Heinz57
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Having lived in "remote areas" for the past two years, its easy for games to slip by me - so I recently tried World of Warcraft...while I wait for the Real Warhammer Online to get online sometime in 2007. I probably should have waited. Indeed in relative terms, the wait would not be so painful as it was to simply get the darned game installed and play "WOW". WOW can relate to a lot of things...like
WOW - 30 minutes to install the game. OH, but wait, WOW - have to download a 570 Mb patch. OH, no...wait, after you download that patch, you need to download another 690 Mb patch. WOW...they have Managers leading software projects that don't check which version you are using before recommending you to download patches you don't need. So...just to play the game...well...that was a quest of epic proportions.
So...Finally, after 1.2 Gigabytes of download...I was ready to play. And in summary, World of Warcraft is a way to waste a lot of time in a continuous process of running from one area to and repeatedly bashing creatures from Greater Goretusk Boars to Shadowhide Gnolls....and rabbits. Little variety in terms of quests. There are some good team players...but WOW - there are a lot of 7 and 8 year olds on there.
Warcraft has millions of fans...and a lot of players, but WOW they're customer service is slow - ranging from 2 - 24 hour responses to e-mails...which wouldn't be that bad, but apparently whenever they have a problem with the software, they have a problem with their web site being deluged with traffic....So, it involved 8 hours just getting to a point of finding an e-mail address of a customer service POC. And, of all the web sites I visit, WOW-Europe offers the slowest download occasionally freezing my IE...that might be my problem...but....
If I had to do it over again, would I play World of Warcraft or would I want to jam a hot poker in my eye repeatedly...I would choose the hot poker in the eye...
So, I continue my wait for World of WARHAMMER...for the REAL WAAAAAGGGGHHH!!!!
WOW - 30 minutes to install the game. OH, but wait, WOW - have to download a 570 Mb patch. OH, no...wait, after you download that patch, you need to download another 690 Mb patch. WOW...they have Managers leading software projects that don't check which version you are using before recommending you to download patches you don't need. So...just to play the game...well...that was a quest of epic proportions.
So...Finally, after 1.2 Gigabytes of download...I was ready to play. And in summary, World of Warcraft is a way to waste a lot of time in a continuous process of running from one area to and repeatedly bashing creatures from Greater Goretusk Boars to Shadowhide Gnolls....and rabbits. Little variety in terms of quests. There are some good team players...but WOW - there are a lot of 7 and 8 year olds on there.
Warcraft has millions of fans...and a lot of players, but WOW they're customer service is slow - ranging from 2 - 24 hour responses to e-mails...which wouldn't be that bad, but apparently whenever they have a problem with the software, they have a problem with their web site being deluged with traffic....So, it involved 8 hours just getting to a point of finding an e-mail address of a customer service POC. And, of all the web sites I visit, WOW-Europe offers the slowest download occasionally freezing my IE...that might be my problem...but....
If I had to do it over again, would I play World of Warcraft or would I want to jam a hot poker in my eye repeatedly...I would choose the hot poker in the eye...
So, I continue my wait for World of WARHAMMER...for the REAL WAAAAAGGGGHHH!!!!