Tag Archive: World of Warcraft

Average Brown Wookie and other themes

Let’s talk about music.  No not the kind you hear when you turn on the am band of your radio (for those of you who still have radios) and hear the same three songs repeated endlessly.  What I had in mind was the music of people like Matt Uelman and Peter Mcconnell.   Matt Uleman brought…

Chuck Norris pushing the World

By now most of you have seen the new Chuck Norris commercial for World of Warcraft (WoW) – and if you haven’t you have now.  No doubt inspired by the many Chuck Norris jokes that were once the mainstay of Barrens chat it will likely rekindle them all.   The commercial also rekindles memories of the…

Don’t tell Richard Garriott

It was just a few scant days ago that Richard Garriott was in the news  telling us all  that Zynga became so large because EA and Blizzard refused to step into the social gaming fray  (read Facebook games not mobile).  What is more he felt that the Zyngas of the world will be their downfall……

Panda people are serious business

“The only reason Zynga exists is because people like EA, people like Blizzard, failed to step in…And so I think that the challenge for Blizzard, when you are that good, when you’re making that much money, when you’re that much on top of your game, in the current era, it’s actually fairly difficult to spend…

Has Blizzard finally jumped the shark?

Greed makes people do funny things.  What is more, the more money people have the more they seem to need – especially if the cash flow starts to falter.  Greed for money makes a cocaine addiction look like a hankering for peanut butter banana sandwiches.  So we can only imagine the stress that occurrs when…

Tommorow a feather duster

“PVE…Still, we see Survival hunters and Unholy DKs on top of a lot of single target fights. Arcane, Marksman, and Beastmaster damage is too low.” – Ghostcrawler, Lead Systems Designer for World of Warcraft The lead in quote by Ghostcrawler is an excerpt from the changes we can expect to see now that many of…