I had 5 80s before I quit, and had spent a considerable amount of time in these zones.

The first 7 levels were great, especially Howling Fjord, but you never get any feeling of danger in what should be the most dangerous zones. There are about 5 monsters in these huge zones that will dismount you, and then only if you get extremely close for some reason.

My favourite part of the expansion was fighting down through the mines on the southeastern edge of Howling Fjord. No shortcuts, just a nicely designed crawl.

As it is, the outdoor zones are entirely danger and excitement-free, an easy route to 80, rather than being an adventure.

I'm not entirely sure what islands have to do with this.

"Anyway, I used to play Everquest (a lot) and one of the biggest disappointments was when they introduced the city portals. When I first started playing (as an ogre) traveling from the Oggok (ogre city) to Neriak (dark elves) was quite a trip, which I had to prepare for and I had to be constantly alert so I wouldn't die (those damn madmen and sand giants). Not to mention traveling to for example Ak'Anon or Erudin, for which trip you actually needed to sneak through human controlled cities to take a ship. That was awesome to me. I can understand that it's not fun for everyone but when discussing these features at least consider this!"

Ahh, I'm glad someone else appreciates this as much as I do... I used to love the old Qeynos - Freeport run.

Everquest one was mostly ruined when they included instant portal stones in the Plane of Knowledge.

WoW lost most of its charm when flying mounts were introduced. Imagine how epic Northrend could have been if there was actually some danger involved traversing the Lich King's lair, rather than flying over it all unmolested.

"trespassing is trespassing"

Now that we have the glaring truisms out of the way... That is entirely irrelevant. The parent was stating that it was not hacking; hacking and trespassing are not the same thing, although one may include the other.

You could have downloaded those for free and saved yourself a whole load of cash!

Sorry, you are just plain wrong. Marriage has nothing to do with it.

From the OED:

6 not involved in an established romantic or sexual relationship

"How would you feel if you were serving in Iraq while someone that same day is replaying similar events in the comfort of his home on US soil."

Pretty stupid. So this is really an argument FOR this game, as the more soldiers that realise this, the better.

"Also , the key word seems to be 'to much effort'. Why is that ? How can standing up for what you believe in , possible be to much effort ?"

Here in the UK at least, the problem is that you are not standing up for what YOU believe in, you are standing up for what the least worst candidate believes in. You can not expect people to put much effort into that.

I guess the last two make up for the negative points of the first four at least ;)

> Do you think it's a right to be able to pirate goods? Far be it from me to berate people for doing it (who hasn't?), but I'm not going to act like it's a right and how DARE someone say otherwise! Steering clear of your biased terms such as 'piracy', I would say that there is absolutely nothing wrong in making a digital copy of something. Nothing is being stolen. Try to think beyond the outdated copyright system you have been led to believe is 'correct'.

Many musicians, myself included, do just that. We release albums and other releases without any copyright restrictions and pay the bills with other jobs. Separating music from money removes any sense of making music just for money and shifts the focus back to the music. This may be bad for industry, but it is good for music.

The trouble with 'AUG' or 'SEP' is that these make no sense in many languages, whereas the numbers translate well. YYYY-MM-DD makes the most sense. Most significant digits first, just as in the rest of our entire number system.