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So the big news for me this week was the delay of Warhammer Online and the announcement of the Collectors edition.

Also of note was the 2.4 patch for WoW.

The Warhammer delay really sucked for me I have to say.  It was one of those things you figure will happen but you hope it doesn’t.  I guess I’ll just have to find something else to do with my summer now. 

Mark Jacobs has been a damage control machine from hell too.  After hours and hours on the WHA forums he was out there yesterday doing freaking interviews trying to quell the growing sound of Mmogers crying like little girls (and me adding my crying to the chorus).  I know a lot of people hate EA Mythic and/or Mark Jacobs but damn that guys like a force of nature when it comes to him getting the word out about…well, anything!  Between him, Paul Barnett and “The” Hickman consider WAR totally marketingly (Yes, I made that word up, no you can’t use it in scrabble, yes it is quite cool isn’t it?) sexed up.

What’s so utterly funny about it all is everyone and their dog knew it was gonna happen but we just had no clue as to when it would happen.  Then you get all the Mmog sites asking the same 5 questions that Mark can’t answer, or that he already answered on the WHA forums and was probably re-linked ad nauseam to every forum in the free world and a few pay-to-live-free countries.

Just amuses me I guess.  Most people get their news about stuff from only one or two sources so it’s best to get it out to as many sites as possible.  I’m pretty happy overall that the delay will mean put simply, a better game for everyone.  Yes it sucks fuzzy muppet nuts but I’m sure we’ll all be laughing about this next year (unless there’s another delay… *twitch*) over a glass of mulled wine and a plate of deep fried High Elf Ears.

Blizzard seems to have its hand over the kill switch doesn’t it?  2.4 is an utter disaster of epic proportions to which only a Vanguard like launch can compare. 

What?  They gave you content?  Fixed bugs and junk? Revamped the craptastic combat log?  Oh I see how that fails now.  Dumbass's

Granted the Doomed trailer park of Sunwell thingy seems as interesting as a long walk off a short pier with Rosie O’Donnell. I’m sure the achievers will want to get on that right away though.  It’s sort of zero sum in my mind though making content as you go for the high ups who rape it in a week then wait another two months for more.  All the while Blizzard keeps having to make harder and more ridiculous encounters to keep up with Major E-peen and his implants but 10 bajillion sheeple can’t be wrong can they!?

Half the people love WoW and think it’s the next social networking/Mmog revolution the other half wish the other half would die in fire and take WoW with it.  Me, I’m not prejudice, I’ll happily watch everyone die in fire.

But if you read the official forums or the 15 billion other forums dedicated to WoW and/or their super guild that is the coolest, it seems the same 15 people quit. And these apparently are the same people who have quit the game since it first was released and the first major nerf.

Is there an “I quit because this sucks” site out there you can get premade forum posts on why you quit?  If not there should be.  Huge market I imagine if not just to add a little variety.

It’s pretty much a copy pasta from Furors initial EQ “I quit” knuckle dragging elitist snob douche bag rant.  Sometimes more words, sometimes less.  It’s usually the same thing though. 

*Cry cry cry*  You made something different.  I worked real hard to be the first one to own the pink demon pony and now anyone with 1000000 million gold/plat/creds/chits/lindens/etc… can have one and I’m not special anymore.  People don’t inspect me anymore!  *cry cry cry* blah blah blah you get the point. 

Little does anyone know but the sheer magnitude of the attunement needed to do squat in Northrend when Wrath of the Ding-a-ling comes out will be epic in it’s own right and will probably  be turned off a year or so after it’s release.  Why?  It’s to gate “achievers”.  Yes, you pompous little asslords that have to post “first” to a dev post regardless of what the Devs post was about.  You, that pile into new areas and instead of having a little fun with the community you run in with your buddies and blow the content/quests/event to hell in one fell narcissistic moment.  Then you strut around like a retarded rooster pumped up on Viagra. 

So in summary…  I’m really looking forward to WAR and the delay sucks.

WoW is still having people quit 15 at a time and still has almost 10 million players worldwide.

Hmm, interesting indeed.