Dare we hope? Blizzard has reportedly purchased 1500 Opteron processors to be used in new servers. Before WoW players everywhere begin to rejoice however, remember who’s running the show. For all we know Blizzard may decide to use them to run scripts to automatically nerf anything enjoyable left in WoW.
From the Warcraft forums, Qil of the Emerald Dream realm has written a guide to managing (real life) aggro from wives: Serious Aggro Managers – The Guide. Largely, these are smoke and mirror type strats to divert the wife’s attention from how much time is being consumed by Warcraft. I’d recommend that one of the woman gamers write a similar guide for managing husband aggro, but I think we can all agree that’s just a matter of putting out platters of hotdogs and nachos and turning on the television. (Email tip from Byron.) (Thread archive)
Ok, now this I don’t get, and I’ve actually spent a few minutes trying to get it.
As featured on the World of Warcraft front page this week, Play! A Video Game Symphony is an orchestra playing music from video games like Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft, Silent Hill and others. Three gigs are scheduled so far: Chicago, Stockholm (sold out) and Philadelphia.
I checked out the Chicago ticket prices: cheap seats $35, pricey seats $125, with a range of options in between. The $125 seats include a meet and greet with the following:
– Arnie Roth, Music Director and Conductor of PLAY! And The Chicagoland Pops Orchestra
– Rony Barrak, guest artist (percussionist) sponsored by Electronic Arts
– Yuzo Koshiro, One of the composers of Shenmue
– Jeremy Soule, Composer of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
– Jason Hayes, Composer of World of Warcraft
– Marty O’Donnell, Composer of Halo
More special guests to be announced!
I gotta say, I enjoy in-game music as much as the next guy, but I’m not downloading it from game sites and listening on my iPod. In fact, I don’t know anyone that does or would. To actually pay for a ticket, logoff the game, MISS A RAID and DKP, I dunno … seems like quite a commitment.
Maybe this sort of thing appeals to the roleplay crowd, otherwise I have no clue.
You figure it out, you explain it to me.