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reaming and other more modern forms of social media have taken over another way of looking at this is how we obtain pc games these days the last game i had on a physical disk that didn t require me to have an online presence to either login or obtain updates or even the game itself even though i d bought a copy was civilization iv complete circa 2010 or 2011 all of my other games i ve purchased i had to be online to download via either the company site or a service such as steam or to even use the game such as diablo 3 or the most recent sim city what happened over this time bandwidth happened to the tune of a big expansion of both the download speeds as well as upload speeds that bandwidth not only makes software downloads more practical but also makes personal streaming uploads more practical however bandwidth wasn t the only technical hurdle it s also about the computing and graphics power a computer has given the leaps and bounds that processors motherboards and even storage has made over the past 8 years the capacity of computers to not only handle a game and a livestream but also maintain both for a minimal drop in framerate is pretty amazing when i started playing wow it was on what was then a middle of the road 32 bit intel core duo that ran vista i could play wow with mediocre graphics but playing wow and connecting to vent proved a bit of a stretch i ended up pressing my work laptop into service with vent while i played wow on the main machine and automated backups oh boy would they tank your machine but within five years intel and amd were putting out processors that could handle all of that plus run chrome with a full load of tabs and extensions as well as ms office in the background and not blink an eye software has taken advantage of the increased power as well with gaming streaming built into operating systems such as win 10 as well as other software packages when that showed up in win 10 you know that streaming while gaming had gone mainstream finally the rise of esports popularity of netflix and hulu and a new generation of gamers thinking nothing of sharing and competing while streaming a tacit acceptance of voyeurism i suppose has pushed streaming completely into the mainstream i can check facebook during the week and watch a fb livestream of the devs from standing stone playing lotro hell just about all mmo development houses have their own regular livestreams to handle all sorts of activities from connecting with players to showing off upcoming patches they re everywhere here on gw2 s loading screen i guess that s another question to ask prospective employees how do you feel about putting yourself on twitch and livestream you playing a game for hours this is an entirely new environment from when i started playing wow and if you d have asked me how long it would take to get to this point i d have said especially after the economic meltdown in 2008 likely 2020 at minimum yet here we are in all of this video oriented and immediate gratification read twitter material blogs like this one still have a part to play for starters they don t take up network bandwidth at work where employers tend to frown on a single employee hogging a lot of the bandwidth to watch whatever is on twitch they are also quieter and less visually distracting unless you have a ton of gifs on your site like some mid 90s website designs finally blogs allow a blogger to take their time to put together a post sure you can write an entire vlog entry and then stand in front of a camera and recite that but if you re like me you re constantly going back and editing even after the point when you thought you were done and yes i see the editing that goes on with vlogs and it drives me bananas vlogging simply doesn t mesh well with my thought processes neither do my thoughts mesh well with twitter who knew that munch captured my brain on twitter so well f rom mentalfloss com i have an unfortunate tendency to shoot my mouth off when i get agitated or otherwise emotional and an app such as twitter or snapchat is a disaster waiting to happen so for those denizens of twitter who can keep themselves under control at all times more power to ya and while i realize that blogging isn t quite as immediate as twitter it is far quicker and more relevant than print magazines the nature of print means that the news is already out of date by the time it makes it to a monthly print magazine so print magazines have not only expanded into digital formats but also focused on longer feature pieces that don t strictly fall into the news arena and while it s not the same for everyone blogging feeds my addition to writing without demanding too much from me one of these days i d love to sit down and finish a novel nanowrimo or not but while my chaotic life isn t helping me out at the moment i can blog relevance or not i still need to look into more of a major design revamp of pc i think the basic design orientation having a main section for articles with side areas for other information works fairly well however i think it can be done better and in an easier to read format than what it presently is and yes i need to replace the cataclysm era graphics with something a bit more reflective of the times that s actually a sticking point for me because i d love to have newer graphics without relying upon the gif format to cycle through images like what rades does with orcish army knife there s something appealing with what ravanel griffon does in ravalation where a different header graphic shows up every time you select a link but i ll have to think about whether i really want to implement that and what graphics to choose naturally after all what else will i do with all of these archeage screenshots anyway i think i need to solicit some ideas for improvements to the blog sorry deleting the blog won t happen what do you the reader want to see in a blog design if internet years is akin to dog years the design is 56 years old hell it s older than me in the officially supported widgets at least i started writing a blog post on this at least twice only to shelve it for later i guess later means now i eventually had to replace the graphics card due to the abominations in the undercity proving too much to handle for our machine i discovered that much to my chagrin when i was interviewed on the twisted nether blogcast i had no idea that the automated backup that kicked in after midnight was wreaking havoc to my connection until i listened to the podcast afterward fimlys hydra if you re reading this i m still sorry about that the popularity of smartphones and their social media and streaming capabilities shouldn t be overlooked either sure you don t play wow on an android tablet but people livestream all the time now for example i ve worked on this particular post over the course of about 10 days i ve tightened things up a bit added some graphics and rewrote significant portions of the body while i try to post once a week and about 6 times a month sometimes i have to slow down to make things just the way i like them this also means letting other posts go ahead of posts like these i used to avoid going to my oldest s track and field meets when she was in middle school precisely because i didn t want to be that parent in the stands i ran track for three years in high school yes i know you d never guess it now and i didn t want to be the parent who tried to usurp the coaches authority or simply be obnoxious throughout the meet even now watching the high school american football team lose week in and week out hey i go to watch my kids in the marching band play at halftime it is really hard on me to not go bananas and bitch about all the things the kids are doing wrong i can handle that they re physically outclassed but not using proper technique drives me nuts posted by redbeard at 1 24 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday november 4 2017 no need for coffee today this is what i get for focusing too much on work during the big announcement yesterday yep that s right vanilla wow is officially returning with officially sanctioned blizzard servers apparently this dropped during the blizzcon keynote address and for people like me who miss the pre cataclysm wow this was the announcement of the day no details which isn t a surprise but the fact that there was an announcement is a big thing blizz has finally committed to resurrecting the old vanilla environment aside from the announcement itself the most interesting part was how some of the major internet outlets reported on the announcement you can get a glimpse of that from the titles ars techinca blizzard finally relents to years of fan pressure with world of warcraft classic shock announcement comes at outset of annual blizzcon event pc gamer this is how blizzard plans to finally bring back vanilla wow servers we talk to blizzard s vice president to learn why it took so long and how it s happening polygon world of warcraft classic is an official vanilla server no longer need to make your own kotaku blizzard announces world of warcraft classic to say that people didn t see this coming and even steven messner of pc gaming admitted it as much when he sat down beforehand to interview blizz j allen brack is a bit of an understatement i know i didn t no more than a few weeks ago i d commented on shintar s priest with a cause that i don t buy the explanation that blizzard doesn t have the source code there may be technical challenges but any decent development house keeps their source code around for versioning purposes but now things are looking up the cynic in me says blizz must be hurting for money to bring this back but i m not so sure bobby kotick aside i really do believe that the blizz people want to do this sort of thing for the fans if it makes them money so much the better but still it must be cautioned that modern mmos are not what we re getting with vanilla wow vanilla wow is still very much a quirky translation of the pencil and paper rpg genre into a computer screen with items such as ammo for ranged weapons and weapon proficiency leveling coming back if you play old school d d and other old school inspired games that might not be an issue but for people raised on the action mmo or newer pencil and paper rpgs this might be a bit of a shock kind of like switching from dragon age inquisition or witcher 3 to baldur s gate but if you re like me i m down with this like shintar said i might have to start giving blizzard some of my money again in my defense that s what i m supposed to do while i m at work but like the first and second rounds of the ncaa basketball tourney men s and women s i typically keep an eye out for what s going on for some reason i thought that the big item of the day was going to be the next wow expac and i figured i could read about that later as opposed to titan which was never officially announced other old school mmos such as d d online or lotro ought to be cheering this move by blizzard as more new fans are exposed to the original vanilla wow they will likely be checking out other old mmos posted by redbeard at 12 16 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard blizzcon news vanilla wow newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred waiting room 3 days ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 6 days ago twisted nether blogcast moving to youtube episodes 346 348 3 months ago battle bards the final refrain 1 year ago ootinicast a star wars the old republic swtor podcast ootinicast episode 503 1 year ago mmo blogroll in an age retroid pocket 6 and nostalgia horizon 23 minutes ago massively overpowered everquest 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