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The Four H's of MMOs: Hatred, Happiness, Hope

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  • Beyond NormalBeyond Normal Lord Phender Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Brainleech wrote: »
    My lock picking macro is better and seems to get people to remember I can open them

    Looking for a good time 350 lockpicker looking for work at {location} I'll fiddle my fingers in your box and retrieve the goods

    You cheeky bastard, I'm so stealing that.

    Beyond Normal on
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  • MayGodHaveMercyMayGodHaveMercy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    mastman wrote: »
    Hope: Wotlk makes mutilate no longer require you to be behind people.

    Already done...

    Hope: The most recent changes to Titan's Grip don't stick.

    MayGodHaveMercy on
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  • Beyond NormalBeyond Normal Lord Phender Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    mastman wrote: »
    Hope: Wotlk makes mutilate no longer require you to be behind people.

    Already done...

    Hope: The most recent changes to Titan's Grip don't stick.

    I still want mutiliate to not need daggers. Let the boy dream!

    Beyond Normal on
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  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So I get an email from "[email protected]" and wondered if it was a scam.

    Seg on
  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Maybe. Probably not, they've sent out quite a few recently. Mine read:

    From: "WoW Expansion Beta" <[email protected]>

    So. Gratz.

    End on
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  • MgcwMgcw Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Seg wrote: »
    So I get an email from "[email protected]" and wondered if it was a scam.

    Should start off looking like
    Wrath of the Lich Kingâ„¢ Beta Test

    You have been selected to participate in the beta test of World of Warcraft®: Wrath of the Lich King™. Welcome!

    In the beta test you’ll get an opportunity to test the first zones of the new Northrend continent, and the new levels above 70. We look forward to your feedback on the overall experience, including quests, monsters, zones, aesthetics, and more. We would also appreciate reports on any bugs you may encounter. These can be logged using the /bug command explained below.

    go to beta.worldofwarcraft.com and try the key. More than likely real but the address can be spoofed, obviously.

    Mgcw on
  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    It should have a link that links you directly to the beta site.

    PierceNeck on
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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    You don't want to click such links though. Given html emails, the link itself could actually point somewhere else.

    (ick)

    I suggest just going to beta.worldofwarcraft.com by hand. :)

    End on
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  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh sure, be safe about. Do things the boring way.

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    *blink*

    ...

    I just got a second beta key?

    :o

    End on
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  • MayGodHaveMercyMayGodHaveMercy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    End wrote: »
    *blink*

    ...

    I just got a second beta key?

    :o


    My undying affection can be yours.

    MayGodHaveMercy on
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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    *cough* I'm not the only person who just got a second beta key on these forums.

    End on
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  • MayGodHaveMercyMayGodHaveMercy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    End wrote: »
    *cough* I'm not the only person who just got a second beta key on these forums.

    You're the only one who mentioned it in the places I was looking. UNDYING AFFECTION.

    MayGodHaveMercy on
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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Well, you weren't looking at my private messages, now were you.

    I'm gonna start a secret club for people with two beta keys!

    End on
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  • MayGodHaveMercyMayGodHaveMercy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm going to start a drowning in tears club.

    MayGodHaveMercy on
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  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Just checked my wifes email, she got one to, I geuss I will get the expansion put on both machines tonight. But she is out of town until sunday. So I don't see doing much before then.

    Seg on
  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Be sure to keep checking those email accounts, guys. Over the course of a few weeks or so, Blizzard sent me 6 such keys for TBC.

    And I'm not at all saddened to have gotten 0 for WLK. Not at all.

    /emo

    Forar on
    First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
  • fairweatherfairweather OregonRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Happy: My friend loaned me enough gold last night to help buy my Gyro-balanced Khorium Destroyer :)

    Really Happy: My warrior currently has more epic items than any of my characters up to this point since I've started running Kara in the past couple of weeks. Almost 13k health unbuffed, over 13k armor, well over 490 defense (enough room to swap out some items for upgrades that don't have defense), and I'm slowly building a dps set too (still doing almost no damage with my prot spec and devastate spam, but every little bit helps).

    Hope: King's Defender tonight

    fairweather on
  • WavechaserWavechaser Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    End wrote: »
    *blink*

    ...

    I just got a second beta key?

    :o

    Give. Now.

    Olive Garden. Behind. Now.

    Wavechaser on
  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    What's it gonna cost to get that beta key

    You name it I got it

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  • MayGodHaveMercyMayGodHaveMercy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Hopefully this turns into one of those "Whoever asks first can have this second Beta key" deals. Retroactively.

    :)

    MayGodHaveMercy on
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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    PierceNeck wrote: »
    It should have a link that links you directly to the beta site.
    End wrote: »
    You don't want to click such links though. Given html emails, the link itself could actually point somewhere else.

    (ick)

    I suggest just going to beta.worldofwarcraft.com by hand. :)

    The official WotLK invite emails do not have clickable <A HREF = ... > links. There is HTML code in the email, but it's only used for bolds and italics.

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    SabreMau wrote: »
    PierceNeck wrote: »
    It should have a link that links you directly to the beta site.
    End wrote: »
    You don't want to click such links though. Given html emails, the link itself could actually point somewhere else.

    (ick)

    I suggest just going to beta.worldofwarcraft.com by hand. :)

    The official WotLK invite emails do not have clickable HTML <A HREF = ... > links. There is HTML code in the email, but it's only used for bolds and italics.

    - Scam would be clickable and misleading.
    - GMail makes it clickable for you if it wasn't.

    (Yeah, I don't trust clickiness even though it's automatically added)

    End on
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  • Wombat02Wombat02 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    End wrote: »
    SabreMau wrote: »
    PierceNeck wrote: »
    It should have a link that links you directly to the beta site.
    End wrote: »
    You don't want to click such links though. Given html emails, the link itself could actually point somewhere else.

    (ick)

    I suggest just going to beta.worldofwarcraft.com by hand. :)

    The official WotLK invite emails do not have clickable HTML <A HREF = ... > links. There is HTML code in the email, but it's only used for bolds and italics.

    - Scam would be clickable and misleading.
    - GMail makes it clickable for you if it wasn't.

    Best be safe and just give me the code and I'll check it out for safety reasons.

    Wombat02 on
  • kaleeditykaleedity Sometimes science is more art than science Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    hatehatehatehatehatehate

    kaleedity on
  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I like how this conversation is somehow simultaneously off-topic and the perfect distillation of the topic.

    jothki on
  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Nothing quite brings out the hate/envy like a lack of a beta key, even if most of the people lusting after then would probably just fuck around with talents like it was a free head start on 3.0 going live.

    I mean, let's be honest. Sure, some of us would do testing. Maybe even submit a little feedback, just to assuage our guilty conscience... but actual testing? Really? REALLY?

    (yes, I'm aware that logging in, fucking around and then making a beta forum post about ____ being broken or overpowered or whatever is probably chief among the Dev's feedback for a given day, but I'm just sayin'... REALLY?)

    Forar on
    First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
  • Wombat02Wombat02 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Forar wrote: »
    Nothing quite brings out the hate/envy like a lack of a beta key, even if most of the people lusting after then would probably just fuck around with talents like it was a free head start on 3.0 going live.

    I mean, let's be honest. Sure, some of us would do testing. Maybe even submit a little feedback, just to assuage our guilty conscience... but actual testing? Really? REALLY?

    (yes, I'm aware that logging in, fucking around and then making a beta forum post about ____ being broken or overpowered or whatever is probably chief among the Dev's feedback for a given day, but I'm just sayin'... REALLY?)

    I would play the game and post no feedback. I still *dislike* not having a key, mainly for deciding on my new main prior to launch.

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  • kaleeditykaleedity Sometimes science is more art than science Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Forar wrote: »
    Nothing quite brings out the hate/envy like a lack of a beta key, even if most of the people lusting after then would probably just fuck around with talents like it was a free head start on 3.0 going live.

    I mean, let's be honest. Sure, some of us would do testing. Maybe even submit a little feedback, just to assuage our guilty conscience... but actual testing? Really? REALLY?

    (yes, I'm aware that logging in, fucking around and then making a beta forum post about ____ being broken or overpowered or whatever is probably chief among the Dev's feedback for a given day, but I'm just sayin'... REALLY?)

    I'm kinda a math dude, so figuring out how shit works (and maybe saying HEY THIS SHIT DOES THIS DID YOU MEAN THAT SHIT in a reasonable way) is actually kind of fun for me

    Hell, image google kaleedity and you get charts describing the new rage gen in tbc.

    I'm a strange one :|

    also, I've never gotten into a closed beta for anything.

    kaleedity on
  • WavechaserWavechaser Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    kaleedity wrote: »
    also, I've never gotten into a closed beta for anything.

    I'm convinced that the probability of getting into a beta is inversely proportionate to the amount of skill you have in said game.

    Of course, I say this only because I don't have a key. It does make me sad though, seeing the sheer number of the mouth breathers who got a key, or even better, multiple keys, while I sit here chomping at the bit refreshing mmo-champion 18,000 times a day.

    Wavechaser on
  • TheGerbilTheGerbil Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I want to join the club where it seems like everybody gets a beta key but you.

    TheGerbil on
  • Thomase1984Thomase1984 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    um yeah... i got a beta key...
    why can't i transfer any of my live characters?

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  • MunacraMunacra Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Hope: Do you think Mythic will enforce its player's code of conduct?

    Munacra on
  • MgcwMgcw Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    um yeah... i got a beta key...
    why can't i transfer any of my live characters?

    Did you go to https://beta.worldofwarcraft.com/templatecopy/character-copy.html instead of https://beta.worldofwarcraft.com/charcopy/character-copy.html ?

    Mgcw on
  • Thomase1984Thomase1984 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i went to the page from the email, gave access denied :( did allow me to copy a premade over though.

    However, that worked just fine! Thanks!

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  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm surprised nobody has posted about selling their beta key.

    TL DR on
  • grimlock9909grimlock9909 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Hate: Eh, I guess Warcraft has gotten pretty repetitive and boring lately. I wish there were an mmo that wasn't just grind, grind, grind. I cancelled my account yesterday and haven't looked back.
    Happy: Warhammer online is coming out soon and i'm really pumped about the bright wizard and archmage careers.
    Hope: Warhammer isn't just hype and it turns out to be all that has been said.

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Hate: Eh, I guess Warcraft has gotten pretty repetitive and boring lately. I wish there were an mmo that wasn't just grind, grind, grind. I cancelled my account yesterday and haven't looked back.
    Happy: Warhammer online is coming out soon and i'm really pumped about the bright wizard and archmage careers.
    Hope: Warhammer isn't just hype and it turns out to be all that has been said.

    Have you tried the open beta?

    So far, so awesome

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  • EWomEWom Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Hate: Eh, I guess Warcraft has gotten pretty repetitive and boring lately. I wish there were an mmo that wasn't just grind, grind, grind. I cancelled my account yesterday and haven't looked back.
    Happy: Warhammer online is coming out soon and i'm really pumped about the bright wizard and archmage careers.
    Hope: Warhammer isn't just hype and it turns out to be all that has been said.

    Yeah.. WoW with drawl doesn't really set in after one day. It usually hits when you're in the middle of a different game, having fun. Like I gave up WoW for CoX, I was having fun with my scrapper, scrappin' things up, then one day I was just like "Fuck! I need to go play my warlock!" Cancelled CoX, and resubbed to WoW within 15 minutes of that thought.

    But anyway, good luck with Warhammer.

    EWom on
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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm surprised nobody has posted about selling their beta key.
    I thought about it, but only very briefly. Too many beta keys are being sent out recently for the value to be worth the effort. Even more will be sent out shortly. Like, the beta keys for the very first wave would be valuable, but afterwards, meh.

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