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Originally Posted by Tharkkun

Yup. States have sales tax and they all differ. For example right now Florida is at 6% and Minnesota is at 6.875%. But now if you buy cloths in one of the 8 participating states you pay no sales tax. /boggle.

And here in Orlando, the sales tax is different even in two counties. One is 6% and the other is 7%.

"Archmage Khadgar yells: THERE WILL BE AN IN-GAME CINEMATIC HERE"

I'm guessing that's where the video slots in then Although at the moment, I can't hand in as a rogue, as there's nowhere in the class hall that corresponds the floating quest marker.

Originally Posted by Kaedis

Why do they always insist that you don't need a 6700k? It's twice the core and literally a 40% performance increase (source: Passmark) for less than $100. If they are going to advocate a $750 card that's a 45% increase over a $280 card (1080 and 970, respectively), then it's lunacy to insist that you shouldn't be getting the CPU upgrade. Most games (WoW included) still use a solid chunk of CPU, and the system in general is going to last longer with a more powerful CPU. Who writes this shitty advice?

It has the same number of cores, it just has hyperthreading. Hyperthreading isn't useful for most games, resulting in the same or lower performance in many cases. WoW is one of those cases.

Streaming? I7
Not streaming? I5

.... but... why? Unless your budget is literally that tight that you dont have a choice. CPU and GPU should always be allotted the most in the budget. Skimp somewhere else to get the i7 if the budget is that tight.

Originally Posted by SgtPepperSteak

And here in Orlando, the sales tax is different even in two counties. One is 6% and the other is 7%.

Yep, sales tax can have contributing factors at the city, county, and obvs state level. In some states there is no sales tax (because their property taxes are ridonkulously high). In some states there is tax on almost everything.

In MN you don't pay sales tax on categories of items considered "essential" to life: clothes, shoes, medicinal drugs, and food. However, there are exceptions! T-shirts have no tax, for example, but fur clothing does. Milk or bread has no sales tax. Pepsi and Snickers bars do (because candy, soft drinks, dietary supplements and prepared food are taxable). Are you in Minneapolis? Lucky you - they're pretty much perpetually paying for sports stadiums (for teams that are absolute crap). Extra tax for you that other cities don't have. Are you in Hennepin county but outside of Minneapolis? Lucky you, you still get stuck with the Transit Improvement (light rail) tax that other counties don't have!

If prices were after-tax, you would have to update them on a very labor-intensive basis. The store in Minneapolis would have different price for a pack of Pepsi than the same store in St. Paul. And maybe it would change every single year. You would have to be changing these prices per-store, per-county, per-city, for literally hundreds of thousands of items.

Or you can just use the calculator on your phone (or basic math skills).

Dont pull a Blizzard, give the domestic numbers too, not just the good numbers.

"However, we failed to deliver the world for the masses part much past vanilla."

Thanks, Captain Obvious. -_-

Originally Posted by Koochulu

Ah movie rankings. So archaic. Let's keep ranking movies on money they make! Ignore that movie ticket prices go up and up and UP. Should have always been tickets sold.

There are lists out there that adjust for inflation.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime...yr=2016&p=.htm

Its the stupid talking heads and the "Highest grossing movie of all time!!" stupid 5 o' Clock news.

The day they make old zones scale (and with it probably raids and dungeons too) leveling in this game will become meaningless and awfully boring (though why not remove leveling alltogether then or just make 60lvls then).

I don't see how having many zones to choose from to level at any time would make people choose less preffered zones. All would stack on the easiest, fastest ones and some would get totally neglected(and deserted) as there would be too many to choose from.

Maybe zone-level scalling can work in an expansion but it would ruin base of Wow - feeling like a mighty hero, feeling of achievement.

I am usually supporting Blizzard in their new ideas, I even like pet battles, didn't mind garrissons, had no problem with one underwater zone (that was pretty optional) but they move more and more to the point where Wow will be totally unatractive to me.

Originally Posted by chaud

It has the same number of cores, it just has hyperthreading. Hyperthreading isn't useful for most games, resulting in the same or lower performance in many cases. WoW is one of those cases.

Higher base clock (+0.5 GHz is nothing to scoff at) and more cache for the i7 will make it faster usually.
Also, I am pretty sure i7's are better in WoW than i5's from the same generation.
If you have the budget, there is little to no reason not to splurge on i7.

Originally Posted by Zanname

The day they make old zones scale (and with it probably raids and dungeons too) leveling in this game will become meaningless and awfully boring (though why not remove leveling alltogether then or just make 60lvls then).

I don't see how having many zones to choose from to level at any time would make people choose less preffered zones. All would stack on the easiest, fastest ones and some would get totally neglected(and deserted) as there would be too many to choose from.

Maybe zone-level scalling can work in an expansion but it would ruin base of Wow - feeling like a mighty hero, feeling of achievement.

I am usually supporting Blizzard in their new ideas, I even like pet battles, didn't mind garrissons, had no problem with one underwater zone (that was pretty optional) but they move more and more to the point where Wow will be totally unatractive to me.

I think if they did it right, it would work fine ... don't have them scale infinitely, but scale in a range ... like for Example Northern Barrens could scale from 10 to 20 instead of having a range of quests from 10 to 20 like it does not. So even if you go in at 14 you're still able to start at the beginning and work your way through it.

It has the same number of cores, it just has hyperthreading. Hyperthreading isn't useful for most games, resulting in the same or lower performance in many cases. WoW is one of those cases.

Ya, you're right, it's virtualized cores. However, there are VERY few situations in which hyperthreaded cores are less efficient than half that cores non-hyperthreaded, and most of those situations involve using all of those cores at 100% capacity with little or no IO. WoW ain't that.

Please dont have Illidan sacrifice himself to save Azeroth from the Legion....

Warcraft came 2nd. Conjuring 2 creamed it. All the people predicting it would flop are right. Gratz.

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Also just to put this in perspective for you fanboys that try and twist everything. Fantastic Four, the biggest flop/bomb in the last year made more than Warcraft. Fantastic Four did 26 million opening weekend and everyone laughed. It also only cost 120 million to make. You won't be getting a sequel.

Originally Posted by Tomana

"However, we failed to deliver the world for the masses part much past vanilla."

Thanks, Captain Obvious. -_-

At least he realized what mistakes were made. Beats WoD dev team that messed up everything they could mess up and everything we thought was impossible to mess up.

Is... Is Turalyon dead?

Khadgar's text scares me.

Originally Posted by Binki

At least he realized what mistakes were made. Beats WoD dev team that messed up everything they could mess up and everything we thought was impossible to mess up.

Sure, but what prevented him from realizing it before? -_-
That is the 5-million subscriber question.

Originally Posted by Nalumis

How does the Broken Shore skip work? Never read of this before.

Anyone? /10char