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WoW: Wrath of the Lich King Release Date Announced
Mini-Geek and many others tipped news that Blizzard has announced the release date for Wrath of the Lich King , World of Warcraft's second expansion. It will be in stores on November 13th in the US and Europe. They've also released details about the contents of the Collector's Edition. Wrath will be preceded by a large content patch, which will expand the talent trees and include many of the gameplay changes set for the expansion (including the consolidation of spell damage and healing into 'spellpower,' achievements, and a new profession). The patch was installed on the public test realm yesterday, and the current patch notes are available.
* "It'll be more of the same."
* "You can never win an MMORPG. It's a never-ending treadmill."
* "Thank God I got off that crack a year ago."
* "It won't be as good as Eve/Warhammer/etc."
* "Blizzard isn't going to get another one of my dollars after that DMCA bullshit."
* "I'm waiting for Diablo 3/StarCraft 2."
* "I hate PC games. Console games rule."
I think I've covered the major ones. On that note, I have my copy on preorder.
I'm a part of the beta right now, as well as a few friends and guildmates. Sure, there are bugs now given that it's beta, and I don't expect it to be bug-free at release, but... given how many fundamental things are broken right now (continents crashing regularly, critical talents for some class builds not working, etc), I wonder how they plan to have this out in less than two months.
Then again, I'm a sucker, so I'll be buying it anyway.
Burning Crusade was a great add-on, and I expect that this new one will be just as good. Sure, some people will complain that they have to buy content AND pay a monthly fee, but I only have to buy it once. If they skimped on the content I'd be upset too, but they don't. I'll get far more playing time out of this add-on than I have gotten out of any other recent game purchase.
For I moment I interpreted the headline as meaning they just created a http://wow.slashdot.org/ category. plz dont.
Option 6 please. Oh and to make this quicker please just use the boilerplate examples provided.
you insensitive clod, now what are we supposed to talk about?
-- Sig under construction...
* "It won't be as good as Eve/Warhammer/etc."
Uh, I've been playing etc online for like a week. That game was crap. Eve/WAR maybe, but etc, never.
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OK, there are undoubtedly people who want to live the experience of dressing up as their favorite elf maiden and waiting in line for hours to get the box at midnight, but seriously. All you really need to buy is a key to upgrade your account. Then they can let people download the client a week before the official launch date and flip a switch at launch time to enable the new content. No waiting, no order shortages, and they can use the money they saved from not having to make 50 million discs to buy gold or something.
* "You can never win an MMORPG. It's a never-ending treadmill."
Yeah, but my doctor says I need the exercise.
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation! We have assumed control! - Neil Peart
Where is the "It was fun but now I've moved on." option? Both praising it as a milestone in MMO gaming but at the same time suggesting there is more out there. If this is your way of evangelizing a WoW content patch then you forgot your [sarcasm] tags.
Here I am, here I remain.
"Zug Zug and Welcome to Northrend! To help with the landing efforts, we're going to need you to kill 12 iceboars, 8 frost basilisks, and 10 snow buzzards!"
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
Test Patch Notes Disclaimer: The test realm patch notes only apply to features that exist on the public test realms. We provide these patch notes to players who wish to know what features and changes exist in the test environment in order to more effectively test these features.
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World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.4.3
The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/
The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
General
* Dispel effects will no longer attempt to remove effects that have 100% dispel resistance.
* Parry Rating, Defense Rating, and Block Rating: Low-level players will now convert these ratings into their corresponding defensive stats at the same rate as level 34 players.
* Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World's End Tavern!
* Mounts at 30?! Yes, it's true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold.
* Blood Elf flightmasters outside of Silvermoon City and Tranquillien have traded in their bats for glorious fire-breathing dragonhawks.
* Alcohol cooldowns have been rolled into Drinks: All 10-second cooldowns have been removed and replaced with the 1-second Drink cooldown.
* Numerous flying non-combat pets have had their flight height modified to no longer skim along the ground: captured firefly, dragonhawk hatchlings, moths, owls, parrots, phoenix hatchling, spirit of summer, sprite darter, and tiny sporebat.
* Nether Ray Fry (a non-combat pet) is now available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. This requires an Exalted reputation with Sha'tari Skyguard.
* Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress.
* Placing an item in your bank will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress if the spell was cast by that item.
* You can no longer move backwards to stop racing rams.
* When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the last target with the highest threat, versus the current target.
Druids
* Barkskin: The cost of this spell is now reduced by Tree of Life Form.
Hunters
* Growl: Pets will no longer generate additional threat from this ability based on attack power buffs cast on them. Attack power buffs on their master will still indirectly increase the threat generated by the pet's Growl.
* Pet Aggro: Pets will no longer generate threat immediately from being summoned.
* Scare Beast: This spell will now be limited correctly to one target.
Mages
* Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor, and Molten Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.
Paladins
* Greater Blessing of Light Rank 1: This spell will no longer overwrite Greater Blessing of Light Rank 2.
* Summon Warhorse is now available at level 30.
Priests
* Mind Vision: This effect will now be cancelled immediately on targets who use an Invisibility Potion or Gnomish Cloaking Device.
* Spiritual Healing: Ranks 2-5 of this talent will no longer prevent refreshing Prayer of Mending.
Rogues
* Cheat Death: This talent has be
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WoW is like a treadmill that makes you fatter.
I'm pretty sure he didn't have "lifting hot pockets to your mouth" in mind when he said that.
~Vexed and loving it!
"On that note, I'm a total fucking loser."
Fixed that for you.
That "fixed that for you" thing is getting really, really old. I know the best you can do is ape other people's wit, but at least let the old guard die.
"LOL, loser."
Anybody who uses LOL in a forum that doesn't limit responses to the length of a cellular text message is most certainly a loser.
Just think of how pathetically sad it would be if there was a insanely long uncut movie of your retarded ass sitting there for day after day after day after day wasting your useless life away in front of the absolute bottom of the barrel/mass market/Brittany Spears of MMORPGs, WoW.
LOL, loser.
Versus say...trolling slashdot all day?
"On that note, I'm a total fucking loser."
Fixed that for you.
Just think of how pathetically sad it would be if there was a insanely long uncut movie of your retarded ass sitting there for day after day after day after day wasting your useless life away in front of the absolute bottom of the barrel/mass market/Brittany Spears of MMORPGs, WoW.
LOL, loser.
Even with the hate, that was a damn good comment.
Thanks to eating disorders most chicks are reasonably good looking these days.
As opposed to flaming random gamers anonymously on Slashdot. Yes, I can see how your life has so much more meaning.
/cheer SilentChris
"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want." - F Scott Fitzgerald
70 prot pally - shandris tank wtf!
WTF? You too? Do I even wanna ask what your toon name is?
"Fighting the underpants gnomes since 1998!" "Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat"
"19.99 + 29.99 + 29.99 = 79.97 so that gets you WoW, WoW:BC, WoW:WOTLK November 23, 2004 - November 23, 2008 @14.99 per mon = 719.52 for 4 years $799.49 grand total. Yeah, I mean that's a totally reasonable price for 1 game and 2 expansions.... or not."
Or you could look at it this way. The add-on will cost you about what... 3.9% of what you've paid so far?
I said that if you play WoW the add-on is a good deal, and it is. You're arguing that WoW itself isn't a good deal. You might believe that, but that's not what I said.
For further reference: Straw Man
Those are the patch notes for the last patch (2.4.3), not the current one on the test realm (3.0.2). Sorry, as GP I'm behind a filter, so I can't post the real ones.
Then embrace sheer joy in the starting zone with interesting game play, a good storyline and the pleasant experience of phasing.
Then set foot into Outland, feel your heart sink as you realize that you and thousands of others exactly like you have to do the grind to 70 in same content you've been playing for the last year, while all your friends tell you how great Northrend is.
Every gnome in the game get ready to get your pink mohawk! ...buncha sheep. At least I'm not bitter.
-fragbait
PTR 3.0.2 Patch Notes
The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/
General
- All players will have their talent points reimbursed and will have access to new talents throughout their trees; this includes the 51-point talents. Several new spells and abilities have been added for all classes. Players will need to visit their class trainer to learn new spells. /spit off of the towers. .5 secs each to the cast time.
- The Kirin Tor have made their move and so has Dalaran.Please watch your step around the crater that has been left behind!
- The Barber Shop has been implemented and you can now visit one of the Barber Shops in the major cities to change your appearance. Be sure to get your Shave and a Haircut!
- The all new Achievement System has been implemented and the Achievement panel can be accessed via the interface. While many achievements are not retroactive, we have done our best to credit as many as possible. Gamemasters will not be able to grant achievements for past accomplishements.
- Stormwind Harbor is now open for business.
- New towers have been added outside Of Orgrimmar and in Tirisfal Glades. Crews are currently at work to establish a new Zeppelin route to Northrend for your travel pleasure. Please no
- A new entrance is now viewable in the Caverns of Time.
- Hit Rating, Critical Strike Rating, and Haste Rating now modify both melee attacks and spells.
- Spell casting and spell channeling pushback has been changed to the following:
- When casting a spell:
+ The first and second hit will add
+ All hits after the second will have no effect.
- When channeling a spell:
+ The first and second hit reduces current duration by 25% of total duration each.
+ All hits after the second will have no effect.
- Spellpower:
+ All items and effects which grant bonuses to spell damage and spell healing are being consolidated into a single stat, Spellpower. This stat will appear with the same values found on items which grant âoeincreased spell damage and healingâ such as on typical Mage and Warlock itemization.
# For classes which do not heal, they should see no change in the character sheet other than new tooltip wording.
+ Healing characters will see their bonus healing numbers on the character sheet decrease, however, all healing spells have been modified to receive more benefit from spellpower than they received fr
These are the Proper 3.0.2 patch notes...
PTR 3.0.2 Patch Notes
The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/
General
- All players will have their talent points reimbursed and will have access to new talents throughout their trees; this includes the 51-point talents. Several new spells and abilities have been added for all classes. Players will need to visit their class trainer to learn new spells. /spit off of the towers. .5 secs each to the cast time.
- The Kirin Tor have made their move and so has Dalaran.Please watch your step around the crater that has been left behind!
- The Barber Shop has been implemented and you can now visit one of the Barber Shops in the major cities to change your appearance. Be sure to get your Shave and a Haircut!
- The all new Achievement System has been implemented and the Achievement panel can be accessed via the interface. While many achievements are not retroactive, we have done our best to credit as many as possible. Gamemasters will not be able to grant achievements for past accomplishements.
- Stormwind Harbor is now open for business.
- New towers have been added outside Of Orgrimmar and in Tirisfal Glades. Crews are currently at work to establish a new Zeppelin route to Northrend for your travel pleasure. Please no
- A new entrance is now viewable in the Caverns of Time.
- Hit Rating, Critical Strike Rating, and Haste Rating now modify both melee attacks and spells.
- Spell casting and spell channeling pushback has been changed to the following:
- When casting a spell:
+ The first and second hit will add
+ All hits after the second will have no effect.
- When channeling a spell:
+ The first and second hit reduces current duration by 25% of total duration each.
+ All hits after the second will have no effect.
- Spellpower:
+ All items and effects which grant bonuses to spell damage and spell healing are being consolidated into a single stat, Spellpower. This stat will appear with the same values found on items which grant âoeincreased spell damage and healingâ such as on typical Mage and Warlock itemization.
# For classes which do not heal, they should see no change in the character sheet other than new tooltip wording.
+ Healing characters will see their bonus healing numbers on the character sheet decrease, however, all healing spells have been modified to receive mo
How many of these announcements are being made before, not at, blizzcon, and how they all line up to be made within days of Warhammer Online's release. While it's normal to try and steal the spotlight from a competitor, this does seem awfully reactionary by Blizzard's normal standards of pr.
Thank of all the women who are going to sit lonely and abandoned whiles their guy goes dragon hunting!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
This is good for everybody, for those who want to roll a DK right away, they can hang out in plague lands and the outland for a couple of weeks while everybody else hits the northrend, less competition for quests and resources.
If they wanted to lighten the load on their servers even more (although theyve probably learned a thing or two since the BC launch), theyd release Starcraft II on the same day.
That would be a tough decision...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
I hope they manage to fix the issues currently affecting users running the game in OpenGL mode (most wine users.)
My wife and I are currently trying to beta test WotLK on our systems at home with wine, but many areas, upon entering, completely white out the screen. Running the game in Direct3D mode will fix the issue, but at a severe performance penalty. The parts of the game that do have working graphics seem to be quite buggy as well. I don't really think two months will be enough time to straigten out all the bugs, so it will be interesting to see how things proceed from here.
Our friends at ManaPotions.com would beg to differ.
Thanks, I followed a link to the official site from Massively's coverage of 3.0.2 and didn't notice they were linking to the older patch notes. Someone with mod points mod my post down and one of the posts with the correct notes up!
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http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?sku=647480
Link to Collector's Edition PreOrder thanks to the AC above for finding it on GameStop.
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Yep, and we all have mod points today somehow... but seriously... I'm starting to wonder if the only people getting mod points and zealots and trolls...
Help test the
Because the retailers would then scream about Blizzard selling things for less.
You forgot "Anyone else taking off a day at work for this one?" and "My name is X on X server, anyone else want to raid on November 13th?"
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Hmmm, I got modpoints today, I play WoW, *and* I'm a zealot and a troll - yup, it's an evil conspiracy!
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Anybody who uses LOL in a forum that doesn't limit responses to the length of a cellular text message is most certainly a loser.
LOL
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
Way to screw the Warrior Blizzard.
I will highlight my "favs".
"Death Wish (Fury) no longer makes you immune to Fear effects."
Awww come on!?!? WTF!
"Hamstring now only has one rank and no longer causes damage" and "Pummel now only has one rank and no longer causes damage"
No damage?
"Improved Mortal Strike (Arms) now increases damage by 2/4/6/8/10%, no longer reduces cooldown"
Why the loss of a cooldown reduction?
"Overpower now only has one rank and no longer causes any bonus damage (i.e. weapon damage only)"
Again with a reduction in the damage a Warrior can do!
"Sword Specialization (Arms) can no longer trigger more than once per 6 seconds." (you missed some at the end of the list)
Again with a reduction in the damage a Warrior can do!
Generally the Arms Spec Warrior gets screwed.... looks like I am respecing
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore."
Anybody who uses LOL in a forum that doesn't limit responses to the length of a cellular text message is most certainly a loser.
I have carpal tunnel, you insensitive clod!
-Billco, Fnarg.com
Sir, please turn in your nerd card. Real nerds don't get girlfriends (except said girls are nerds too, but we all know that female geeks are sadly about as rare as that unknown space object Hubble just found).
A good education is a bit like a STD - it makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and gives you a desire to spread it.
Actually, most of my friends who play WoW are women, not men.
Think of all the poor hubbies who will be saying "But sweetness, can't I roll a death knight oo?"
To which their wives will say "Step away from my pink-haired Gnome Death Knight or you're sleeping on the couch tonight!"
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For over a year now we have been grinding reputation, grinding gold, and grinding gear. Tier 4, Tier 5, Tier 6, Sunwell, Endless wipes on Kalecgos... And now, back to square one.
Now with "improved" talents, more level grinding, more rep grinding, special attention to things like _hair cuts_.
Completely ignore things that are really important to some people. A self sustaining economy, a trade system that is GOOD or even marginally good... Those who have played Eve KNOW a good trade skill system, and economy...
Professions that actually make money for the player instead of being an endless pit for us to wastefully throw gold at to the the 2-3 really good items that get replaced in a couple months when we clear Naxx...
I digress... I will buy the expansion, and I will play, and grind, etc. I will not be happy about it. I just cannot leave because there is nothing better yet. When there is, I and may others will just go elsewhere. Why? Because Blizzard is tuning the game to people who only play an hour a day.
Remember when "Epic" meant something? When they didn't just drop from the last boss in a 5 man?
if I were able to see further, it was because I stood on the shoulders of Giants -Newton
Heh, just a day? Been hearing about people taking off an entire week to play when the expansion hits. I probably play World of Warcraft too much, and I can't say I've got my life priorities strait but I sure as hell wouldn't blow a weeks vacation to play WoW. I sure hope the servers don't totally crash for like 3 days when the expansion hits or some of these people are going to be pretty pissed.
liek my bff jill? Sorry, had to...
Welcome to Slashdot, you must be old here.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Not if you play so much that you forget to eat.
but I don't want to be a tank. I like my 2handed sword spec arms warrior, and that setup relies a lot on the use of mortal strike + high crit rating. not to mention rend + hamstring.
to make it so that a 2handed Warrior (who has a slower swing time then anybody else in the game) has to waste 2 or more swings (one for hamstring and at least 1 for pummel) and get no damage, fine! but I want frost nova to not do damage, I want entangling roots to not not damage.... and so on and so on...
Its bad enough that warriors still do not have an "escape" skill, now you are going to nerf the warriors few abilities that counteract other classes escape.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore."
My response to the upcoming expansion has been to greatly reduce my time spent playing. It just seems like the current game has lost some of it's charm now that a chunk of new content is on the way. I'm sure that when the expansion hits I'll spend a huge amount of time playing it, but until then I'll focus my spare time on other entertainment options.
Roll a druid. Use the following macro.
/cast Wrath
/y KHAAAAAN
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
I mean, really... "Wrath of the licking"? ...Yeah, I'd like to see that one.
Bow-ties are cool.
I'm no warrior guru, but I'm pretty sure that instant attacks don't affect your swing timer, so hamstring and pummel (both currently and in WoLK) waste no swings at all.
In addition, I suspect that the pummel and hamstring do no damage changes are because they are now off the global cooldown, which is really a plus (they do next to no damage anyways).
Oh, and mages and druids could care less if frost nova/entangling roots did no damage. Would be better for both of them. Frost nova would no longer break cc, and entangling roots would no longer cause itself to break early.
I rigged up a "desk" such that I can use my computer while I pedal my stationary bike. (the bike doesn't fit anywhere near my regular desk.) Works pretty well. 300 kcal/day easy just playing WoW. It would even be a decent CV workout if I actually cranked it, instead of the leisurely rate I do.
I'm sure you can do something similar with a treadmill, but first you have to take the boxes off of it and get it out of the basement. Probably wouldn't work with a rowing machine, weight bench or bowflex (but taking the boxes off of those and the drying clothes off the bowflex would be a good start though.)
More music, fewer hits
Wait for the Misc. expansion.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
Good point Sir.
That was a thought I didn't have.
You win this round......
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore."
Hmmm, I got modpoints today, I play WoW, *and* I'm a zealot and a troll
Hmm, three out of four ...
Now, where do I have to go to get my copies at 12:01, the day of release?
* "It'll be more of the same."
* "You can never win an MMORPG. It's a never-ending treadmill."
* "Thank God I got off that crack a year ago."
* "It won't be as good as Eve/Warhammer/etc."
* "Blizzard isn't going to get another one of my dollars after that DMCA bullshit."
* "I'm waiting for Diablo 3/StarCraft 2."
* "I hate PC games. Console games rule."
* "I have my copy on preorder."
I think I've covered the major ones.
Fixed that for you.
Now I am going to commit suicide. Thanks for enlightening me. I am sure you don't waste $15/mo on anything frivilous. You /rent/ going to a movie. You /rent/ gas. You know, you just /rent/ food. You /rent/ the room in your moms house. Moron. BWAHAHAHAHAHAhaHAhaaaaahaaaaaHAHA!
No SIG for you!
The emphasis tags show up in the RSS feed titles, FYI.
actually, after careful reading of the 3.0.2 patch notes, a number of people came to the conclusion that it was more of a weakening of the rogue class, and that what most warriors lose they gain equal replacements - at least in terms of being able to p0wn rogues who try to one-shot them.
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No, $800 for one game is not a great deal at all. There is not enough effort put into it on the development side to justify such an extravagant price tag. Furthermore, if you can be entertained sufficiently by playing just that one game for hours and hours then it is quite likely that you can be perfectly entertained with less expensive options, like Neverwinter Nights or Diablo II or a ball of yarn.
Actually, in my RP guild, Squirrelly Wrath, one of the preconditions for guild leveling will become use of the /hug and /love actions with squirrels, as well as killing off of heretic squirrels, so I can see how bailing from an instance is less important than a guild raid.
But on a PvP server, this might be critical - do we get credit for drops due to server disconnects, as I've frequently had that happen ...
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Consider that:
- Blizzard released the WotLK right after Mythic released their new trailer.
- Blizzard announced the WotLK release date the week of Warhammer's release.
- Blizzard copied the achievements system from the Tome of Knowledge and attempted a world PvP zone with Lake Wintergrasp (I say "attempted" because it's fun for maybe 10 minutes...).
- Blizzard is re-running its Shatner and Mister-T commercials.
They do indeed seem surprisingly reactionary. Having played Warhammer's early release this weekend, I think I can understand why--it's a surprisingly good game with the potential of drawing in a lot of players, including casual players, which was what WoW was originally lauded for before it turned into a grindfest. Also, fuck the Arena.
Hmmm.
Achievements predate online RPGs - they were part of FTF RPGs much earlier, in fact some AD&D systems had them in the 80s.
Haircuts are really there because, let's face it, we all want to be a Nightelf Mohawk riding on a Frostsaber. Well, except for when we're a pink-pigtailed Gnome Mage riding on her psychedelic flying carpet ...
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Actually, now you can be an herbalist and bring in the big bucks since the DC class requires your ingredients for their abilities.
And, to be quite frank, there's a lot more of us who can only spare an hour every day or two than there are people who depend on their mom to tend to their basic needs ...
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I think it's probably an emergent property of the nature of the game.
WoW has three advantages that make it uniquely poised to flood slashdot with news. 1) It's monstrously huge. 2) It's online. 3) It's social.
For the first point, it's fairly obvious that having a large player base inherently means you have a lot of people interested in news about the game.
Second, we can assume that everyone who plays the game has a basic modicum of internet skills. All WoW players are potential readers, while the same can not be said of everyone who plays Mario Galaxy.
Third, the social nature of the game further pushes the demographic toward sites such as Slashdot. The people who play WoW don't just want to read about it, they want to talk about it even if it's with people who don't play WoW.
The only other game bearing those three attributes is Spore. Incidentally, the only other game with as much Slashdot coverage is also Spore.
Thunderclone: ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE! ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE!
In a seemingly sleazy move, GameStop has added a $15 "Handling Fee" to the WotLK Collector's Edition. Not a SHIPPING and Handling fee mind you, shipping is extra. This is just straight grafting in the style of:
"Oh HO, it seems some of you WANT this product do you? And we're the only one with the Collector's Edition right now! Weeellp, the box is all the way over there on the shelf and I'm kinda tired... maybe an extra $15 could motivate me to lean over there and get it for you. If you don't, I'm sure someone else will pay extra for the LIMITED SUPPLY of these! You've made the right choice."
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=72700
You forgot one
"I have my copy on preorder." :p
Anybody who uses LOL in a forum that doesn't limit responses to the length of a cellular text message is most certainly a loser.
lol, like wtf, and a few other related acronyms predate cellphone SMS, and go back to the inception of email, irc, muds, and newsgroups (usenet).
I don't have much patience for people who write:
wat r u doing? wil u plvl me?
but "lol" or "wtf" or "rtfm" or "lmao" etc don't get to me at all.
I also happen to think that an insanely long uncut movie of you writing Slashdot trolls would be pretty pathetically sad.
I don't think you can judge someone's life by "Would it make a good movie?". There's precious few existences that would live up to that benchmark.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
Yep, and we all have mod points today somehow... but seriously... I'm starting to wonder if the only people getting mod points and zealots and trolls...
Don't forget the zerglings!
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Hi,
All of your quoted nerfs have associated godly buffs that make said changes a drop in the bucket. For example, a cooldown-less, chance-to-activate-on-bleeds overpower. Have you seen the arms talents at all? It sounds like you've been spending too much time listening to the trolls/whiners on the warrior forums.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
Well, November does have me close to the use or lose time for my vacation so a week may not be as bad as it would seem.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
You are just hoping all the hot women you are hitting on in Stormwind really are women ;)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I work at target, so no pre-order for me. I'll just buy it before we open :D
OH WAIT! I meant to say "It won't be as good as Champions... if it actually gets made"
I thought MMORPG's failed due to Darwinian evolution of their players and (lack of) offspring? Oh, maybe I'm a few years early. Sounds awesome, I pre-ordered like 50 copies and will play them all at once until I win and stuff. Plus I'll get the super platinum monthly and farm out some, but not most!, of the play to India. The MMORPG is dead, Long live the MMORPG! PS, GFYS
My Linux Command of the Day site : LCOD
Wow has become incredibly stale. I just let my account expire this month because there was nothing fun to do. The instanced PvP is just a grind in a different form and pretty weak at that. Granted all these are my opinions. Myself, I am giving Warhammer a run. I know they also released this before it was ready, but at least its new. And in all my years of MMO, Camelot had the most fun PvP scenarios with its siege warfare. I was in the Warhammer open beta and I can say they have kept with Camelots good traits. (although I wish there were 3 sides...supposedly it comes down to story line...boo..but I digress...hehe) Anyway, I hope WoW's expansions lives up to its acclaim, because if it doesn't, when the rest of you decide to check out Warhammer, my toon will be fighting in the upper tier realm vs. realm... =P
I should end this by stating I had tons of fun in WoW when it first came out. Blizzard had managed to fix so many things that were wrong with fantasy MMO's, eliminating much of the stuff that was just a time waster. Sadly, I think they are falling into this trap now just to keep subscribers. Once gameplay starts to suffer for the bottom line, thats when I start to get bored, and fast. Again, IMHO.
You forgot:
And with one quick stroke, Blizzard, again, swipes the legs out from your stool of achievement. Your only hope to regain your previous uber is to purchase the expansion, keep paying your monthly fees, and ultimately try to not think that all your future effort will be trashed as easily soon.
Modding me -1 troll doesn't make me wrong.
Hide all pizza delivery flyers. Problem Solved.
Jor
Thank goodness. Warriors are the most OPed class in PvP.
I've met Zealots but what are trolls - are they a new Zerg troop type?
On that front, when are we going to get World of Starcraft...?
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Not a WOW player myself, but of my friends who do play WOW I'd say about 2/5th are women. Gamer girlies are not as rare as you think - my other half's managed to rack up about 150 hours in Oblivion and it's only that low cos' I want time on the 360 too...
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Excuse me for being pedantically obvious but isn't StarCraft 2 developed by Blizzard? You claim you are going to buy it yet you iterated before that you shall not give Blizzard another of your dollars.
>JJ
I think he objected to the small number of letters:
Maybe you should've typed:
ROFLMAO
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Ummm.... No.
My husband and I recently bought a second 360 so we didn't have to fight over who got to play Oblivion =) He plays on the projector screen and I play on the TV, in the same room.
Really, gaming together isn't much different than watching TV together. Gaming is interactive and often involves problem/puzzle solving, and for me at least is much more fun than watching the same 5 plots get repeated week after week on TV.
For what it's worth, we both also play WoW, along with two other couples. So I believe there are more women out there than a lot of people would like to think.
I prefer to play "e.g." myself (for example).
"Etc" just goes on, and on...
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Old patch notes get +5 Informative ratings? Fuck /. let's just start calling is WoWDot
Thanks to eating disorders most chicks are reasonably good looking these days.
Anyone who uses the tired comment "you insensitive clod" is just like in Soviet Russia...
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
I guess our views on the game are quite different. I actually enjoyed working for my epics pre-bc. We worked hard for them, and when you walked around in epics, people understood that you busted your ass to get them.
My main problem with the game, is that it's catering to people who want end-game items just handed to them.
If you are one of those lazy people, thanks, you ruined the game. If you only have 1 hour to spend in the game a day, you should be in blues, and happy about it.
I still play the game because I still enjoy end game content, and I expect I'll simply roll over and deal with the shortcomings at this point, because I still have friends in the game who play. I have had many more friends however, who have left the game, because of these same issues.
Thanks for the obligatory comment about living with parents, I would only have expected that on the WoW Forums, not on Slashdot. I would imagine that people who actually post here would be well out of their parents house, most with actual carriers, and kids. I guess not.
Now to figure out how to spell check my signature...
if I were able to see further, it was because I stood on the shoulders of Giants -Newton
Fourth point, with 10 million subs do think Blizzard cares what Mythic does?
Why do people keep saying this? What planet do you live on where company executives and shareholders do not care about their revenues?
Complacency is not a laudable attribute for a company. If they do in fact think "we have 10 million subscribers, what do we care?" then they are setting themselves up for failure. They have other projects in the works that require funding, infrastructure costs, payroll costs, and shareholder expectations to uphold (regardless of them being publicly traded or not). If their revenues go down, they have to answer questions and run the risk of not having the funding to uphold their budget. Do you really think Blizzard doesn't care about that?
Just for the sake of argument, let's assume that 1 million people leave wow for warhammer and cancel their accounts (numbers completely made up). $10/month for each customer, that's $10 million/month gone, $120 million/year. Do you really think they're not going to notice or care about that? I can tell you anyone who's invested with an expectation of return upon that investment is going to care and ask a lot of uncomfortable questions. Wall street has destroyed companies for failing to meet projected earnings by $120 million over a year. I don't see how blizzard is magically immune to that because they make WoW and have 10 million subscribers currently.
Or to make a bad analogy: imagine telling your spouse you got docked 10% of your paycheck for the next year.
Most probably aren't. I'm referring to actual friends, who I met first FTF, and of my friends, most of those who play WoW are actually women.
Actually, they're way more hard-core than I am.
But, yeah, most of the pixels running around may not be women - strangely, they tend to choose male characters.
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Various servers - one is on Sen'jin, but they seem to be all spread out on servers.
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A Wow Expansion pack makes the slashdot frontpage? Someone (indirectly) complaining gets modded flamebait? Are there really that many WoW players here on slashdot???
A Blizzard game is popular? Shocking!
Strongly considering taking the 14th off work, 1. it's a Friday, 2. it isn't released until the 14th in Aust - probably a midnight launch again where my order is held.
Confirming my CE copy today (fingers crossed). EB Australia won't take pre-orders for the Ce until it's officially announced but will convert the first X# of pre-orders to CEs. My preorders are now 1 year and 1 week old. :)
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World
Fixed that for you
Moonkin - the most fun you can have with your pants on.
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World
What's the diff? (other than the focus on N's)
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
Entangling roots not do damage - sure. Given it's the only CC in the game that has a chance to break itself (it breaks on damage), I"d accept that trade.
How about you make it so that people can't attack from Entangling Roots while you're about it.
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World
I bought Neverwinter Nights recently. Do you have any suggestions about where to look for good mods? Thanks!
Emerald Astrology
No its not, redundant, its very important for us to know how much time is left.
http://www.lixumos.com/countdown/index.php
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
"But, yeah, most of the pixels running around may not be women - strangely, they tend to choose male characters."
Why strange? Perhaps they do if for the same reason the men does it: Pleasing curves ;)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Well, I must admit my male blood elf hunter looks all spiffy in his leathers and furs ...
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