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Blizzard Announces New Battle.net Matchmaking
thefritob writes "Blizzard is announcing their new Battle.net Matchmaking service. Find your perfect partner to lay waste the the Zerg hordes or meet that lvl 70 Orc warrior that shares your taste for 'ganking noobs.'"
Will I find true love?
JFC Kill me now! Just do it! Kill me now and get the pain over with!
{sigh}
Boring.
Even that site is bored of itself.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Clearly if Blizzard has the resources to develop this they can at least get on the ball with Starcraft.
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
Which is why Rob Malda posted this story. He needs to meet someone on the side. He needs some new fantasy material for when he fucks old Mrs. Fent.
I hear that level 30 Orc's put out the most on the first date. Every Mage's wet dream in their parent's basement eh?! There's no bondage like gruesome death and destruction on the battlefield.
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God spoke to me.
I wonder which service will get more profitable.
I don't know about you, but that little comment just made my fUc&!^g day! Thanks!
Microsoft announced that it would be partnering with OnlineBootyCall to work on its new service, OnliveBootyCall for the popular 360 network. When approached about this decision, Microsoft executives insisted that OnliveBootyCall was significantly different from battle.net Matchmaking as OnliveBootyCall was strictly to be used for random, casual meetings that may or may not involve the teabagging and desecration of pixelated corpses. Whereas battle.net matchmaking promised gamers the opportunity to find a committed quest partner that would compliment each gamer based on 9 levels of character stats, OnliveBootyCall would offer gamers a chance to meet up in the intratubes for some down and dirty achievements grinding while never having to return a later party request.
When approached about Microsoft's new decision, Bill Gates announced that he had no stance on the issue. However photographers did note that most of his belongings were seen on the front lawn of his estate while the paparazzi snapped a few photos of Miranda Gates driving down the pacific coast highway with Eric Schmidt in a candy apple red, convertible Smart Car.
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I'm not saying this is a great idea but somehow the basic idea of integrating a dating/matchmaking service into something else sort of makes sense to me, but maybe that's because I'm one of those people who would rather meet someone I have something in common with.
It would of course be very hard to implement but the basic idea is interesting, kind of like integrating a matchmaking service into Facebook (no, not as a third party app, as an integrated component where you can look for people in your area who are available and who seem to be compatible with you), but then I'm looking at this from the point of view of someone who would like to try coding said functionality using the available data...
Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4
We're expecting our second peon in October. No we don't play WoW anymore but we still play a multitude of other games together, online and off.
At The Escapist, there was a summary of this year's gaming-related April Foolery. The article had one actually useful tidbit of information.
I now know a good acronym synonym for "gearscore", which is the current fetish on every WoW Looking-For-Group chat channel.
It's "Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number (EPEEN)"
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
This one was a little funnier I thought. Although it pokes fun at WoW culture rather than generic game culture.
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Fake or not, it would be better than making those people try through normal means and cause a scene in bar and clubs. I'll hold out for a clown fetish service before I shop for ladies online.
Maybe you just have to get some crossover between guys who just spent 10 hours raiding in WoW with girls who just spent ten hours raking hay in Farmville.
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
Land: burned; sea: boiled; unable to acquire sky, please wait...
Ouch. Just ouch.
Take off every Sig. For great justice.
Have a few chairs and ....
I hope I don't get my sc2 beta invite today, that would be sad...
The only joke is that Blizzard is announcing it. Unfortunately, this service is actually being released
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
Looking for girl. Please be clean, drug and disease free, and orcish. I love women of all classes, but please NO PVPerss - I'm not looking for a one night stand but instead a long term relationship built on trust, friendship, and rolling need on mad lewt.
Actually, I thought this would be a great idea. I mean now that most of the Zerglings are out rushing with their friends all the time, it's way too quiet around the Spawning Pool if you know what I mean. Seems like every time a get a good thing going, those damn 'Toss show up and ruin it all.
"The ferrets, they're every where I tell you!"
Just wondering if anyone got the firefly reference in the series of progress messages you get when you try to actually find a match.
There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat was dead. -V. Marchetti, CIA