Website Moving

I got a wild hair today to move my website and change the name around. If you are looking for newer posts, please find me at The Gaming Goob. Please swing by and tell me what you think.

I'll probably leave this site up for a while longer before I remove it. All the posts here are now imported to the site there.

While I Was Away

While I have time, I had two things to share. Really, it's more of one thing to share and a question. First, I had funky graphic lag in War. I'm reading a lot of people have but, mine was really bad and it wasn't just in War so it was at least partially in my machine. I think that's fixed now but, I wanted to share this funky screenshot:

I know it's hard to tell via this screenshot but, it really looks like this guy belongs in a Tim Burton film. Edward Floppyhands or something like that.

Anyways, now on to my question. Sorry this may be a bit of a back story.

In a nutshell, while I was out of EQ2 drama unfolded between my EQ2 guild and our alliance. Both guild leaders, my guild leaders wife and the raid leader were in a chat with a (in my opinion) well known guild's leader. They were talking about the well known guild joining our alliance. (If any of this is making sense).

So, what happens is the current alliance guild, has an officer that wants into the chat. They let him in. That officer in the alliance guild starts bad mouthing my guild. And he continues bad mouthing us for quite some time (he was allegedly drunk).

Next day he apologized but my guild leader's weren't hearing it at the moment. Then that same guild officer of the alliance guild called my guild members into the alliance guild chat, spent 5 minutes apologizing to us, then proceded to single out people to let them know "what they were doing wrong." Which I am told lasted 20 minutes.

Honestly, I wasn't there for any of this and it's all hear-say to me. However, when you have a guild full of people all saying the same thing, I'm going to tend to believe them.

When the alliance guild leader was asked, "Well are you going to let your officer be like this?" The response has been "What do you want me to do, I can't stop him from saying anything."

My take on that response is going to be, no you can't stop a guild member from saying anything, but you can stop him from saying it as a representative of your guild. Am I wrong that part of a guild leaders responsibility is to make sure their guild member's follow and adhere to their rules and regulations?

After all of that jazz, more drama unfolded however, I think at that point it hit the broad side of ridiculous with the same one member of the alliance guild. I'm not even going to go into that part because, it's too insane to repeat.

From my understanding, communication between the two guilds are fairly silent. But the alliance is still there. So over all, your the leader of a guild. You have a responsibility to your guild, where do you draw the line? When do you stop allowing guild members to be treated poorly? And where's your line in the sand drawn for an alliance to step across for you to sever ties (in this case what I always considered strong ties)with them completely?

Still Waiting

D2D still hasn't updated my ticket :-\. They really have to hours of operations and a contact number. This is ridicoulous.

All I can do is make a bunch of assumptions. I assume, my ticket made at 4:57 PST, was at the close of their support time. I am assuming that if it gets answered at all over the weekend it'll be after 10 am PST today. More than likely though, I'll be SOL.

EA's phone number was a bust and I just got to hear the same hold music for roughly an hour before I couldn't take any more of it. Both the wife and I kept singing "FIRE AWAY, FIRE AWAY" which was the lyrics that were repeating over and over.

As a long shot I had a buddy talk to an ingame GM. The GM responded quickly to the petition but basically said I was SOL.

Looks like I'll have to go back and spend this weekend in EQ2. umm....yea? So happy Monday my issue should be fixed, of course, that's my busy day so I won't get to test it untill Tuesday :-\.

Woe Is Me

Sigh. So work was busy today, which means, I didn't even break out my laptop. I wish I would have. Mythic bumping up the day that they were doing away with the beta codes kind of messed me up.



Technically the issue wasn't Mythic. Technically the issue is with Direct2Drive. I ordered 2 copies of the game from them. One copy early enough to get me into open beta and the second copy on the 18th.



What happened is D2D only sent me my beta code and head start code but, I didn't think anything of it, I was playing right? Then we bought my wife a copy of the game and they mailed her out her game key. So, when I got home, I found my account inactive. No big deal, D2D has a big notice on how to get your game key on their website.



So I follow their instructions and they email me my wife's cd key. YIKES. I tried to follow the same instructions on the download I got for my wife, and same cd key was sent. Since D2D doesn't offer any way to contact them on thier website, I had to create a ticket. 4:57 pm PST is noted on their ticket. I'm assuming everyone left work there at 5 PST. I still haven't had any update on it.

Then, I tried to call Mythic to plead my case with them. After an hour and twenty minutes on hold (speaker phone, I'm a professional) I gave up.

My money is D2D offices aren't open untill Monday (the day I don't get to log in) so Tuesday, I hopefully will be back in some WAAAGH!!!

On a brighter note, I think booting into safemode to uninstall my display adapters and reloading them may have fixed my lag issues. 48 Fps in SQ.

YAAARRRRR!!!

Shiver me timbers! Believe it or not, today, is Talk Like a Pirate Day. So, matey's don't be a squiffy, bone up on yer pirate lingo, and have some fun.

Or, you could always disregard and go about your day as normal. I guess it's a personal choice really.

WAR Emotes

Found this list of emote's off a forum site. Haven't got to try any of them yet.

/agree
/bow
/beckon
/beg
/belch
/bored
/burp
/bye
/charge
/cheer
/cheers
/chicken
/clap
/cower
/cry
/dance
/disagree
/drunk
/flex
/frown
/glare
/gloat
/grumble
/halt
/happy
/hi
/howl
/impatient
/insult
/intimidate
/juggle
/laugh
/lol
/mad
/no
/pig
/point
/pray
/preen
/primp
/rez
/rude
/salute
/scratch
/scream
/showoff
/shout
/shrug
/shy
/smile
/stomp
/talk
/taunt
/think
/waaagh
/weep
/yawn
/yell
/yes

I also know /special is a fun emote. High Elves strum a harp, Order does a puppet show and Dwarves smoke a pipe. I'll play around with these tonight and try to verify the list.

BIG MISTAKE!!!

SOE, in their infinite wisdom, has announced they are going to make it easier to level from 20-70. My opinion is this is a smooth move Ex-Lax style. Perhaps, when the next expansion maybe. As for now though, with their handful of zone's available, I really think your average, short attention span person is just going to put the game down.

Please take note here. In my humble opinion, SOE, with EQ1, shot themselves in the foot trying to put out an expansion every 6 months for a while and never went back to clean their mess. Here is a good example of them shooting themselves in the foot with EQ2.

Looking for your WoW killer? Let SOE run them for a bit. HA! I just made me laugh. I kid, I kid. No, what I actually meant was, WoW will end up being it's own WoW killer. WoW + Time = WoW Killer. Official Crookshankz odds 80:1