The Million-Gnome March

This past Friday a sea of Gnomish fury swept over the chilly vale of Dun Morogh. The reason? Their character class isn't balanced. AFK Gamer has details on this outpouring of tiny fury, with liveblogging from the event itself and pictures of the naked gnome march from later in the weekend. Despite GM crackdowns and general apathy towards the Warrior cause, they appear to have gotten some sort of response from a developer (even though the response has nothing to do with the march). Terra Nova has picked up the topic and poses it as a question about the right to assemble in virtual spaces.

Comments

Re:So we don't even...

[EngineeringMarvel]

Yes, the post is concerning World Of Warcraft. Dun Morough is the starting place for gnomish characters and is also one of the most populated areas on any server. Mainly because the city of Ironforge is located near Dun Morough and that is where the Alliance auction house is located.

Gnome?

[KillerDeathRobot]

Sure, there were a lot of gnomes there, but this wasn't a "Million Gnome March" in the sense that it was about gnome rights. The phrasing in the blurb is ludicrous: gnomes are protesting because "their" class isn't balanced? Gnome is a race that can play several classes. This was a warrior protest, not a gnome protest, even if lots of gnomes were involved.

Re:Not a MMORPG

[BrookHarty]

Thats the point what people are saying, blizzard is playing both sides of the fence, they want you to play but not think outside of their box. But they dont mention what their box is.

Hunters pulling is their main skill, now when everyone is using it, blizzard tells them not to use it on linked mobs. Problem is, they forgot to link mobs in all instances!

Warriors are having issues as they have been nerfed and cant fight paladins 10 levels beneath them.

Then there is issues with the game being stable, people dropping, respawn rates, scripts for bosses not working, massive server lag with more than 30 people... The list goes on with problems and bugs in game. While this is expected, the total lack of response is to in game TT's have made people upset.

So, while people are starting to enter 50's and some 60's, you have to raid group just to finish the last games, which cant be done.

If nothing changes, 1/4th of the subscribers will leave in 2-3 months, Blizzard is aware of this and working their ass off to finish the big servers and code needed for Battlegrounds.

Talk about churn, there are a dozen MMOPGS's out, and blizzard could loose tens of thousands to them.

Re:EULA

[Minna Kirai]

EULA's have been proven to be invalid after you pay for a product.

Wrong. Triply-wrong (which works out to be right, I suppose).

1. EULAs haven't been proven invalid in the USA. The most recent court decision was pro-EULA.
2. However, EULAs are invalid according to a sensible reading of the legal principles, so hopefully a higher court will reverse that bad ruling.
3. But it doesn't matter, because MMORPGs do not use EULAs. EULAs are for software, the use of their servers is covered by a traditional service agreemet (like a phone or electricity bill) which is valid as normal.

invalid after you pay for a product.

Notice that with WoW or another MMORPG, you sign that agreement before paying the monthly bills. EULAs for software you already have are invalid; service agreements for things a company is promising to give you in the future are fine. (Mutual exchange of consideration and all that)

Videos, screen shots, etc.

[antdude]

I posted this a few days ago on my AQFL Web site:

Death_Knight's thread (screen shots [nice ion canon] and comments) mentions a FilePlanet (account required -- free or subscription) video file link (87 MB) with Gnomevasion in World of Warcraft. Here is the video file description: "What happens when you take 300 players, throw in teamwork, voice communication, a server crash, and one of the greatest guilds of all time? You get Gnomevasion! In this video members of Sturmgrenadier form up on an alternate server in WoW when their home of Bleeding Hollow goes down. Hilarity ensues when each and every member wreaks chaos on an unsuspecting server with pink-haired pig-tailed gnomes! Download this video and witness the true power of a Gnomevasion."

Non-FilePlanet sites: #1, #2, and #3 (BitTorrent files).

Funny music video! It is two minutes and 20 seconds. Check it out!