Things have changed significantly on that front - the raid size is smaller (10 or 25 players) and the bosses drop more loot, plus bosses give points you can spend at a vendor to get more raid-level loot.
The burnout's still there, but it's more in the opposite direction now- a new raid comes out and the players are getting geared so fast that they have nothing to do afterwards.
IIRC those 5 mans were instances that were planned for launch and weren't ready for release. Not instances added as new content.
I mostly agree with what you're saying here, but your 3rd point is a tad disingenuous.
- Naxx was more or less recycled, but to me this is okay because very little of their population saw it when it was relevant.
- Onyxia wasn't really "content" for the last expansion that was supposed to mean anything. It was literally a bonus raid added in celebration of their 5th anniversary.
- The two (yes, only two) 5 mans that got "recycled" are only the same instance in name and layout only. The content inside the dungeon (you know, the part that counts) is completely different. The bosses are completely different, the drops are completely different, the trash is completely different. They are effectively brand new instances.
- Likewise, the 5 man Zul'Gurub is literally nothing like the Vanilla Zul'Gurub raid. Zul'aman is pretty much the same though. However, these two instances were patched into the game. The 4 instances added in WoLK after the expansion's release weren't exactly shining examples of creativity, either. Before that? In TBC and Vanilla you simply did not get new 5 man instances patched into the game.
Most games in the 80's and 90's were horrible too. Your expectations have just changed.
I for one hope that Watson's text-to-speech engine fails miserably and he starts mispronouncing category names like "The Pen Is Mightier".
Jeopardy airs 2/14, 2/15, and 2/16 at 7PM, EST on ABC, for anyone curious.
Jeopardy is syndicated. It will show on different networks and at different times depending on where you live.
Another benefit is, say you have them repairing buildings for the city or whatever; you're also teaching them a trade that they can use when they get out of jail.
Good luck with the unions allowing that!
Simple answer to that- outlaw unions, throw them in jail, then they can repair all the buildings they want.
So you've never played most of their games and are surprised that you weren't able to extract fun out of the games you never bought, played, heard of, or know anything about?
My boss will regularly click the "Sponsored Link" in his google search result thinking that it's a legitimate search result.
It's not out of the question that people click that Sponsored Link thinking it's a real result, finds that it is the solution to whatever problem they were having (albeit not the best or most cost-effective solution), and make the purchase.
Who in their right mind would want Kevin Smith's body scan image?
Kevin Smith.
"So *THAT'S* what it looks like!"
He used two. Web browsers tend to reduce anything with more than one space to a single space.
Two spaces:
Blah. Blah.
Single space:
Blah. Blah.
Apple ignored some basic EE design rules here and didn't test the design properly.
To be fair, they meant to test this very issue, but the guy they sent out to test this in the real world lost his phone while barhopping.
The point was more along the lines that it's pointless to associate a post with a user's real name for datamining purposes on the forums - Blizzard ALREADY HAS that information and can already link your post to your real name.
Just so you know, Blizzard already has my real name if they want to sell it. No redundant forum changes necessary. They have my credit card number too!
Remove the tinfoil hat or at least think about what you're saying instead of just throwing out paranoid gibberish.
Hi.
I'm just calling to inform you that your car's warranty is expiring soon. Please call (800)555-1234 and we can renew your warranty for the low low price of $200.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
