Ammo "Controversy"

*Info on why I haven't posted in a while to come soon*

I just wanted to make a quick post about some B.S. I read that sparked all kinds of talk a little while back.

http://www.wow.com/2009/12/09/ammo-controversy-in-3-3-already/

http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2009/12/08/ammo-controversy-in-patch-3-3/

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=21626553111&sid=1

When I read those articles, I have to admit, it was the stupidest fucking thing I have ever read on WoW.com. (No offense Mike.) I was not "news worthy/blog worthy" at all. QQ because epic arrows weren't "easy" (an opinion) to come by? Mike even contradicts (one might say he was just explaining both ways to look at the issue) himself in the article.

I just wanted to say, not even 2 weeks after the patch came out, I got 21,000 epic arrows made last night, by someone I didn't even know, with my own mats, and tipped 20g. If we do the math, I paid less than 1 gold per 1000 arrows. I have paid between 5 to 10 times more than that for saronite arrows. Also, if you economists want to factor in the cost of me farming the mats, yeah it might have had a high opportunity cost (like all farming does) but it just so happens that all those crystallized shadow I used I had just saved up over the course of the expansion with out a real use for them. People said this was going to be expensive and it would take forever for people to get honored with that faction and it would be hard to find the right spec'd engineer and and blah blah blah bull shit bull shit.

So...

/end controversy

EDITED TO ADD: I am so full of laughter and anger as I read the Hunter QQ in that thread. It honestly embarrasses me to play a Hunter. I might revisit this topic soon...

Patch 3.3

IS OFFICIALLY OUT NOW! I have been anticipating this patch and I cannot wait to play. Look for me in a random heroic near you!

The Douches You Meet on Xbox Live

When I started the blog, I didn't intend for it to be solely WoW based. I am a nerd at heart and in broadening my gamer nerd horizon, I played me some Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I have to come right out and say, it lives up to ALL the hype. I am not a hardcore FPS gamer, but I do enjoy them, and I can say without a doubt Modern Warfare 2 is flat out fun. Any FPS fan should DEFINITELY have this on the top of their Christmas list.

What I wanted to present today, is the general attitude of Xbox Live from a WoW players perspective.

On WoW, you may think the spam and trash talk is out of control with barely any monitoring, but wait until you get a dose of Xbox Live. The anonymity of the internet + the instant communication over a headset + the rages over being killed and losing + the blame game and pointing fingers at "scrub players" + hardly any discipline from the Xbox Live Overlords = The most insane trash talk you have ever heard. If you compare this to WoW, the most trash talk you can get is some text in a chat log that is easily reportable and the WoW Overlords hand out bans like candy to children for even the littlest Anal [Obsidian Warbeads] offense. In both cases though you can chose to ignore/mute the person so, yes, it can easily be avoided. However, where's the fun in that? ;)

The only other thing I want to add, is how funny it is when you get to here actually HOW nerdy and young some of these same pointing finger trash talkers from WoW are when they are on a headset.

Keeping this one short. Check out Modern Warfare 2 if you are into FPS games and be prepared to enjoy the douches you meet on Xbox Live.