I hate the badge system in World of Warcraft. It’s the result of an issue Blizzard saw in The Burning Crusade expansion. But was it really an issue to begin with?
The issue was that plenty of statistics showed that only the very tip of the iceberg that is the WoW playerbase got to beat the [...]
Category: World of Warcraft
The problem with badges
May 15, 2010
WoW And I Are Done Professionally
December 3, 2009
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Like the title suggest (thanks Christian Bale), I’m done with World of Warcraft. But what is different from the other three or four times I have quit, this time I think it’s serious. And what is more, I think I’m done with MMOs as well.
MMOs are just too time-consuming. It requires you to devote all your [...]
Woe to Thunder Clap
October 24, 2009
I understand that when you play a class you often find yourself glancing at a player of another class but the same role, and dreamingly start to wish you also had ability X, Z, and Y. “I would give up my X for their Y!” you will shout with longing sadness in your voice and do a [...]
Lowering the bar – to the ground, baby!
October 7, 2009
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I got this horrible feeling in my gut that Blizzard is doing this simply because of statistics. It was shown back in The Burning Crusade that only a tiny, tiny percentage of the playerbase got to enter the highest raid instances and clear them. The percentage was way higher than in vanilla WoW, but it [...]
100% More Bovine
October 6, 2009
And with just a wave of the wand by the gnome wizard, the beautiful human warrior disappeared from sight in a cloud of smoke. When the smoke settled in her stead stood a huge creature, looking what a cow would look like if they could walk on two legs and roll a warrior. Two huge horns crested its skull, and [...]