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Lurky

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By now, you might have heard that players on the European servers, who purchased the Collector’s Edition of the Burning Crusade, were temporarily gypped out of their CE netherwhelp pets because Blizzard mighta kinda sorta forgot to put in the code for the pets. Heh, oops.

Sooooo … Blizzard is compensating the affected players by giving them an additional pet, Lurky, a murloc. When I first heard of this, I thought how cool, now I want Lurky too, but that’s just me thinking that more is more. (Well it is! By definition.)

Then I saw all the hoops they have to jump through to get the netherwhelp and the murloc — crimony. Here’s what I don’t get: don’t they have a list or some sort of numbering scheme they used for Collector’s Editions CD keys? Run a script on maintenance day and send out the pets? Not possible?

Maybe they have IT people like at my work where I’ll ask them to do something and they’ll say “that can’t be done, sorry”, when I know very well it can be done, I see other companies doing it, they’re just unwilling to do it.

That’s the point in the conversation when I’ll stomp out of their department cursing and plotting revenge.

And speaking of Collector’s Editions, Amazon just emailed me this morning that they now have Collector’s Editions available. I had submitted my email back in OCTOBER to be notified when CEs were available.

We’re happy to inform you that the items you requested are now available to order from Amazon.com!

Video Games :: World Of Warcraft Burning Crusade Collector’s Edition

Availability: In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

Price: $69.99

Well FYVM.

A Sucker Born Every Minute …

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… and two to take him.

When I first investigated Shattrath City in World of Warcraft’s Burning Crusade, I ran across the vendor NPC Griftah, seller of Amazing! Amulets! They seem too good to be true! And indeed they are.

He does have some good pitches.

Shattrath Grifter

I caught the joke (took me a few minutes, I’ll confess), and I wished I could read some of the petitions Blizzard will get about this guy. I’ll bet it’s hilarious and will provide hours of entertainment for the Customer Service staff.

Look here! A complaint already!

In the grand scheme of things, 25 gold seems a small price to pay to learn a valuable lesson. Play past it.

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Scam artist NPCs in Shattrath, pg 1

A New Trend in Warcraft Guilds

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Here’s a new trend in World of Warcraft my guild has experienced: Cafeteria-style Guild Membership.

I’ll explain with a story.

Late last week, post-Burning Crusade launch as you know, I was in one of the 60-noob instances with a group of guildmates. I had a lot of real life hurdles last week so I’m very much bringing up the rear in guildmember leveling. Consequently, when I say one of the 60-noob instances, I mean me because the rest of them have done those instances 42,000 times.

Anyways, we were about to commence a’killin’ when one of guild priests sent me a tell complaining about her woes in leveling and grouping with guildmembers. You know me, I’m all about sucking off the priests because we’re going to need them later … so I (for once) actually read her tells and responded.

Examples:
She hates leveling. Me: Amen.

She’s having a hard time soloing. Me: You still holy? Respec to shadow. (fucking duh.)

WoW Tutorial for the non-WoW: The shadow talents are the big DPS abilities for priests. And when I say big, I mean a shadow priest is a frightening thing to behold.

But she enjoys being the group/guild healer and wants to stay holy specced. Me: Respec to shadow. (fucking duh.)

Ohhhh Foton, she’s just not a shadow priest. Me, thinks: Fine, be stubborn and suffer.

She’s not well liked in this guild like I am and has a hard time finding groups. Me: Not true. (And it’s not true, me = well-liked is also debatable.)

Anyhow, she’s going to go off on her own and solo through the levels and hopes there’s still a spot for her in the guild when we’re all level 70. Me, thinks: Not without shadow you’re not solo’ing. Me, said: Err, huh?

She doesn’t want me to tell anyone, not that anyone would even ask cuz she’s not liked. Me: WTF, I’m going to have to say something, everyone will see the /gquit message and ask.

Please Foton. Also, she wants to keep a lowbie Draenei shaman in the guild so she can still see our guildchat from time to time. Me, thinks: Sure thing, your highness. Me, said: Ok.

Me, thinks: Please let this conversation be over.

So that’s how it stood last week. Her priest, THE CHARACTER WE’RE INTERESTED IN, is unguilded and her noob shaman is guilded so she can see guild chat. A guild she suspects doesn’t like her. Made no sense at all.

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