Wanted to drop an interesting topic into the debate forum which im sure some overly active mod will be tempted to move 3 or 4 times... so please hear me out first :P
With figureprints being mentioned on the front page, i decided to share my lament with everyone here. I recently entered (and lost) the december 21st drawing to purchase a figureprint for my wife. Oh well, i figure i can try again in 3 weeks so its not that big of a deal, right?
Well i thought wrong.
One of my guildies who WON the figureprint drawing ended up selling his figureprint account to another guildie for 50 dollars. WoW! So, someone just paid 50 dollars to get the right to pay another 100 dollars to have his character printed?
This to me, sounds very... ebay?
When i went to check ebay (just to see what the going rate was) i found that there was nothing. Nothing? Yes nothing. Nothing stored under figure prinnt, warcraft figureprint, etc. Upon looking into this further, i discovered that it had become another one of Ebay's BLOCKED items.
Great, why?
What now?
It seems odd first of all that people would sell their *golden ticket* and secondly that ebay refuses to cash in on organizing the fiasco. I figured they allowed murloc pets and other random Warcraft items to be sold, but why block this?
Has anyone ever looked into Ebay's warcraft bad list ? or how Blizzard/friends have so much control over ebay? (i know that one kid selling his leveling guide got blocked thanks to blizzard, but thats about it)
Oh, and character sales were banned too... forgot
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Jesus, they cost 100 bucks?
Not only that, the slots are by lottery (unless you're willing to drop $5K on a laptop.)
You get a sculpt of your character in a pose of your choice - the actual face/hairstyle of your character and whatever gear you want on him.
Information, please.
Well, only the gear that Blizz says you own according to their Armory website.
there are 3 ways to get *in line*
1. Buy a special edition dell laptop that comes with a *golden ticket*
2. Know someone who works at blizzard (just like how i got my blizzcon tickets)
3. Enter a *random* lottery at www.figureprint.com . You can enter under a *new account* which can be generated with ANY active email address and NOT a world of warcraft account. So, people have entered using like 20 different gmail accounts and improved their chances of winning. Needless to say, these lotto winners just resell their tickets to the highest bidder.
Personally, i think blizzard/figureprints fumbled the ball on this one
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Okay, they have drawings for the slots to have figurines made, mainly because they have very limited capacity to make the things (they use a 3D fabbing process to create them.) So you have to sign up on their website for a drawing.
Or, you can buy Dell's $4.5K WoW behemoth lappy, which comes with a "Golden Ticket" - a guaranteed figurine. (And at that price, it damn well BETTER be.)
I'll bet they will, as soon as they've wringed the suckers for as much money as they can get off the Dell laptops.
Then they'd damn better be caching stuff in case I happen to be a male tauren wearing a wedding dress and santa hat while they check it for the sculpt. :P
They are. It's just that they're relatively new, so their production is...limited. Hence the lottery for slots to buy one.
It's called "business as usual." I don't see why this is even mildly surprising.
Well, in part. It's also that this is actually pretty new tech, so production is honestly limited.
Oh, here's a pic of one of the end figurines:
they are using a pressed-paper 3d modeling rapid proto-typer like most manufacturing industries use to mock up parts now for display purposes
on average (ranging the cheap machines) it takes about 2-4 hours to layer out a model of this size and complexity (this was back when i saw the technology years ago, not sure how advanced it is now)
Now, add to the fact that i believe reading somewhere that these things are hand painted, and you can see why it takes so much time to get one.
From the point where you are selected from the lottery, you have a week or so to *lock in* your order (outfit your character, transfer it and pay cash money) then they will complete your model with in 90 days.
WOW!
Btw, waiting to see if someone wears their murloc suit and prints it
I KNOW I WOULD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This?
I am too lazy to go look it up somewhere on the WOW fan art site is a Korean scupt of a female paladin in tier 2 that is pretty good
If I really wanted one of the figures I would make my own since my warlock looks like a clown in her current gear compared to how cool Felheart was
I might go try it and see how it goes just making the female undead body would be a pain
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If you ask me I kinda prefer the cutsey little styleized clay model.
*Picture grabbed from the MMO forum WoW chat thread.
And than, blizzard has only been 'milking money' since WoW. Before that they created a long string of games of exceptional quaility that have blown the competition out of the water. They were notorious for delaying game released until the product was to their specifications - not churning out games for cash.
Hah hah. I got as far as "Windows Vista" and closed the browser window.
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You mean a generic feral druid in cat form? They all use the same model. (Well, one of two models, anyway.)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It's the same picture.
Yeah i know its generic, but that dancing cat was quite cute, the nelf at least.
Welcome to 2008. Every new computer will have Windows Vista on it, and people will eventually learn to cope with it and stop bitching, like they had to when Windows XP came out six years ago.
Except there is a lot more than an IBM ThinkPad and a $5000 3D printer that doesn't handpaint the damn figures to that laptop.
HAHAHA YOU'RE SO FUNNY. :roll: That's the Microsoft operating system right now on new machines. It's a Dell, what did you expect? They aren't Apple so it's not running Leopard. WoW runs on Vista.
I'm sorry, but I've played with Vista and it simply blows. The military is not upgrading to it, so all threats that "everything coming out from 2008 on will only run on Vista" are BS. :P
Thank god we don't measure ourselves by the slow-as-molasses IT adoption of the US military. No one ever said everything coming out from 2008 on blah blah blah rhetoric bullshit was happening. It's just really shallow to see the pre-installed operating system (that you're more than welcome to change once it's in your possession) and go "lolNO".
Aside from the red with no comment, can you show me where someone said that? I simply said that Vista is the operating system Microsoft is currently offering.
No one said it here. If I had a dime for every time I heard it though...
But enough thread derailing, I'm done.
Also, consider that in my unit at least (and we were the Army's IT headquarters in Germany) we did not upgrade to Windows 2000 until 2004. Upgrading to Win2k3 took a relatively short 2 years.
No, not every new computer will have Windows Vista on it. The corporate world is very slow to adopt Vista, and the system builders are agrain free to preinstall XP and maintain their bulk discounts. Vista is a shitty OS for everything but DX10 gaming (and DX10 is itself pretty underwhelming) so your "Welcome to 2008" comment is pretty douchelicious. Vista is the Windows Millenium of the new millenium.
jeepguy's comment was silly for a different reason: Yes, it would be logical for Dell to give the buyer the option of getting XP or Vista preinstalled. However, that would mean we're expecting a $4500 Warcraft-branded gaming laptop, a white elephant already completely devoid of any logical reason to exist, to offer a logical choice of operating system. That's like asking the Mad Hatter politely for decaf.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
So when I fix some of the current problems and I can go to a hobby shop I shall start
Same for my warlock. It was amazing to see the jump in how gear looked going from level 60 into BC. I went from having a nice looking set of gear that more or less matched to wearing a weird hat, a bronze / brown shirt, and some hideous purple and green pants if I remember correctly. Around 65+ my gear started to more or less look good again, and now I'm in frozen shadoweave and a mix of blues and epics.
going through BC, i was one of those people who refused to upgrade my t1/2/3 mix (2 pieces of t1, 3 pieces of t2, 4 pieces of t3) because i just couldnt stand to break the set bonuses
finally, at level 70, i started making the epic crafted gear and using some of the high end quest blues that made sense... then progressed to kara gear and down the yellow brick road
i dont think leveling up everyone should be so fast to use the first fagatronic green that is minorly better when set bonuses are involved... it fixes things like this
btw, my alt (extremely less geared) still used his crap ass level 60 marshal shoulders (old skool pvp ones) til level 70 due to there being no decent alternative
boo blizzard itemization team!
as for figureprinting... if i get a hold of a golden ticket or code, im actually kicking myself for wanting to print my gnome warlock up in her t5 warlock gear instead of t6. Dont get me wrong, the t6 looks cooler (4 pieces btw) but the t5 shoulders on a gnome still look amazing
shrug, oh well
(I don't play WoW so I don't understand the references ;-))