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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.'"
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.
With a level 70? Hah! Tell the noob to get of her ass and make 80!
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.
Funnier Blizzard April fools joke
God spoke to me.
Clearly. Anyone that could hook a WoWer/slashdoter up with an actual girl has the skills to accomplish anything. Though lets go higher than Starcraft....how about world peace?
I know a buddy of mine who wrote a simple shell script that could do that.
The world peace thing, I mean. Not the hook up.
clearly if you knew what today is and what it is like for a lonely level 80 hunter to spend months on end doing nothing but grinding, then you would know this is more important than any game.
O.o
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.
Motorcycles, Robots, Space Gossip and More!
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
With a level 70? Hah! Tell the noob to get of her ass and make 80!
And that is why she left you to go raid with a casual guild.
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
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.
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.
clearly if you knew what today is and what it is like for a lonely level 80 hunter to spend months on end doing nothing but grinding, then you would know this is more important than any game.
If you are role playing with your girl, the "months on end of doing nothing but grinding" sounds like a good idea.
Not talking video game grinding.
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.
Hey, if she's just gonna grind all day... well, I've got better things for her to grind against!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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.
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!"
I play it daily. Don't be bitter that you didn't get a key :)
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