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World of Warcraft |OT3|
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Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
So I bought the digital MoP CE and it says I can download the client... but isn't it already downloaded in my current WoW-client? When I start the game, it says I have version 5.0.5.
Yep.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Excellent :3 I can't wait... T_T
^.^
Basically when the game launches at Midnight PDT / whatever time zone you're little swede butt is in, the content will be available right away. SUPPOSEDLY you won't need to log out and log back in.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Wow, this is insane! How does Blizzard do this
?SillyEskimo
Member
I would say Wednesday as well. There will be kinks, you can pretty much bet on it, but they won't last long. Also I think giving the other players a 1 day head start helps clear out the starting zone congestion a bit. It's gonna be a zoo put there!
I took Tuesday and Wednesday off. Problem solved. But if I had to choose just one? Friday. Then you get three solid days of the new stuff with probably less traffic in the new zones.
In other news, last night I finished up all the raid achievements I wanted to finish up before MoP by downing H Madness. In the past week I've completed Glory of the DS raider, H Rag and H Madness (got Sinestra a couple months ago). Feels good, man.
Too bad my dice are completely borked, though. Rolled a 30 on the Rag mount and 80 on the DW mount (lost to a 99).
Seriously? That's awesome. I'm getting a retail copy, but I guess once I add the CD key to my account I'll just be able to hop right in? Sweet.
Also, Molten Front has to be one of the most bizarre areas in the entirety of WoW. Maybe it's just me, but there's something hilarious about this tiny area being in a perpetual state of madness because of all the daily quest objectives and masses of horde and alliance constantly camping each other.
Not to mention my crappy laptop gets like 10 FPS in here, lmfao.
Wow, this is insane! How does Blizzard do this
They are magic Yoshi-chan~~~~~~~~~~
Also:
http://us.battle.net//wow/en/blog/7315729
Do not like.
The notion of logging on to an online role playing game and then going "Offline" so your friends can't see you seems pretty detrimental to the whole "Massively Multiplayer" experience.
The Lamonster
Member
Meh. I think it is a functionality that has become a staple in online applications. dat privacy
The entire point of an MMO is to play with other people. Do dungeons, raids, etc.
This is just stupid.
Wait... what? This after pushing all this CRZ nonsense on us?
RoninChaos
Member
No it isn't. Sometimes I want to log in and not be bothered on any of the games i decided to play.
Log in to online game -> Appear offline?
That's not how the game is meant to be played.
I know I'm probably in the minority in thinking this way. But it seems completely counter-intuitive to have the option to appear offline in an online only game.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I think you're being a little ridiculous. It's not damaging to the game or antithetical to the genre if people who want to do some solo stuff have the option to really be solo. Doing actual MMO stuff like raids and dungeons will obviously put you into contact with the people you are playing with anyway. It's not like "appear offline" will make you an invisible ghost taking up a spot in a group that no one can interact with.
cubicle47b
Member
You only appear offline to the people on your friends list. You still interact with people in the game normally. It just gives you a privacy option. Maybe I don't want my real ID friends bugging me to play Starcraft 2 with them while I'm running 5 mans or don't want to be bugged about crafting or some AH item I have up. Maybe I want to ladder for a few hours in Starcraft 2 without my guild bugging me to heal something for them because they know I'm online. There are plenty of reasons why giving people the option is a good thing.
I saw this last night on my DK. I must've been real lucky with the loading since I was able to fly outta there quickly without getting hit by anyone.
They mentioned something about putting it in one of the next patches or two. (It was something along the lines of if it wasn't in the next patch, it'd probably be after.)
Probably Wednesday.
I have all of next week off hah! Though its more a coincidence more than anything else, but I'll take it.
Then don't use it.
That's what she said.
It's only offline on Battle.net, your character still shows up in game, on rosters, etc.
I, for one, love this. The guild members I have on realid love to pester me when I'm playing on the opposite faction or try to coax me into doing things with them on WoW when I'm playing D3. This doesn't prevent me from interacting with people or not being part of the online experience, it just lets me get some privacy from the people I know personally once in a while.
My friends keep bugging me to Diablo 3. I don't want to. It gets tiresome.
Ideally there'd be an option to make yourself invisible to all games except the one you're in.
God, this just screams out for a joke response, but NeoGAF seems extremely politically correct.
Robin64
Member
Battle.net, show as offline?
FUCKING FINALLY, SOME PRIVACY
Now you can go back to Diablo III without the shame.
Then don't use the glyph? I don't even.
Rape is never ok.
RoninChaos
Member
Works the same way with Xbox live. Sometimes I don't like being bothered by people and I just want to play by myself. Just cause its an online game doesn't mean I have to be playing with people constantly or that I like being bugged when playing wow to go play diablo.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
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sazzy
Member
I bit my tongue in half while writing that.
The Lamonster
Member
cool video, but strange that there was no mention of pet battles.
The Lamonster
Member
Less than a week till the next xpac, server restarts every day, and we still can't fix dismounting friends when crossing zone borders
This is my most favorite bug ever. I am not being one bit sarcastic, not at all.
i hate you blizzard
They still haven't fixed dismounting when flying over Wintergrasp. Fell 100ft to my death the other night. >_<
eudaemonic
Member
I might actually add more people with this being the case. I hate when you're raiding and people decide to start messaging you even though you're in the damn raid. This way I can just turn them off and focus on the people I'm playing with.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Pretty hype
The Lamonster
Member
It was working fine yesterday but I haven't tried it today.
You really wanted to be a tiny skeleton, eh?
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Yeah didn't watch it before. Also didn't have much hype before. Hype gotten.
Starting up tomorrow (going into weekend rather than today). Should be good. Really wish I had space for WoW on my PC partition so I can switch between it and Dota 2 easily. Maybe I can squeeze it in if I uninstall some Steam games.
Anyone know the full client size for Mists?