Road to Nowhere
May. 30th, 2011 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianDear Blizzard,
Your thing where all the data can download as people are playing is great and wonderful. Really it is. However, I have one tiny, tiny bone to pick about the whole thing. See, I just got done with a whole metric buttload of questing in and around Thunder Bluff, and got sent to Orgrimmar. The issue?
Well, Orgrimmar doesn't actually seem to be there, right now.
Do you have any idea how disconcerting it is to hop a manticore only to find that half of what you're flying over is empty space dotted with occasional monsters that appear to be floating in mid-air? Never mind the city, once you get there... I mean, shit. I'm standing in empty space that does contain some NPCs but I wasn't sure there how the hell I was supposed to do anything until the damn city had loaded and got so freaked out I logged out. Or rather, tried to.
It wouldn't let me. I had to Vulcan-nerve-pinch the fucker just to get it off the damn 'people floating in a nowhere-land' picture. If it's a choice between standing there staring at my character floating in mid-air, probably getting cat-called by some of the fucktards that proliferate in all MMOs and generally feeling like an idiot, and staring at a loading screen for half an hour until it decides to recognise that Orgrimmar actually exists and I am in it ... I'll vote for the loading screen, kthnx.
So in short ... is there any way that your lovely software could figure out where the character in question was likely to go and then ... y'know, load that next? That'd be awesome, thanks.
Regards,
A very confused Tauren Shaman on Bloodhoof.
That said, I've been having no end of fun with this for the past two hours. I finally figured out fishing! I was kind of blanking on where the 'Professions' tab was. I eventually found it and now I can actually craft. Which is kind of awesome, thanks. Now I just need to save up enough silver to actually get past Journeyman in Skinning. And probably upgrade my gear. On the other hand ... fishing and skinning and cooking and whee! (Yes, I have more fun levelling crafts in these things than I do some of the actual killing bits. I'm very, very weird.)
...What lives in Orgrimmar, anyway? I'm ... guessing ogres?
Your thing where all the data can download as people are playing is great and wonderful. Really it is. However, I have one tiny, tiny bone to pick about the whole thing. See, I just got done with a whole metric buttload of questing in and around Thunder Bluff, and got sent to Orgrimmar. The issue?
Well, Orgrimmar doesn't actually seem to be there, right now.
Do you have any idea how disconcerting it is to hop a manticore only to find that half of what you're flying over is empty space dotted with occasional monsters that appear to be floating in mid-air? Never mind the city, once you get there... I mean, shit. I'm standing in empty space that does contain some NPCs but I wasn't sure there how the hell I was supposed to do anything until the damn city had loaded and got so freaked out I logged out. Or rather, tried to.
It wouldn't let me. I had to Vulcan-nerve-pinch the fucker just to get it off the damn 'people floating in a nowhere-land' picture. If it's a choice between standing there staring at my character floating in mid-air, probably getting cat-called by some of the fucktards that proliferate in all MMOs and generally feeling like an idiot, and staring at a loading screen for half an hour until it decides to recognise that Orgrimmar actually exists and I am in it ... I'll vote for the loading screen, kthnx.
So in short ... is there any way that your lovely software could figure out where the character in question was likely to go and then ... y'know, load that next? That'd be awesome, thanks.
Regards,
A very confused Tauren Shaman on Bloodhoof.
That said, I've been having no end of fun with this for the past two hours. I finally figured out fishing! I was kind of blanking on where the 'Professions' tab was. I eventually found it and now I can actually craft. Which is kind of awesome, thanks. Now I just need to save up enough silver to actually get past Journeyman in Skinning. And probably upgrade my gear. On the other hand ... fishing and skinning and cooking and whee! (Yes, I have more fun levelling crafts in these things than I do some of the actual killing bits. I'm very, very weird.)
...What lives in Orgrimmar, anyway? I'm ... guessing ogres?
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Date: 2011-05-30 03:56 am (UTC)Yes, Ogres live in Orgrimmar. The trolls were there for awhile, but they got their own island now. Much like the gnomes who used to live in Iron Forge but got their own shit now. There's the occaisonal Blood Mage, Goblin, Tauren or Forsaken hanging out, but for the most part, Ogres.
It's too bad you're over seas. I would dearly love some one to play with that ISN'T my husband. LOL
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Date: 2011-05-30 03:57 am (UTC)Derp.
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Date: 2011-05-30 11:29 am (UTC)The occasional blood mage, hee. If I see Jowan or Gerard duPuis or that Quentin arsehole wandering around Orgrimmar, I'm going to Hoof Stomp him into oblivion.
(I should make a blood elf mage named Jowan. Just for lulz.)