World of Warcraft players are creaming in their soiled drawers today as the latest v3.0.2 patch is now live. Dubbed Echoes of Doom, the 1.2 GB patch brings a new profession of Inscription, an in-game guild calendar, a barber shop, the long awaited achievement system, expanded talent trees, and a new location, Stormwind Harbor.
I’ve been downloading the patch for a little while and, as you can see, things aren’t going at breakneck speeds here. Guess I need to find something else to do with my time today…
Holy loser Batman. A player by the name of Bradster has exactly 36 seperate WoW accounts and plays them all at once. You have to read this to believe it.
It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule. Not bad considering I’m looking at it like it’s a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft.
With logic like that, who can blame him right? Jesus. This manboy plays WoW like no other I have ever seen. Here is the rest of the article. You need to read this just to feel better about yourself.
I know a lot of you out there are creaming your pants waiting until late November when Wrath of the Lich King gets released. Al is stuffing his face with Red Bull and Cheetos trying to get to level 70 with his Hunter, I’m sitting pretty around level 12 with my Blood Elf (haven’t had a ton of time to play lately). If some of you are out there are making your own 80’s montage and getting fat and pimply like the kids in South Park trying to level up quickly, you’ll be happy to know you don’t need an insane PC to run the upcoming expansion pack.
PC:
- Windows XP SP3 or Vista SP1 (Windows 2000 no longer supported)
- Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1.5 GHz (up from 800 MHz Intel/AMD). Dual-core recommended.
- RAM: 512 MB/1 GB for Vista, same as before. 1 GB/2 GB recommended.
- Video: GPU with hardware transform and lighting and 32 MB VRAM, same as before. Recommended 128 MB VRAM.
Mac:
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 (10.3 no longer supported)
- PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz or Intel Core Duo. G4s are no longer supported. Intel 1.8 GHz recommended.
- RAM: 1 GB, up from 512 MB. 2 GB recommended.
- Video: Hardware transform and lighting, 64 MB VRAM. 128 MB VRAM recommended.
Not too bad. Go find the Sword of a Thousand Truths and live to win. If you get that reference, you get +10 cool points.
Some players in a guild recorded what happens when parents tell their child they have to stop play World of Warcraft. What happens when they don’t listen? A possible divorce and domestic violence thats what. I think we have found the biggest douche on the planet. I coulnd’t embed it, but here is the link. Hysterical.
Oh jesus, God, no. Its the end of the world…of Warcraft. Uwe Boll should be called King Feces. Everything he touches turns to doody. The oft-maligned movie director turned self-defined genius has asked Blizzard to sell the rights to his company so he can make the first WoW movie. Blizzard responded, ever so politely:
We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you.
And like that, Azeroth was saved. To be honest, it was never in any real danger. Do you really think they would undercut themselves and sell the beloved franchise to perhaps the most hated director in the gaming world to make a movie about a game? No, me neither. Its just funny to see someone get that soundly rejected.
It is the end of the world… of Warcraft. A gamer from Fort Lauderdale, FL is bringing a lawsuit against a video game store for selling virtual gold for real money. This practice is called gold farming and has the same inflation effect that would occur if people printed their own money. This sounds like an absolute waste of time and it probably is. Yet, this could be one of those cases that turns out to set a precedent.
In order to win the lawsuit, the gamer must show that he suffered actual damages. There is nothing written that says people have any rights to virtual property. How can you own something that is not tangible? This is the basis of the Antonio Hernandez’s case:
“This loss of time, conservatively, amounts to hundreds of thousands of hours of subscriber time and causes the irreparable harm of driving subscribers away from World of Warcraft,” according to Hernandez’s lawsuit. “The economic harm incurred by this loss of time is in the millions of dollars.”
This instance, though sort of pathetic, does have the implications bring a whole new facet to the rights of gamers and their property inside the virtual world. We will keep a close eye on this and see just how far the government is going to allow these types of claims to be heard.
Thanks to Princess Omala for the news tip.
Just in case you have not heard, Activision merged with Vivendi to make a monster development company. The good news keeps coming. During a press conference they confirmed that there will be a Call of Duty 5, no word on format yet, and Guitar Hero 4. Not surprised to hear this due to the fact both games are basically must haves, but its good to know that the franchises are alive and well. They also confirmed that there is no plans to put World of Warcraft on any console.
This seems to be a trend with the merging of these companies. There is way too much money involved in gaming now for any company and/or companies to avoid shrewd business moves that will create bigger and better games which result in more profit. The consumer is the real winner here in the sole reason that games have a pretty standard price. Except for the music games and their expensive peripherals, 60 bucks is the industry standard. The games get better and we still pay the same price. Looks like 2008 could be the year of the consumer.
It seems that Communism has once again reared its ugly head. This time it is in the form of a campaign launched to limit the total amount of time a minor can spend online to 3 hours before point deductions begin reports chron.com. The concept is based on ID cards that are to be used to log in which have the gamers age and if under 18, a message will be prompted that reads “do suitable physical exercise”. A spokesman for the project had these comments:
Gaming companies Shanghai-based The9 _ which runs the popular “World of Warcraft” online game in China _ and Shenzhen-based Tencent both said Tuesday they have started using the screening software.
The9 spokesman James Zhao said he doesn’t expect the new restrictions to affect business because most of The9’s users are adults. “World of Warcraft,” from Vivendi SA’s Blizzard Entertainment Inc., is the world’s most popular online game and has more than 3.5 million subscribers in China.
We can only hope that this idea will not come overseas but China and ourselves have basically polar opposite political ethos. What would you do if you were a couple hours into a co-op Halo 3 game when you were told to get off your ass and play kickball? What if its 2 AM and there are no kickball games happening? I think we are safe in this one and I doubt this is what Mao Zedong wrote the “Little Red Book” for.
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Robert Carson was a World of Warcraft player like the rest of you. He made it a habit to pick on weaker characters like in the South Park episode we all loved last season. Turns out he kept killing a female character thus making it very hard for her to advance in the game. So what does this badass do? He tells the woman not only where he lives, but if her husband was a real man, come to his house and they can settle it like real men reports funtechtalk.com. Turns out Robert got his wish. The husband of the besmirched character went his house with his drunken buddies and beat him with clubs and smashed his computer in Mexico City last week. Granted we have all threatened to beat someone’s ass over a cheap goal or a lucky kill, but this is unheralded. I mean, what does this guy have to win by making this up. He is not only the biggest d-bag this side of the Rio Grande, but he has broken arm and a smashed computer. So that kid who was spawn killing in GRAW 2 last week, I got your name, I got your ass!
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