It’s Code Red

We’re on a code red drama alert, people! Maybe. Hell if I know, I’m still sorting out the dozens of Warcraft threads.

I do know this: miss a day of commentary, miss a lot.

You think you know what’s going on, you tell me.

What I’ve sorted out … an entire Warcraft guild on the Uther server was transfered to one of the newer realms, Eldre’Thalas. (Not on the list of authorized realm transfers, by the way.) Allegedly! Because the most info I saw from the Blizzard Collective was via Caydiem (post #124, locking it down), and I quoteth:

What took place was a result of disciplinary action, and by policy we do not discuss disciplinary actions on the forums, as such information should remain confidential.

Our apologies for the confusion.

And this (post#11) from Ordinn, again I quote:

You all must understand that this was a disciplinary action, which is getting blown out of proportion by the members of our community. There is no conspiracy, and the two issues are unrelated.

Complete bullshit. They had no fucking problem with privacy when it was accusing a raid guild of exploiting line of sight, but now it’s a privacy concern when it comes to dumping a level 60 guild on a hapless server.

(And is it just me, or is Ordinn always about two days behind everyone else on the planet? Really. I’ll read his answers and think, wtf, that doesn’t even address the meat of the question. Is this some technique they’re teaching at the colleges nowadays? Kinda like this link. Oops, how’d that one get in here?)

Additional reading material (there may be overlap — you’ve been warned).

Again, you figure it out, you tell me. Was there a transfer? Did this guild get transfered to their alt server? (!!!) If the answers are “yes” and “yes”, then answer this: what the fuck?

Extra credit reading … a WTH screenshot and a player-created summary of the drama.

Master of None

Over the weekend, Guild Wars pushed out a few micro-mini patches. They never tell us what the patches are for, just that terse “new patch is available … GET OUT AND GET IT” message. Not that I need to know, but I’m a curious sort.

Anyhow, I know from the loyal Slashdot readers at AFK Gamer that the terse message means: get out and patch or continue to be annoyed by patch spam every few seconds.

Cool, a patch, thought I. Don’t get that every day in Warcraft, not even every month. heh.

Big problem — patch introduced this universal crash bug somethingorother … hard lockup whenever the character moves. So I rebooted, and headed over to the Guild Wars site to see what’s up and if there’s an ETA (there’s never an ETA, but it could happen someday in some game.) I hadn’t spent too much time exploring their site before, OBVIOUSLY, or else I would have known that they don’t have message boards, just some knowledge base.

Has anybody anywhere ever gotten a solid answer to their question in any knowledge base in under 30 minutes? Those systems have the worst fucking search function on the planet; it would be faster to google.

I know why some gaming houses choose not to run a message board system — I just think it’s horseshit. They may sponsor some “official” fansite to run a system that they’ll occasionally “officially” post on, but what the fuck ever, because everyone knows it’s just a budget decision and the perfect cover for dodging questions.

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