It’s Only Teenage Wasteland

Have you ever made an alt in an online game? (Christ, do I have to define “alt” for you now?) Y’know, an additional character just for screwing around when you tire of your main character? Maybe you’ll take this secondary character all the way to max level, maybe you won’t. That’s the beauty of the alt: it’s usually twinked up the ying-yang and it’s just for sport. No pressure.

Some players are freaking addicted to alts. They never max-level anything, just screw around with one of their 8 or 10 characters until even they, themselves, realize they’re an embarassment to the guild. I’m guessing they just never find their niche or a class they enjoy and can’t complete the deed. Given a long enough timeline, they’d be max level in every class. Which will be good for someday.

By all accounts, these type of players are just now reaching max level in EverQuest-Classic. Dudes, what fun was to be had in EQ has already been had. Let it go.

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Search, WRU?

I don’t want anyone to panic needlessly, but the Warcraft forums and website will be down and unavailable for AT LEAST SIX ENTIRE HOURS while they perform maintenance. No fresh Warcraft drama for AT LEAST SIX ENTIRE HOURS.

Official notice (heh, you can’t check that during maintenance, can you? Ok, I’ll help you out by quoting):

During 4:00 AM and 10:00 AM PST Monday, April 4th we will be performing upgrades to our web servers and forums. During this time period you may not be able to access the World of Warcraft website and forums.

Any bets on whether they can get the damned search function to work this time?

To while away the time, you can read Moorgard’s (of EverQuest 2) blog diary. It’s not a blog because he doesn’t talk about what he had for breakfast. Yet.

If I ever see even ONE POST about eggs, bacon, pancakes or cold pizza, I’ll be calling bullshit on that.