Every time Blizzard comes up with a little CG trailer it’s awesome. I may not be 100% keen on their games, but their CG trailers are fantastic! I serious wished the Warcraft movie that is coming would be all CG, not live action.
The Warcraft movie due out in 2011 to be directed by Sam Raimi promises to be horrid.. Sorry.. Live action wont do the seriese any justice..
The Stormlord Thorin
Yep.. This is a World of Warcraft post.. And one in which I plan to complain to Blizzard about the recent rounds of nurfing.. But firstly let me say that Thorim is dead! Long live Thorim.
My guild on Whisperwind is now only the second horde guild to kill Thorim in Ulduar. He’s a VERY tough fight. I love it. It took 25 people with their heads on a swivel, 100% focused with zero screw ups to make it happen. (And even then it took us 17 tries.)
But we killed him and it was glorious! It was an extremely difficult fight and I’m sure everyone will have a fun time with it.. Until they nurf him, of course. Blizzard has taken it into their heads to nurf all the hard content and I wish they would STOP!
Whack a Seal!
So, on Saturday the 11th of April, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) held an awareness gathering in World of Warcraft where they killed four quest NPC’s as a form of protest for the unethical killing of seals in real life. Some how it got into their heads that by focusing on protecting the digital seals in a game and instead performing the far more ethical act of killing the would-be digital seal killers, it would bring awareness to the unethical killing of real world seals.
So.. let me sum up for those who can’t put this together — what they are saying is.. Kill the people who are killing the seals.
Are you fucking kidding me?! How is that more ethical? They honestly are saying that it’s more ethical to kill humans than it is to kill seals? That’s their stance? Really?
It’s fixed! The dreaded #134 Error is no more! And for the most part the Blizzard tech support people are completely worthless.. But I get ahead of myself.
Firstly, what it’s not;
The blizzard folks over at their forums, as well as those you get ahold of on the phone.. and via email will try to blame everything on you. The reason for this will come clear shortly, but in a way they are right and in a way wrong.
The World of Warcraft #134 error is so vague and broad in scope that it is the support equivalent to, “It broke!”… It could be any number of things, but the thing they just about always tell you it is, is memory. Read the forums and you’ll always see some asshat chiming in that it must be your memory.. The issue I had with that response is that I had run tests against my 4 gigs of memory both in linux, and in windows using multiple tools as well as testing each stick individually.. My memory was flawless every time.. even using the test blizzard suggested I use.
Once I proved that, they suddenly tried to blame some other facet of my hardware.. Long story short, everything they suggested WAS WRONG. Period..
Not Malygos, but cool
So we have been playing a LOT of World of Warcraft of late. I must admit I’m very much enjoying it for the most part. But we have gotten to the point where we are farming the end game content because by and large, it’s way too easy.
All that is except Malygos. We have beaten Malygos before but for whatever reason our guild can’t seem to pull it’s collective head out 9 times out of 10. Things just go wrong.
That’s fine and acceptable except they all seem to think we are going to one shot him and move on. Over confidence is our down fall, but not our only one. The real issue isn’t our guild or our game play, but rather the fucking lag!
The Blue Mods at the Blizzard World of Warcraft forums asked me to post about my problems so I did… again.. Note; I have posted about this numerous times, and each time it gets buried and unanswered or simply ignored. I’m sorta getting sick of it.. I mean what the hell kind of customer support is this? (None is the right answer.)
Since WotLK came out I have been getting #134 errors. I am a software engineer by trade and understand that software is complex and I am more than willing to work with them to fix this.. I just wish they would stop blaming me (and/or my computer) for it.
