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Blizzard announced yesterday a contest to win a slot in the beta test for our upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, The Burning Crusade.

You can win the slot in one of three possible ways:

    * be one of the first 1000 players to build a lvl50 char on test realm
    * be one of the 500 with the most honor gained on test realm with a lvl19 char
    * be one of the top 1000 able to grind as much lvl 25 chars as possible

http://www.ogrank.com/content/view/246/39/

Crap!

God I love when they do this. It so works for their sort of games. That it excludes most people I know doesn't really bother me either... I'm so not as jaded as I should be ;)

I actually think it's a clever way to attract "prequalified" testers. Though catasses aren't the only type of tester you want testing your game you do need a large contingent of them so that they can burn through as much of the content as quickly as possible to find all the obvious bugs.

Edit: fixed typos

You don't need to lure catasses to "test" an expansion.  You'd need to lure casuals.  This is, therefore, simply meant to generate hype and nudge people into playing, perhaps to get at those people who canceled while waiting on the expansion.

According to Tigole

I can see testing hardware or concurrency.  Still, it's hard to separate Tigole from his legacy.

Everytime I see Tigole I think of a spoonerism posted on these boards (somewhere, and maybe)

Tigole Bitties

That was his name in EQ.

I wouldn't cross the street to piss on Tigole if he was on fire. He represents pretty much everything about WoW that I can't stand.

My comments on the whole deal:

"I just looked over the Burning Crusade expansion contest details at the official WoW site. If you want to get into the Beta test for the upcoming WoW expansion pack, you're going to have to put in some hardcore play sessions. We're talking some serious caffeine-fueled sleep deprivation experiments. Or you could just be realistic about the situation and see that a good portion of the contest slots are going to be won by professional gold-farmers/power-levelers. Who can work characters in shifts. The rest will be won by Uber Guilds, looking to get started on planning raid strategies and a sock change schedule.

If someone dies while doing this, and they end up winning a slot, does the immediate family get to eBay it to help pay for funeral costs?"

http://www.warcry.com/scripts/news/view_news.phtml?site=15&id=52640

I think Joe's shadow just posted.

Shhh... he will hear you and make me post more at waterthread.

You might have also missed my play on words regarding his legacy, since he belonged to Legacy of Steel on The Nameless.

(http://www.legacyofsteel.net/gallery/categories/Legacy_of_Steel_Images/December_2000/media/tigwithwill.jpg)
That's him without the last name.  For some reason I don't see a SS of it on the LoS site.

Looking at the names in those shots (like Tenaj) makes me want to chug Pepto Bismol again.

Very clever. I missed that the first time.  I had the honor of being in one of the lesser tier raiding guilds that Tigole and his merry bunch pissed on from time to time.

He won that title in one of those server wide, "Best of the Best" tourneys.  I wonder if he still had the EULA breaking last name at the moment. 

Extra points if you can find a SS of him with the last name.  I'm not getting anywhere.  He probably catassed Google until he had looted all of the incriminating shots.

I'll give it a shot.  Just gotta turn on "ULTRA SAFE SEARCH NO BOOBIES" on Google before I start..

I knew you got married but I didn't know it was to another guy. WHAT HAPPENED?

What's your Eve char name?

I'm at work.  ><  But yes, Todd is a wonderful man.  

Rasx is my EVE character, who I'm not playing a whole ton.  Don't pod me.

If you are having trouble trying using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Here's one of the LoS pages that has him referencing himself by his full name (search on "Bitties"):

http://www.legacyofsteel.net/newspro/archives/arc23.html

I find legacyofsteel.com to be a much more fascinating site, but it has even fewer pictures of low-poly halflings.

I look at this as a blessing.  I mean, every unwashed catass scrub that is busy grinding for hours upon hours on the test server, is one less unwashed catass scrub who is lengtheing queues and sucking up available resources on my server.

So instead of posting a link to the actual contest information on WoW's website you posted a link to a shitty little online gaming news "site". Are you that desperate for viewers?

This actually makes a lot of sense.  If you want to make sure your testers are actually playing the game, find the biggest catasses you can get and have them play the game constantly.

Although, it does indicate that the new expansion is going to be something somewhat geared towards power playing...

Not really - catasses will do what it takes to meet the criterea set out above, most will take advantage of any bugs that help them do so before reporting them, at least that has been my experience. Hardcore catass != good tester, playing alot is not the prime quality they should look for.

EDIT: Unless of course it's simply a marketing ploy to generate hype (the horror!). THen it's a good idea.

Yeah. Click again on it plz.

Well, I have to admire the honesty.

I wish I'd been smart enough to set up an Eve affiliate link for all the nooblers here.

Anyway, don't do that again. Even if it makes me lol.

That PoS site won't even load for me. Oh well, I'm sure it sucks copious amounts of ass anyway.

Also, how much cock did "Tigole" have to slob in order to not get his name yanked? I had a buddy who renamed himself "Eamonn Douchebag" who was thereafter Forbidden from even taking a surname ever again in the game.

Since he's now a "big shot" at Blizzard, I'd guess "a lot".  Actually he was slobbing SOE knobs from Day 0, I think, but I didn't start EQ until probably a year after release so I can't really say.

That's why you don't rely on what they say, but do observe what they do.

We have a winner:

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-9/1074809/too_much_wow.jpg)

My God, it's full of stars.

Good to see he drinks orange juice.

And he listens to Bauhaus.

He has the number one game of ALL TIME on his desk.

 :nda:

What's that stain on the front of the chair? It looks like....oh....

 :evil:

I bet he get's allll the ladies with his Marvel-Medley bedsheets. Rrrroooowwwrrrrr.

He's probably quite the fatty from drinking all of that soda.

I'd have been disowned if I let my room devolve into such a state.

If that was Diet Vanilla Coke instead of regular, that could be schild's desk.

Lies.

Yeah, there's not enough consoles for that to be schild's desk.

Given how anal-retentively organized his bookshelf of games is I imagine schild's desk to have a monitor, keyboard, mouse and maybe a mouse pad, but that's stretching it. Well perhaps he leaves his PSP or DS on it as well but only if he's really drunk and forgets to put them back in their display cases.

Edit: fixed spelling

here is my desk, computer, monitor, 3 external devices (2hdd, 1dvdrw), slim PS2, DVDO iScan Ultra, Gamecube, Logitech z680 (3 of the speakers, I don't bother with rears), super nintendo with Earthbound permanently lodged into it, and a Halo green Xbox. I have a couple beer bottles, a red cup, 2 energy drink bottles (red bull sized) , 2 hats, a can of air and some firewire/usb cables for stuff like my iPod and PSP. My desk is from Ikea. It's called The Jerker.

I think I speak for most when I say, we really didn't give a shit to begin with.

I wasn't asking anyone to care. Here's another useless fact - the chair in the original picture is the executive leather chair sold at many Best Buys across the country. It has a lifespan of about 1.5-2 years before it falls apart. Tubby fried rice pile of trash man is in for a rude awakening when the arm under the seat breaks and he falls in a pile of his own waste.

Of course, having his childhood bed sheet hanging on the wall with a bunch of comics shit on it means he's absolutely shameless and will just get up and sit on the broken chair.

Yeah I had one of those fucking chairs break on me at the office, and I weigh under 150lbs so I'm pretty sure they are just poorly made pieces of crap.

And at Officeworks and similar stores across Australia. I think they're made in China.

I've had mine for about 6 years now. You just have to keep the screws tightened on it every few months, but that may be too much heavy maintenance for some.

Good man.


 :lol:

I can't find my Earthbound cartridge anymore :(

I hate my life.

And a comb...

That was what struck me: against all evidence to the contrary, he's apparently vaguely interested in his appearance.  Or perhaps he uses tissue paper to play it as a musical instrument.

It's possible the comb is only a defensive measure to "wack an ant", I am sure the room has attracted a few ant colonies by now.

I am thinking about doing exactly that, but first I need to get my f13.net ripoff set up properly :heart:

Looks like my chair, which is fine so far after four or five years.  Thanks for making me paranoid, fuckers.

The comb is for retrieving Gummi worms from hair.

Highlights for me were the surround sound speaker sitting on the heap of trash and the choclate finger prints on the monitor.

Does it have a tissue dispenser?

Wouldn't want to get scurvy after all that coke... I admit I've even felt my teeth loosen a bit occasionally...

There is citric acid in Coke.  Scurvy should not be the biggest worry.

Ascorbic acid is vitamin C (the supplement that prevents scurvy).   :-D

Now that I've added my own brand of nerd-dom, I have to mention that the picture is both revolting and fascinating.  Do people really live like that? I'm in awe.

Classic.

I wish I had a picture of this, but words will have to suffice. 

Yes, people really and truly live like that. Not just po' folks, but even people in moderatly affluant communities can live in 3rd world squallor and not give a shit.  One of my former co-workers lives in a neighborhood of $200-$350k homes (Bear in mind this is the midwest, so that's upper middle class.) that were built ~3 years ago.  The house behind him went up for sale as a 'fixer-upper' and he went to take a look, wondering how could a 3-year old house be labeled as such.   

Upon opening the front door, he said there was a smell akin to walking into a barn on a summer day.  Apparently his neighbors had kept 3 dogs, 2 birds and lord knows what else in the house.  The birds had been left to fly free in the house, and apparently the dogs didn't go outside.  The carpets were a mess of bird and dog shit.  The railing and ballusters were coated in bird shit like some downtown statuary where pigeons flock.  Stains were creeping up the drywall and soaking through the paint to create a discoloration indicating that *something* wet had been there a long time.  He said it was absolutly disgusting and he didn't understand how ANYONE could live there, much less think of buying it to rehab it.  When someone finally did buy it, they went through 2 dumpsters pulling all of the interior finishes, drywall and subfloor out in order to get rid of the smell.

So yes, that picture is real, and some people truly are disgusting.