In case anyone thought I was the overly helpful type, especially to those that might want to intrude on my camp, let me disavow you of that.
What do you think, junior? You think these hands have been soakin’ in Ivory liquid?
Tag Archives: warcraft
What Are Friends For?
(Somewhat inaccurate transcript of a recent TeamSpeak convo):
Foton: Hey man, that formula you’ve been looking for is on the AH. (and yes, we actually pronounce it AH instead of Auction House, which makes absolutely NO SENSE, but hey.)
EnchanterBud: buyout on it? how much?
F: 60 big ones on the buyout.
EB: What the fuck!
F: Gotta want it.
EB: I ain’t paying that shit. What’s the bid at and time left?
F: 20 gold, very long on time.
EB: fuck.
F: Dude. Gotta want it.
Wow.
This past weekend in the Warcrap world can be summed up in a word: catastrophe. Although any word that means “fucked up big” would do. (Blizzard’s most recent apology)
Some background: I don’t have queues on my server yet. But, performance has been dwindling rather steadily as of late, so it’s probably only a matter of days before the queues arrive. My first Warcrap character was on one of the large PVP servers, and after a few weeks and 20 levels, I had enough of the multi-hour queues and fled to my current server, which had a population of roughly 12 people.
At first, the low population was kinda the suck, since nothing was ever on the AH and there weren’t many players to do larger instances, etc., but as other refugees arrived, the situation improved … and went beyond improved back to sucking again.
My server’s woes are nothing compared to those other servers, however.
This should be interesting to watch (from very, very far away), as this is not only a public relations disaster for our Blizzard overlords, but potentially a financial disaster as well. They really can’t take people’s money for a box then say, “Bummer, we can’t deliver the service. Thanks for stopping, man.” I mean, they can try, and it certainly seems that they are, but in the end, that won’t work.