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The Lukewarm Crusade: Day 2

wow[World of Warcraft] We revisited our Blood Elves last night with more problems. At first, the server was offline for some urgent rolling restarts. After the server appeared to be back online, it still kicked us out over and over. Finally we were able to get back on, but there was a lot of issues. Things like looting mobs and talking to quest NPCs took quite a bit of time to complete. We got disconnected a few times but it seemed like after about 30 minutes things settled down.

We did several quests, fighting a nice variety of new mobs. One quest gave us a 4 slot bag as a reward which was really nice. We did a quest that sent us into Falthrien Academy. I really enjoyed that place because it reminded me so much of some of the structures in Asheron’s Call 2. It was a sort of homecoming in a way.

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The Lukewarm Crusade

wow[World of Warcraft] I decided to cash in some of my gift cards from Christmas and ordered online two copies of the World of Warcraft expansion, the Burning Crusade. I was surprised to get an email soon after telling me to come on in and pick them up, one for me and one for my wife. I really had expected them to be sold out. There was actually about 100 boxes still on the shelf when I got there.

I got home pretty late last night, so we decided to just upgrade our accounts and install the expansion, perhaps trying to patch before going to bed. 30 minutes later we were done. It was a beautiful thing, couldn’t have gone any better. So we decided to log in and check out the new races. We changed our realm to Doomhammer where my brother (who was already level 64!!) plays and normally encounter a huge queue in the evenings. We got right on, that was unusual.

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BC Launch: Smooth as a troll’s bottom

Since this is their first expansion, you have to give Blizzard some slack. After all, unlike the famous Kunark incident, they actually had product for sale. (Ask your long time EQ playing friends about how Sony forgot to make enough product to fulfill their preorders, much less people wandering in off the street. What a kneeslapper)

However, just because you have product out there, and paid your $39.99 (or $69.99 if you want a little dragon pet), that does not mean you get entrance to said product. See, we’re having some slight techincal issues…

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I Pity Her

I received the following message: “[Tell]NAME: do u have timothy raymand???”

Part of me wants to send an unhelpful message back, or taunt him with the fact that I know exactly what he wants but have already exhausted it. I want to explain to this poor, delicate soul what impression you create when you want something from someone but cannot be bothered to capitalize, spell it correctly, or be polite. If you are going to spam everyone in a level range, you can take the time to write out something like, “/tell $target, Excuse me, but I am looking for the Exterminator badge mission (Eliminate Kit’Vul), which I need to finish an accolade. By any chance do you have it or the contact Timothy Raymond available?” Maybe if I just mentioned the effect created by using three question marks?

But mostly I am thinking that this fellow is going to get a date someday. Some poor girl is going to look at him and think, “This is really the best that I can do.” My heart aches for her.

: Zubon

Elves in Space

Here we are on the morning of BC release. To the best of my knowledge, thus far at least, there were no pocket-protector related injuries at any of the GameStops who opened last night at midnight to sell Burning Crusade to people who simply couldn’t wait to roll their elf or lizard draenai. I found it amusing that many, including my local one, promoted this opening with “character dress contests and pie”.

Ah pie.

My server’s first Blood Elf (a mage, of course), was summoned to Orgimarrrrrrrrrr about 11:30pm CST, and then proceeded to duel everyone, while shouting “I’m an elf!”. More BC news as it becomes available, or as the servers melt down.

WoW Abducted My Wife

wow[World of Warcraft] Seriously, she is crazy. She is playing when I am at work, this is not fair! She is leveling and I can’t keep up. She is making friends and has to stop to chat every time we go on a quest together. Level 21 already! I never made it past 29 (on two characters) in all the time I played solo. We hit 21 in just a few weeks without any troubles at all. I just finished proclaiming no interest in the expansion but that was before she heard about Blood Elves. Next thing I know she’ll be bringing home two boxes and installing them herself.

Two months ago, “take a World of Warcraft break” would have meant “get off the computer already”. Now it means “we should go to the basement and play WoW for a while”.

– Ethic

Response Times

cov[City of Villains] For villains level 30-35, the Talos Island mayhem mission is bugged. At least for my character it was; maybe it is Mastermind-related, I have no idea. I ran it three times, and the hero failed to spawn each time. For the non-CoVers, mayhem missions are timed missions where you rob a bank and defeat a hero, with side missions and various objects to blow up along the way. Mayhem missions are required to get your contacts in a new zone.

I put in two support calls, since I was still waiting on a call from the second when the third Mayhem failed, too. Keep in mind that you need to block one of your three mission slots with the failed mission while waiting if you want them to be able to help you, and if you are offline or on a different character when the support call comes, you get an e-mail encouraging you to try again later.

Petition: 01/14/2007 02:22 PM
Response: 01/14/2007 03:58 PM (96 minutes)

Petition: 01/14/2007 06:35 PM
Response: 01/14/2007 10:11 PM (216 minutes)

: Zubon

Month ‘n a day.

December 13, 2006 marked the launch date for Anarchy Online’s either third or fourth expansion pack Lost Eden. So, what does it do? Well, like any game out these days, it has to rip off some element of World of Warcraft. Since AO has always been an attempt at a pvp-centric game, they introduced a “battlestation.” Yes, a rip off so obvious Funcom didn’t even change the name enough to make it seem like it was anything else but.

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Fighting to Stay on Topic

Having been referred to xkcd by multiple sources, I wanted to share some of the amusing strips done there, but I was having trouble finding my gaming link. But wait, City of Heroes players, we have Hami-Os! Or close enough…

And then, while typing this, I remembered that there are several strips about Katamari Damacy and the internet. But hey, why go for the easy link when we can struggle for relevance?

: Zubon