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ut that was well before wow s current popularity i m not exactly sure whether you can directly translate the increase in wow subs from 2006 to 2013 to corresponding increase in gold farming but it seems reasonable to say that mmo gold farming is at least a billion dollar business while that s not ipad dollars it s still a big chunk of change in the realm of such non it brands as heinz ketchup think about that the next time when you see gold farmer spam in gen chat gold farming is big business and people are willing to skirt the law for it but at what cost everybody knows somebody who has had a hacked account sure you may get your virtual stuff back but you really never get over the sense of violation and the company involved has to spend time and money in getting your stuff restored never mind attempting to prevent it in the first place all of that costs money and affects a company s bottom line security one of those hidden costs that you never see in a company s balance sheet the lengths a company goes to protect itself from the black hats and the costs involved in successful hacking attempts user accounts or otherwise but it does exist mmos are a game but you can t say that they are just a game that s like saying that the new york yankees or manchester united aren t worth much because they both are organizations that play kids games good luck trying to say that to a sports fan i suppose i ought to explain the trigger for this post a few weeks ago a dormant account from a fellow wow guildie who d passed away from an illness over a year ago suddenly became active and refused to respond to tells an alert guildie informed blizz who quickly shut the account back down but the sheer brazenness about it still sticks in my craw the black hat had to find out about and hack the account reactivate it with most likely a stolen credit card probably upgrade the account with the same and only then could they go on their merry way just a game right posted by redbeard at 12 22 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels age of conan gold farming hacking wow tuesday february 12 2013 they say memory is the first thing to go i don t know how altoholics do it really just how do they keep track of all of their toons and more importantly what abilities their toons have i logged into neve for the first time in what felt like ages and tried zapping a few assorted beasties in icecrown tried being the operative word after i finally stopped hitting keys for abilities that hadn t procced yet i finally started spamming frostbolt because at least i remembered where that was i froze myself in ice at least twice before i successfully killed my first mob and yes it really did take me that long i stared at my empty glass by the computer and sighed i m going to need another beer if this keeps up i mumbled and switched to quintalan surely i couldn t have forgotten how to play ret not after years of play beforehand but a short glimpse of the main bar later i decided to just switch back to my rogue and queue for a battleground surely i thought it must be better on the old republic where i d gotten used to playing different classes on a regular basis um no after spending the end of chapter one on my sith inquisitor i switched back to my commando and quickly found myself in a 4 man heroic on alderaan on the first pull the shadow cc ed an elite and i readied a concussion shot on another i hit the button and dammit ki what are you doing oops i d hit explosive round by mistake which had the side effect of undazing that elite we managed to dps down everything and i apologized to the group while they were accepted i still smarted from my screw up this was something that i prided myself on not doing clearly a better method than i think i remember where everything is was needed way back in her pugging pally days vidyala of manalicious posted a chart she used to keep track of all of her draenei alts hair style and design while it served her purpose i ve begun working on my own version of her chart to keep track of keystrokes on differing alts since i play more alts on tor i figured i d start there first ironically enough one of the things that people complain about with tor the similarity between different classes on knockbacks and whatnot is perfect for my work setting up my alts so that similar abilities are always on the same keystrokes will make it easier to slip into gear in each class knowing that a toon s main attack is on button 2 the incapacitated attack if any is on button 4 and the knockback is on button 5 makes my life a lot easier while the details on the lesser abilities are different from toon to toon the main rotation can be reduced to a level i can easily use to slip into and out of while playing keeping certain abilities grouped together like the commando s various grenades or the various heals of a particular toon make for good common sense it also makes for good common sense to keep them out of easy finger range so that in the heat of battle you don t accidentally hit the wrong button and cause a wipe but for a game like wow where the abilities and rotations are so different from class to class the challenge is much greater throw in the transition from pve to pvp and the organization becomes much harder the way i attempted to organize my cata era affliction warlock attacks on one row dots on another and interrupts on a third don t necessarily work for a pally or mage which are dot less also you have to remember the more obscure abilities in your class because what isn t important in pve suddenly becomes critical in pvp how many times have you had a lock just get going on dots in a fight only to have the mob and or boss die on you well that inability to use dots effectively in an instance suddenly doesn t matter in pvp because laying down dots is one of the primary ways a lock can kill you a rogue doesn t try to out tough a warrior it tries to surprise stun and slash doing that in a boss fight is suicide because the last thing a rogue needs is aggro when a boss is bringing the hammer down therefore i ve kind of thrown in the towel a bit on wow alts and have been reduced to generalities i don t know what might be most important at a particular time but i can guess it s just like switching poisons around if you ve got the time and you re closing in on a caster get the one that zaps their spellcasting speed otherwise go for the slow poison which works on everyone the spellcasting poison is a specialist ability so it goes behind the more general slow poison ordering up the finishing strokes is important too you want ones that will give you the best bang for the buck to be the ones easiest to reach for while others that work better on extended raid boss fights should be placed farther away but hey if the warrior you re sneaking up behind is focusing on another team member use the dot finishing stroke and then vanish to reset yourself for another strike one drawback to reorganizing everything is that it takes time yes i know there will be the reward of getting everything set up is that i can more easily transition between toons but when you re looking at the tinkering involved that s not much comfort and when you throw in customization options you could easily spend days of game time merely fooling around with your ui at times like this wow s customization becomes more a curse than a blessing if you ve ever heard of the theory that with more options the more unable you are to make a decision then you ve got the idea of what i m getting at with so many third party add ons and scripts to choose from a player can become paralyzed trying to decide how to set up their keys and or macros when all you really want to do is make it easier on yourself to play it seems counterintuitive to spend all of your time tweaking your key bindings and setting up macros however if you re expecting me to say that the old republic has it better well maybe maybe not no there aren t any third party ui tools available yes if you subscribe you have full ui customization access the same as every other subscriber so everyone theoretically has the same starting point but you still have to configure the ui to your liking and that takes time and tinkering lots of tinkering and each time you train you may gain access to a new favorite ability causing you to curse under your breath and try to figure out where to shoehorn that new cool awesome ability into your bars layers shrek once said ogres have layers but he could have also been talking about tweaking the ui and keybindings in an mmo and i still don t know how a true altoholic can do all of this keep it all straight and be able to play well which is why elitist jerks and other sites are so popular they take the difficult part of the decision process away posted by redbeard at 12 08 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels swtor ui wow friday february 8 2013 well that explains a lot activision blizzard released their earnings today and while they did make record profits the surprise for me was that wow subs dropped back to close to the pre mists release levels with only 9 6 million active subs now i know the true reason behind all the sales and enticement mists wasn t able to bring the wow subs back to the heights of cata in fact mists wasn t even able to sustain the release bump that they got that explains why it felt like the ysera server was so empty and even the crz often felt devoid of people to be fair 9 6 million subs is probably more than the 2 6 other mmos combined still it looks like the mists experiment hasn t quite panned out as hoped i doubt that means that blizz will suddenly switch to a f2p format since they re practically printing money with wow but i do think that it means titan will move up to the front of the development lists posted by redbeard at 12 42 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard mmos monday february 4 2013 the view from the halfway point while it seems that everybody else on wow already has multiple toons at l90 their main their primary alt their secondary alt their cross faction alt and their bank alt my main for this expac just dinged l45 somewhere in the middle of an arathi basin fight i ve been steadily moving along splitting time between battlegrounds and skinning and playing about 3 days a week or so there have been many waves of players passing through bgs on new pandaren toons and we re now down to seeing more traditional bg compositions with a few sprinkling of monks that is once i reached the mid 30s on my rogue bg leveling slowed to a crawl and is only now starting to pick up with the unlocking of alterac valley i don t think this is by design because leveling via bgs is heavily dependent upon your side s ability to grind out wins and since the alliance has had very few healers in the mid 30s to early 40s bgs the wins have been hard to come by the bots are in vogue too i see eye of the storm seems to be the biggest place where you ll find bots because their behavior is so obvious when a toon repeatedly pops from a graveyard runs up to the nearest base pivots where the buff would ordinarily be but isn t because it was freaking used already races to the mid you know you ve got a bot on your hands i d like to see blizz be a bit more proactive in zapping bots since they can t really be gotten rid of from a bg except by being marked as away but i guess that s something they re going to have to come up with making it easier to kick people from bgs could turn out to be a double edged sword because people could simply vote kick players who are on the low end of the level range just because they re on the low end of the level range i m not sure blizz wants to pay enough devs support staff to watch enough bgs to make sure everybody is playing nicely either it s a conundrum that i don t have a good answer to since i ve got 40 levels to go before i really purchase mists i ve found it interesting watching the lures the blizzard has been dangling out in the internet the free week in pandaria the christmas sales the recruit a friend they re all out in force i have no idea how well the bait has been working but the fact that blizz hasn t stopped them yet is an indicator that they re fighting hard to get all of their lost subs back or perhaps just to stay even with what they ve got my own guild however hasn t recovered from cataclysm in fact while some people returned for mists others came back and have since disappeared still others left the guild for other more active raiding guilds before mists dropped and there have been those who came back but not because of mists but because their work life whatever has finally allowed them the free time to resub but from the high point in wrath where the guild was pulling in enough people to run 25s on a once in a while basis i ve yet to see 10 people logged in at one time on any consistent basis let alone raid there have been a lot of evenings when i ve been the only one logged in this server s dead i saw someone type recently in gen chat given that the crowds in stormwind aren t very impressive still averaging in the 50s on a given night i suspect that there s more truth to that than meets the eye still the game seems to be doing fairly well for itself judging by the blogs i read a subset of which is listed on our site the most popular parts of wow in its current state are a transmogs b pet battles and c pandas raiding instances pvp in its various forms and the ongoing expac story haven t been very active topics in mists now while people write a lot about dailies i can say that while the topic is popular the activity is not i think it is safe to say that if transmogs and pet battles didn t exist then there wouldn t be nearly as many people excited about mists as they seem to be i m not sure about the staying power of either through the entire expac but transmogs at least seems to scratch the itch of a subset of wow players well enough to last long term of course it also takes some pressure off of the blizz art team to not repeat the bc clown gear since people will merely transmog any ugly gear into something they like i m not quite sure what to make about pet battles judging by bloggers alone it seems wildly popular yet ragging on pet battles is a popular topic in low level bgs i suspect that pet battles falls squarely into the love it or hate it category with the people who don t really give a damn like me few and far between i suspect the pet battle mojo will last a lot longer more than i anticipated anyway by simply creating new pets as part of upcoming patches pets are easier to design than raid or instance bosses and don t need backstory like questlines so they re incredibly easy to drop into a story as a carrot on a stick for the aficionados run enough dailies get a pet go through this side 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