World of Warcraft

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by General Ludd
There's a huge uproar about the lack of a RP-PvP server, and even a huge petition in their forums. But the official word is still "For technical and customer support considerations, an RP PvP realm, if it does come to life, would not be for a while."

They locked the petition thread.

(after ~250 people signed it in two days)

[Blake]

Okay Blizzard are officially scum, they say you get 1 month free with the game, but you need to either provide credit card details, or already have a 2 month game card, ergo, you need a credit card to play despite what they said. If you don't have a credit card then you have to buy the 2 months card to get 1 month free, but the game cards aren't even out yet! I despise CC's so I don't have one, I'll just have to borrow a family members then cancel the CC subscription when the game cards become available.

Blizzard are whores for saying that you get a free month - but oops you have to commit to paid months before you can play the free month. To me it also stinks of a strategy which name starts with Black and ends with Mail.

[Main_Brain]

How much /month is it?

[Blake]

Finally got to the play it in the evening, after the CC nonsense then dl'ing a 20mb patch over 56k (I found a website with it on rather than using bittorrent)

I played from 8:30PM to 1AM (completely forgetting to watch a TV show). My Male Troll Shaman is now lvl8. My knees are sweaty. Life is good. I chose a depopulated server so that annoying people wouldn't annoy me while I'm marvelling at the game in general.

I must say I've played games that are outright more addictive (I'm not tempted to play until say, 5am) but I suspect there will be plenty of longlivity, maybe a thousand hours.

[DrSpike]

Wow you got over your tantrum fast.

[Nostromo]

Ouch! This thing is not cheap!

[Gamecube64]

Hey Blake, there are character web pages, right? Can you link us to yours?

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by nostromo
Ouch! This thing is not cheap!

Pretty standard for MMORPGs. It's not that dear really, when you consider how much play you can get out of it.

[General Ludd]

I remember when MMORPGs where $10 a month and the idea of making them even $13 was a huge controversy.


But it probably won't be long before games will be charging $20, soon.

[DrSpike]

$15 seems fair to me.

[General Ludd]

$10 is more fair.

[DrSpike]

Come on, someone with as much time as you have to play games will play, what, 5 hours a day? That's $15 for 150 hours, or 10 cents an hour. Sounds cheap to me.

[General Ludd]

I don't have so much time to play these days... and frankly, I don't really want to play games that much anymore. I've actually been... *gasp* working this week. And I want to get started in pottery in the coming months... I've recently realized what a waste of time, energy, and creativity computer games can be.



But anywho.... what makes you think someone who's got alot of time on their hands can keep playing 5 hours a day if the price is hiked by 50%? a few extra cents an hours can be alot of money to an unemployed game junkie.

[DrSpike]

I have the cash but no time!

[General Ludd]

Looks like the **** has really hit the fan for WoW. Servers crashing enmasse with no warning and Blizzard giving no response or explanation untill hours after the fact, while their forums are going ape-**** and their only response can been to lock all the threads and say "we're aware of the problems and are looking into it".


Of course, all those MMORPG junkies will forget this ever happened the moment the servers come back up and they can go back to killing giant bats.

I'm glad I was able to resist temptation in buying this game.