The Solo MMO Player is finding the new guild names, ah, interesting. The favorite this week is Nagging Wives. We cannot wait to hear what happens when the spouse finds out the name of hubby's guild.
However, we think this might be the perfect gift to soothe the spouses in the Nagging Wives guild. Wonder if there is a discount for bulk purchases?
https://gear.blizzard.com/us/game/world-of-warcraft/cute-but-deadly-blue-murloc-kigurumi
Guild recruitment pitches are nearly as good as guild names. Today we heard of a guild looking for old vanilla WOW players. They say that they are a casual raiding guild that gets drunk, raids, and cannot remember the raid the next day. Translation: We need an experienced babysitter who can run the raid for us while we down multiple brews in quick succession. Don't expect a stampede of older players, folks. Adults have better things to do with their time.
Player behavior continues to baffle the Solo MMO Player. Tonight he had someone steal a drop out from under him, then ask where he was going to raid next. He also heard someone complain loudly, "They keep killing me!" This was on a PvP server. PvP doesn't stand for Pepperoni Vegetable Pizza in WOW, folks.
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Showing posts with label bad behavior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad behavior. Show all posts
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Monday, August 30, 2010
Where Cataclysm Is Taking Us
Today I've found several articles that unintentionally talk about where Blizzard is taking players with Cataclysm. First, let me quote The Noisy Rogue's description of the bulk of in-game behavior: "The point is that this game is full of teenage boys with no social repercussions for their in-game behavior. What is there to work out here? It’s going to be a free for all. It is a free for all. This doesn’t excuse it, but you are trying to swim against the tide if you think that you are going to change this." The article itself is a reaction to postings about sexism in-game that have been floating around the Blog-o-sphere over the last 2-3 weeks. If you are interested in this topic, read the Comments. (If you have noticed a lot of guys in their 20s and 30s inside WOW acting like the teenagers described above, please join me in banging my head against the desk.)
http://thenoisyrogue.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/my-brain-implodes/
Next up is Skeleton Jack's rambling rant about Blizzard and WOW. Among all the paragraphs he makes some good points: how difficult it is to find a guild that is a good fit, how Blizzard's primary focus now is on what they can change in the game to milk more cash from the players, how this means raids can be run successfully by folks who have no idea what they are doing, new raid content is the same old stuff, that leveling is not enjoyed by anyone, and how Blizzard is revamping WOW for a new generation of players. (See the first paragraph above.)
http://www.skeletonjack.com/2010/08/29/unbiased-honesty-skeleton-jacks-thoughts/
Perhaps I am wrong in thinking that Cataclysm is a cheap way to release reworked code that has been made easier with a few new races to appeal to the kiddies in order to keep the money flowing into Activision's pockets. Perhaps not.
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http://thenoisyrogue.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/my-brain-implodes/
Next up is Skeleton Jack's rambling rant about Blizzard and WOW. Among all the paragraphs he makes some good points: how difficult it is to find a guild that is a good fit, how Blizzard's primary focus now is on what they can change in the game to milk more cash from the players, how this means raids can be run successfully by folks who have no idea what they are doing, new raid content is the same old stuff, that leveling is not enjoyed by anyone, and how Blizzard is revamping WOW for a new generation of players. (See the first paragraph above.)
http://www.skeletonjack.com/2010/08/29/unbiased-honesty-skeleton-jacks-thoughts/
Perhaps I am wrong in thinking that Cataclysm is a cheap way to release reworked code that has been made easier with a few new races to appeal to the kiddies in order to keep the money flowing into Activision's pockets. Perhaps not.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Blizzard's Going to Patrol One Role Play Realm (and Starcraft 2 mods)
Apparently a father complained to Blizzard about the behavior on Moon Guard, a role-playing realm notorious for terrible behavior and Blizzard GMs plan to patrol Goldshire Inn on this realm heavily.
http://www.wow.com/2010/08/04/blizzard-to-patrol-moon-guards-goldshire-for-harassment-erotic/
I think it's about time. Given the behavior that the Solo MMO Player sees every day, WOW should be rated M for Mature instead of T for Teen (age 13 or older). Personally I'm astounded WOW hasn't ended up on Fox News already as the new in-game Sodom and Gomorrah.
Anna of Too Many Annas pretty much sums up what most players feel about Blizzard's new policing.
http://toomanyannas.com/feature/policing-roleplay-somewhere-else/
UPDATE: Blizzard is apparently policing Starcraft 2 mod maps and removing those it finds offensive in any way.
http://kotaku.com/5605333/blizzard-policing-inappropriate-starcraft-ii-maps-because-they-can
According to this story, the only inoffensive item in the map that was removed was the word "badass." I'm pretty sure my mother would disapprove if I used badass in her presence, but I don't think she'd wash my mother out with soap.
http://www.1up.com/news/blizzard-deleting-inappropriate-starcraft-maps
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http://www.wow.com/2010/08/04/blizzard-to-patrol-moon-guards-goldshire-for-harassment-erotic/
I think it's about time. Given the behavior that the Solo MMO Player sees every day, WOW should be rated M for Mature instead of T for Teen (age 13 or older). Personally I'm astounded WOW hasn't ended up on Fox News already as the new in-game Sodom and Gomorrah.
Anna of Too Many Annas pretty much sums up what most players feel about Blizzard's new policing.
http://toomanyannas.com/feature/policing-roleplay-somewhere-else/
UPDATE: Blizzard is apparently policing Starcraft 2 mod maps and removing those it finds offensive in any way.
http://kotaku.com/5605333/blizzard-policing-inappropriate-starcraft-ii-maps-because-they-can
According to this story, the only inoffensive item in the map that was removed was the word "badass." I'm pretty sure my mother would disapprove if I used badass in her presence, but I don't think she'd wash my mother out with soap.
http://www.1up.com/news/blizzard-deleting-inappropriate-starcraft-maps
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Monday, May 31, 2010
WOW Ruminations and Speculations
The changes to WOW that are planned for Cataclysm has people in a speculative mood. Each of these articles are worth a read.
What exactly is intellectual property in WOW?
http://procrastinationamplification.com/how-far-does-intellectual-property-go/
What is "community" in WOW?
http://www.pinkpigtailinn.com/2010/05/why-community-word-doesnt-make-sense.html
Aging and growth impact community quality.
http://www.psychochild.org/?p=946
What WOW would be like as a solo RPG game.
http://tishtoshtesh.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/what-if-wow-rpg/
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What exactly is intellectual property in WOW?
http://procrastinationamplification.com/how-far-does-intellectual-property-go/
What is "community" in WOW?
http://www.pinkpigtailinn.com/2010/05/why-community-word-doesnt-make-sense.html
Aging and growth impact community quality.
http://www.psychochild.org/?p=946
What WOW would be like as a solo RPG game.
http://tishtoshtesh.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/what-if-wow-rpg/
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Mischievious Mages and Portal Roulette
Cold Comfort mentioned portal roulette and how his guild mages stack portals.
http://blog.cold-comfort.org/portal-roulette-mischief/
He links to Spicy Tuna's explanation of how to play portal roulette as a single mage. Note that this is bad behavior at worse and mischief at best and other examples of mage misbehavior are listed here.
http://spicytunas.com/2009/04/how-to-be-an-asshat-mage/
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http://blog.cold-comfort.org/portal-roulette-mischief/
He links to Spicy Tuna's explanation of how to play portal roulette as a single mage. Note that this is bad behavior at worse and mischief at best and other examples of mage misbehavior are listed here.
http://spicytunas.com/2009/04/how-to-be-an-asshat-mage/
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
How xBox Live Keeps It Clean
Here's a transcript from this year's PAX about how Microsoft monitors behavior on their xBox Live service. Since Blizzard doesn't pay much attention to in-game behavior, I thought everyone would be curious about how The Other Guys handle misbehavior. (Thanks for posting about this, Kotaku.)
http://www.stepto.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=47972f52-f025-4805-bea4-f515e4269a3a&ID=584
Major Nelson will have the audio up on his blog today or tomorrow (it's a holiday weekend here in the U.S.) if you would prefer to hear it instead of reading it.
http://www.majornelson.com/
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http://www.stepto.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=47972f52-f025-4805-bea4-f515e4269a3a&ID=584
Major Nelson will have the audio up on his blog today or tomorrow (it's a holiday weekend here in the U.S.) if you would prefer to hear it instead of reading it.
http://www.majornelson.com/
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Guildwatch Wednesday (Breaking Up In Style)
The Behavior Your Mother Would Be Ashamed Of Award goes this week to the GM of Dreamcatchers who went to a party, ranted about his guildmates' pathetic raiding skills for almost 9 profane minutes, then posted the video on YouTube. Not surprisingly, the guild broke up almost immediately.
http://www.wow.com/2009/08/12/guildwatch-loot-reservations-required/
I'll quote Mike Schramm here (he writes Guildwatch for WOW Insider) about the runner up for this award-- "Jundivyn, GM of Nerfed at Birth on Terenas, was apparently so unhappy that his childhood friend and roomate /gquit the guild that he apparently not only kicked him out of the apartment they shared, but he also allegedly tossed his stuff in the rain. Nice. Lots of other fun stories pop up about Jundivyn in that thread as well, from his child care advice ("your the adault, you can tell him to get in bed and thats what he has to do, no matter how bad he screams thats all he can do realy.") to using another guildie as a bargaining chip to keep a third guildie from leaving the guild (we're not sure how that worked either -- "you stay or I /gkick him"?). What a guild leader."
And what a speller!
Another contestant for this award was the guild leader of Absolution on Dragonblight who became discouraged at the lack of raiding enthusiasm among the membership and quit. How did he qualify for award consideration? He took the guild bank's contents with him when he left.
As always the Guildwatch column has news of raiding and recruiting, none of which is happening on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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http://www.wow.com/2009/08/12/guildwatch-loot-reservations-required/
I'll quote Mike Schramm here (he writes Guildwatch for WOW Insider) about the runner up for this award-- "Jundivyn, GM of Nerfed at Birth on Terenas, was apparently so unhappy that his childhood friend and roomate /gquit the guild that he apparently not only kicked him out of the apartment they shared, but he also allegedly tossed his stuff in the rain. Nice. Lots of other fun stories pop up about Jundivyn in that thread as well, from his child care advice ("your the adault, you can tell him to get in bed and thats what he has to do, no matter how bad he screams thats all he can do realy.") to using another guildie as a bargaining chip to keep a third guildie from leaving the guild (we're not sure how that worked either -- "you stay or I /gkick him"?). What a guild leader."
And what a speller!
Another contestant for this award was the guild leader of Absolution on Dragonblight who became discouraged at the lack of raiding enthusiasm among the membership and quit. How did he qualify for award consideration? He took the guild bank's contents with him when he left.
As always the Guildwatch column has news of raiding and recruiting, none of which is happening on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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