Broken Toys

I’m grinning like a motherfucker.

wow. WoW, wow.

This could turn it around for Vanguard!

(Or, AOC, or War, or)

/bitofhumor

I’m actually pleased with the outcome. All my swoop-bids on low cost herbs paid off immensely, as no one was around to out-bid me.

Sounds like they should’ve invested in MS Exchange lite for their email system.

When your this big though something as simple as the in game mail system will have a huge impact. Kudos to them actually fixing it rather than ignoring tyhe issue till after WOTLK release which most companies would do.

yeah, the worst part about this whole debacle is the pure LACK of communication to their playerbase.

It’s one thing to post a “there was trouble with “XXX” update, servers are gonna be down for a couple hours” and fail to meet that deadline.

it’s something else entirely to miss it by THREE FU%KING HOURS w/out updating your message to players.

When I saw the fuss that this was stirring up yesterday I pretty much signed off on any thought of logging in, and went out for a nice italian dinner w/ the lady.

all in all much less stressfull, although I hear the servers just recently came back up from their failure this morning.

The cake may be a lie, but the pie is already being devoured in large slices.

I was there for the Free epics. They didn’t get rid of all of them. The smart people who read the General Forums found out that if you Gem or Enchant the epics Blizzard doesn’t take them away. Not like I would do anything like that. *coughcough*

But it was MASS CHAOS indeed. People surrounded vendors and Taurens would stand on top of them to upset the vast majority trying to get their free items. Area 51 was a slaughter house on Illidan for about an hour till people found out you could get Tier 6 raid gear for free as well. all in all it was a grand old time watching people get frustrated over gear that they probably weren’t smart enough to enchant or socket. I got back on and the wails of pain were everywhere. As if Blizzard would let them actually keep it!

I lub newbs. :3

You couldn’t get tier 6 gear for free, that was a bug that happened almost exactly a year ago.

Why are free epics a big deal? When the expansion comes out tomorrow (or being realistic, next week, when the population spreads out enough that people can actually play).. they’ll start throwing greens at you that are on par with T45 epics (or whatever rank they’re up to now), replacing every item you own within 30 minutes.

Meh, the change in item quality isn’t quite as pronounced with this expansion compared to the last expansion. If you’ve only done Kara in BC you might replace some stuff with blues (or the rare green) in the first 2 new zones, but your BT/Sunwell gear should last till level-80 blue instance drops.

And, for what it’s worth, none of those issues will matter if they’re fixed by 12AM EST. There’s a reason they did maintenance two days *before* release. If the game crashes and burns at midnight, then you actually have a story.

http://tinyurl.com/67oa9r Meh, the change in item quality isn’t quite as pronounced with this expansion compared to the last expansion. If you’ve only done Kara in BC you might replace some stuff with blues (or the rare green) in the first 2 new zones, but your BT/Sunwell gear should last till level-80 blue instance drops.

And I had a hardy laugh. Do the “Average Joe” (Quest Name with held by request)quests and you’ll have gear on par with Kara in the first zone. But you’ll need it by the third zone… It’s good to know people in low places.

Funny, Blizzard knew these bugs and errors existed.

Funnier still, Blizzard thought they’d fixed them all.

Funniest, Blizzard had no idea how to fix it all as of a few hours ago.

Money tree fall down and go BOOM!

@Lume:

The “reason” they did the did the maintenance two days before release is because it was a Tuesday.

And as someone playing WOW from the Asia-Pacific reason, I would like to say that I feel very, very smug right now. It’s about time the US players knew what it was like to have your Tuesday night primetime swallowed up by maintenance.

I noticed absolutely no abnormal impact on my personal playing time from this 18-hour downtime.

@Neil:

I realize maintenance is on Tuesdays. You’d have to be an idiot not to know that. I’m merely pointing out that Blizzard is cognizant of what hot”fixes” and maintenances can break. That’s why they didn’t do maintenance when TBC was released. And that release on a… gee… Tuesday.

The part that amuses me in the mass chaos is the excuse made by many players on the forums that they had no way to tell this was a bug when they bought the stuff.

Let’s see, it was free, most of it only showed up for two classes (Priest and Warlock), and much of the other vendor PvP gear had odd price and requirement changes. (Like arena rating reqs for two-season-old gear that had been available to unrated players for a year, and no requirements at all for the weapons from this season.)

Oh, and it was FREE.

I. Love. This. Industry.

Heh. Americans.

It’s times like this, that I wonder if more and more developers will start considerign using modern project management methods for software development in the game industry. Namely things like Scrum, which would have forced developers to write countless tests to prove each and every layer of the game before allowing a new version to get released. This repeatable and required testing, would prevent a vast majority of these bugs from going live. It’s something even at my office, it’s been pushed and proven to be very effective.

Then again, maybe falls into the failure rate for the amount of code in the game. I wonder how big the whole WoW Deployable looks like. Setting up servers and such. Must be gigs of just data and executables, along with the database and crap.

I am reminded of Leonidas throwing that spear at Xerces. Blizzard made a mistake! It proves they are mortal!

By the sounds of it, this actually might be one of the best expansion launches ever! Blizzard was might smart to pre-release the expansion patch and get the bugs kinked out.

The in game mail thing is just flat out stupid, I must admit. But other then that, I don’t think anyone can call this expansion release anything but a roaring success so far.

Whine, whine, whine. This is nothing compared to the Wrath of the Land King over at the game Second Life, where the most popular product, the openspaces sims, got their prices jacked up 67 percent.

I don’t know why you all bitch so much. I saw all these people waiting in line at the Best Buy. I even allowed my son to go out late on a school night to get in line, he convinced me it was a historic event. He came back with posters signed by the devs, some kind of steed, a hat, and the game, of course, which he continues to play unless I hide the router. While there was all that server stuff going on, first he got the free thingie that you weren’t supposed to get (and I’m glad it is confirmed here that you PURCHASE it with something LIKE coins, as some nit tried to claim I had gotten this wrong on my blog) — then he just played Spore until it was ready.

You all need more games to play.

P.S. Why would you store loot on game email? that sounds dumb, wouldn’t it be better to put it on a mule?

P.P.S. No, you will never get me to play WoW.

The moment you char-gen a Death Knight all is pretty much forgiven.

Looking forward to Wintergrasp though.

@ Prokofy Basically you store stuff in the mail to get around the fact the banks are only located in major cities whereas you can find a mailbox in any town.

@ D-one The green loot from quests is not better than Kara gear, the Blue rewards can be on par/slightly better depending on what it adds but in cases where it is better its not better by much. I replaced the Worgen claw necklace with a Blue neck item from a UK quest and I picked up a Blue chest piece from a boss but it’s not actually better for my current spec (Feral kitty spec) as my DPS goes down with it.

I don’t know, but the mailbox=>ATM machine idea is smart! The only thing is I thought your mail will disappear after 30 days?