Monthly Archives: January 2005
Another Poorer But Wiser Lesson
Here’s something I find curious. When people complain on the Warcrap forums about the login queues, game drops and/or crushing lag on the high-population servers, someone (usually several someones) is sure to post, “you shouldn’t have made a character on a hi-pop server”, or “remake on a lo-pop server”, or “no lag on my server, quit yer bitching.”
Really, how are any of those responses relevant or helpful?
How long should a player give a gaming house to get their launch shit together? One week at least, I’d think. After a month, certainly two, shouldn’t players expect some relief?
Maybe the guy on the hi-pop server made his character on launch day. Maybe he believed the Blizzard Company Line that they’d get things under control soon. Maybe after level 30 or so, he still believed the Company Line. Probably now, he’s doubting.
Random Luck
Another lag-o-riffic weekend in World of Warcraft, (server down! server down!), and a few interesting issues cropped up that I was tracking with my l337 forum stalking skills. You might wonder why I would stalk the forum instead of play the game — you might not wonder, no difference, because I’m going to tell you anyways — Warcraft fucked me over a couple times this weekend so while I was fuming, I’d go forum stalk.
Nothing new, just a couple of buggy quests that, for some reason unbeknownst to even me, I kept trying to redo to PROVE to myself that they were, in fact, bugged. O ya, and a kinda sorta uber item I was selling on the Auction House that vanished into the nether regions of Lag. Enjoy the adventure!
Back to the forum stalking: Seems there might be a bit of a problem with dice rolling in Warcraft. Players reporting group members rolling multiple 100s out of /random 1-100 and other group members consistently winning /randoms over a few hours of playtime. Now I’m not a big believer in anecdotal evidence, ESPECIALLY in MMOGs, and I haven’t witnessed this bit of mathematical nonsense yet, but the odds are astronomically against those streaks being anything but hacks.
If the reports are true, that is. Obviously, they could be false, but I have seen some very odd things in Warcraft. Very odd, indeed.