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Stupid Questions Do Exist

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When World of Warcraft’s next patch, 1.12, goes live, the corresponding update to CT-RaidAssist, the raiding UI mod of champions, will no longer be backwards compatible with previous versions. (Read: ctmod.net, news item dated 7/22/06) If your guild is anything like my guild, your typical raid is a patchwork of CT-RaidAssist versions because upgrading every once in a while is a huge chore for some people. I know it’s a chore for me answering the same upgrade question every week (/gu Christ Almighty, YOU DONT HAVE IT INSTALLED IN THE CORRECT PATH.) Anticipating that this will take an hour or more to straighten out on patch day, we’ve begun warning guildmates that everyone (Yes, even you Billy. You too, Mikey.) will need CT-RaidAssist version 1.54 by raid time. My favorite /gu followup question of the last couple weeks: When will they patch 1.12? Me: (fercrissakes) I don’t know, you’d have to ask one of the Blizzard developers in the guild. Followup #2: We have developers in the guild?

Viral Marketing Evolves

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Viral marketing evolves further from the primordial mud: I first saw a thread, similar to this one, on my Warcraft realm forums. The thread is a chatty little bit about a Warcraft dating site, if you’re too lazy to click. Let’s say I saw this on Moonrunner, which I didn’t because I don’t play on Moonrunner so don’t look for me there. (Repeating: the answer is NOT Moonrunner.) Anyways … thinks me, “boy, that thread looks like a plant”, so I checked level 1 gnome Caseclosed’s post history, suspecting a viral marketer, however, the history looks pretty standard for yer average slack-jawed yokel. Hmmm. Searching back to page 3 of his history and earlier … the viral marketing is unmasked! (i.e. many, many duplicate posts chatting up the WoW dating site across many, many realms.) This joker made a bunch of “bla bla nerf this, buff my class” posts so that his history would stand up to a casual inspection. That had to take some effort. (Furl archives: Post history-page 1, Post history-page 3)