Bad internet karma day.
April 11th, 2006Unscheduled Bloglines downtime, and WoW’s weekly 7 hours of scheduled downtime is pushing 12 with no end in sight. (and they’re homepage is even down)
Blog posts tagged "wow"
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April 6, 2006
⇒ Short article on the WoW weather system.I’ve yet to see any weather, and sounds like the developers passed the opportunity to do something cool, and map virtual weather to weather in real locations, alas.
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January 24, 2006
⇒ “WoW is very pretty and very complex. It’s not just a nice GUI for a spreadsheet application like some other RPGs”.Nicely put.
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October 13, 2005
⇒ MySpace hacked: Viral vectors mutating and spreading among previously unaffectable communities..First Warcraft and now MySpace. Apparently all social ventures are susceptible to viruses. (Is that a new law?)
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September 19, 2005
⇒ World of Warcraft plague...Just like Blizzard! Blame it on de trolls, can’t get no respect, man.
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(Aside biology, emergence, wow)
Blizzard, So Last Century
April 30th, 2005Why is Blizzard charging for the World of Warcraft software? Or, barring the need to cover printing and shipping, why disallow me to use a copy I manage to acquire though alternative methods? How can the $40 they collect up front possibly compare the to recurring amount they would receive if they lowered the barriers to participation? Given that a troll pidgin is quickly becoming a viable 2nd language in this house, I’d happily pay $12/month fee to have an account for the occasional play, and I’d probably go on paying even on off months, to hold on to my limited progress.
How long would I let these low level monthly payments go on? It would roll right into my cost of being online without making a ripple, and they’d have already made their money and more. Dumb, or at least short sighted.
