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World of Warcraft is corrupted and needs to be reverted to a previous version.

This is an unpleasant message to be met with when you run the repair utility. But something big was corrupted in my installation, because WoW reverted all the way back to version 2.2. I ran the repair utility because the game crashed 4 times in about 2 minutes while I was trying to [...]

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

The Customer service forums

So, the Ban hammer hit this week. They toasted many many accounts (no number) of persons using botting tools. To which I say good.
However, they are evidently also banning people using the G15 keyboard. They don’t, of course, say why those people were banned, which is, I suppose, fair. They don’t want to tip their [...]

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Fishing for gold…

I’ll admit it; I used to think fishing was a waste of a secondary skill slot. I still don’t love fishing. It’s mildly boring so I can only stand to do it when I’m doing other things but want to be on WoW as well, other than for the daily fishing quest. And [...]

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Why do you still play?

Lately, a lot of players have been leaving the game, many of them bloggers. Now, I recognize that there is a cycle where hardcore players in high end guilds will finish all the content available to them and just be burned out (one of the many reasons I have never been interested in joining a [...]

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The Auction House

Everyone does it…spends some time in the auction house. I’ve been spending rather more time in the AH than I want to lately. See, I have 3 70s. But I only have 1 epic riding skill. Because the epic riding skill is 5000g. And, if I actually want to PLAY, I don’t have time to [...]

Saturday, April 26th, 2008