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No Room in the Raid? No Problem.

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/whisper

I’m currently stuck in the Warcraft queue. Still 30 minutes to go, or so says the login timer, and tonight is my guild’s Molten Core clear. Choo choo, climb aboard the loot train, all of that.

Here’s the thing tho. I don’t really need anything from Molten Core anymore, haven’t for quite a while. My guild, God bless ’em, gives out DKP to those in the raid and to those that didn’t make it in time for an invite to the Lucky 40. You’re online and technically available to raid, you get DKP, no questions asked.

You see the beauty here — I’d earn DKP just for sitting on my ass looking through the Auction House all night.

Heh, these are the things they don’t teach you in MMO school or in MMO books.

Move Along, Nothing to See

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Here’s another thing I just don’t get.

A few of the former EQ guildies have moved on to EQ2; they’ve been there since launch. They’ve loved it and hated it, just like everyone else with their game of choice.

So yesterday, EQ2’s Kingdom of Sky expansion launches, and there’s a few delays, rollbacks, crashes, digital downloads that won’t — typical Launch Day crap — and the EQ guildies are livid. No noobs they to the woes of a Launch Day, but to hear them tell it, I should just shut the fuck up about Warcraft queues and shittorent patches, they’re living a nightmare here!

Thought I, there should be some good rant reading on Wednesday, probably a LOT of good rant reading. (MMO Truth #3: Players hate rollbacks. To actually have something in your hands — levels, loots, whatev’s — only to have it snatched away in a few minutes time, that’s hated.)

So, umm. I found this: Kingdom of Sky Off To A Great SOE Start. And this: Kingdom of Sky Issues. I found a few EQ2 forum rants, but I was really after a good writeup.

I know there were rollbacks, I know there were crashes, I know there were problems with downloads, I want to know how bad; gimme an anecdote, figures, something someone heard from a friend of a friend of a RL GM, anything.

Which brings me to what I don’t get: is everything so wonderful in EQ2 that there’s no bullshit to report? Where’s the guys to tell us what’s REALLY going on over there? I’m not trying to bang on EQ2’s population figures because all’s not so well in Warcraft-land either, but is this game so off the radar that no one cares?

At any rate, next time I talk to the EQ guildies, I’m going to straighten them out: they need to stfu about the KoS launch, I’m living a nightmare here with queues and shittorent patches!

This is Stupid and very Sprite

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Sprite (aka Coca-Cola) wants gamers (that’s YOU!) to consider their soft drink the drink of champions (not you currently, but maybe if you start chugging Sprite instead of that nasty Mountain Dew or other Pepsi product). I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP, Snoop, the Doggfather, introduced the Hip-Hop Gaming League, a new video game league for famous people that drink Sprite. Here’s the announcement. There aren’t enough words for lame in the English language to describe this marketing campaign, although, I’ve just now thought of a new one: Sprite.