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Is Cataclysm the Next World of Warcraft Expansion?
ajs writes "There has been no official announcement yet, but a number of moves by Blizzard Entertainment seem to indicate that the next expansion for World of Warcraft could be titled Cataclysm. Speculation began when Blizzard trademarked Cataclysm recently, and then later when a test server briefly popped up with the word 'Maelstrom' in its name. If true, the name would fall neatly into the WoW lore and expected expansion list. The Cataclysm is another name for the Great Sundering, an event that created a swirling vortex of water and mystical energies (the 'Maelstrom') that has appeared on the world map in-game since release. There are also indications that early design work included some of the islands in this area, which has long fueled anticipation of a Maelstrom-based expansion involving the former Night Elf noble, Azshara, queen of the Naga and the Goblins whose main city is in the south seas."
... and probably the last
Hopefully for all of the druids who have been (whining|complaining|asking) for The Emerald Dream for so long, Blizzard will add it into this one.
/dr00ds represent!
I'm fairly sure that it will need a neat 4-letter-acronym, but aside of that, nobody will care for its name, its story or anything else RPG or WC-story related it might bring along.
What matters is, how much of a level cap increase will it bring (ok, the usual 10 levels, that one is a given), what is the new socket or gizmo you can tack onto your gear (we had sockets and runes already, so this time they'd have to come up with something really new, at least I can't think of anything else that's been done before) and whether they manage to dumb it down any more.
Fanboys, flame away.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Yeah, but do you realize how long you have to farm 'til you can afford THAT? It's hoarded by the effing chinese farmers (ok, they're russian here and called pimps), and last time I tried to get one myself, just as I was charging one and started my attack combo the GMs suspended my account by locking me in a little room. Ok, not so much different from my normal dwelling, but WITHOUT A FRIGGIN' COMPUTER!
RL sucks. When the GMs side with the farmers that hog the resources, you know it's a game not worth playing.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
when coupled with the "Cataclysm" name, one of the Lich King's visions in the new book "Arthas, Rise of the Lich King", everything gets a lot clearer and more certain: ...the silver waters of a vast expanse of water... a sea... ...Something was roiling just beneath the ocean's surface. The hitherto-smooth surface began to churn wildly, seething, as if from a storm, although the day was clear. A horrible sound that Arthas only dimly recognized as laughter assaulted his ears, along with the screaming of a world wrenched from its proper place, hauled upward to face the light of day it had not seen in uncounted centuries...
Cataclysm most likely doesn't refer to the Great Sundering, but a new event, Azshara raising Nazjatar to the surface.
This isn't news for nerds. Hell, it's not even NEWS. It's a lame conjecture. I think even WoW nerds would wait for something to actually -happen- before considering it news.
There are also indications that early design work included some of the islands in this area,
It's true that a couple of islands appear on the map near the vortex. I heard a rumor about them once indicating that they were at one point accessible to players. Swimming there wasn't possible due to the fatigue that resulted from the deep water. However, if you had a couple stacks of elixirs of water walking, you wouldn't be affected by the fatigue since you weren't swimming. According to the one player I knew who had claimed to have been there, it took about 45 minutes of wandering around with nothing but waves in sight. Once he got to the island, he looted a chest that contained a full tier set of paladin gear. 20 minutes later his account had received a 72 hour ban, and all his recent loot had been removed from his inventory. His theory was that the island was a place where GMs could perform in-game testing of items and whatnot. Obviously this is all unconfirmed at best. and I still have some serious doubts about the story, but anyway, that's the only thing I've ever heard about the islands.
And just so that this post isn't entirely off topic, here's a link to some of the current speculation on the lore which will be experienced with the expansion. As an added note, it's doubtful that this will be the final expansion of the game. Most are speculating that there will be a 5th chapter in which players will get to enter the emerald dream. Again, this is all just rumors and lies at this point.
"Operating systems suck: you're better off using only the BIOS" --trainsaw.com
Here is some lore of each isle in the South Seas:
http://wow.incgamers.com/blog/comments/south-seas-lore-the-eye-maelstrom/
Will interest wane in WoW simply because it seems like just an extension to the treadmill? Are people getting tired of the aesthetic? These are questions from someone who doesn't see the attraction in the first place.
Twinstiq, game news
I might be convinced that the game has a story, but it is presented in such a tedious and boring way that I could never be bothered to pay any attention. All I ever saw was "NPC: blah blah blah kill 20 other NPC's blah blah blah". I can think of many games with poor storylines, and many games with great storylines, but WOW is one of the only games in which I didn't care at all about the storyline.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Bullshit. All you need to do is jump off the zeppelin that goes out of UC at the last second, feather fall and you can walk on the edge of the map. where the zone ends. you can not swim across the ocean. Yes there is a dev island, if you are on a private server you can warp yourself there. but there is no way to get there using the public realms.
Are questions as headlines overrated? Film at 11.
How the hell did speculation about the -name- of a possible future WoW expansion make the front page? I like games and MMOs, but this is beyond boring.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
[...] I mounted, and as I lept off into the horizon, I casted levitate. I came to a point where the map disappeared, but the water continued to stretch out into the distance.
Some theorize that this is where GM Island is located.
Okay, so we all know that GM Island is in an instance now. But like any instance, there's a non-instance version of it. Like when you set old world instances to "Heroic" and walk behind the portals. GM Island wasn't always an instance, and programmers just don't delete environment from the game. Case in point, Old Ironforge and Ironforge Airport.
Granted, you'd have to walk pretty far, assuming GM Island IS in that direction...
Moving on, it's unreachable alone...attempted it. However, multiple priests together could do this easy. Have 5 or so in a group together so they can heal off of each other with renew and circle of healing. Another tip, wear +healing gear that has no stamina. Fatigue hits for 20% of your max health every 1-3 seconds. Low health means low damage, high healing means you can heal over it. 5 priests means you can have a few of them sit back and relax while the others cast, so not everyone wastes mana.
If you are really interested in doing this, make it 4 priests and a warlock.
"Harmonex wishes to summon you to GM Island." [...] Of course, this is all under the assumption that GM Island even exists on the main map...
"Operating systems suck: you're better off using only the BIOS" --trainsaw.com
"So, WoW losers ... grow up. Ditch the game, have a real life, and hang out with real humans"
I find this statement ironic coming from someone posting an entire books worth of trolling on slashdot.
You might even find some +12 Real Pussy...
In my experience, not only is +1 Real Pussy extremely hard to obtain, it is often not worth the effort.
Bullshit, Jesus do you believe anything someone tells you?
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Your friend lied to you. Water walking never prevented fatigue.
Why does anyone play a game? To have fun. To some people playing a game is alot more fun then dealing with awkward social situations. My best friends are people I have met through MMOs. When you met someone in a MMO you at least know that they also enjoy the game, so you have that much in common. When I met a random person in the "real world" I have no idea if I'll have anything in common besides the need to breath, eat, and sleep.
Believe it or not, there IS hope. I have a buddy who gave up WoW entirely. Now he has a life, a job, and GASP - even a girlfriend. He is actually winning at life and says that he can't believe how much time he was wasting on such a stupid game.
You can't win at life either. All you can do is attempt to pass your DNA on to the next generation and figure out a comfortable way to live until you die. I have come to realize that 90% of life is just trying to pass the time until you die. The other 10% is in pursuit of some "legacy" that will never matter or even be recorded in history.
Playing life is just as pointless as playing WoW. They are both treadmills and neither mater when all is said and done. However, life is 10000x more boring then WoW could ever be.
Maybe it is a lame joke, maybe he's a WoW hater who wishes it was the last, whatever the case it has no basis in reality. Currently, there are over 11 million subscribers to WoW where a subscriber is defined as someone who has paid to play in the last month. That number continues to increase, and accounts for about 60% of all MMO players. Eventually, it's popularity will peak and numbers will start to wane, but not at this point. Right now, it is still extremely popular.
Well, as you can probably guess, Blizzard and more specifically Vivendi (their parent company) aren't stupid and wish to make as much money as possible. That means they'll keep releasing expansions and content for WoW because they want to keep all those subscribers. They aren't going to say "Let's just let the game atrophy and have everyone run off to play something else." They want those dollars, they will keep developing it.
What's more, an MMO doesn't even have to be growing to be worth developing content for. It just has to have enough players such that the money pays the bills to run the game, pay the developers of the new content, and make a profit. Thus you find even old games are still under active development. Everquest released their 15th expansion last October, and they've got a 16th planned for this November. It has been running for a decade, and the sequel has already been out for a couple years. However people still want to play, so Sony is still making content for it.
So no, this isn't the last WoW expansion. They are going to keep working on that game to keep getting subscribers for as long as it is profitable. To do anything else would be to incur the wrath of their shareholders.
That you don't like WoW is fine, but it is a rather stupid thing to say "Does anyone care?" Yes, WoW players care and there are a LOT of WoW players. It is one of the best selling games of all time and is THE best selling MMO of all time by a wide margin. Thus, a lot of people care what is going on with it.
So if WoW isn't your thing then don't play it. However don't act surprised that a large number of techies are interested in it. It is an extremely popular game.
Haven't seen this posted, so here we go... this list was "leaked" or whatever before TBC, AFAIK remember...
- Draenor Set
Azuremyst Isle - 1 to 10
Bloodmyrk Isle - 10 to 20
Eversong Forest - 1 to 10
Quel'thalas - 10 to 20
Hellfire Peninsula - 58 to 62
Zangarmarsh - 60 to 64
Terokkar Forest - 61 to 65
The Deadlands - 63 to 67
Nagrand - 64 to 68
Blade's Edge Mountains - 66 to 70
Netherstorm - 67 to 70
Shadowmoon Valley - 69 to 70
- Northrend Set
Borean Tundra - 67 to 70
Howling Fjord - 67 to 70
Dragonblight - 69 to 72
Grizzly Hills - 70 to 73
Crystalsong Forest - 72 to 75
Zul'drak - 73 to 76
Sholazar Basin - 75 to 79
Storm Peaks - 76 to 80
Icecrown Glacier - 78 to 80
- Maelstrom Set
Gilneas - 77 to 80
Grim Batol - 78 to 81
Kul Tiras - 79 to 82
Kezan - 81 to 86
Tel Abim - 83 to 85
Zandalar - 84 to 87
Plunder Isle - 86 to 88
The Broken Isles - 87 to 90
The Maelstrom - 89 to 90
- Plane Set
Pandaria - 1 to 10
Hiji - 10 to 20
Wolfenhold - 1 to 10
Xorothian Plains - 10 to 20
The Green Lands - 88 to 91
The Dying Paradise - 91 to 94
The Emerald Nightmare - 94 to 97
The Eye of Ysera - 97 to 100
Deephome - 88 to 91
Skywall - 91 to 94
The Abyssal Maw - 94 to 97
The Firelands - 97 to 100
- Legion Set
K'aresh - 96 to 99
Argus Meadowlands - 97 to 100
Mac'Aree - 99 to 100
Maw of Oblivion - 100+
Obviously this is all unconfirmed at best. and I still have some serious doubts about the story,
and
Again, this is all just rumors and lies at this point
And from my subsequent post
Okay, I need to get my facts straight. After doing some reading up on the topic (too late obviously) it is not clear to me that this guy's story was crap.
Now, what part of all that indicated that I "believe anything someone tells [me]?" I apologize if my post came across as if I were preaching doctrine from the mouth of God Himself, but I thought I was pretty clear that this was all speculation.
"Operating systems suck: you're better off using only the BIOS" --trainsaw.com
Playing life is just as pointless as playing WoW. They are both treadmills and neither mater when all is said and done. However, life is 10000x more boring then WoW could ever be.
I think this is why many people are religious :-P
You are correct that water walking does not prevent fatigue. However, prior to patch 1.7 (2005-09-22) damage absorption abilities did reduce the damage received from fatigue.
From the patch notes, under the "General" heading we see the entry: "Damage absorption no longer protects against falling, drowning, or fatigue damage." In addition, fatigue damage can *still* be healed thru. From WoWwiki:
Damage done by fatigue can be healed. It is possible for a low level healer to swim through the fatigue whilst healing itself and regenerating sufficient mana to continue infinitely, and reach often unrendered places that are otherwise impossible to reach.
So while I was incorrect in the mechanic, and the story I was told was a lie, it's still fairly likely that some of these places are in fact reachable; at least in theory.
Yes, I was incorrect. Please see the clarification I've since made. I'll accept the blame for having posted something for which I don't have sufficient justification or evidence. Feel free to mod down the original comment and the disinformation it contains.
"Operating systems suck: you're better off using only the BIOS" --trainsaw.com
I like how the summary goes through the trouble of explaining the backstory of the Maelstrom and islands and what not.
As if everyone here doesn't already know.
A test server named Maelstrom? Now I know they're pulling shit out of their ass, as Maelstrom is an existing RPPvP server that launched in September of 2006.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
Tae Kwon Do is a waste of time. Sitting around shooting the breeze with friends is a waste of time etc. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it sucks. Other people can say the same thing about stuff you like to do. The only legitimate comment you can make is that you don't like to do it. To each his own.
If I disagree with you it's because you are wrong.
"an event that created a swirling vortex of water and mystical energies...", but it's the result of a much more mundane lowering of a toilet flush handle.
life is 10000x more boring then WoW could ever be.
I agreed with everything you wrote save this. If you think killing 30 bears and ripping their hearts out to bring back to some random guy is fun in a video game I assure you it is 10000x less boring to do in real life.
All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be. -PF
NO LOVE FOR PILLAR HUGGERS !
You might even find some +12 Real Pussy...
Shouldn't that be 12+ Real Pussy?
For real, the economy on this server is way broken cuz the +1 real pussy is soo overpriced.
WoW vs Real Life?
It's relative. If you doing nothing but idle by killing boars & bunnies all the time, eventually your going to have that meaningless suck feeling. If you do the same in RL eventually it's going to suck also. WoW & RL both provide enjoyment based upon your characters quests & leveling and both only give you what you put into it.
But RL, unlike WoW, your character loses leveling over time if you don't keep grinding.
Now get out there, do some job quests, pickup some sweet loot, treat yourself to some sweet gear every so often and keep on leveling that RL character.
In the mean time, WoW carries on with it's cartoonish graphics and enormous content and I think they've managed to break the gold farmers that killed EQ for me. Bind on account gear at the very high level that you can pass down to yours - and nobody else's - twinks are a rare bit of gaming insight. I am just very glad that Blizzard is too large for Sony to buy, and I will probably continue to play WoW even after seeing it all through two level 80's. I'm still discovering new content.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
I'm far off topic here, but I couldn't but help notice your cool sig, I've used that very sound in the beginning of some electronica I made, it is awesome.
Now get out there, do some job quests, pickup some sweet loot, treat yourself to some sweet gear every so often and keep on leveling that RL character.
I had a decently well paying "engineering" job after college. You know what I realized, that I'd rather be running naxx for the 100th time then doing the same boring job every fucking day. At least I can watch tv while raiding.
Either way it is all pointless. Just a way to waste time till you die.
I really have no idea what this post just said. You kids and your new fangled technology these days. Tweets and facebooks and night elfs...
Yes, my girlfriend is a BitchX
one of the shittiest creatures in-game, which many people cant fit into a place and come to like. it would be another gnomeragan.
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I certainly hope not, as "The Cataclysm" is the name for the war-ending event in Beyond War, a game that has had that fiction posted since 2001. If so, then their PTO filing violates knowing prior use by an MMO publisher and damages will be high regardless failure to perform a correct due diligence search by the PTO. They should stick with Maelstrom if they want to keep the money.
You're so full of shit. They arent all dragons.
The islands you speak of were actually located north west(Game Master Island) of Kalimdor and north east(Developer Islands) of Eastern Kingdoms. The Developer Islands were removed early on from the files and did have some interesting game breaking developer only items. The Game Master Island still exists, but was later functionally split off from the rest of the world. It requires map editing to reach it now. However, it never had any thing of interest. An early design for a guild housing building, a white room with a chair in it under the land mass, and a dock.
Now, there are some land masses near the Maelstrom that were and still sort of accessible from the Eastern Kingdoms. They are mostly blank land masses though. In the beginning to reach them it require a priest or warlock to fear another player off the boat in Booty Bay. This would cause the player to glitch and move incredibly fast towards the western edge of the continent map. I will attempt to explain the technical aspects of why that worked now. Each continent is contained in its own map file. The boats and zeppelins are contained within their own independent continent map files that are loaded on top of the real continent. Ever notice how a NPC that is chasing you can not path on to a boat or zeppelin? NPCs can not see these boat continent files in front of them. All they understand is that the player they are chasing is there at a certain location, but can not figure out how to path out of the real continent.
This is where the priest or warlock fearing comes in. When under the effect of fear the PC is temporarily treated as a NPC for the duration of the fear. When the PC gets feared off the boat past its very small continent border, since NPCs can not path from one continent to another, the PC glitches "falling" very fast in one direction.
There are many technical aspects of WoW that make all of these hacks and glitches possible. Personally examining how parts of WoW work it obviously shows that this was definitely Blizzard's first attempt at a MMORPG. There are some aspects that could have been programmed differently.(To note, many of those have been changed or improved over the past expansions.)
Goblin City? Hmmm...does this mean the Horde will finally have their comic-relief counterpart to the Gnomes?
What would the Alliance have as a new race? Pandaren?
Well, I used to play WoW until recently, and your hate is missplaced.
I was able to play WoW, have a job, a wife, friends,a RL and only did quit because we now have a baby and it effectively takes up all my time.
It's not the game's fault that your friends got so heavily addicted, it's theirs. I used to play no more than 2-3 hours in most days, with days off and maybe a bit more sunday evening. My wife had the right to give me a 10 mins notice and i had to stop playing in that interval, because i considered time spent with her more important than a game (ofc, i would tell her about a raid and we would make our schedule around this, so i was able to confirm or not my attendance to the raid without leaving my guild tankless with a 10 min notice).
The ideea is that Wow is a fun game, but someone can play it without ruining his/her life. The ones that lose to it would probably lose to another time consuming hobby if there were no MMO's around.
Oh, and i intend to start playing Wow again when the little guy grows up a bit and i start having some 1-2 hours of free time again.
This makes me sad...
...) at the park with your friends or have a laugh at the pub?
Personally I think that such argument is for people without willing to fight, to do real things.
How do you find more entertaining a (virtual) world where all is designed to (easily) have success for everyone?
It's like success free for all.
Ask yourself, isn't a bit depressing that every character owns a dragon?
Isn't a bit depressing that every character has killed the same bosses, fought in the same valley/basin for 10000 times?
Isn't definitely depressing that everyone is dressed the same, everyone is basically anonymous?
WoW is good to play with friends just because you can have a chat (on TS/Ventri) while doing stupid things. Without friends to chat with WoW is the worst game ever.
But maybe wouldn't be better to go and play some real games (football, basketball,
Good luck with that
Cheers,
Sierra might be a little upset by that.
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However, life is 10000x more boring then WoW could ever be.
I recently went on holiday to France (Amelie-Les-Bains, in the Pyrenees). While there I climbed a mountain in a thunderstorm. IT was at once the most exhilirating, exciting and terrifying experience. I have played WoW in the past and got bored after a few months. I can assure you, mountains in thunderstorms are far from boring.
Perhaps you feel life is pointless because you're not actually playing it, just watching the teaser trailers?
I'm Hitler, you insensitive clod!
Great more content that 80% of the players will never see. I still have friends that still haven't seen Molten Core, Naxx, or any other raid instance. The irony is when you release an expansion, none of the established players go tot he old content anymore (as a whole) which means new players coming in never see any of the old content because no one runs them anymore. I recently ran a new player through UBRS (Upper Blackrock Spire) and he never knew there were any other instanced dungeons outside of Outlands (He was a new player and started post-burning crusade.)
When Lich King came out the only Outland instances anyone ran anymore were heroics. New players coming in would never get to actually do those instances because, frankly the established players were at the point that only heroic mode was worth their time.
As plotted: Take the month to month changes in population (rather then total volume) and compare the data. Every MMO with an expansion gets a 3 month spike in uptake but every time the annual trend goes down every expansion.
Expansions are great for $$$ but bad for longevity. It becomes a drug addict's exercise in "Chasing the Dragon". Eventually you have to start churning out expansions quicker and quicker to maintain the high but ultimately you lockout new players and hit "the point of no return" on the decline.
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
Your post makes me sad.
You should look on the sunny side of life.
Maybe get a new hobby? Bike riding? Fishing?
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
OT: Climbing mountains while there is a storm is really dangerous.
Maybe you need to get a thrill out of life, but that's no reason to risk your life.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
In my experience, not only is +1 Real Pussy extremely hard to obtain, it is often not worth the effort.
Ah, but it's fun to grind, eh?
i heard it was called modern warfare 2.
Not to mention, not all of the bears you kill have hearts.
reminds me of playing Everquest, it was a lot of fun and me and all my buddies with about 12 accounts (2 full groups) would quit between each expansion. By the time they released Planes of Power which had to be the 4th expansion the game was running out of Steam and WoW was beginning to get ready to be released. In essence what killed EQ, which by the way much to my shock still has a population has begun to merge servers. The moral of the story is that EQ began to pump out expansions and people began to tire of it. Then WOW was released. Anyone wanna take bets thats what will end up killing WoW? Someone is gonna come through with a better MMO and that will be the end of WoW.
Just for a point of reference EQ is releasing another expansion for the original Everquest, which puts them at 15, and they even made Everquest 2 which has more expansions than WOW. Must be following the lessons they learned from the first game.
> Cataclysm
As opposed to, oh, I don't know. Some idiots opening a 30-story portal into a demon world where the demons are eternally on the verge of taking the portal and coming through?
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
You should look on the sunny side of life.
Maybe get a new hobby? Bike riding? Fishing?
How are those anything other then a way to waste time just like WoW is?
This makes me sad...
Personally I think that such argument is for people without willing to fight, to do real things.
How do you find more entertaining a (virtual) world where all is designed to (easily) have success for everyone?
Because WoW is designed to be fun >50% of the time. Whereas, as far as I can tell, real life is only fun ~10% of the time.
The most fun I ever had was going to school for a summer in Japan. I met new people, learned a new language, explored a new country. But that was only for 3 months. At the time I was 20. So those 3 months was 1.25% of my life at that time. Currently those 3 months are 1.04% of my life thus far and will only decrease.
As far as I can tell, life is a lot of boring time with momentary burst of enjoyment. Those burst are fleeting and you can never predict when one will happen.
WoW, on the other hand, may not have as fun of burst moments. However you can somewhat predict when those fun moments will come (raid times) and the time between those moments may be dull you can at least find some way to occupy your mind (like grinding dailies, helping random nubs). In real life you have to stare at the wall of your work box waiting for the clock to hit quitting time just to wake up and do it again for the next 4 days. When you finally get to the weekend your realize that you only have 2 days to get everything done that you could not do during the week.
When I was working I found it hard to focus on one task during the weekend because I had thought of like 4 or 5 other things I wanted to do during the week but was unable to due to time constraints or unable to think after a day of work.
WoW is good to play with friends just because you can have a chat (on TS/Ventri) while doing stupid things. Without friends to chat with WoW is the worst game ever.
But maybe wouldn't be better to go and play some real games (football, basketball, ...) at the park with your friends or have a laugh at the pub?
I, however, was not gifted with great social skills. Therefore I have no "RL" friends and find them almost impossible to make. The only friends I have are the people I have met in Final Fantasy 11 or WoW.
Perhaps you feel life is pointless because you're not actually playing it, just watching the teaser trailers?
Or, because like teaser trailers, life is only really exciting for a few moments after months and months of nothingness.
How long did it take you to save up for and plan that trip to France?
Thank you for the Godwin. I dont think that has ever happened to one of my post before.
This also points out some irony. People preach about trying to be good and helping people, however it is the truly Evil people who's names will be remembered long after the good people's names have faded.
Blizzard could turn off every WoW server that they own, and I wouldn't be bothered one iota.
Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
Playing life is just as pointless as playing WoW. They are both treadmills and neither mater when all is said and done. However, life is 10000x more boring then WoW could ever be.
What an apathetic observation. If that's your conclusion, then you're doing it wrong.
There's a constant refrain among MMORPGers (of which I've been counted as one for nearly 10 years) of "we're having fun, just leave us alone." The thing is, you'll find lots of people who have left MMORPGs and literally gotten a life, who will never look back, but you'll never find anyone who's given up their life to play MMORPGs and said "Holy shit, I've really been missing out. Hey everyone, check out these murlocs, they make a funny sound when they agro!"
Don't get me wrong, games have their place, but that place should be as a part of life, not a substitute for it. Even Stephen Hawking gets out, and he's a 67-year old quadriplegic who can't speak.
If you're bored, then you're boring. Create your own challenges and stop expecting the world to dance for your sole entertainment. Stop making excuses and start making up for lost time.
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I have a feeling the reason they ignore you isn't because of WoW.
It sounds like you're one of those insecure, controlling, judgemental pricks who thinks anyone who doesn't do what you say or fall somewhere within your narrow notion of as being "normal" can be defined.
If I were your "friend", then I too would rather share my time with 24 other less obnoxious "virtual" people, than one "real" you.
people still play this miserable life sucking game? "Playing life is just as pointless as playing WoW. They are both treadmills and neither mater when all is said and done. However, life is 10000x more boring then WoW could ever be." Very very sad thing to say. You are wrong my friend, life is great as long as you have friends. Hell, you don't even need pussy if you don't want it or can't get it - maryjane is the most loyal girl you'll ever come across. Smoke that shit every day with my friends while I maintain this decent IT job and my life is quite enjoyable. I do play games and such with my i7 920 + radeon 4870X2 but I specifically stay away from those MMORPG's as they are wayyy toooo addicting!!
Re: TFA. I believe that he's right about Goblins being the next playable race. Reason: Goblins are in the same 'folder' in the WoW data files as the other playable races. With WoW model viewer, you can put armor on them, weapons, and even have them ride mounts. They even have their own dance.
Not trying to be a troll, as I really know almost nothing about the Warcraft franchise or lore, but it seems as if these ideas, that is, the pairing of Cataclysm and Maelstrom, are directly from the Dragonlance AD&D books (Weiss, Hickman, etc.). Is this bit of lore just a blatant ripoff?
If you're bored, then you're boring.
And people don't like to be around boring people. Now you can see my proublem.
Planning, what's that?
Besides, you're missing my point. I didn't specifically go to France to climb a mountain in a thunderstorm. It's just one of the many wonderful experiences I had there. And I've had exhilirating experiences in my home town too.
"Months and months of nothingness" I find tend to spring up when you do nothing but sit behind a computer expecting something to happen. Get outside, go walking at night with no lantern, lie out back and watch the stars - there's a wealth of possibilities, but always remember you get out what you put in.
Life serves the risk-taker
I can't believe no one has speculated that Cataclysm may be the new name for battle.net 2.0.