Before we engaged an elite mob, we used to shout, “FOR THE HORDE!”, although that made no sense at all as we’re Alliance. Now we shout, “u china?”

It’s like a fucking plague.

At least in EQ, They (meaning the ebay’ing collective They) had the decency to keep it on the down low. In this game, it couldn’t get any more mainstream unless they slapped an astronaut on it with an MTv flag.

I wonder how much longer we have to pretend this isn’t happening.

Until then, ++++!!! (which loosely translated is: buff me, love me, gimme the good stuff.)

Another lag-o-riffic weekend in World of Warcraft, (server down! server down!), and a few interesting issues cropped up that I was tracking with my l337 forum stalking skills. You might wonder why I would stalk the forum instead of play the game — you might not wonder, no difference, because I’m going to tell you anyways — Warcraft fucked me over a couple times this weekend so while I was fuming, I’d go forum stalk.

Nothing new, just a couple of buggy quests that, for some reason unbeknownst to even me, I kept trying to redo to PROVE to myself that they were, in fact, bugged. O ya, and a kinda sorta uber item I was selling on the Auction House that vanished into the nether regions of Lag. Enjoy the adventure!

Back to the forum stalking: Seems there might be a bit of a problem with dice rolling in Warcraft. Players reporting group members rolling multiple 100s out of /random 1-100 and other group members consistently winning /randoms over a few hours of playtime. Now I’m not a big believer in anecdotal evidence, ESPECIALLY in MMOGs, and I haven’t witnessed this bit of mathematical nonsense yet, but the odds are astronomically against those streaks being anything but hacks.

If the reports are true, that is. Obviously, they could be false, but I have seen some very odd things in Warcraft. Very odd, indeed.

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Blizzard really needs to hire more dicks. If they had more people that were dicks, they could forsee this kinda stuff from the start.

Let’s say you’re a Horde out for a night on town. You’re level 60 … you’ve been there, done that … you’re buffed, sure, you’ve been working out (metaphorically), and you have no place to go. Possibly there’s some action out in Auberdine, maybe Menethil, anywhere there’s some naive Alliance trying to grind level 20.

So you bid your goodbyes to your brethren in the Barrens and head north, to Darkshore. Dodge a few guards. Maybe you don’t dodge, maybe you kill … no matter. You arrive relatively unscathed in Auberdine nonetheless.

And what have we here? A port NPC that’s not elite and has no faction consequences. I ask you this … who among us could resist? You lock down a faction from traveling to the other continent, indefinitely, with no consequences. Who among us could resist?

Not I. (Although my main isn’t Horde, I won’t claim that I’m above toying with a non-elite, factionless NPC.)

Read for yourself. Blizz response, post #192, courtesy of hapless Tyren: “We are aware of the situation, and will address it soon.”

Blizzard’s raw noobness is almost endearing. Kinda reminds me of a certain gaming academe blog that posts about SHOCKING (to them) stories of embittered ex’s deleting items or players joining groups and soaking up experience while perma-AFK.

GOD NO! People actually do that?

2005 to the gaming noobs … transmission incoming … people have been doing this kind of shit for ten years. Welcome to the party.