GuildMates is a (newish) service to register your game characters from multiple virtual worlds. The site includes a browse and search function, friends list, avatars and is free. Keeping in touch with game “friends” is a nice ideal, but I’m more of a “keep your enemies closer” kind of guy. Sadly, none of the asshats on my List are registered. But I’ll be watching. (Don’t think I’ve forgotten about that little J-boots incident on Tarew Marr, Billy Bob Necromancer!)
Category Archives: Asides
Free World of Warcraft iPod Stuff
Did you want to have World of Warcraft trailers on your iPod? (Really. Who wouldn’t?) These can now claim the title “Most Embarassing Things on My iPod”, usurping both “Bennie and the Jets” and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. (shut up.)
Loot and Luck
A short while ago, World of Warcraft began their Guild Relations program, an invitation-only guild think tank. We had told one of our officers to check into app’ing, aka auditioning, for this — he probably didn’t — no matter, doesn’t seem like a lot of benefit to participating. However, there is one good thing that has sprung from this program: The Guild Relations forum, which is just about the only forum with thoughtful game discussions. Inside the 234,678th thread about the evils of DKP, I found this study of DKP loot distribution versus /random loot distribution in a (hypothetical?) raiding guild of 150 members. If you look at the “Lady Luck is a Bitch” /random chart, the one hypothetical member attended almost 50 raids before scoring some loot. This is how I know the /random chart is simulated: that guy would have quit after the tenth raid or so.