Hope youre resting peacefully, Ezra. So many times, including now,
have I shed a tears for you. But I am glad youre not suffering anymore.
Glad I can always help with Kyle from time to buy wow gold
time. Youre voice is haunting at times. But I am glad youre an Elder.
Smile down on Azeroth. I remember this quest, I did it on my Tauren
Warrior and I was happy to see that they gave that oportunity to
someone, that I must say was worth it.
nose si reirme o llorar,
para que un niño con una enfermedad asi, en lo unico que piense es en
jugar world of warcraft hay que ver cual es su verdadera enfermedadSee
Translation. remember the first time I googled, "Finely crafted to
Ezra's specifications." and read the story that went along with it. I
also remember the first time I googled the dwarf Rousch and his back
story. Really pulled at the ol' heart strings.
thats so amazing! I
remember when Blizzard did this...I love wow and always will I love
Ahab! he's so awesome and I remember reading the story behind it and it
just broke my heart and made it happy all at once...Rest in Peace Ezra
Azeroth smiles on you everyday hunny Many blessings and loves. "I asked
him to think about why he likes to play cheap wow accounts
and one thing he said was he likes interacting with people he doesn't
know. No matter how crappy things are going on the outside, in the real
world, he can be strong and successful and really turn heads in WoW."
Das
zeigt, dass sich Blizzard auch um die ganz kleinen kümmert ... Dieser
junge wird wahrscheinlich kein langes Leben haben, aber es freut mich,
dass Blizzard ihm diesen wunsch erfüllt und ihn glücklich gemacht hat
... Ezra, du bist klasse mach weiter so
Friday, 24 May 2013
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
I would like to see Sylvannas
I would like to see Sylvannas to play a hand. The forsaken have been a
bit complacent in all this recent trouble. I agree. With her newfound
sense of responsibility to her people, I'd like to see her buy wow gold more active. To all the haters of this game, UNLIKE this page... NOW!!! You're not worthy of being here anymore.
No, because it makes no sense to waste your time following and commenting on something just to say how much you hate it. Go take the trolling somewhere else, we see enough of that in Trade and wow gold for sale on the forums. I love how the whiners complain on the WoW page they have 'liked'. Save it for someone who cares.
Remember once upon a time WoW would release a facebook post and have 20,000 likes and 1,000 comments in sell wow accounts a matter of minutes? Now days only 400 comments and 2,600 likes after an hours time.
They shot themselves in the foot hardcore. Perhaps the greatest MMO found in ruins, dead realms, empty cities, and a whole wave of children spamming trade chat. Garrosh is probably the worst warchief the Horde has ever had. I did not enjoy the storyline after he started up the war with the Alliance again. Thrall was probably the best warchief since he was friends with jaina proudmoor and tried to be peaceful with the Alliance. Garrosh is too much of a hothead, just like his father, but at least Grom had an excuse, being under demonic control and all. Garrosh is just a jerk.
No, because it makes no sense to waste your time following and commenting on something just to say how much you hate it. Go take the trolling somewhere else, we see enough of that in Trade and wow gold for sale on the forums. I love how the whiners complain on the WoW page they have 'liked'. Save it for someone who cares.
Remember once upon a time WoW would release a facebook post and have 20,000 likes and 1,000 comments in sell wow accounts a matter of minutes? Now days only 400 comments and 2,600 likes after an hours time.
They shot themselves in the foot hardcore. Perhaps the greatest MMO found in ruins, dead realms, empty cities, and a whole wave of children spamming trade chat. Garrosh is probably the worst warchief the Horde has ever had. I did not enjoy the storyline after he started up the war with the Alliance again. Thrall was probably the best warchief since he was friends with jaina proudmoor and tried to be peaceful with the Alliance. Garrosh is too much of a hothead, just like his father, but at least Grom had an excuse, being under demonic control and all. Garrosh is just a jerk.
Monday, 20 May 2013
Creation vs. Evolution
There's a really big difference. The Aspects were created by the Titans, and charged with watching over the various aspects of the world. The Ancients, on the other hand, were spawned by Azeroth itself. While the exact date of the Ancient's existence isn't really known, we've been told in the novel Wolfheart that the Ancients were actually born of Azeroth itself, not created by the Titans as part of their grand organizational scheme. Demigods, loa, whatever you want to buy wow gold and call them -- they were all created by the planet, not by the Titans.
Now that's interesting, particularly given the nature of the world as we know it. We know that the Ancients and the Aspects worked together -- in one case, we know an Aspect actually fell in love with an Ancient. Ysera loved Malorne, and although Cenarius was the son of Malorne and Elune, Ysera treated him as if he were her own son, odd as that may sound. But the connection between Ysera and Malorne makes perfect sense, in the same way that Kalecgos and Anveena's relationship makes sense -- Ysera was charged with watching over and protecting nature, and Malorne was pretty much nature in a corporeal form, much as Anveena was magic in a corporeal form.
For some reason, the planet Azeroth decided to spawn these demigods that watch over the world. It may have been for the purpose of protection, or a defense mechanism. But if Azeroth decided to spawn these creations, why did the Titans deem it necessary to put the Aspects in place to sell wow accounts and do pretty much the same thing? Why would you need a fabricated security system, if the house already came with one, pre-installed?
Now that's interesting, particularly given the nature of the world as we know it. We know that the Ancients and the Aspects worked together -- in one case, we know an Aspect actually fell in love with an Ancient. Ysera loved Malorne, and although Cenarius was the son of Malorne and Elune, Ysera treated him as if he were her own son, odd as that may sound. But the connection between Ysera and Malorne makes perfect sense, in the same way that Kalecgos and Anveena's relationship makes sense -- Ysera was charged with watching over and protecting nature, and Malorne was pretty much nature in a corporeal form, much as Anveena was magic in a corporeal form.
For some reason, the planet Azeroth decided to spawn these demigods that watch over the world. It may have been for the purpose of protection, or a defense mechanism. But if Azeroth decided to spawn these creations, why did the Titans deem it necessary to put the Aspects in place to sell wow accounts and do pretty much the same thing? Why would you need a fabricated security system, if the house already came with one, pre-installed?
Thursday, 16 May 2013
good wow tips
Last week we discussed how to get rid of the funsuckers making our
WoW time less enjoyable. There was quite a bit of discussion in the
comments and we had one blogger address the issue as well.
Account-wide ignore
I and others suggested one step in the right direction would be to make ignore account-wide. As long as the other characters on the ignored account were added to the ignore list invisibly, it couldn't be used for griefing.
Peer review
I had also mentioned the Tribunal system that League of Legends uses to police its player base. Commenter Yoojine linked to a video that described the science behind LoL's techniques. If you have the time to look at it, I highly recommend it for those who are interested in studying human behavior. It's fascinating and also heartening that a game company is going through so much effort to make the gameplay experience less toxic for everyone. Basically, they use peer review, direct feedback and the concept of priming to lower the toxicity of the in-game experience. I think that WoW could benefit from Blizzard conducting similar experiments on us.
The fishbowl
Tiny Priest wrote up a blog post suggesting using fishbowls for populating level 90 Raid and Dungeon Finder groups. In this system, people would be matched with others that have similar schedules and playstyles as recorded by the game. So that if you tend to run the Raid Finder on Monday nights, you would be grouped with people with the same schedule on a regular basis, rather than with anyone who happens to be queued at the time. The same would go for battleground groups. These fishbowls would be relatively small at 60 to 100 players, therefore you would see the same people all the time instead of grouping with strangers most of the time.
Community Blog Topic Results How to get rid of funsuckersThis system would certainly help with accountability, as the players would no longer be people you will most likely never see again. But there would still be the griefers who just don't care, and in fact would love to terrorize the same people over and over again. Getting ignored by a few players would pop the funsucker out of that fishbowl, but into another one. I also think it would be difficult to maintain by Blizzard. While they do have the data at their disposal to do this, I would think the development of an appropriate system would be rather complex and would involve much trial and error -- like cross-realm zones.
In fact, we are experiencing something close to fishbowls out in the wild with CRZs. I've seen people from the same server over and over again while leveling -- with one server having a very bad reputation for griefing. If my lowbie got one-shot by a 90, the chances of the player being from that realm was high. But that's part of the PvP game and what am I going to sell wow accounts, report the entire Alliance from that server? My only option is to grin and bear it or not play on that server. I fear fishbowls in dungeons might have the same result, because not all funsucking behavior is reportable.
Penalty Volcano
There was some discussion in the comments of Blizzard's Penalty Volcano. This is the hierarchy of punishments that Blizzard doles out to offenders. Reader Eliza would like to see more of a "penalty hill" with the removal of some of the intermediate punishments. She also suggests that a temporary chat ban might be more appropriate -- you'd still be able to play but would not be able to buy cheap wow gold chat with anyone except those on your Real ID friends list.
Griefing as a report menu option
Gnome rude gestureI completely agree with Bobbacca and others that there needs to be more options in the right-click drop-down reporting menu. When you right-click someone's name, griefing should be an option. The punishments in the Penalty Volcano will only be applied to those who are reported and many just won't go through the rigamarole of having to fill out a GM ticket. They just want to get back to playing the game.
Account-wide ignore
I and others suggested one step in the right direction would be to make ignore account-wide. As long as the other characters on the ignored account were added to the ignore list invisibly, it couldn't be used for griefing.
Peer review
I had also mentioned the Tribunal system that League of Legends uses to police its player base. Commenter Yoojine linked to a video that described the science behind LoL's techniques. If you have the time to look at it, I highly recommend it for those who are interested in studying human behavior. It's fascinating and also heartening that a game company is going through so much effort to make the gameplay experience less toxic for everyone. Basically, they use peer review, direct feedback and the concept of priming to lower the toxicity of the in-game experience. I think that WoW could benefit from Blizzard conducting similar experiments on us.
The fishbowl
Tiny Priest wrote up a blog post suggesting using fishbowls for populating level 90 Raid and Dungeon Finder groups. In this system, people would be matched with others that have similar schedules and playstyles as recorded by the game. So that if you tend to run the Raid Finder on Monday nights, you would be grouped with people with the same schedule on a regular basis, rather than with anyone who happens to be queued at the time. The same would go for battleground groups. These fishbowls would be relatively small at 60 to 100 players, therefore you would see the same people all the time instead of grouping with strangers most of the time.
Community Blog Topic Results How to get rid of funsuckersThis system would certainly help with accountability, as the players would no longer be people you will most likely never see again. But there would still be the griefers who just don't care, and in fact would love to terrorize the same people over and over again. Getting ignored by a few players would pop the funsucker out of that fishbowl, but into another one. I also think it would be difficult to maintain by Blizzard. While they do have the data at their disposal to do this, I would think the development of an appropriate system would be rather complex and would involve much trial and error -- like cross-realm zones.
In fact, we are experiencing something close to fishbowls out in the wild with CRZs. I've seen people from the same server over and over again while leveling -- with one server having a very bad reputation for griefing. If my lowbie got one-shot by a 90, the chances of the player being from that realm was high. But that's part of the PvP game and what am I going to sell wow accounts, report the entire Alliance from that server? My only option is to grin and bear it or not play on that server. I fear fishbowls in dungeons might have the same result, because not all funsucking behavior is reportable.
Penalty Volcano
There was some discussion in the comments of Blizzard's Penalty Volcano. This is the hierarchy of punishments that Blizzard doles out to offenders. Reader Eliza would like to see more of a "penalty hill" with the removal of some of the intermediate punishments. She also suggests that a temporary chat ban might be more appropriate -- you'd still be able to play but would not be able to buy cheap wow gold chat with anyone except those on your Real ID friends list.
Griefing as a report menu option
Gnome rude gestureI completely agree with Bobbacca and others that there needs to be more options in the right-click drop-down reporting menu. When you right-click someone's name, griefing should be an option. The punishments in the Penalty Volcano will only be applied to those who are reported and many just won't go through the rigamarole of having to fill out a GM ticket. They just want to get back to playing the game.
Patch 5.3 is pending
Now, don't pretend you're not already guessing. There have been several official Blizzard blogs, on the new scenarios we're expecting, as well as a general guide to how you can best prepare for patch 5.3, and what's more the devs have begun their latest round of interviews. The official World of Warcraft twitter account even went as far as tweeting to confirm that the patch wasn't landing on Tuesday May 14. So, all this being said, what's your prediction for the launch date? Where's the smart money?
Patch 53 is pending, but when will it dropWhat do we have in the way of additional clues? Well, cheap wow gold and you can buy wow gold there's the PTR build information, which previously has flipped from "Test" to "Release" when a patch has crept closer It still says test, as you can see to the side. Also, the patch 5.3 PvP information has previously talked about a conquest catch-up of 15,000, and it'd be 11,000 right now. But of course, these are just clues. So what's your bet? And why?
Patch 53 is pending, but when will it dropWhat do we have in the way of additional clues? Well, cheap wow gold and you can buy wow gold there's the PTR build information, which previously has flipped from "Test" to "Release" when a patch has crept closer It still says test, as you can see to the side. Also, the patch 5.3 PvP information has previously talked about a conquest catch-up of 15,000, and it'd be 11,000 right now. But of course, these are just clues. So what's your bet? And why?
Activision posts 'better-than-expected'
Activision reported "better-than-expected" financial results for the first quarter of 2013 today, but according to CEO Bobby Kotick, the company expects to encounter a more challenging back half of the year.
The publisher brought in net revenues of $1.32 billion during the quarter that ended March 31, a 13 percent improvement over the same period in 2012 and 14.1 percent ahead of the company's projections. Activision also showed a marked year-over-year jump in net income from $384 million to $456 million, a 13.75 percent increase.
Activision's earnings were buoyed by the impressive sales performance of StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, which was the top-selling Windows PC game in North America and Europe even though it launched with three weeks left in the quarter. In addition, sell diablo 3 account, Skylanders Giants and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 all continued to sell well.
But the long-running MMO World of Warcraft suffered a precipitous drop of 1.3 million subscribers, about 14 percent of its user base, over the course of the quarter. That leaves the game with 8.3 million paying users worldwide — still enough to keep the game in the top spot when it comes to subscription-based massively multiplayer online RPGs. During Activision's first-quarter investor call this afternoon, Kotick said the company expects World of Warcraft subscribers to be lower by the end of 2013.
"While we have had a solid start to the year, we now believe that the risks and uncertainties in the back half of 2013 are more challenging than our earlier view, especially in the holiday quarter," said Kotick in an investor release announcing Activision's first-quarter results. Kotick cited the drop in World of Warcraft users, the poor performance of the Wii U, uncertainty surrounding next-generation consoles and increased competition.
The competition will be stiff. Activision is set to launch a third Skylanders title, Skylanders Swap Force, this fall into a market where Disney Interactive's Disney Infinity — diablo iii account a similar family-friendly title with physical toys — has already been released. And while the next Call of Duty title, Call of Duty: Ghosts, will be released Nov. 5, Activision said earlier this year that it expects poorer sales performance from Ghosts than from Black Ops 2.
The publisher brought in net revenues of $1.32 billion during the quarter that ended March 31, a 13 percent improvement over the same period in 2012 and 14.1 percent ahead of the company's projections. Activision also showed a marked year-over-year jump in net income from $384 million to $456 million, a 13.75 percent increase.
Activision's earnings were buoyed by the impressive sales performance of StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, which was the top-selling Windows PC game in North America and Europe even though it launched with three weeks left in the quarter. In addition, sell diablo 3 account, Skylanders Giants and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 all continued to sell well.
But the long-running MMO World of Warcraft suffered a precipitous drop of 1.3 million subscribers, about 14 percent of its user base, over the course of the quarter. That leaves the game with 8.3 million paying users worldwide — still enough to keep the game in the top spot when it comes to subscription-based massively multiplayer online RPGs. During Activision's first-quarter investor call this afternoon, Kotick said the company expects World of Warcraft subscribers to be lower by the end of 2013.
"While we have had a solid start to the year, we now believe that the risks and uncertainties in the back half of 2013 are more challenging than our earlier view, especially in the holiday quarter," said Kotick in an investor release announcing Activision's first-quarter results. Kotick cited the drop in World of Warcraft users, the poor performance of the Wii U, uncertainty surrounding next-generation consoles and increased competition.
The competition will be stiff. Activision is set to launch a third Skylanders title, Skylanders Swap Force, this fall into a market where Disney Interactive's Disney Infinity — diablo iii account a similar family-friendly title with physical toys — has already been released. And while the next Call of Duty title, Call of Duty: Ghosts, will be released Nov. 5, Activision said earlier this year that it expects poorer sales performance from Ghosts than from Black Ops 2.
At tonight's annual British Academy Games Awards
At tonight's annual British Academy Games Awards, PlayStation
exclusive Journey won four of its eight category nominations, including
Game Design, Artistic Achievement, cheap runescape accounts Multiplayer and Original Music.
Dishonored beat Journey and The Walking Dead for the Best Game in 2013 category. Notably, The Unfinished Swan won the Game Innovation and Debut Game categories.
The Walking Dead won two of its seven nominations, including Mobile and Handheld, and Story. Far Cry 3 won one of six nominated categories, which was for the Action category.
Valve's Gabe Newell was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship this year. Past BAFTA Fellows include Peter Molyneux, Shigeru Miyamoto, Nolan Bushnell and Will Wright.
The nominees in each category are listed below. The winners are in bold.
Dishonored beat Journey and The Walking Dead for the Best Game in 2013 category. Notably, The Unfinished Swan won the Game Innovation and Debut Game categories.
The Walking Dead won two of its seven nominations, including Mobile and Handheld, and Story. Far Cry 3 won one of six nominated categories, which was for the Action category.
Valve's Gabe Newell was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship this year. Past BAFTA Fellows include Peter Molyneux, Shigeru Miyamoto, Nolan Bushnell and Will Wright.
The nominees in each category are listed below. The winners are in bold.
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