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Comment Re:Here's my take on it. (Score 1) 523

Beyond that, I highly suggest you go take some remedial English classes, bucko. If for some reason you think my rant is irrelevant,

I'm not a native english speaker, just FYI. And I didn't say your rant was irrelevant. I said it's unintelligible. I also doubt I'd learn the phrases you used in any proper english class.

I also understood, that you don't have to pay for the game. You are still wasting your own time with it and from the sound of it it seems you are a drag on the other players just trying to make a buck on the auction house. So I stand by my recommendation. You really should stop playing.

Comment Re:Too easy (Score 1) 523

but the challenge has been ratcheted up for raid content.

No, it hasn't. Raids got easier, too.

Let me make an analogy -- it's like a ping-pong match played against a wall with a 24-man team. For the leader that might be an exciting test of his skill in managing a group, but for the players it's just hitting a ball against a wall.

Actually, that's fine. Really. Some people like to lead but most are content to follow. Yes, to get a team together that works is a challenge in itself. But it can be done and then everyone will have fun.

Comment Re:not where from, where to? (Score 1) 523

I might like to play WoW if it focussed more on the story and quests and less on trying to waste my time. Blizzard won't win any points with it's hardcore fans if it redesigned the game to make it more enjoyable for people like me, but they might just eek out another two or three years of earnings from it if they did.

They already did. And you are right - 'hardcore' players don't like it.

But you might want to give it another try. Travel distances have been cut down significantly. If you do have to travel a wider distance, you'll get a mount or some other means to speed it up. Quest lines are straight forward and everything is easy, even for a badly equipped character.

Maybe you'll like it. Personally, I think questing it's rather boring now.

Comment Re:MMORPG (Score 1) 523

You have obviously never played WoW and it shows in your post. You simply don't know what you are talking about.

I also don't understand your quip about payed-for ready-made entertainment. The whole world is full of it. Be it movies, TV shows, commercial music, entertainment parks and what have you. Why would you single out a multiplayer online game?

Then, let me tell you, WoW is not "very, very slowly evolving". It's actually evolving faster than some people would like it to. And no, you don't have to pay for every little addition to the game. There have been Classic, BC, WotLK, Cataclysm and MoP. That's it for more than seven years. And unless you started with Classic, you won't have payed full price for all installments either.

It's also not true that there is almost no feedback from players. In fact, I think one of the problems is, that they are pandering to the player's wishes too much.

Comment Re:I hope they experienced an epiphany (Score 1) 523

On the plus side, it trained me to recognize grind and skinner box style gameplay that virtually all MMOs since have used to string people along - long travel distances, infrequent spawns, equipment that degrades, time sinks everywhere.

Travel distances in WoW are short these days. You can fly almost everywhere. Even if you can't there's a flight point seemingly around every corner. Spawns are so frequent, that you can actually farm 'rares'; not to mention normal mobs - those will sometimes respawn on top of your feet if you don't move out of the way fast enough. Equipment does not degrade. It get's damaged and you'll have to repair it. But you get more than enough gold to cover the repair costs and you can actually buy mounts with merchants that will do those repairs (it's a single button click to repair everything at once; AND there are add-ons that automate even that).

Time sinks though - those you will find plenty.

Comment Too easy (Score 4, Informative) 523

In my opinion they made the game too easy. I remember when I started, every battle was an actual challenge.
Now you just rush through everything. It's almost impossible to die unless you run headlong into a bunch of enemies.
In the past, quest mobs at the end of a quest chain usually were elite mobs, and really tough. Now you don't even notice they are anything special.
Dungeons are especially bad. I'm leveling my monk at the moment, playing a healer, and it's downright boring most of the time. The biggest challenge is to keep close to the tank while he is churning through the mobs.
Now, I like the actual new content. Even the boss fights are rather interesting - or would be if it wasn't for the fact, that you can do it all in LFR where it is possible to ignore most of the mechanics. And when I've already killed the bosses countless times in LFR that makes the normal 10 man raid much less interesting. At least for me.
They also dumbed down some classes so much that it gets annoying. I remember when they banned the first heal bots. Now you can select a heal bot as a spec. Just play a disci priest. You don't even need to target who you want to heal; it's automatic.
I'm also miffed about the changes to the fire mage. I chose that spec because I found it more interesting than the others. More choices to make in a fight. But they really did their best to dumb it down to a similar level as all the other specs with almost no choice what to do at any given moment. Something procs - you need to use it almost instantly.

Still, I don't see anything that could replace WoW for me. So if I decided to stop playing, I'd probably not pick up anything else in it's stead.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 2) 121

Once upon a time, power utilities ran their lines overhead. One result of this is that trees falling in storms and other similar events would disrupt power. Thankfully, this construction technique has been abandoned in all but a few third world countries.

I wouldn't exactly call Japan a third world country ...
(Just search for "Japan Power Lines".)

Comment Re:LOL ... (Score 1) 98

And according to DoNotTrackMe, TFA has beacons for 5 tracking companies, plus two social media sites.

You missed quite a few.

Ghostery reports 17 (!) beacons:
Adhere, Adobe Digital Marketing, BlueKai, Demandbase, Digg Widget, Disqus, Dynamic Logic, Eloqua, Facebook Connect, Google +1, Google Analytics, Krux Digital, LinkedIn Widgets, New Relic, Quantcast, Scorecard Research Beacon, ShareThis

Nice collection!

Comment Re:Anything that states it has to be free? (Score 1) 351

Unfortunately, you didn't answer the question that was asked. Yes, the advertisers paid, and I could understand if they expected something in return. But, how can you claim an entitlement that you gave nothing to get?

As a German citizen I'm entitled to everything German law says I am. I don't need any additional justification.

It's the same as human rights: Anyone is entitled to them. You don't need any justification.

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