For some reasons, I checked the blogs section at wow.net yesterday and saw Tikki's latest entry.

As I said in my reply (if it hasn't been deleted yet), I think that the whole situation has gone a bit out of hands. I know not of the apparent feud between Tikki and Tanitha - and it's none of my business either. However...

I was disappointed to see such things said about Black Temple. The site is great, we are having great discussions about WoW AND more serious subjects too, and it's sad to see how the whole crusade against the wow.net admins has degenerated so much as to result in bad publicity for us.

So, no, I wasn't paid by incgamers to make this post, rest assured (I'm still pissed at them for deleting my blog without warning!). But I think we ought to soften up a bit. Whatever happens at wow.net should stay there, let's not make their administration problems our business. And if they flame us, delete our posts or whatever... well let's not sink as low as them by emulating their ways.

The people at Turbine have finally decided to provide a free trial for the game. At least they're smarter than the dummies who made Vanguard! Because not giving out trials make people cry!

Linky!

They even have their elven chick on the page to make you buy the game! Woot!

If anyone cares, I made an elf lore-master named Arquenon on the Vilya server.

The Order of the Stick is, quite simply, the best webcomic out there =D

Why am I writing this here and now?

Well, one of the story arcs just ended, and the author is taking a break until september 17... which means that those of you who never read it now have plenty of time to go through the first 484 episodes!

Apparently, Sunwell Plateau is coming up in a patch before Lich King. Two wings, a 5-man (normal and heroic) and a 25-man raid. Let's not forget that Zul'Aman is still supposed to be patched in (10-man raid, the post-Kara). Is Sunwell Plateau going to be post-Black Temple, or just a filler instance for those who are not attuned for BT?

I was browsing around the game section of Futureshop, Canada's Best Buy, and found this (linking doesn't seem to work for some reason):

StarCraft II Collector's Edition (PC/Mac)
Our price: $69.99
Online Availability: Pre-order: Estimated release date: August 31, 2008

Of course, Blizzard never announced anything (as far as I know anyway), so it's one of those purely imaginative release dates. Still, it's the first time I see a shop that allows you to pre-order a game more than a year before said date.

Rushster reports:

I feel like having a go at something, so I have decided to adopt a new pet peeve: the WoW Trading Card Game.

I went to the official WoW website earlier to check on something, and I'm greeted by a link to this in the news.

I think it's laaaaame to use such "loot cards" to bolster their little TCG's popularity.

And while I'm at it, I'll say that I think Blizzard is going a tiny bit too far with the Warcraft name. Novels were not enough, so now they have cards, comics and even a bloody movie in the making. Deep, deep inside, I almost hope for the movie to be a flop so that the people at Blizzard get back on Earth.

That is all.

Well, it wasn't that fun. But it had its moments.

I had never done the Temple of Atal'Hakkar, aka Sunken Temple. So it was a first last night when I did it on my warlock.

It turned out pretty well, but it took a loooong time. Like I said in my old blog on wow.net, the thing I hate about instances is how long they are. That really prevents me from enjoying them, since I can rarely sit in front of the screen for so long, RL getting in the way.