nothing compared to those other servers, however.
This should be interesting to watch (from very, very far away), as this is not only a public relations disaster for our Blizzard overlords, but potentially a financial disaster as well. They really can’t take people’s money for a box then say, “Bummer, we can’t deliver the service. Thanks for stopping, man.” I mean, they can try, and it certainly seems that they are, but in the end, that won’t work.
A Day in the Life
I feel badly that I didn’t compile quite enough screenshots on Sunday to satisfy the public’s thirst for insider Warcraft knowledge. I spent today, a rare non-family holiday off from work, snapping screenshots of a typical WoW player’s “day in the life” … so to speak.
In Ironforge, the lag is so bad, we’ve resorted to yelling at people that graze the firepots, thereby lagging our video display by .000005 seconds. MY GOD, that time could have made the difference in the bidding war at the Auction House.
Matrix zen, Jedi mind tricks, Blizzard apologies. Is there really any difference?
I display a rare moment of compassion for my fellow adventurer seeking advice on where to train artisan First Aid.
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