Future of WoW TCG, Realms Lag, ICC Progression

[ndrew]

Blizzard is losing subscribers by the truckload each month

citation needed.

[azrielen]

If an online version of the game is in the works, I for one am STOKED. I've been reluctant to try the physical card game because I just don't know anyone around me to play with. XD

[Zanathos]

D&D and MtG

God, that anyone actually associates D&D with WotC is horrible in itself. The game was great before 3rd edition. Since then it's be given a heavy dose of downs syndrome. It isn't like WotC even MADE any of it, it was around for two decades before they took over production from TSR.

[Travio]

God, that anyone actually associates D&D with WotC is horrible in itself. The game was great before 3rd edition. Since then it's be given a heavy dose of downs syndrome. It isn't like WotC even MADE any of it, it was around for two decades before they took over production from TSR.

The 3.5 Pathfinder edition (mind you, that's a conglomeration of TSR's original work on the 3E plus work by WotC and Paizo) is probably the golden standard for how to run a tabletop game now. And yes, they, WotC, did make it the more recent versions (2nd and up). TSR was part of WotC, and using their money to keep themselves afloat, before 2E even came out; WotC just eventually decided to pull the plug on the TSR brand name and just finally admit everything was coming from them by the time of 3E.

[stonhinge]

The 3.5 Pathfinder edition (mind you, that's a conglomeration of TSR's original work on the 3E plus work by WotC and Paizo) is probably the golden standard for how to run a tabletop game now. And yes, they, WotC, did make it the more recent versions (2nd and up). TSR was part of WotC, and using their money to keep themselves afloat, before 2E even came out; WotC just eventually decided to pull the plug on the TSR brand name and just finally admit everything was coming from them by the time of 3E.

2E came out in 1989. Wizards of the Coast was not founded until 1990. Wizards bought TSR in 1997.

[freegod725]

Some highly populated realms, as well as some realms in highly populated Battlegroups, are currently experiencing performance issues during peak playing hours, which, depending on the realm, can occur both inside and outside instances. This is caused primarily by high concurrent Icecrown Citadel activity, the start of Arena Season 8, the release of the new Vault of Archavon boss encounter and the “Love is in the Air” seasonal event.

To help address some of these issues, we’ve applied a hotfix to optimise certain database requests during the weekly maintenance, in addition to a variety of other related adjustments. We will continue to monitor the affected realms and will be making further adjustments to continually improve performance where possible. We know the performance issues have been a frustrating inconvenience for the players on these realms -- we very much appreciate your patience while we implement additional short- and long-term solutions.

it is even more frustrating when they always do additional maintainences at our prime time (i'm at oceanic realm), and additional frustration when you can't even QQ about it because the blue post is at european forum

honestly, we don't really feel additional lag as our normal ping is 300+, but we do feel the sudden restarts and shutdowns right at our raid times.

[Ghettobeast]

Wouldn't it be easier to write which servers weren't going d... hey my realm will be up! Never mind!

[Tang]

God, that anyone actually associates D&D with WotC is horrible in itself. The game was great before 3rd edition. Since then it's be given a heavy dose of downs syndrome. It isn't like WotC even MADE any of it, it was around for two decades before they took over production from TSR.

3rd edition is pretty good in its own right. 4th edition is an abortion. A game system that severely limits choice AND makes things tedious and difficult for new players to understand? How much time and effort did THAT take?

[Ibbi]

citation needed.

I canceled my account last week for the first time as a 5 year active account. That counts for 1 citation. ;D

[mrwingtipshoes]

3rd edition is pretty good in its own right. 4th edition is an abortion. A game system that severely limits choice AND makes things tedious and difficult for new players to understand? How much time and effort did THAT take?

This^^ 3.0/3.5 changed alot of things. No one can tell me they preferred to use negative armor class vs the 3/3.5/pathfinder system. The 3.0/.5 system is much more noob friendly as well. The skills system had some... issues and some of the feats were useless. The biggest issue 3.0/3.5 had/has is conflicts from book to book. BoVD would conflict with the DMs guild, the PHB and they would conflict with the MM3. Since Pathfinder took all of the rules and put it in one book there are little to no conflicts.

As for 4th ed. it is terrible. No flexibility, the game seems to have lost... personality.

[DarkSpectrum]

I canceled my account last week for the first time as a 5 year active account. That counts for 1 citation. ;D

Hardly a truckload.

[Dawn Falcon]

I was wrong: Blizzard created...

I'd laugh, but MMO Champ has a very good record for getting these things right.

Also;

D&D 3rd cleaned up an awful, awful lot of stuff from 2nd which really needed cleaning up. 3.5 was...unnecessary and somewhat damaging. I freely admit I'm a OGL RPG author, incidentally, as well as a games dev, which leads me to...

What the flipping heck was the thought process beyond 4th? It's less suitable for PC versions than 3rd, practically requires a board and most crucially is effectively another RPG with the same name.

Pathfinder, although I consider many of their changes sub-optimal, is where my path lies simply because they're supporting effectively D&D OGL/3.75. Wizards have repeatedly blotted their copybooks with the legal shenanigans surrounding the 4th edition GSL* and their pulling of the 3rd edition PDF's...

(*Suffice to say, I'm signing it somewhere between the invention of a practical FTL drive and the collapse of the universe)


Tenzing21 - Hate to point this out, but Games Workshop is a British company. Heh.


Edit: Done some reading about UDE's actions....what the **** were they thinking? Well, okay, thought didn't come into it but still what the...

[roaaaaaar]

....we can just assume that your Spectral Tiger card will be worth "the price of a small car on ebay" in a couple of years. However, if you're only interested in the mount, you might want to wait a little before you buy everything you can.

what is that for a strange batch? can please someone explain me whats the meaning of this? When the card whould be more expensive in a few month/years, why should i wait to buy it? thats dumb.

i want to buy the card, have won a auction. but that confused me. please help^^

[jweaves5]

the epic list for people that have absolutely NO LIFE and will never benefit this world other than 15 more dollars in blizzards wallet a month

[Eyetotem]

Rawrcast broke the story about Blizzard and UDE parting ways a couple of months ago and were laughed at.......guess we know who gets the last laugh.

Original Rawrcast Post on their website

[Arthas]

cant wait to see

[Jainzar]

Loving the return of Hall of Fame :]
Can't even begin to image how much the Spectral Tiger will be worth.

why is that? i know its not printed anymore and all that but why would it be worth more with this announcment?

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so?