Fucking Blizzard. If this was an up-to-the-minute documentary of my online life, I’d be at 19% downloaded. That’s progress. Thirty minutes ago, it was 12% downloaded.
Still 19%.
19%.
Waiting on 20%. Cable modem, screaming downloads, I’ve seen the commercials. I’m normally amazed. 19. 19. Can I get a 20? 20? wru, 20?
Fucking yeah! 20 percent!
Meanwhile, I’ll improv. Pour yourself a strong one. We have time.
I have this e-bud, played MMoGs with him for years. Guy drives us all nuts.
Firstly, he relogs at the slightest burp of lag. Swear to Christ, the boss mob can be incoming but if he even senses server lag, he says “brb, relogging” and before we can tell him that we all felt the burp and it should clear — besides Mr. God of the Evil Bandits is incoming! — he’s offline, rebooting and relogging.
What the fuck is that? He does this at least five times a night.
(24% — I’m cooking with fire now!)
Secondly, he is constantly reinstalling windows, reinstalling the game and repatching everything. With the Warcrack patch servers, I think you can see why that is a very bad thing. We’ll ask, “hey, you playing tomorrow night?” Him: “ya, after I reinstall and patch”, which means he’ll log in about three hours after our normal start time.
He does that about once a week. (wtf)
Thirdly, he is disturbed, and I mean overly disturbed, by any subpar performance of his video card, monitor or sound card. He has, (I’m guessing), about 53 sound-dampening devices on his computer so he hears no computer fans or hard disks whatsoever, and any imagined video flickers, low frame rates, one or two dead pixels on his LCD, etc. sends him screaming to his local Best Buy the next day for replacements.
He does this about once a month.
I think he has some unique form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder involving Computer Performance in Online Gaming or some shit.
If he wasn’t such a good player and guildmate, I’d have booted his ass years ago and suggested therapy, or at least high doses of powerful pharmaceuticals.
(30% — my patching is a house on fire!)
I’ll wager we won’t see him online tonight. Patch day always sends him into a frenzy accompanied by a twitching fetal position.
Took me two hours, twenty-two minutes, and forty-four seconds to download the patch.
My wife got done in an hour and a half.
I was rather ticked. Not just because Blizzard can’t seem to figure out that Bittorrent works better when you leave your leeches connected after the patch is complete, so they become seeders. No, I was really, really ticked off because on a day of precious vacation time, dedicated to gaming, I was booted at 9am, and didn’t get to play against until 4pm.
And then they had the gall to charge for tradeskill ranks. I didn’t see that anywhere in the patch notes. It’s just too bad I can’t stand Sony any more, and I can’t log into DAOC without feeling so tired and bored that want to go to bed early.
Bad Blizzard! Bad!
Next time check your links 😉
I did use your patch link over on cesspit.net, after waiting over an hour for the WoW shittorrent server. Left a comment thanking you, but must have got lost in moderation.
Blizzard has quite a swagger in their step lately. Should be good fun when the fanbois start abandoning them, as they always do.