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wow blog without some mention of it in there admittedly the twilight drake vesperon says you pose no threat lesser beings give me your worst but come on where do you think that vesperon got that idea from posted by redbeard at 3 00 am 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books ffxiv lotro memes musings retail wow monday december 12 2022 meme monday miscellaneous memes because the memes can pile up without a specific theme here s a few of an assortment of memes this is cardwyn as dps facing patchwerk in naxxramas pretty much from pinterest because i can t resist teasing my son but there s a bit more to this than just that something worthy of an actual post from know your meme this along with it took you more than a week to get to level cap are two defining features of old versus new mmos from elder scrolls online forums and that s why i m a bit of a minimalist regarding addons from know your meme posted by redbeard at 12 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes friday december 9 2022 and we just couldn t get rid of him well i guess the era of megamergers is over for the time being this is the graphic the bbc used for activision blizzard i was about to use the acryonym ab but that was too close to anheuser busch for my mind the us government filed suit to block the microsoft acquisition of activision blizzard blizzard was essentially along for the ride anyway with this acquisition as this was mainly about activision and call of duty go figure right i guess that means that we re still stuck with bobby kotick for now posted by redbeard at 7 23 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news video games monday december 5 2022 meme monday you all meet in a tavern memes it s a standard trope in any rpg whether it be a tabletop game a video game or even an mmo that you meet at an inn tavern is how the party gets together given that i spent my weekend repairing my tavern painting my home office and moving stuff around i thought it appropriate to share some tavern themed memes at least i can read write common from dungeons and dads on fb you know i don t think i have started a tavern fire yet from pinterest you know i could make a month s worth of meme mondays just dedicated to goldshire and not have them officially nsfw either from pinterest and one straight outta jojo s bizarre adventure from ifunny co think goldshire no no don t think goldshire oh well it was nice while it lasted posted by redbeard at 11 02 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes thursday december 1 2022 watching the bronco busters work i m watching the initial posts about dragonflight from the sideline such as kaylriene s and i wonder whether dragonflight is for me or maybe a better question to ask is whether dragonflight is for someone who liked the open world of vanilla classic but gradually became disappointed with the tone and direction of tbc classic and wrath classic i already know i don t like the revamped old world brought about by cataclysm over a decade ago and the focus of you in wrath and onward as a sort of superhero for merely doing the job of killing ten rats kind of wears on me yes other mmos have something similar in design such as swtor and lotro but the transition from vanilla s do a variety of things or a couple of mini stories in a zone to your character having a soundtrack straight out of a bonnie tyler song by the end of wrath doesn t quite do it for me if i m coming back to dragonflight it will be from the standpoint of a player who had effectively retired after defeating arthas teaming up with neve to teach apprentices away from the crowds of stormwind and silvermoon card would have to be coaxed out of retirement by acquaintances among the dragonflights in her case it would likely have been haleh or maybe awbee asking card to come help explore the dragon isles since her eye for detail would prove invaluable coming back into the fray after having been effectively away for 20 years would be difficult for card which mirrors my own difficulties stepping back into retail and finding so many different systems and expectations beyond what things were like in retail wrath look at it this way there have now been just as many expansions in world of warcraft after i left than before i left 8 years ago that s a lot of learn something only to discard it two years later playing but also a lot of changes to the basics and the systems behind the game one need only look at the map to see evidence of that this is wrath classic but it s functionally unchanged since vanilla classic yes that s the original azshandra the map is that smallish thing with all of the quest markers and whatnot in it the integration of the map with quest markers along with other items would have been provided with addons until when the default map was changed sometime after the mists of pandaria expansion you can customize the map to an extent i had to hunt around for it but this is brought up by the magnifying glass above but not too much the main quest markers are still present i guess i wouldn t complain about it so much if it was something i was used to from the start such as swtor s map courtesy of my baby imperial agent except that swtor s map has changed a bit over the years some of the non story quests are now hidden by default and you have to manually select an option to show them but largely it has remained the same in fact the quest design itself behind swtor is very similar to that of wrath classic down to the display in the default ui linna taking a short break at valiance keep note the list of quests in the upper right it s been so long since i played this agent that some things have been reset but the quest list is still present again in the upper left of course i never knew that the quest list being turned on by default was an innovation in wrath itself until i began playing vanilla classic and discovered it simply didn t exist wasn t turned on eta corrected this but kept the original in editing thanks to indy for pointing out the miss here due to my lack of clarity what i have found is that throwing away the map and playing in a non optimized manner allows me to just explore and figure things out on my own something i d never experienced before in mmos until i had the chance to in vanilla classic i m obviously in the minority here because mmos have evolved away from exploratory play and in favor of directed play all you have to know about that is that retail conditioned players to sprint to max level to begin the grinding of prepping for raids despite design intentions in dragonflight to counter that fomo the relevant portion is at 0 51 10 about the design change of players logging in without mandatory content however if you ve the time the entire video is very much worth it old habits are hard to break particularly when the next expansion is well underway all of that aside the question remains will a person who likes more of the open world more cold war version of the pre cataclysm world of warcraft find enough to love in dragonflight which on the face of it seems to be a completely different game if it were a matter of using the same subscription to go ahead and play that d be one thing but wow still requires a person to pay for the expansions so it becomes a matter of whether 50 is worth it to buy play for a few hours and then discard if i don t like it and i don t know about you but especially during the holidays i don t have 50 just sitting around to blow on what to me seems a pretty risky gamble so i m going to sit on the fence for a while i m kind of used to that as after all it s not like i haven t done that before i ve been pondering that quite a bit lately and i considered several reasons why i didn t like the revamp the focus on the horde and alliance conflict the shoehorning of goblins and worgen into an already existing world and the constantly depressing viewpoints of the conflict cough hillsbrad cough but i think the biggest reason why i didn t like the revamp was the need for every single zone to have an overarcing zone story in vanilla wow and to a lesser extent tbc and wrath there may have been stories set within a zone but with a few notable exceptions such as westfall there hasn t been a singular dominant story arc like that found in the storm peaks in wrath however almost all of the revamped old world zones have one dominant zone story to help propel the questing from hub to hub yes for the record i stopped playing at the end of mists but i effectively stopped playing any sort of pve group content shortly into cataclysm the toxic atmosphere and ltp noob nature of the lfd tool killed any interest in learning how to do group content beyond the occasional normal dungeon run instead i focused on regular battlegrounds and by the time mists of pandaria was coming to an end i grew tired of the pervasive nature of bots and how the alliance could only win the 40 person bgs hence the prevalence of the questie addon in the classic community it s like that in any software development house at the one i worked at back in the 90s the official release of our product was barely noticed by the development staff as we were about 1 3 of the way into the projects already identified for the next release and we didn t have issues like mmos do where the reception of systems and changes for the current expansion won t have a true impact on the game until two expansions later that s because you simply can t change direction on a dime and devote a huge amount of resources to changing the game potentially mid to late expac development in our case it was a matter of which project got priority more than changing projects entirely eta i meant to put the proper code for preach s youtube video in there but i forgot oopsie 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