I was never one for those pay-to-play types of games.
Not to mention that I've heard plenty of horror stories about experiences.
Tantrumy, immature mods that belittle, degrade and torment players for one. I had a friend from work who played that game. The bane of his existence was from a mod. Apparently, the mod kept killing him over and over again. For what reason, he didn't specify but I thought that was absolutely rediculous.
What makes it worse is that situations like that were not isolated. From what I hear, Blizzard needed Mods but didn't want to really shell out the cash to pay them(gee. A corp doing that??? Nah. Never happen). So Blizzard, instead, chose to give them uncontested power over the game.
Let's break this down: You give some lonely pathetic sad sack with a yard of computer programming skills and no where NEAR enough brains to question a corporation on why they are never going to get paid, but dosen't really matter due to the fact that they have abso-fucking-lutely NO social life what soever, complete and absolute control over an entire computer animated world and all of its denzines Also adding to the mix that the Mod in question is more than likely also still keeping his deep-seeded rage from all the girls in highschool that pointed and laughed at him on a daily basis shoved to the very pit of his crushed and twisted soul, and you have got a SERIOUS problem on your hands...I gues since I put it like that, I can now understand why some of their Mod act the way they do.
Apparently, there is also some rumor(perhapse the players can clue me in on this) that hacked items are starting to seep into the WOW world. Just like the first Diablo.
ooooohhhhh. But it gets worse! Today, a friend of mine told me that there is now a new website coming up from the WOW world....It's called "*****s of Warcraft."
It is basically a pornography site depicting only pictures of naked female characters from the game. All CGI. As in generated images of in game graphics. That's right. If you've ever played the game and have seriously fantasised about a particular pixie you've crossed paths with in your intrepid adventures...NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO SEE HER WITH HER CLOTHES OFF!!!!
Fuck.
Lots of good times in that game though. It helps when you know a bunch of people there in real life, and don't have to put up with the random crazies that come out of the woodwork.
