Well, this is suddenly going to be a busy week of WoW in some ways.
Both Darkmoon Faire and Love is In the Air started this weekend.
I will be running the holliday daily every day to have a chance at the pet and the rocket mount.
I will also be doing my Darkmoon dailies to pick up some shiny new pets and build on my rep.
I have already purchased the new Valentines day mount....off of the AH for 35k. My wife saw it and absolutely had to have it right this instance. I am sure I could get it for cheaper later, but I am absolutely positive that it was more than worth it. The look of joy she had riding around on her new "Flamingees" was priceless.
That was pretty much my weekend in gaming. Most of the rest of it was spent catching up on TV shows. How I Met Your Mother, SG-1, etc.
How was your weekend?
Monday, February 6, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
LFG is the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
LFG has become a needed evil in WoW. You need it to get groups quickly and efficiently. It has also brought the douchebag phenomenon to a whole new level.
Back in the day, we had to walk 10 miles, uphill, in the Snow, with no shoes to get a group for instances. That sucked. A lot.
There were also great advantages to this method. You met people. If they were good, you put them on your friend list and would whisper them for future runs. This built up a team, and this is how I met a lot of my in-game friends.
Those days are mostly long gone.
Now, you get into a random instance, blitz it, and get on with your day.
People have free reign to be a dickhead, because if they are....who cares? Not like they are going to see these random people ever again.
Back in the day, your reputation meant something. If you were classifed as a BAD or a Ninja, you did not get groups. You either did not run anything, or you transfered servers. There was a price for being a douchebag.
Now there is not.
I think that they could add a couple of options to LFG to make it a little bit better.
1) Add and option for realm only LFG. Just a check box. If there are sufficient people on for this, then it throws you into an instance with people that are on your server. If not, it gives you a warning message and asks if you would like to join regular LFG.
2) Add a rating system for players. After a run, a screen pops up and it lets you rate each person in the group with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. There could also be a place to leave a comment. This would be a way to give someone contructive criticism as well as ensure that bad players get grouped with bads and vice versa. Maybe the rating system will group people of similar ratings.
These are just a couple of quick ideas off the top of my head. I do not miss waiting around to get a group. I do miss the friendships that were made and the accountability that people had to face if they acted like fucktards.
Back in the day, we had to walk 10 miles, uphill, in the Snow, with no shoes to get a group for instances. That sucked. A lot.
There were also great advantages to this method. You met people. If they were good, you put them on your friend list and would whisper them for future runs. This built up a team, and this is how I met a lot of my in-game friends.
Those days are mostly long gone.
Now, you get into a random instance, blitz it, and get on with your day.
People have free reign to be a dickhead, because if they are....who cares? Not like they are going to see these random people ever again.
Back in the day, your reputation meant something. If you were classifed as a BAD or a Ninja, you did not get groups. You either did not run anything, or you transfered servers. There was a price for being a douchebag.
Now there is not.
I think that they could add a couple of options to LFG to make it a little bit better.
1) Add and option for realm only LFG. Just a check box. If there are sufficient people on for this, then it throws you into an instance with people that are on your server. If not, it gives you a warning message and asks if you would like to join regular LFG.
2) Add a rating system for players. After a run, a screen pops up and it lets you rate each person in the group with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. There could also be a place to leave a comment. This would be a way to give someone contructive criticism as well as ensure that bad players get grouped with bads and vice versa. Maybe the rating system will group people of similar ratings.
These are just a couple of quick ideas off the top of my head. I do not miss waiting around to get a group. I do miss the friendships that were made and the accountability that people had to face if they acted like fucktards.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Chugging Along
That is how it is going in WoW. Chugging along. Once again, I am mostly doing Auction House activities while waiting for this weekend's extravaganza of crap to do. Darkmoon Faire is on the same week that Love is In the Air starts. Which means not only do I have dailies to do, but I will need to run the Holliday boss daily to try and get the pets and mount drops.
My wife is back playing and driving herself crazy with Archaeology. She is trying to get the Hand pet from Tol'vir....with no success. She is at over 100 solves for Tol'vir without unlocking that little son of a bitch. That is ridiculous. With that many solves, she should have unlocked all of the rare ones already.
I am also thinking about rolling a new horde on a new server with my wife just for something else to do. Most likely it will be a bit higher population server. I am considering Earthen Ring.
Besides that, I have been watching SG-1 and How I Met Your Mother on Netflix. I am part way through season 2 on SG-1. Along with Battlestar Gallactica, I have wanted to continue watching SG-1 for years, but was unable to because I hate watching a serious in non sequential order.
So. That is what I have been doing. What about you?
My wife is back playing and driving herself crazy with Archaeology. She is trying to get the Hand pet from Tol'vir....with no success. She is at over 100 solves for Tol'vir without unlocking that little son of a bitch. That is ridiculous. With that many solves, she should have unlocked all of the rare ones already.
I am also thinking about rolling a new horde on a new server with my wife just for something else to do. Most likely it will be a bit higher population server. I am considering Earthen Ring.
Besides that, I have been watching SG-1 and How I Met Your Mother on Netflix. I am part way through season 2 on SG-1. Along with Battlestar Gallactica, I have wanted to continue watching SG-1 for years, but was unable to because I hate watching a serious in non sequential order.
So. That is what I have been doing. What about you?
Friday, January 27, 2012
Choice of F2P/Subscription model are the way to go.....
for all future MMOs.
This is my opinion. You get people who want to pay a subscription because they want to really play the game and see everything it has to offer. You get others who want to check it out and maybe buy a thing here or there.
The problem with having just a sub based game is that it is often hard to justify paying 15 bucks a month for a game you only "kinda" like.
If you buy the box, I think that you should have an option of which way you want to play. I would probably continue to play SWTOR if it were free to play. I will not however pay monthly for it.
WoW on the other hand, I do not mind paying for. I like the game, and I think if there were a free to play model as well, I would still pay for the "premium" service.
The thing about having both is that it gives you a lot more options. People who dont want to pay a sub, can play. They can then get a sub later if they want to see additional content. Same goes for players who decide to cancel their sub. If they can come back and play and randomly buy items, it keeps a customer they would have lost otherwise.
I like F2P. I like subscription. I just think it is a better idea if games have both.
This is my opinion. You get people who want to pay a subscription because they want to really play the game and see everything it has to offer. You get others who want to check it out and maybe buy a thing here or there.
The problem with having just a sub based game is that it is often hard to justify paying 15 bucks a month for a game you only "kinda" like.
If you buy the box, I think that you should have an option of which way you want to play. I would probably continue to play SWTOR if it were free to play. I will not however pay monthly for it.
WoW on the other hand, I do not mind paying for. I like the game, and I think if there were a free to play model as well, I would still pay for the "premium" service.
The thing about having both is that it gives you a lot more options. People who dont want to pay a sub, can play. They can then get a sub later if they want to see additional content. Same goes for players who decide to cancel their sub. If they can come back and play and randomly buy items, it keeps a customer they would have lost otherwise.
I like F2P. I like subscription. I just think it is a better idea if games have both.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Hitting Instances
Last night I hit all three of the new intances on my Paladin as DPS. The main reason was that my sister got a week pass for the game and has not seen the new instances and did not want to just muddle through.
So away we go. The first thing that happens? A wipe on trash in the first instance lol. We get in and some dps pulls a group of trash. We try to run away. The DPS leave the group to survive. The tank picks the trash up while we are across the map. Tank dies. We die. YAY! Great start.
The rest of everything went incredibly easy from there. We breezed through it with no issues.
The best part is that I think it took around and hour to do all three. Easy peasy.
It was also a nice little change of pace from the AH grind.
So away we go. The first thing that happens? A wipe on trash in the first instance lol. We get in and some dps pulls a group of trash. We try to run away. The DPS leave the group to survive. The tank picks the trash up while we are across the map. Tank dies. We die. YAY! Great start.
The rest of everything went incredibly easy from there. We breezed through it with no issues.
The best part is that I think it took around and hour to do all three. Easy peasy.
It was also a nice little change of pace from the AH grind.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Why I have cancelled SWTOR
First, I want to say that I do not hate the game. I dont love it either. I will go over my reasons why I decided to cancel, and there are a few. Keep in mind that the reasons are not in order of why I cancelled.
1) Poor Customer Service: I have never seen worse GMs. Ever. I put in a ticket a few days after early release. I have never gotten anything but a generic response about two weeks later. Really? This is how your GMs are going to work. By giving a generic we are looking into it and never following up. That is terrible.
2)System Requirements: I admit that I dont have a top of the line computer at this point. However, I am still able to play a lot of games with better graphics than TOR without nearly as many FPS issues. PvP is unplayable for me. Ilum is pretty rough as well. Load screens seem to take forever. This also means that my wife will be unable to play at all without significant upgrades.
3)You go from being the CEO of Microsoft to a dude in a cubicle: Basically, you are a complete badass in your storyline. You are saving the Empire. After that? You are just another fucking dude running around the Imperial fleet doing some inconsequential bullshit. MMOs can not have a game over. Finishing my story line feels like game over. The story was great, but I think that it hurt the end game for me.
4) Same quests over and over: There are not nearly enough paths to advance down. You always have to follow the same exact planet order. In middle of leveling some more character, I had a feeling of "whats the point". The class quests are only a small part of the quests. Everything else is the same thing.
5) No LFG or LFD: This was a pretty big one for me. I dont feel like sitting in the Imperial Fleet for hours at a time looking for Flashpoints. Then if you get into one and it falls apart, that is it. There is no signing up for another flashpoint. You have to hope that someone else is running something.
6) Too many fucking load screens: Seriously. WAY too many. As I mentioned before, load screens are fairly slow for me. So, I get a load screen to get onto my ship. A load screen to get off of my ship at an interplanetary space station, and a load screen to get onto the planet. Then the same thing all the way back to the fleet. Seriously. Too many load screens.
7) Everything is the same: All of the classes on both sides are exact mirrors. I know that they do it for balance, but it makes it a bit boring.
8) You get Pigeonholed: You have to pretty much choose light or dark side. Once you do, choosing the other option is detrimental to your chance to get cool items from light or dark side vendors. Not to mention that you want to play one way and your dumb ass companion doesnt like it.
9) Crappy Everything Interface: There are no mods. I am used to mods. I like making gold in WoW. I hate posting shit in TOR because the system is so clunky. It is time consuming, and usually pointless as many people do not even bother buying off of the galactic market.
I am sure that this is not everything, but it is a list that is long enough for me.
Overall, it is a decent game. I may come back at some point when they polish it up and add some of the features they need. Continuing the class story would also be important to me. I dont care if they even add levels. In fact I would prefer they not. TOR was a good RPG experience, but I found it severly lacking as an MMO.
1) Poor Customer Service: I have never seen worse GMs. Ever. I put in a ticket a few days after early release. I have never gotten anything but a generic response about two weeks later. Really? This is how your GMs are going to work. By giving a generic we are looking into it and never following up. That is terrible.
2)System Requirements: I admit that I dont have a top of the line computer at this point. However, I am still able to play a lot of games with better graphics than TOR without nearly as many FPS issues. PvP is unplayable for me. Ilum is pretty rough as well. Load screens seem to take forever. This also means that my wife will be unable to play at all without significant upgrades.
3)You go from being the CEO of Microsoft to a dude in a cubicle: Basically, you are a complete badass in your storyline. You are saving the Empire. After that? You are just another fucking dude running around the Imperial fleet doing some inconsequential bullshit. MMOs can not have a game over. Finishing my story line feels like game over. The story was great, but I think that it hurt the end game for me.
4) Same quests over and over: There are not nearly enough paths to advance down. You always have to follow the same exact planet order. In middle of leveling some more character, I had a feeling of "whats the point". The class quests are only a small part of the quests. Everything else is the same thing.
5) No LFG or LFD: This was a pretty big one for me. I dont feel like sitting in the Imperial Fleet for hours at a time looking for Flashpoints. Then if you get into one and it falls apart, that is it. There is no signing up for another flashpoint. You have to hope that someone else is running something.
6) Too many fucking load screens: Seriously. WAY too many. As I mentioned before, load screens are fairly slow for me. So, I get a load screen to get onto my ship. A load screen to get off of my ship at an interplanetary space station, and a load screen to get onto the planet. Then the same thing all the way back to the fleet. Seriously. Too many load screens.
7) Everything is the same: All of the classes on both sides are exact mirrors. I know that they do it for balance, but it makes it a bit boring.
8) You get Pigeonholed: You have to pretty much choose light or dark side. Once you do, choosing the other option is detrimental to your chance to get cool items from light or dark side vendors. Not to mention that you want to play one way and your dumb ass companion doesnt like it.
9) Crappy Everything Interface: There are no mods. I am used to mods. I like making gold in WoW. I hate posting shit in TOR because the system is so clunky. It is time consuming, and usually pointless as many people do not even bother buying off of the galactic market.
I am sure that this is not everything, but it is a list that is long enough for me.
Overall, it is a decent game. I may come back at some point when they polish it up and add some of the features they need. Continuing the class story would also be important to me. I dont care if they even add levels. In fact I would prefer they not. TOR was a good RPG experience, but I found it severly lacking as an MMO.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Magic Rooster Egg
My server is terrible for trading card mounts. I have seen a single spectral tiger in Cataclysm. It was going for just under a million gold. Lol, I think I will pass.
The Magic Rooster Egg has long been the mount that I wanted. I just love the ridiculousness of riding around on a large chicken.
Then, the other day, I finally saw one on the AH. You can bet I snapped that bad boy up with the quickness. 300k was well worth it.
The Magic Rooster Egg has long been the mount that I wanted. I just love the ridiculousness of riding around on a large chicken.
Then, the other day, I finally saw one on the AH. You can bet I snapped that bad boy up with the quickness. 300k was well worth it.
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