Monthly Archives: January 2006

Are All Cow Druids Lying Douchebags?

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Well, well, lookee here. While searching for more info on that rumored teleport-rezz-rogue-LBRS-hack, I ran across this Warcraft forum thread, authored by Hornwood, lying douchebag of Medivh. Quoting the relevant material:

… I think the defining moment of last night was when we gathered at 12 AM (our scheduled time to ring the gong) after 7 crashes, and OUR SCEPTRE HOLDER WAS STUCK IN A QUEUE OF 2300+. We had to wait over an hour and 15 minutes for him to log in, all the while asking the level 1 alts to please leave the server (which they didn’t do, even though most were halfway across the world).

I had a very interesting conversation with (to put it bluntly) an absolute ass from afkgamer.com. I asked him, as we all were, to log out his level 1 alt so we could speed up the process, prevent crashes and start getting screens up. He said “No, I have every right to be here. Blame Blizzard for this mess.” I said to him well, you’ve seen the server crash, and you know you’re a part of it. You know Medivhians need to be on to get this ball rolling. I pretty much think YOU are the problem here. …

First of all, I wasn’t even logged into my Medivh alt for the gong ringery. Secondly, no one asked me to log out my alt, (again, I wasn’t on the alt anyways because I got my story already and am through with Medivh). Thirdly, the quote he assigns to me he has pulled out of his ass. I never said to anyone, on the Medivh server in tells, in general, in party, or offline either … “No, I have every right to be here. Blame Blizzard for this mess.”

Y’see, when you use quotation marks, or a blockquote as I have done above, generally it should be what someone has actually said or written.

Lastly, Hornwood writes that he said to me … “you’ve seen the server crash, and you know you’re a part of it. You know Medivhians need to be on to get this ball rolling. I pretty much think YOU are the problem here.” Even if he’s paraphrasing, huh? The server didn’t crash when I was on Medivh. If it crashed later, how would I see that? How would I be a part of that if I’m not logged in?

Fucking Blizzard! Did they put me in charge of infrastructure and didn’t warn me??

Congrats Hornwood. I may be an ass, hell, I AM an ass, but I’m not a lying douchebag.

Addendum: I address this issue only so that regular readers, WoW forum visitors and non-primadonna Medivh residents will understand that I never had that conversation with anyone; I never used those words, nor did anyone use those words in response while speaking, emailing, or IM’ing me. (Thread archive of above link 1/24/06)

Two Dollar Horde

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Slow snews day, so while the Warcrap servers are getting a disk massage, here’s an older forum thread that is still alive: Funniest Guild Names. Some random examples … “Hard to Kidnap Fat Kids”, “New York Cab Co” (all Warlock guild), “OMGASHAMANISCOMINGLOL”, “And Four Rogues” (on a PvP server), and many variations of “My Pretty/Little/Pink Pwnies”. (Thread archive of above link 1/24/06)

I want some of what Blizzard is smoking..

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In yet another transparent attempt to convince the masses that they have any idea on how to curtail the queue’s plaguing most realms, Blizzard has limited character creation on quite a few servers:

For the next several days we will be limiting character creation on the following realms to alleviate recent performance issues and hopefully decrease queue times.

Previously, I had mentioned that this was due to Ahn’Qiraj events and ‘Pilgrimage’. This was not entirely accurate. The realms being addressed with this measure have been seeing a great deal of traffic recently and we wish to relieve some strain during prime time by restricting character creation on these realms.

I apologize for any confusion this may have caused. The list remains the same, which may make things more understandable in this new context.

Aggramar
Archimonde
Blackrock
Burning Blade
Burning Legion
Cenarius
Dalaran
Deathwing
Doomhammer
Earthen Ring
Eonar
Eredar
Frostwolf
Gilneas
Gorefiend
Hyjal
Icecrown
Kargath
Kel’Thuzad
Khadgar
Kil’Jaeden
Kilrogg
Laughing Skull
Lightbringer
Lightning’s Blade
Llane
Mal’Ganis
Malygos
Mannoroth
Medivh
Ner’zhul
Proudmoore
Shadow Moon
Silver Hand
Thunderhorn
Thunderlord
Tichondrius
Uther

Curiously some of these realms really don’t have major queue problems, yet others with 600+ daily queues are absent from the list. Since Blizzard does its best to never provide any actual information, I can only assume they are using some flawed method to determine which realms are most in need of relief.

I hope nobody is naive enough to believe this will have any effect on the queue’s and that barring massive hardware and bandwidth upgrades the queues and latency issues will never be gone. A little useful information would have gone a long way to help Blizzard’s image in our eyes, sadly they have once again dropped the ball.

(Archive of forum link 1/23/06)