Monthly Archives: January 2005

Noobs R Us

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Blizzard really needs to hire more dicks. If they had more people that were dicks, they could forsee this kinda stuff from the start.

Let’s say you’re a Horde out for a night on town. You’re level 60 … you’ve been there, done that … you’re buffed, sure, you’ve been working out (metaphorically), and you have no place to go. Possibly there’s some action out in Auberdine, maybe Menethil, anywhere there’s some naive Alliance trying to grind level 20.

So you bid your goodbyes to your brethren in the Barrens and head north, to Darkshore. Dodge a few guards. Maybe you don’t dodge, maybe you kill … no matter. You arrive relatively unscathed in Auberdine nonetheless.

And what have we here? A port NPC that’s not elite and has no faction consequences. I ask you this … who among us could resist? You lock down a faction from traveling to the other continent, indefinitely, with no consequences. Who among us could resist?

Not I. (Although my main isn’t Horde, I won’t claim that I’m above toying with a non-elite, factionless NPC.)

Read for yourself. Blizz response, post #192, courtesy of hapless Tyren: “We are aware of the situation, and will address it soon.”

Blizzard’s raw noobness is almost endearing. Kinda reminds me of a certain gaming academe blog that posts about SHOCKING (to them) stories of embittered ex’s deleting items or players joining groups and soaking up experience while perma-AFK.

GOD NO! People actually do that?

2005 to the gaming noobs … transmission incoming … people have been doing this kind of shit for ten years. Welcome to the party.

Update

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Finally, I found a Blue (Blizzard rep) response to that perma-rested experience bug that people have been /reporting for several days. I’m kind of envious of the bugged characters. If I was so blessed bugged, I don’t think I would ever log off until level 60 was a fait accompli.

Improved Magic Technology

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The Warcraft Menethil-Auberdine boat is being replaced by NPC Porters, because of some ridiculous reason that sounds made up to me, but what would I know — I’m a user, not a provider. Excerpt, quoting Blizz dude, Tyren:

The reason for the maintenance is that we have identified that one of the problems causing multiple disconnects revolves around the boat system in the game. Specifically, the boat that travels between Menethil Harbor and Auberdine was causing errors that impacted stability for the entire realm.

When the realms come back online, this boat will be replaced by NPCs who can teleport players between these two locations. Once this fix is implemented, we will analyze performance under live conditions and from that point roll out the fix across all realms.

The boat may be restored some day to the game, maybe when the summer interns arrive, who knows. Of course, we all know what this means …

NPC Porter

(My MS Paint skills are … lacking. Maybe when AFK Gamer’s imaginary summer intern arrives, I’ll have him spend a day or two improving that.)