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World of Warcraft: Account “Hacking” out of Control

Last night, I logged in to my WoW account, got a request to join my guild for a raid, then sat there for 10 minutes. Eventually, the guild’s second in command came on the Vent to apologize for the delay, then explained to us that the guild leader (who has like 5 level 80′s) got [...]

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Is Blizzard risking “Dungeon Fatigue”?

I’ve been one of the many singing the praises of Blizzard’s decision to put the Dungeon Finder tool in WoW patch 3.3. It’s been amazingly fun for the most part, although the antisocial among us have a special way of rearing their heads in these dungeons, and it’s also been amazingly productive. My newly 80 [...]

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World Of Warcraft: Patch 3.3 And The Dungeon Finder Tool

Blizzard rolled patch 3.3 to the live servers. This is the patch intended to get the player base through to Cataclysm, and it contains a lot of things that seem to go a long way to accomplishing that goal. Besides the new raiding content, lots of tweaks, and a new Quest-Helper-like quest tracker, what I [...]

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Taking the Windows 7 64 Bit Plunge

If you aren’t interested in technical stuff, skip the first two or three paragraphs below… It has been many many months since we built our machines at home.  Tarkheena and I both build new machines every couple of years.  On this last build, we installed Win XP Pro on our two main gaming machines.  I [...]

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Cataclysm: Barrier of Entry Increases

Blizzard hasn’t announced yet what it’s going to cost to get Cataclysm.  So this article might be a little premature.  Let’s just chalk it up to expecting the worst in human nature.  I’m good at that, and I’m rarely disappointed as a result.  I was chatting with Ethic from Kill Ten Rats via Twitter this [...]