Be Wary, Nazis come in various forms... Some worse than others...

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Here's the situation... Its not serious, but HEY, those hos are in my way...

has disabled character transfers in World of Warcraft cause there is soo much traffic that i guess they are backordered on requests... They will turn it on when they feel like it, or whatever. A staff lawyer probably wrote it for em. Anyway, heres the serious part. Characters are only allowed to transfer to the servers that Blizzard tells you to. Period.

So if you are on a high population server, and you want to go to a low population, despite what choices you may have available to you, you go where they tell you to. And to tell you the truth, im not suprised.

This goes back some years, back to E3 2001.

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I went to their booth to ask them some techinical questions about Warcraft 3 before it was released. I had interest to see if they were actually going to change the design of their game to show some actual innovation. When i got there, i actually saw a game that drive the Real Time Stragety in the direction i was hoping to see it go. For once, you troops had actual value. Just throwing your forces at the enemy would be a harmful tatic in the longrun. Halleluiah and Holy Shit!!! INNOVATION!! FROM BLIZZARD, YES! The suits finally got of whoever was in the design team and let em actually change things!!! There is hope for them yet!! Never mind the fact that the sound engineer was upset that i didnt care for his sound effects... (bump that jerky, a kazoo in the right moment is all the sound I need... :-) )

But sometime later, once the suits saw the game, i guess they ate some chicken or whitefish or something, cause they YANKED on the reins of the company and make the entire frikin place CHOKE!!! They must have yelled, "Don's screw with the money you artistic bastards!!!" In the end, they just re-released warcraft 2 with a new graphics engine and balance for less troops on the screen. Oh, they added 2 new forces. Now,dont think im completely blowing off their efforts, the game is decent, but im not payin em a full 54 bucks for the game. That would suggest they made a new one. The just made an old one prettier and added a little code. Thats called an expansion pack. Just 20 bucks from my wallet there Blizzard...


Now to the campus of the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona. Add about 1 1/2 years of time. A Blizzard headhunter comes to the campus to tell us of the wonders of Blizzard. Then he shows some teaser info about World of Warcraft. Yay, we havent seen that before. This is a gaming school, dont waste our time. WE know all about teaser info. (Put that many game associated hackers and coders, and hard core gamers in one building with ready and free access to the internet, you will get any info you want eventually... :-) )

Then he asks for questions... Now i know hes probably just a paid administrative puke, but i couldnt help myself to strike a blow at the self proclaimed god of gaming that is blizzard. So i grapped the nearest explosive device i could find, ran up to himm screaming, "Jihad against the oppressor!" and asked this question in front of the entire populous of the school, even the Blizzard Zealots in the audience...

The question block he asked for was oriented to Starcraft sequels...

My question was, "Are you guys just going to slap the Starcraft code in the Warcraft 3 engine, add an army or two, and call it a new game like you did with Warcraft 3?"

"Kneel before me Son of Jor-el, for I am ZOD!!"

The audience was silent. And i reveled in the sacrifice I offered to the Gods of Gaming. I left shortly after that, there was no point in me staying after the blow has been struck, that would just taunt him unnecessarily, andd wheres the fun in that.

Anyway, to get back to the main point...

So im not suprised by their totalitarian way of restricting what server you go to. Sure, they could just say its to increase performance, but they could allow to go to any server that is labeled low-population. So because fo there medelling, I cant reunite without sacrificing about 1 month in game/hours spent in WoW If i want to rejoin some buddies I have rediscovered.

DAMN YOU, SON OF JOR-EL!!! DAMN YOU TO HECK!!!!

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Aah, that feels much better. :-P