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Lineage Identity Thefts

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Approximately 220,000 Lineage accounts were created with stolen identities on the South Korean servers. The prime suspects? Chinese gamers and farmers. (Of course.) Read: Identity theft feeds $1bn gaming black market. The South Korean gamers aren’t taking that shit lying down and are slaughtering the Chinese gamers in retaliation. Read: South Korean gamers stage online massacre of Chinese. I know what you’re thinking: how long until this scam arrives in other games with huge farmer operations? I dunno, maybe it’s already here. (dun dun DUN!) (More to read: The AP report, In South Korea, an online game led to identity theft.)

Moo

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Here’s an important Warcraft safety tip. You know the little random tips that appear on the load screen when you’re entering the game? One of those is: There is no cow level. Do NOT, under any circumstance, ask in Ventrilo/TeamSpeak about the cow level. If your guild has any Diablo/Diablo II hags, Vent/TS will explode with moo’ing for several minutes. Every time someone asks in our Vent about the cow level, I rip off my headset before the mooooooo’s ruin what’s left of my post-iPod hearing and wait five or ten minutes before returning. Save your guild from wanton moo’ing, learn about The Secret Cow Level.

Save Us, Patch 1.10

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I found some more good news about Warcraft’s “The Patch that Will Save Us All”, more commonly known as Patch 1.10. The good news starts here, when forum poster Anasa of Shadow Moon asked about why bag/inventory space has to be so goddamn tight in this game. She put it nicer:

Is anyone else sick of all the junk we have to carry around for various reasons? Holiday content (perfume, love tokens, the stuff you gotta combine 5 of, the candy…), Argent Dawn Commission, Vitreous Focuser, cauldron items, 3 types of scourgestones, Twilight cloth items, Encrypted Text, crests, medallions, signets, bijous, coins, “epic” zg quest items, AQ artifacts, multiple sets of gear for different activities (ugh priests), too many trinkets to use, crafting materials… it never friggin ends!

A-frickin-men. Drysc, corrupted tree avatar of Blizzard, responded, and let me say, I’m surprised they allow Drysc internet access from the sanitarium:

The limitations of bag space are intended and make it a necessity to choose what you want to keep. This may be the inane ramblings of a depraved mind, but I find it fun managing bag space. I treat it as a sort of mini-game, arranging items by category, making tough decisions on what to do with specific items. That is my personal outlook; I don’t know if anyone else feels the same way.

That said …

With the 1.10 patch two new craftable bag types will be available specifically for holding items related to either herbalism or enchanting. Tailors will be able to try their hand at crafting these new bags as the recipes will be found throughout the world. These new specialty bags will function similar to how a normal bag would, but with the restriction of holding only herbs or enchanting supplies. The recipes will be made available for crafting these bags in various sizes, the high end of each type being 24 slots.

That’s good news (sorta, for herbalists and enchanters) and further evidence that 1.10 is The Patch that Will Save Us All. But really, why must there always be barriers in this damn game?

Here’s Fun. Here’s all the goddamn barriers that they erect in the name of slowing me down until the expansion is ready. Here’s me.

Why do I have to use a pre-raid checklist to make sure I’m adequately prepared? (That’s rhetorical.) Poisons (or Reagents whathaveyou), Equipment repaired, Resist equipment repaired, Keys, Bandages, Potions, Open bagspace in case I score some uber, How much uber might I score and do I have bagspace for best case scenario? I do check before I log the night prior, but I doublecheck before flying out of Ironforge because my guild will mock you ALL NIGHT if you forget supplies, as well they should.

No shit, I would buy the expansion for this one feature alone: Vastly expanded bag/inventory/bank space.

And no, managing bag space is NOT FUN. WTF.