I cannot help thee with that

[Jayce]

I meant that guy should cancel. Instead of sobbing about it, if it really bothers him that much.

I totally agree with that. I have no patience for people who endlessly sob about their pet theory of how <insert gaming company here> ruined their lives.

My point was that your flip solution of "don't like it? quit!" isn't quite as easy as it is in other areas.  

There are other things to do, though, fortunately, like do something else for awhile in the game, or get some fresh air (Heaven forfend).  But apparently whining is more fun for some people.

[DarkDryad]

Eh...this is turning out like every other MMORPG release. Been there, done that.

Content that was promised not delivered, delivered way late, or in poor fashion...surprising!

Well it would help if there were people who did something besides race to the end game as fast as humanly possible for bragging rights as well.

[CmdrSlack]

Eh...this is turning out like every other MMORPG release. Been there, done that.

Content that was promised not delivered, delivered way late, or in poor fashion...surprising!

Well it would help if there were people who did something besides race to the end game as fast as humanly possible for bragging rights as well.

It would help because then people wouldn't know the endgame didn't work or was non-existent?

[El Gallo]

I never really cared that EQs endgame was always (at least post-Velious) a not-nearly finshed, buggy shitfest because I was always at least half an expansion behind the true uberguilders.  By the time I got to the content, it was mostly decent, and I never ricked running out of content ahead of me.  

This shit actually worries me in WoW because I am not actually very far behind them (because of teh content consumption rate) and Blizzard has been slow as shit to patch, much less add new content, in the past.

[Soukyan]

Blizzard has been slow as shit to patch, much less add new content, in the past.

Not shocking in the slightest. We all knew that Blizzard would not be able to keep up with demand (they could still prove me wrong... with my luck, they've got some 20 zone ace up their sleeve that they've managed to keep hush-hush about ;). Hell, I think Turbine is really the only MMOG dev that has ever really kept up with demand and that was only with AC1. At some point, even they were overcome by player demands also.

[HaemishM]

So you think WoW's customer service is woeful?

Let's take a page from a new asshole CS, same as the old asshole CS. My wife has recently gone back to EQ after finishing RE4. Yeah, I know, I mock her for it incessantly, but she enjoys it. So after yesterday's patch, she can't login anymore. Frankly, I'd take that as a good thing, but she goes into their tech support chat room, and is greeted by assloads of other poor sods who can't login either. From completely different servers and stuff. The beleagured CSR's waffle between "I don't know what's wrong" to "It's your ISP... yes, ALL of you."

Same as it ever was.

[SuperPopTart]

lol This is total Crap.


GM #1: Hi. It's on our end. We don't know what's going on. Delete 5 files but nothing more.


GM #2: Hi. Please open ports 1063 - 65,000 and wait. If you try logging in for a solid hour you may actually get ON and oh yes, it is our fault since the patch earlier yesterday.

So..which of these am I supposed to do?


Why the hell did I ever re-up my EQ account? For what reason.

Adddiction. I need help.

/rant ongoing

[Zane0]

It annoys/amuses me that GMs will stun you one way or another by either completely fixing your problem, or being completely useless.  

I wish they'd be more consistent, but you can sometimes get a nice surprise.

[Soukyan]

GM #2: Hi. Please open ports 1063 - 65,000 and wait. If you try logging in for a solid hour you may actually get ON and oh yes, it is our fault since the patch earlier yesterday.

GM_Numbnuts #2: Hi. Please compromise your network security by setting your router to wide fucking open and wait. Don't mind the fact that thousands of trojans can hit you in that range. It's more important that you give yourself a chance at connecting to our shit-tastic product that we label a game in order to keep siphoning cash from your wallet.


But that's just my little poetic interpretation. I would suggest you do neither and wait until they fix what they fucked up. Oh, and demand a pro-rated refund of your monthly fee for every day you are unable to access their service.

[SuperPopTart]

The funny thing is like minutes after posting this, I got in. So maybe someone bought a new hamster for the wheel running the Karana server over in San Diego.  I used to be a Guide for this game twice over, you'd think I'd come to expect and understand this shit fully but noo.

Patch Day on Everquest. A four day event all the 12#!#!#!@#!#! time.


Ahh but at least now I can play, until Guild Wars comes out. Then I'm SO gone.

[Signe]

I had to petition a GM today.  I fell through a rift in time and space and landed dead.  I went to my corpse and and stood right on it but no option to recover popped up.  I went back to where that angel thingy was but it wouldn't speak to me.  I waited for over an hour for a GM but no one turned up.  Am I surprised?  No.  Not one of my 6 petitions have ever been answered, although I have received emails for 3 of them apologising for not helping me.  Whoop.

On a positive note... EB has readjusted their ship date for GW to 3/22.  Yay!

[Calantus]

Oh yeah for sure. When it comes to incessant bitching you really have to sit back and ask yourself if it's worth it. I was saying that the option to leave is a little harder than somewhere else, but I do concede it's not the end of the world. Personally I've never had bad CS on a MMOG that would make me want to quit a game. I've had the runaround for a few minor things, but nothing fun-breaking.

Oh, and when did Haemish marry SuperPopTart?

[Signe]

Oh, and when did Haemish marry SuperPopTart?

July, 2004.  Only took them 7 years, too!  It still makes me misty-eyed.

Sniff.

[Rasix]

All of my petitions have been answered.  Of course, none while I was actually still playing, but none of them were actual do or die situations.

"Orgasmdonor" on Shadowsong is likely enjoying his new GM supplied name.  I probably should have let that one fly just for the irony of it.  Anyone with that kind of in game name probably has never even seen female genetalia that wasn't rendered on their computer.

[Toast]

On Alleria, I was guilded with a guy who had a somewhat objectionable name (Fook).

He was shocked when he logged on one day to find his character renamed to   Delageleril.

If I worked at Blizzard, i would volunteer for renaming duty just to come up with names like that.

[Soukyan]

...genetalia...

genitalia


But hey, as long as you're seeing it, it really doesn't matter how you spell it. ;)

[HaemishM]

I'm pretty sure Rasix has seen the actual thing more than the word, and a damn sight more than the Orgasmdonor had seen either the word or the object.

[Paelos]

I'm pretty sure Rasix has seen the actual thing more than the word, and a damn sight more than the Orgasmdonor had seen either the word or the object.

Depends on what kind you're talking about. I have a feeling that lonely Orgasmdonor gets a good look as his junk quite frequently.

[SuperPopTart]

Oh, and when did Haemish marry SuperPopTart?

July, 2004.  Only took them 7 years, too!  It still makes me misty-eyed.

Sniff.

He waited until I became a virgin again. Ya know, the whole 7 year thing? And really it was more like 2 years in game time.


SIGNE! How have you been, girl? It's a sad place gaming without another female :( Though there are so many in EQ, there are so few just like you.

[Signe]

I still play WoW from time to time, although mostly everyone has buggered off.  I don't know where they all got to.   Luckily, GW is nearly right around the corner.  Hopefully, I'll remember how to play the damn thing.  I look forward to killing off my friends and family in a game, again.  I'm particularly lethal after laundry.  Maybe we'll use TS and distract them with our chatter.  

Oh, how we'll laugh.

[SuperPopTart]

I still play WoW from time to time, although mostly everyone has buggered off.  I don't know where they all got to.   Luckily, GW is nearly right around the corner.  Hopefully, I'll remember how to play the damn thing.  I look forward to killing off my friends and family in a game, again.  I'm particularly lethal after laundry.  Maybe we'll use TS and distract them with our chatter.  

Oh, how we'll laugh.

We'll set up a time right after you do laundry and I do dishes, we'll log into TS and onto GW and blast everyone away with our witty commentary and playing skills. Yep Mhmmmm.


We shall chortle.

[Dren]

Luckily, GW is nearly right around the corner.  Hopefully, I'll remember how to play the damn thing.

.

Last release date I heard/read was April, 2005.  That's a very big corner.

[Signe]

EB changed their ship date to March, and some have it even earlier.  The April date is SO two days ago!

[schild]

I'm still banking on Tuesday, March 15th.

[Signe]

March 15 sounds reasonable.  Some places seem to have dates in mid February, but that could just be lack of any updating.  I'm seeing nearly all the retailers having different dates, none of which seem to be April anymore.  Bestbuy seems the earliest at 2/5, although you have 2/1 for the deluxe above... which is weird.

[schild]

March 15th is just a guess going on the fact that they haven't announced a March WPE and it's about a month after the "content"-rich February WPE.

[Strazos]

They're releasing it on the Ides of March? How amusing.

Btw, I'll be happy to guild up with all of ya on that one....

"I LONG for COMBAT!!" - Some random WC VO.

[Sky]

March 15. So it will be cool to bash GW around mid-April, then?

So hard to keep track of teh trendey.