Screenshot Day!

A few screenshots I’d collected lately of players having fun (sometimes at the expense of others):

The ingame gold sellers/power level services have moved to fancy textual messages to hustle their shit.

Hustling for Work

Well, it would have been fancy if he could have tested his macro first.

Here’s one of my guildmates. His fun had come to an end.

The Friend Zone

Bastard still hasn’t told us the story behind that mistell.

I told you a few weeks ago that my guild had split the membership into two ranks: one for the high-attendance raiders, the other for the lower-attendance raiders. (Link) One of the officers proposed adding a third rank.

Never Count on Me

Bah! If only we had the nerve to follow through on that. I don’t know about other guilds, but mine is losing its edge with the expansion just around the corner. There’s two camps of raiders. One is “the expansion will make our gear worthless, why bother farming it anymore!” and the other is the “umm, you will need SOME gear in the expansion to start off, you twits!”

I’m on the fence. I’ve got my purplez, but I’ll help others with their purplez just cuz what the hell else is there to do besides hide in the beta?

And finally, as you can see below, I’m still winning friends and influencing people in the PVP battlegrounds.

More Battleground Fun!!

I am REALLY surprised I didn’t get reported for that. Not that I cared.

W O R T H

I T.

The Warcraft Auction House Database

The World of Warcraft Auction House Database, a browsable, searchable database of each realm’s auction house listings, updated every two hours. Although I love the idea, and certainly wonder how such a thing is possible, I can’t imagine many scenarios in which this is a must-have. I guess you could be at work and are hot to get a Glowing Brightwood Staff, so you watch the database listings, but then what? You race home to log on and bid? Or, you log on at work and have your coworker bud stand lookout for the boss while you camp the auction? Maybe you’re working Auction Houses across several realms and it’s easier to check the database than logging/relogging several characters? I’m not seeing it. Unless … unless the database can mine data and give us some meaningful stats, then I’m on board for this.

Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe

Lum’s been googling for World of Warcraft hacks again. From Gamespot, the down and dirty:

The World of Warcraft guild Overrated has been permanently banned by Blizzard Entertainment after it was caught cheating in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Guild members used an exploit that essentially knocked down walls, according to postings on World of Warcraft-related forums.

i.e. used an exploit that took advantage of client-side movement.

Well fucking duh. EVERYBODY, including my teenaged gaming neighbor Skippy, knows that WoW has too much in the client.

This is also a good reminder of a life lesson most of us learned in grade school: Two people cannot keep a secret.

And its corollary: There’s no way in Hell an entire guild can keep a secret.