Random Ravings of Warcraft

Hi, I stumbled across your blog and really enjoy...

2012-05-03T18:10:46.669+02:00

Hi,

I stumbled across your blog and really enjoyed your post about "Has WoW lost its social prowness". Everyone is posting theories about what is causing WoW's decline and I found your thoughts pretty interesting. I was wondering if you have a twitter handle? I usually shout out links to blog posts I find particularly funny or informational and would love to tweet out some of yours. I use your twitter handle so my followers know who the author is.

-Sigmandis

Co-Host Holy Shatt Podcast

PS: I run a podcast on World of Warcraft with my friend Xantar. We have recordings available on our website (raleighite.com) and you can even listen into the live show on Sundays at 10PM Eastern / 7PM Pacific. We give away a 30 day World of Warcraft card every week in an email contest (all you have to do is email us a WoW question with the previous weeks secret word to this email address) and we're also giving away a Razer Naga mouse to our live show listeners.

Sorry for the shameless plug :( I just love connecting with fellow World of Warcraft community members.

Been a while aye. :P

2012-04-21T22:53:45.906+02:00

Been a while aye. :P

Greetings from Diabolique...if you remember me

2012-03-26T18:07:02.738+02:00

Greetings from Diabolique...if you remember me

http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/ speaking of the ...

2012-01-16T15:53:33.684+01:00

http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/

speaking of the psychology of MMO gaming, i wish to draw your attention to nick yee's "daedalus project." dude wrote his THESIS on the sociology and such of mmo's.

money brings time? Is that because ppl say time is...

2012-01-12T19:43:41.964+01:00

money brings time? Is that because ppl say time is money?
cause lest time i checked i couldnt buy time. just pay it. Like i'm paying 5 minutes reading that and writing this ^^.

And trolling forums is indeed a good place to spend (pun inteded) time.

God i'm in a 'lol' mood tonight xD

-spring

Well, work brings money, and money brings more tim...

2012-01-09T23:49:44.626+01:00

Well, work brings money, and money brings more time and games ^^

And trolling some forums is never a bad thing either :>

y plenty of stuff. Theres skyrim and homm6 (so ann...

2012-01-09T23:14:23.098+01:00

y plenty of stuff.
Theres skyrim and homm6 (so annpying i need to buy a new videocard to play it xD).
Even played a bit of starwars online on my brothers accoutn. its not even that bad xD.

Now i am just waiting for my new card to arrive so i can start playing in earnest again :). Just bin working more then is good for me now.

Glad you enjoyed it :) Yeah, I'm playing a va...

2012-01-07T23:49:53.445+01:00

Glad you enjoyed it :)

Yeah, I'm playing a variety of things right now.
Dungeon Defenders, Rusty Hearts, Dragon Tavern, random flash games.

And some coding so n then.
There's plenty to do until Diablo 3 hits the shelves :P

Wow nice writting skills :). I am glad i found thi...

2012-01-07T11:29:01.849+01:00

Wow nice writting skills :). I am glad i found this while serving boringly.

As for what u said. I had pretty much same storie. Got to twins in AQ40 then the last 2 mounths before tbc no one wanted to raid anymore.
It was such a shame raiding is everything in wow.
Sticking with my guild I went casual in tbc trying to get the guild to get enough for 25 man, but we sadly never did more then Gruul.
Wrath came and gone and i just played because i had no better game to play.
Now in cata i'm terribly bored raiding aint what it used to be. Such a shame, such a shame.
I quite the game and have no regret no remorse.
just a nostalgic feeling now and then about Dreamgaurd and Ysera's Dream. My guilds, my live, my only true fun in wow.
-Springcaller EU.

Cool idea! Wish I had some mad comic strip skills....

2011-12-15T19:45:12.515+01:00

Cool idea! Wish I had some mad comic strip skills.

I am not even sure where to begin in how completel...

2011-10-23T04:51:15.976+02:00

I am not even sure where to begin in how completely and deeply I disagree with you on virtually every point. I love almost every point. I will go with two of them. ;)

First, being in both factions is good. It makes sense. It represents the fact that it is entirely possible for a race to simply not strongly agree or disagree with either faction, and paves the way for the huge game-changing point in the war when some of the ancillary races finally say 'You guys are nucking futs and we're out of here'. Tauren, Nelves, Draenei, Goblins... None of them really has a strong investment in the core of the war, so much as they are supporting allies. Eventually they are going to realise their allies are not rational and will only accept genocide, and the only way the world will find peace (Much as this is World of WARcraft, at this point the war is really dragging into petulant foot-stomping 'We won't give in until they are dead!' views) will be for the sane people to step out and stop fueling the insanity with bodies.

The other thing is the talents. I feel a bit like we watched different things. You say people are just going to choose the PvP PvE, or Healing talent each time... But a core mechanic of it, and one I really felt flowed through on what they presented, was that you were never GIVEN that choice. You were given three different aspects of a theme (Here's three different subtle ways to effect your healing, or CC, or DPS) and none of them ever seemed like 'OMG that is the only choice'. And that was with the rough concept they have so far, before they have been fiddled with and even more balanced.

The system just doesn't seem to reflect your complaint, and they directly talked about your complaint and how they specifically were trying to NOT do what you say.

Not to mention you can change them relatively on the fly. So when one skill is specifically better in a situation you can just click a few buttons and have it.

That was very informative and entertaining. Thank ...

2011-09-10T06:13:20.274+02:00

That was very informative and entertaining. Thank you for sharing, appreciated =)

City of heroes from April 28, 2004. WoW November 2...

2011-07-20T23:30:42.321+02:00

City of heroes from April 28, 2004.
WoW November 23, 2004.

CO-FFA is actually from September 1, 2009. - Being a descendant from CoH, doesn't "not" make it a wow clone however.

Heck, everquest is from 1999, and UO is from 1997. Wow would be considered a clone of those games if you stretch the MMO genre.

WoW has set such a marker on current day MMO gaming, that most MMOs with similar gameplay are simply titled WoW clones - that in itself does not actually make them a clone though. It's a term more than anything nowadays. Hence the "but not quite".

See Rift, now that right there is a 1-1 copy of WoW, with a few changes. You'd almost think they used the same engine and source code.

I don't think that sequel to City of Heroes, w...

2011-07-18T14:53:09.248+02:00

I don't think that sequel to City of Heroes, which pre dates WoW could be considered a WoW clone, on Apple work on that logic

I hate patch 4-0-6!!! OMG!

2011-02-19T23:22:26.650+01:00

I hate patch 4-0-6!!! OMG!

MSE detects the dormant leftover OCSetupHlp.dll fi...

2011-02-18T19:45:01.468+01:00

MSE detects the dormant leftover OCSetupHlp.dll file in my temporary files folder as AdWare, then detects the saved Trillian 5 installer as same.

It's hard to recommend Trillian to friends when it's flagged as a malware risk by Windows Defender.

You can unplug your network cable/internet connection while installing Trillian 5, that at least ensures the OpenCandy component is unable to fetch an advert during the install process. Then find and delete the OCSetupHlp.dll before reconnecting.

I'm mostly concerned that the ad is delivered by Opencandy while running in an administrator context (you allowed UAC to run the Trillian installer with full rights). I don't really want that to happen because I only auth'd Trillian to run, not some random piece of code pulled from the net on the fly.

Let's just see how it goes... Either Cerulean will pull the OpenCandy component from the Trillian 5 installer or MSE will declare it a false positive (assuming OpenCandy is as benign as their website indicates). Unfortunately, secret option number three is abandoning Trillian 5 and returning to v4, no longer recommending it to virtually everyone I meet. :(

Of course, this is all coming to serious light now because MSE just recently began detecting it - Trillian's installer contained Opencandy since last November.

Fun times!

The adware is contained in the package, so MSE wil...

2011-02-14T20:59:12.959+01:00

The adware is contained in the package, so MSE will detect it.
And on most installers, it's selected as "on" by default, so people will install it if they click next next next too quickly. Which is what most people do.

Regardless if its possible to disable, Adware is filthy software that should not have even been in the package in the first place.

The Adware was just detected on my computer and I ...

2011-02-13T23:56:26.512+01:00

The Adware was just detected on my computer and I was totally clean 2 days ago.

OpenCandy was installed into my IZarc 4.1.2 and ProXPN exe files, and those files have been checked and rechecked 100 times each.

This is definitely the end of Trillion! Thank you MSE for this important update!

Hi! The OpenCandy offer only comes during install...

2011-02-13T16:40:36.398+01:00

Hi! The OpenCandy offer only comes during installation of Trillian. There are no advertisements shown during Trillian's normal operations, and you can decline the offer during install and never see it again.

If you're already using Trillian, you definitely won't see anything further from our installer's optional offers. This is not something that randomly pops up advertisements on your computer, just a normal installation bundle offer.

We will look into why OpenCandy was marked as Adware too. Thanks!

Here is an updated Link http://wow-professions.blo...

2011-01-21T19:16:47.352+01:00

Here is an updated Link
http://wow-professions.blogspot.com/

great video, thank you...

2011-01-10T18:22:24.741+01:00

great video, thank you...

A: If that were the case, we'd be able to make...

2011-01-09T03:04:22.312+01:00

A: If that were the case, we'd be able to make druids.

Wish granted.

Found one you might like :) http://www.sewers.dk/...

2011-01-04T20:02:55.931+01:00

Found one you might like :)

http://www.sewers.dk/HeroesofWoW/

Merry New Year!

2011-01-04T01:09:33.848+01:00

Merry New Year!

The only thing I dont really like is the great gro...

2010-11-27T18:51:40.131+01:00

The only thing I dont really like is the great growling/howl when you step away from the pc a bit and you get disconnected.