An open letter to Blizzard Entertainment

Ladies and gentlemen of Blizzard Entertainment,

You do not know me. I do not really know you, either. But given that I pay a lot in order to partake of a product you make that you clearly put many hours of tireless effort into, I dare say that you know even less about me than I do you. And of course, I am just one customer out of what you claim to be millions worldwide.

Mists Of Pandaria went live. Hoo… rah…

I will tell you this much right off the bat, in case you have not already noticed it or this is your first visit here (in which case, welcome): I am not a fan of Blizzard Entertainment or the stories they put into their products. I have found that the Horde’s leaders mainly consist of dickheads with whom Blizzard play a game of seeing how much obnoxious, arrogant shit they can get away with whilst maintaining slavish devotion from fanboys. I am finding the current implementations of the game so irritating in so many ways that I am starting to feel that Dave Kosak should be fired. So with that frame of reference, let us explore my opinions of the latest World Of Warcraft expansion, Mists Of Pandaria.

I adopted a Gryphon Hatchling.

As much as I gripe about the business and programming practises of the software company known as Blizzard Entertainment, I have to hand it to them where marketing skills and revenue stream diversity are concerned. Like any good company in a deregulated economy, Blizzard are well aware that they cannot make anywhere near the profit they do if they restrict their trade solely to software. So novels, keyrings with authenticators, novelties based on the games, and even digital pieces that can be added to the games, are offered in their online store.

World Of Warcraft is having another Patch Day. In other words, bend over!

I have mentioned it before, but like a lot of obsessive rejects with nothing better to do, I play World Of Warcraft a lot. And a pretty world-changing event, at least within the scope of the game, occurred a couple of days ago now. Yes, it was expansion-patch day.

More about building the guild.

So yes, I managed to fill out about 2600 or more words about my dealings in a computer game that I do not think a whole lot of for various reasons. And now I am going to fill out some more. Do not worry, I am not going to go as much into why I dislike the game or why I bother to play it this time. I am simply going to offer a few reflections concerning what has changed since I last wrote.

The things that people in the World Of Warcraft believe.

World Of Warcraft, even in the face of peaking and declining subscription numbers, has more players than any other online multiplayer game that exists. At one point, the count was said to be eleven million players. Whilst this is hardly a large slice of the total world population, it is a lot compared to prior videogames that have made the news. However, when attempting to start the game for the first time, a lot of players tend to feel lost or confused. The following, therefore, is a guide to how to get along with players who fill the various “roles” in the game.

Hobbling, a reflection about feeling dragged backward.

As I have said in this and other places, I play World Of Warcraft a fair bit. Not as much as I did at one point, but enough that it has an impact on what little ability I do have to carry out other tasks in my life. Not that I give a rat’s bottom about that part, but there is a point to this that I have started to reflect on recently.