Personal computing discussed
Hawkwing74 wrote:Looks like denial of service attacks again are affecting Battle.net.
tanker27 wrote:I am shocked by this. Is it more "pay to play" from Activision? Like they have attempted with the D3 RMAH and Hearthstone to some extent. I thought the point of Valor was that you did the content, not buy your way to epics.So I have been following WoD discussions and news closely lately and I am concerned. On one hand they have stated the Rep grinds ala MoP were not going to be in WoD. And that Garrisions would do the work for you. Next is the news that they are getting rid of Valor and Justice and going back to Gold as a main currency. I am concerned with this. As someone who used to HC raid and did so for years I just dont have the time to farm as much.
By returning back to Gold standard it seems to me that the gold farmers are going to win and its going to push more people to buy gold.
There are many other questions that arise by this announcement, like are we going to see larger sums that drop from bosses or even quest completions? Wouldn't the influx of more gold cause inflation in the AH at 2x or 4x?
tanker27 wrote:It seems interesting to me. I like offline stuff, like the Eve Online skill system. Is it tedious to set up your offline quests? I got pretty annoyed with the farm after a while.As for Garrisons, I like how they work for you offline doing "chores" for all different kinds of things. Its not as bad as it seems when tied to leveling but it is a money/time sink. It's the MoP farm times 100. So I am on the fence about Garrisons. (BTW....yeah I've been doing beta)
Hawkwing74 wrote:Hold up. RMAH was a Blizzard idea, I think, and it wasn't necessarily a bad one, but it didn't work out. Actually, if someone could have made money playing video games, it would have been quite interesting. The big problem, I think, was that the loot and core gameplay suffered as a result, so no one wanted to play D3 to begin with, let alone make money.I am shocked by this. Is it more "pay to play" from Activision? Like they have attempted with the D3 RMAH and Hearthstone to some extent. I thought the point of Valor was that you did the content, not buy your way to epics.
Yes, they often had BoE epics but they were pretty rare and not as good as the earnable stuff (esp. at the end of a cycle).
This seems like a major shift to a new direction.
njenabnit wrote:I'm probably not going to pick it back up at all, but if you guys who still play could go to any MMORPG out there now and be at the same competitive level that you are in WoW, would you pick WoW again or another game?
tanker27 wrote:In other news: Blizzard canned Titan.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/23/683395 ... gen-mmo-pc
I still would like to know what it was.
tanker27 wrote:In other news: Blizzard canned Titan.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/23/683395 ... gen-mmo-pc
I still would like to know what it was.
superjawes wrote:Now if only my addons would update...
tanker27 wrote:superjawes wrote:Now if only my addons would update...
you have too many addons!
superjawes wrote:Although I'm mostly waiting for Altoholic and AtlasLoot now.
superjawes wrote:I suppose my primary addons are Shadowed Unit Frames and Bartender. I'll probably try some tweaks in the next few days, but otherwise, I've had it where I want it for a while. I also tend to pick up some other addons here and there for some extra utility, like Titan Panel, Bagnon, and Prat.
While we're talking about UIs, can we take a moment to acknowledge how disapointing SpartanUI is? I think it looks great, and I love the player/target frames, but it doesn't really allow any room for customization and fixes. If I could actually customize it, I would definitely drop SUF.
Hawkwing74 wrote:I enjoyed the documentary that you can access from Battlenet. Was quite funny to hear how they didn't expect server load for Vanilla release and the AQ gate event.