Wrath of the Lich King concluded the events of Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne.
Cataclysm concluded the events of the "War of the Ancients" series of novels.
The next World of Warcraft expansion is going to conclude the events of an april fools joke that they played a few years ago.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Blindy. fucked around with this message on 10-21-2011 at 11:29 PM.
Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 10-22-2011 at 10:35 AM.
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Blindy. had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
Everyone knows when you sign a one year contract it GUARANTEES more content!
What exactly are you driving at?
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Addy wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
What a joke expansion. Monks are pretty cool, and the talent changes are interesting. Other than that... really?
But POKEMON BATTLES. OMG Don't you want to play Pokemon in World of Warcraft??!
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Addy had this to say about Cuba:
What a joke expansion. Monks are pretty cool, and the talent changes are interesting. Other than that... really?
Maybe we can have another expansion where another key character gets corrupted and we spend a year trying to fight the corrupted big bad guy because there are no more non-corrupted big bad guys to fight anymore.
How about you just let their guys go wild and see what they can come up with in NEW LORE instead of twisting everything again.
Or we can just put Kul'Tiras in charge of the Forsaken and kill woman Lich King Sylvanis.
Oh god I know some of the lore I better go hang myself.
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Mortious's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
WoW won't be over until they let people battle the fallen titan, avatar or real.Oh god I know some of the lore I better go hang myself.
Heh, that was always what I assumed the last expansion would be. Showdown with Sargeras.
Offer them an in-game mount, a free copy of Diablo 3, and beta access for committing to a 1-year subscription.
Which works for me since I don't plan to leave the game, so free shit for staying a subscriber!
The mount does look p. cool though Khyron fucked around with this message on 10-22-2011 at 06:12 PM.
Yeah, I really want that level 70 priest and level 68 shaman back. Blindy. fucked around with this message on 10-24-2011 at 09:47 AM.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Karnaj's fortune cookie read:
Just curious: how to they detect things like WowGlider?
Blizzard added a background memory scanner to the game code that watches for that sort of thing.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Karnaj likes to scream this out during sex:
Just curious: how to they detect things like WowGlider?
There is a program that runs along-side wow called Warden. It does some pretty low-level stuff to look at the other programs that are running on your computer and see if they are trying to read data from memory addresses scoped in WoW.exe. At least, that's what it does now. What it used to do is compare your other running executables against a set of known hacker/bot programs.
This is a pretty cool story, actually.
For a year or more, WowGlider was able to avoid detection because they had obfuscation and several other techniques built into it that would make the executable appear completely different every time you ran it. Every time a new version of Warden was released, the WowGlider software would stop working (it dialed home on bootup via an encrypted connection to check if it's clear to use) while the creator decompiled it, generated a diff file and peeked around to make sure that it would still be undetectable. The creator would then raise the all clear flag and it would start working again.
So what Blizzard did is, over the course of a couple of months, they released functions in Warden that didn't appear to do anything along side functions that did. Since Warden is thousands and thousands of lines of code, and the WowGlider guys would only look at changes, they would scratch their head at these but assume Blizzard had a reason for them and individually they appeared to pose no danger. After months of this Blizzard had slipped by the WowGlider team code that was designed specifically to counter it, all without their notice. Then they spent a good month gathering the accounts of the people using WowGlider without banning a single one.
Then one day they banned like 50,000 accounts, mine included.
Right after this they sued the shit out of WowGlider. Blindy. fucked around with this message on 10-27-2011 at 11:42 AM.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
That's not to belittle the experience, since oldworld has been overhauled and is fun as all hell (Do Stonetalon all the way through as horde, it's great) and only lags when you go 'back into the past', i.e., outlands and northrend.
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Delphi Aegis Model 2000 was programmed to say:
Even without Refer a Friend (RaF), heirlooms, an established guild or anything to massively make levelling easier... levelling is massively easier anyway. Most of the time you outlevel a quest hub long before you're even close to the "x quests completed in y" achievement for it. Add to that the random dungeon finder which works while you're questing, and levelling now is basically a joke, compared to what it was when WoWGlider was used.That's not to belittle the experience, since oldworld has been overhauled and is fun as all hell (Do Stonetalon all the way through as horde, it's great) and only lags when you go 'back into the past', i.e., outlands and northrend.
Stonetalon is nowhere near as great as Hillsbrad (Do the right thing, buddy!), or Badlands.
Almost every zone has at least one really, really awesome series of quests in it now. Like Maxwell of Northshire in Un'goro, or Zen'kiki in EPL. Sometimes though you outlevel the awesome shit or have to wade through the dull stuff to get to the good parts.
And mara : 50% with the fishing ring, but IMO that doesn't count because fuck fishing. Khyron fucked around with this message on 10-28-2011 at 08:22 PM.
