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RavenPaine
RaVeN Alliance
#1 - 2015-05-15 02:22:18 UTC  |  Edited by: RavenPaine
World of Warcraft announced that they have banned 100,000 accounts today. For boting.

Beware:
Incoming WoW players is eminent.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#2 - 2015-05-15 02:26:15 UTC
"Let the booting begin!"

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Dradis Aulmais
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2015-05-15 02:26:23 UTC
ISD annoyed locks thread for being in the wrong forum and for not being about Eve.

Dradis Aulmais, Federal Attorney Number 54896

Free The Scope Three
RavenPaine
RaVeN Alliance
#4 - 2015-05-15 02:30:55 UTC
Dradis Aulmais wrote:
ISD annoyed locks thread for being in the wrong forum and for not being about Eve.


General Discussion. check
About EVE. check
RavenPaine
RaVeN Alliance
#5 - 2015-05-15 02:32:44 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
"Let the booting begin!"


Funny, and fixed Cool
Freudian slip?
Ares Desideratus
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2015-05-15 02:32:46 UTC
It's only a six month ban. A lot of WoW players are too brain dead to even try Eve, let alone play it or get into it for a significant period of time. I don't mean to be judgmental, it's just the truth.

I would definitely welcome some World of Warcraft players though. The more the merrier.
Kaelynne Rose
WTB Somalians
#7 - 2015-05-15 02:32:57 UTC
Im going to recruit as many as possible into my "mining corp"
Reverse awox safari them all
Then grief them all into quiting within 30 days
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#8 - 2015-05-15 02:41:54 UTC
RavenPaine wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
"Let the booting begin!"


Funny, and fixed Cool
Freudian slip?


It was an old Simpsons reference, actually.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#9 - 2015-05-15 03:17:05 UTC
Moved to OOPE.

Also weeeeeeee I'm not locking it weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

ISD Dorrim Barstorlode

Senior Lead

Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)

Interstellar Services Department
Le Moineau
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2015-05-15 08:34:30 UTC
Ex wow player here.

After playing EVE for a while now, there is no way in hades I'm ever going back.

When you get a tast of being a lion instead of being a lamb one can never really go back. One person I met in wow once told me, right before I tried Eve the first time, that eve players where a bunch of evil unsocialized psychopaths. I found that to be untrue. I found that while evil and psychopathic we are not unsocialized, we get along with others just fine in a ' tribal headhunter ' sort of way lol
Falken Falcon
#11 - 2015-05-15 09:08:09 UTC
Le Moineau wrote:
One person I met in wow once told me, right before I tried Eve the first time, that eve players where a bunch of evil unsocialized psychopaths. I found that to be untrue. I found that while evil and psychopathic we are not unsocialized, we get along with others just fine in a ' tribal headhunter ' sort of way lol

Quote of the day right there.

Aye, Sea Turtles
Jade Blackwind
#12 - 2015-05-15 09:09:17 UTC
Le Moineau wrote:
we get along with others just fine in a ' tribal headhunter ' sort of way lol


*raises a blood-covered tomahawk*

<- 80 Troll Hunter, Argent Dawn server, quit after Cataclysm.

Amusingly, WoW was once quite a hardcore game, much like classical Everquest. But It had slowly nerfed itself beyond even a theme park. It's just... a meaningless cartoon now. For what it had done to itself and to the whole MMORPG genre it should painfully die in a fire.
Reiisha
#13 - 2015-05-15 10:44:04 UTC
Jade Blackwind wrote:
Le Moineau wrote:
we get along with others just fine in a ' tribal headhunter ' sort of way lol


*raises a blood-covered tomahawk*

<- 80 Troll Hunter, Argent Dawn server, quit after Cataclysm.

Amusingly, WoW was once quite a hardcore game, much like classical Everquest. But It had slowly nerfed itself beyond even a theme park. It's just... a meaningless cartoon now. For what it had done to itself and to the whole MMORPG genre it should painfully die in a fire.


Personally, i think WoW was best in TBC - Vanilla was a mess, looking back on it. However, i do look at this with rose-tinted glasses and i have to ask myself (and you): Do you think that because of nostalgia, or are you confusing an obtuse grind with a good game? Because lets be honest, that's all that WoW was at the time.

The one thing i don't like about WoW after MoP at least is the lack of real choice (though that was less obviously the case before that), highlighting the shortcomings that were there already.

If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all...
Avaelica Kuershin
Paper Cats
#14 - 2015-05-15 11:55:22 UTC
RavenPaine wrote:
World of Warcraft announced that they have banned 100,000 accounts today. For boting.

Beware:
Incoming WoW players is eminent.


The sort who get suspended for botting in PvP coming here... could be interesting times. Evil
Valkin Mordirc
#15 - 2015-05-15 12:25:52 UTC
RavenPaine wrote:
World of Warcraft announced that they have banned 100,000 accounts today. For boting.

Beware:
Incoming WoW players is eminent.



Also Beware
6 GD Griefing threadnaughts inbound
#DeleteTheWeak
Jade Blackwind
#16 - 2015-05-15 15:08:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Jade Blackwind
Reiisha wrote:
However, i do look at this with rose-tinted glasses and i have to ask myself (and you): Do you think that because of nostalgia, or are you confusing an obtuse grind with a good game?
Tedious grindy game mechanics were pretty much the industry standard of late 90s - early 2000s. Just like shiny and accessible themeparks with little to no learning curve aimed at casual audience are the standard of early 2010s. WoW dominated the MMO market during most of that decade, and that evolution is almost entirely WoW's fault.

Is there rose-tinted glasses involved? Certainly. Still, a long and hard grind at least gives some satisfaction if (when) you finally succeed. Kicking an one-hit cardboard villain in a virtual Disneyland and being showered with useless gold for that "epic victory" gives none. So I'd prefer former if given the choice between two. But does tedium equals good game? Of course no.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#17 - 2015-05-15 17:49:16 UTC
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode wrote:
Moved to OOPE.

Also weeeeeeee I'm not locking it weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


Not the ISD we need, but the ISD we deserve.