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| Username | Drakon911  |
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| Rank | Novice Member |
| Joined | June 11, 2007 |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 40 |
| Location | Birmingham, AL, United States |
| Last Visit | July 14, 2008 |
| Post Count | 16 |
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Latest Blog Entry - Jumping...The answer to a lot of prayers!
From my blog Drak's Soapbox [Drakon911]
Since my last post generated some responses in comments that truly caught me by surprise, it got me thinking. Like happens quite often when I do that, I passed out. When I woke up, it hit me. I'd accidently stumbled upon the answer to the prayers of game developers and corporate bean counters in the MMORPG business around the world.
So cue the drumroll please...My answer to improving the mmorpg market is: more jumping.
You're probably rolling your eyes or laughing at my naive idea, but I have proof! Just look at some of those comments to my first post on jumping. While sifting through the dross, I found a diamond of truth. People LOVE jumping! These people were obviously quite hurt that I chose to pick on their action of choice when confronted by superior tactics and teamwork. These were just a small vocal minority but there had to be others out there that felt as strongly. So why not tap that market? After all, it worked for Nintendo with Super Mario, why not Star Wars Galaxies? A few of my ideas to improve certain mmorpgs are as follows:
Star Wars Galaxies, The game we love to hate: A new skill for the Jedi called Force Super High Jump Of Doom. By using The Force, which everyone loves to do, the jedi leaps so high he enters the stratosphere, where he must continually smack the spacebar to keep aloft, before dropping faster than subscription numbers after the NGE (Sorry, couldn't help myself) striking his enemy on the head and atomizing him instantly. To be fair tjhough you'd have to give this skill to every other class just change the name from Force to something else. If you don't, the message boards would fill up with a huge fight between the non-jedis, the jedis, and the sycophantic fans of the dev team. Oh never mind, that's already happened.
World of Warcraft: Everyone knows a true jumper loves PvP so...A new battleground called Murloc's River. The Horde has a camp on one river bank, The Alliance on the other. The river's water is full of flesh eating Murlocs. There are logs that float down the river from the lumbermill upstream. Each side has to cross the river to the opposing side's camp by jumping from log to log. Fall in the water and you DIE from being eaten by the flesh eating murlocs, because well, they eat flesh. And are evil. When you get to the enemy camp, you have to find a Stick of Mighty Smiting that you must use to break open a giant furbolg that's hanging from a tree. No, not a real giant furbolg, a fake giant furbolg made out of colorful paper that's stuffed full of Murloc River tokens. Then you have to grab as many tokens as you can and take them back across the river to your camp and give them to your side's camp master. All the time the other side is trying to keep you from accomplishing this. The Alliance's camp master is a cute pink furry bunny, the Horde's is a giant poison gas breathing dragon named Bubba. After you collect 250 tokens for your side, the camp master gives your team the Almighty Buff of Boss Slaying which gives you +05 to your attack power. You're thinking that's weak and the Alliance is screwed as usual. No, you're only half right, the buff gives you that amount of attack power every time you jump! And it stacks up to 25 times every 30 seconds! Can you smell that? I smell pure carnage and I can already hear the high-pitched squealing sound that always accompanies a typical Alliance thrashing!
Those are just a few of my great ideas for improving things in the overcrowded mmorpg market. I'm full of ideas. People are always telling me how full of it I am. I just know they are referring to ideas.
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- World of Warcraft: Blizzard Sues Bot Creator
A lot of you are missing the point. Blizzard OWNS WoW and everything in it. You agreed to that when you clicked on the I Agree button after scrolling down and not reading the EULA. You are paying Blizzard to play the game and you are, for lack of a better word, leasing your account(s). If at any time you decide you want to do something against the EULA you risk losing access because you broke Blizzard's "law" and therefore they can punish you by suspension, ban, etc.
So someone who is making a living by helping people violate that AND don't forget they can probably show how it hurts other innocent customers which in turn hurts Blizzards business is asking for trouble. Just because you get away with something for a while, even though you know it's wrong, doesn't mean you aren't going to get caught sooner or later. Blizzard has DEEP pockets and that means big fancy law firms with eight names on the sign that live for squashing people's nuts and billing $1200/hr for the privilege.
- Posted: 3/27/08 8:41 PM
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- World of Warcraft: Blizzard Sues Bot Creator
BlizardLawyer casts Wrath of the High Dollar Legal Team on himself!
BlizzardLawyer crits BotMaker for 235000 damage!
Botmaker is dead!
Botmaker's group attempts to flee in fear!
BlizzardLawyer yells, "You shall not evade me!"
BlizzardLawyer casts Big Money Greed on Botmaker's group!
BotMaker's group begins to bleed money profusely!
Botmaker's group has fallen down and can't get up.
Botmaker's group has bled five gazzilion dollars!
Botmaker's group is no more!
- Posted: 3/27/08 4:51 PM
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- Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Mark Jacobs on the WAR Delay
Am I disappointed that the game was delayed? Yes. Am I angry about it? No. There's plenty of other things to play.
Saying it would be released in Q2 2008 was not giving a date for release, but instead a time frame when they expected to be able to release. Just like saying Fall of 2008 could be Sept, Oct and maybe even Nov. That's not giving a set date but instead an estimate. Giving an estimate and then changing it is one thing, giving a specific date and then pushing it back is another.
Think about it like this, you take your car to the shop to get fixed and they tell you that it will be ready in 15 minutes because they know it'll make you happy. In 15 minutes they tell you that it'll take another 20 minutes and they keep doing that for two days. You'd be angry as hell! But if they are up front and say that they aren't sure how long it'll take but should be ready in a couple of days. They call you in a day and say it's going to take longer. You are upset but not near as upset as you were in the first scenario.
I respect them for not giving a specific date but instead an estimated release time even though they realize it's going to upset people. These guys are building something that could very well determine whether they have jobs two years from now. I'd be really careful to get it right before I released it too.
Responsibilty ultimately rests with the leader for a failed project and it seems Mark Jacobs is determined to make sure things go like they should and deliver a quality game.If they are saying the same thing this time next year I'll figure this was all just a scam to get more pre-order money.
- Posted: 3/27/08 3:15 PM
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- Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Release Date Change
I'm looking forward to the game, regardless of when it releases. However, I'm not going to pre-purchase a game with no set release date. Yes I realize that even a "set" date can change, but I have never liked feeling like I'm just giving someone my money for something they won't give me until "it's ready".
Would you pay someone to mow your lawn if they said they would do it sometime while the grass is still growing? Oh but they'll give you a sign to put up that says "Lawn cutting coming soon!" and a promise that you'll be one of the first to get yours trimmed!- Posted: 3/26/08 3:46 PM
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- World of Warcraft: New Patch Announced: Fury of the Sunwell
My first response to seeing the article was to check the date on it. Is this not the same patch they've been talking about for months? I guess polls showed that people were starting to let other shiny things draw their attention away from yet another boring WoW announcement. So let's make a new wallpaper, plaster some uber-cool demon looking dude around the edges of the page and call it NEW news!
You want news? New, exciting, make your hind leg quiver news? Well then here's a peek at some of the next patches notes, coming "soon"!
- New arena stuff! ...blah blah blah
- More new arena changes! ...blah blah blah
- Exciting new class changes in the arena...blah blah blah
- New exciting and cool plastic toy! Coming soon to a McD's happy meal! *based on the arena characters from the winning 3v3 team in the Western Phillipines Pacific Tournament*
- more 5man badge collecting places...blah blah blah
- hand-me-down loot from three arena seasons ago will be available for purchase using gold, honor and leather scraps! So start your farming early!
- More mucking around with the tired old BG's...blah blah blah
- AV balance changes! Both starting caves now just open up into a giant ARENA! But not just any arena! An arena with...SNOW!
- A new collectable pet available as a Faction quest reward! Become exalted with every faction in the game, pay 250,000 gold, 325,000 honor and 255 of each BG token to claim your exciting new pet, the pink vorpal bunny! Click on him repeatedly and he says cute and funny things like "Stop poking me!" "ow! my balls!" "pass the gravy!" Click on him too many times and he just might jump up and tear your throat out with his teeth! Just like all your friends want to do after you waste 30 minutes of their lives talking about your faction grinding!
Drak
PS. Please don't message me asking for the name and location of the NPC that gives the Vorpal Bunny quest. I've been sworn to secrecy.
- Posted: 3/19/08 5:02 PM
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