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The AQ War Effort

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Warcraft patch 1.9 introduced that colossal server-wide quest to open the gates of Ahn’Qiraj — it primarily involves pulling 3.85 million resources out of the economy. (I’ll be keeping my runecloth and thorium, thankyouverymuch.) You can watch the server races at Ahn’Qiraj War Supplies Server Rankings. Since that site doesn’t include details of how the census data is polled, I can’t comment on the accuracy other than the totals required is accurate and my own server’s status is approximately correct. Details of the resource requirements can be found at WoW Insider.

Week of Fives: Day Three

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Continuing … the 2005 that I want to remember for-flippin-ever, Five Favorite 2005 Gaming Screenshots:

1. February 2005 — The warrior protest on the Warcraft Argent Dawn server … hundreds of naked and partially-dressed gnomes marching on Ironforge. The horror. The horror. (full post)

Gnome Conga Line

2. March 2005 — World of Warcraft’s impending launch in China is eagerly anticipated … by Blizzard alone. (full post)

China Launch

3. April 2005 — The drunk cat toucher in Warcraft’s Darkshore zone was my favorite public chatter of the year. His cat liked it! (full post)

Drunk Cat Toucher

4. June 2005 — My psychotic, cursing group member from Guild Wars. So young. So angry. Damn that rap music! (full post)

The Psychotic Should Only Solo in Games

5. August 2005 — The Warcraft noob who was unsure if Humans could pick up the face-melting talents (aka Shadow spec) or if those talents were limited to Undead priests. He wasn’t joking. (full post)

He R Stoopid

Looking back through all of my 2005 screenshots, I’m reminded that it’s the people that make multiplayer online gaming so special. And when I say special, I mean “frequently a pain in the ass”.