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Khorium Ore-naments from Paul Pape

wow_spencer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:18:42 +0000

The miners among you will appreciate this WoW-themed Christmas tree ornament from Paul Pape designs. Make sure not to miss the fully rotating 306º view. I like it, but there’s nothing necessarily Christmas-y about it. I’d almost rather have it just to set on my desk.

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Toyota Tacoma WoW Ad

wow_spencer — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:52:00 +0000

Not sure if this is actually running anywhere, but this TV spot for the Toyota Tacoma created by Saatchi is surprisingly funny.

Yet Another Reason to Play WoW on a Mac…

wow_spencer — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:34:33 +0000

Because malicious hackers exploit a flaw in the way the Windows handles animated cursors to steal your login info and rape your account:

The flaw came to light in late March and lets attackers take over vulnerable PCs via booby-trapped websites. Warcraft players seem to be one of the targets because accounts for the game are potentially worth significant sums of money.

But the really interesting part is that the hack isn’t directly related to Warcraft. Instead, they’re using it gather WoW login info rather than credit card info because “the raw value of a WoW account is now higher than a credit card and its associated verification data.” How crazy is that?

How Pro Gaming Will Change WoW?

wow_spencer — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:58:55 +0000

1up posted an article yesterday titled “How Pro Gaming Will Change World of Warcraft” that, frankly, I find pretty ridiculous:

On March 18, both Team Pandemic and CheckSix announced they each had signed deals to sponsor a WoW Arena team. They sponsors plucked the top two teams from the Bloodlust Battlegroup. “Bloodlust is home to many competitive PvP guilds both from past games and WoW itself (Nurfed, Vicious Cycle, Eminence, etc.),” said Joseph Romano, the leader of Power Trip. “It [the sponsorship] is only going to attract more teams to come to the cluster.”

The article raises a couple of interesting points about the differences between sponsoring a WoW team vs. other games, but overall the potential impact of sponsored Arena teams seems way over played to me. Also, you’ve got to chuckle at the ridiculousness of gems like this:

Ladies and gentlemen, WoW is no longer just a game or a social phenomenon — WoW is serious business.

So, the biggest MMO in history didn’t amount to anything until a couple of low-rent e-sports outfits decided to get involved? I have a feeling that Blizzard, who’s raking in $15 a month from 8.5 million people regardless of what Team Pandemic or CheckSix do, would beg to differ.

Patch Day: I Guess They Can’t All Be Winners.

wow_spencer — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:22:41 +0000

I had to sit through (an admittedly brief) download just for that? I have enough problems with patch downloaders and patches themselves eating up drive space without them releasing patches for bugs one at a time.

WoW.com Ready, Content Live at 12:01 EST

wow_spencer — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:45:19 +0000

Looks like worldofwarcraft.com is ready and waiting and you’re going to have to “upgrade” your account via the website prior to accessing new content. Also, despite what we talked about here earlier, the discussion in the official FAQ thread seems to confirm that the content will go live at 12:01 EST not PST. So, maybe you can use that info to talk your local retailer into cutting you off some expansion goodness a few hours earlier than midnight local.

Official Blizzard Midnight BC Releases in California

wow_spencer — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:56:58 +0000

If you’re in SoCal or SF and having a programmer’s autograph gets your Conjurer’s Breeches of Holy Wrath in a twist, Blizzard’s rocking four official midnight releases tonight. Basically, it just means developers will be on hand signing your copy of BC. Of course, people on the East Coast will have been rolling scantily-clad BE paladins and raping starting level mobs for 3 hours by the time the clock tolls 12 hereabouts, but none of them will have Joe Blow’s carpal-tunnel scrawl on their BC box!

Update: As Mojo points out in the comments, the new content doesn’t go live until midnight PST. So you bastards on the east coast will only have a head start of drive time plus installation time plus possibly infinite queue waiting times.

World of Porncraft

wow_spencer — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:45:37 +0000

Don’t kid yourself. You either knew this was coming, or have been planning on doing it yourself to earn some RL gold. Time will tell if this is for real or just a mean joke being played on a bunch of people who will actually be really excited about it, but frankly I’m surprised it took this long. I’m also surprised at the name. My money was on “World of Whorecraft.” Maybe they’re saving that for a prostitution-based MMORPG. Oh, wait…that’s already called Second Life.

via BoingBoing