>Erm, WoW was a little rough at launch.
No where near the "rough" that the original EQ had (downtime galore, humungo patches). Considering WoW is a new player in the field, its had considerably less downtime than EQ. Anytime a popular MMORPG is lauched, there are always launch problems. I and many others typically wait 4 days after launch to buy the game (let the dust settle).
On a side note:
I have played UO, DAOC, EQ and WoW. WoW takes the trophey by far. First, no other game rewards casual gamers (get an XP bonus from resting) and puts more emphesis on the "RPG" side of things (questing).
Second, WoW is actually fun to play.
EQ has been dethroned in my eyes.
My (non-lethal advice) based off of deterants/defense for the comon burgalur, rapist, serial killer:
Deterants:
1. Beware of Dog and/or guns on premisis in clear view from the curve (someone also mentioned the NRA based bumper stickers, which also work well)
2. Get one of those ADT home security lawn signs. The signs work better than the actual security
3. Make sure your front door has a peep hole
4. Get GOOD dead bolt locks or use one of those NY style bar locks (not even the police will be able to ram it down) for at least your front door.
Defense:
1. 12g or 20g shotgun w/salt shot. Go to any gun shop and ask for a home defense shot gun and make sure it can take salt shot. The barrel will typically be shorter and some will fire up to 8 rounds. Make sure you get a pump action. Something about hearing that *click* *click* will have most thieves running for an exit. The salt wont kill, but it will burn so bad your intruder will wish he was dead.
2. Air Taser. Expensive, but very effective. The only bad part is that they only have a max range of 15 feet. But they will allow you to give your intruder a proper texas style ass whooping (or for you folks from Mississippi, a good "squeel like a pig!") while he jiggles around on the floor in a fetal position.
3. BB gun. The Daisy air rifle I have will imbed into wood, which should easily imbed into skin and beyond (be sure to let intruder know that). After its fired, it makes an effective clubbing device. Aim for the crotch.
4. Baseball bat, brass knuckles, k-bar knife. The bigger the knife, the better.
"You call that a knife? *fling* Now this is a knife!"
5. Get a butterfly knife and learn how to flick it around like in movies. While your intruder is mezmorized by your ninja like skills, have your wife sneak up behind with a good iron frying pan.
I have the same problem on Live. It's a wonderful service, but its dominated by the "OMFG IM SO HIGH RIGHT NOW!!!" crowd. I consider myself a casual gamer due to my work heavy schedule and video game hating wife. So when I jump online I like to have a good fulfilling experience. Unfortunately that rarely happens.
There really is no silver bullet to this problem either. However I've found that the following does help:
1. Run your own server so you can moderate
2. Build up your friends list with people that you know are decent gamers (my fav)
3. Start your own clan
I would like to advise using the player feedback system so you can give negative feedback on poor players, but I don't think M$ acts on it. I think the last thing they want to do is kick off paying customers from their system.
What would be nice is if they created a viewable reputation system. That way I could filter on servers that contained too much "scum". But that introduces the "rep whoring" problem you see on UBB enabled forums. Meh someone will figure it out...
Better testing could allegedly cut that by one-third
Not likely. Testing of the software isnt that big of an issue. "Most" bugs that are found by customers are already present in the bug tracking databases of the people that developed the software. It's the will of the Product/Program managers to decide wether to spend the dev/qa time to fix the issues. Arent STM dates a bitch?
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>Erm, WoW was a little rough at launch. No where near the "rough" that the original EQ had (downtime galore, humungo patches). Considering WoW is a new player in the field, its had considerably less downtime than EQ. Anytime a popular MMORPG is lauched, there are always launch problems. I and many others typically wait 4 days after launch to buy the game (let the dust settle). On a side note: I have played UO, DAOC, EQ and WoW. WoW takes the trophey by far. First, no other game rewards casual gamers (get an XP bonus from resting) and puts more emphesis on the "RPG" side of things (questing). Second, WoW is actually fun to play. EQ has been dethroned in my eyes.
*Cancels Halo 2 preorder (not!)*
My (non-lethal advice) based off of deterants/defense for the comon burgalur, rapist, serial killer: Deterants: 1. Beware of Dog and/or guns on premisis in clear view from the curve (someone also mentioned the NRA based bumper stickers, which also work well) 2. Get one of those ADT home security lawn signs. The signs work better than the actual security 3. Make sure your front door has a peep hole 4. Get GOOD dead bolt locks or use one of those NY style bar locks (not even the police will be able to ram it down) for at least your front door. Defense: 1. 12g or 20g shotgun w/salt shot. Go to any gun shop and ask for a home defense shot gun and make sure it can take salt shot. The barrel will typically be shorter and some will fire up to 8 rounds. Make sure you get a pump action. Something about hearing that *click* *click* will have most thieves running for an exit. The salt wont kill, but it will burn so bad your intruder will wish he was dead. 2. Air Taser. Expensive, but very effective. The only bad part is that they only have a max range of 15 feet. But they will allow you to give your intruder a proper texas style ass whooping (or for you folks from Mississippi, a good "squeel like a pig!") while he jiggles around on the floor in a fetal position. 3. BB gun. The Daisy air rifle I have will imbed into wood, which should easily imbed into skin and beyond (be sure to let intruder know that). After its fired, it makes an effective clubbing device. Aim for the crotch. 4. Baseball bat, brass knuckles, k-bar knife. The bigger the knife, the better. "You call that a knife? *fling* Now this is a knife!" 5. Get a butterfly knife and learn how to flick it around like in movies. While your intruder is mezmorized by your ninja like skills, have your wife sneak up behind with a good iron frying pan.
I have the same problem on Live. It's a wonderful service, but its dominated by the "OMFG IM SO HIGH RIGHT NOW!!!" crowd. I consider myself a casual gamer due to my work heavy schedule and video game hating wife. So when I jump online I like to have a good fulfilling experience. Unfortunately that rarely happens.
There really is no silver bullet to this problem either. However I've found that the following does help:
1. Run your own server so you can moderate
2. Build up your friends list with people that you know are decent gamers (my fav)
3. Start your own clan
I would like to advise using the player feedback system so you can give negative feedback on poor players, but I don't think M$ acts on it. I think the last thing they want to do is kick off paying customers from their system.
What would be nice is if they created a viewable reputation system. That way I could filter on servers that contained too much "scum". But that introduces the "rep whoring" problem you see on UBB enabled forums. Meh someone will figure it out...
Better testing could allegedly cut that by one-third Not likely. Testing of the software isnt that big of an issue. "Most" bugs that are found by customers are already present in the bug tracking databases of the people that developed the software. It's the will of the Product/Program managers to decide wether to spend the dev/qa time to fix the issues. Arent STM dates a bitch?