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Beware of merchandizing, even the breakfast cereal of champions:
Ascendant: Because, Saul, I’m not putting on a lead suit every time I have to go to the cereal aisle in the grocery store.
Ascendant: I don’t care if you have already have a lot of pre-orders for it.
Ascendant: Really? How much?
Ascendant: From who?
Ascendant: Ok… Right… Yeah… Uh huh… Him, too? Really?
Ascendant: Yeah, well the problem here is that all those guys you just mentioned are supervillains, Saul.
Ascendant: Yes, even him. I just beat him up like an hour ago for trying to poison the city’s water supply.
Ascendant: I don’t care if his check cleared, Saul. That’s not the point…
: Zubon
From Tobold: Blizzard advertises activation server problems, to say nothing of the queues.
I’ll say one thing for WoW: players in City of Villains have no idea how to spell queue. When we prepare to cast Vengeance, no one seems to know whether to “cue” or “queue” the power, so almost everyone says “que.” I don’t think they’re Spanish.
: Zubon
Lake Superior State University has called for the retirement of the word “pwn” in 2007. Those are surely our people on the committee deciding such things, because I promise you that my mother, boss, and state senator do not know the term. Then again, they called for the demise of “blog” for 2005, but I hear this blogging thing is catching on. “LOL” and “bots” are still going strong, but after eight years, large parts of the online world have wiped out “that’s gay,” in favor of “that’s ghey.” Progress!
: Zubon
[World of Warcraft] Did they ever roll back the useless Paladin and Shaman drops, or was the final decision that was “working as intended”? If so, did it have as big an effect on raiding as expected? Remember, it was explicitly done to allow faster problem fixes in paid-beta post-release Burning Crusade, so you get to be more demanding and vocal about any problems then.
: Zubon
Yesterday, Verizon was offering a free ringtone as a new year advertisement, presumably as a way to show off their new deluxe system and get people started on that sort of thing. This plan worked brilliantly, except that the system was unavailable, busy, crashed, etc. every time I tried to use it over the day. Twice, it even let me get so far as entering the code I would need to get the free song before reseting everything. So what did we learn from this advertisement? That Verizon has no idea how to make a stable network or serve its customers. I am surprised that they advertised this.
I was immediately reminded of when City of Heroes gave a free trial weekend immediately after releasing Issue 7. Apparently “Our system is so bugged as to be unusable! Would you like a sample?” is a very popular way to seek new and returning customers. Hey, why not invite massive server load before getting the bugs out of the system?
: Zubon