Tag: fail

  • 12-21-2012: The Great Disappointment

    It’s a week now with 12-21-2012 having come and gone. Apparently, we all physically survived the imminent end of the Mayan Calendar, what people for the last few years had been predicting as the apocalypse. Once again, prophecies were not fulfilled. Despite all of this hoopla, many people were lured into the belief that the…

  • World of Warcraft: Questing Design Failure

    I made an attempt to take my hunter for a bit of leveling. Almost immediately, I gave up after getting my hunter to the nearby town in the first area. I felt overwhelmed knowing full well the long grind that could take a few days just to finish up the area. I’ve felt that way…

  • World of Warcraft: Cross Realm Zones, the Clusterfuck

    Patch 5.0.4 went into a effect two weeks ago and already patch 5.0.5 is scheduled for tomorrow. Part of it ought to address the clusterfuck called Cross Realm Zones (or CRZ). As always, Blizzard completely underestimated their gaming community when implementing CRZ and it’s become a gigantic mess. I won’t go into details about why…

  • The Person Possibly Responsible for World of Warcraft’s Subscription Loss Has Been Identified

    Blizzard posted a “post mortem” on the dungeon and raid encounters for Cataclysm. Outside of the confused, constant redesign of the talent tree and character classes by Ghostcrawler (who, imo, is also partly to blame for various problems in Cataclysm), Scott “Daelo” Mercer might be considered one of the people responsible for World of Warcraft’s…

  • Bye Bye WebOS. Didn’t Even Get to Know Ya

    HP made a rather shocking, albeit somewhat expected (from me), announcement earlier this week in pulling out WebOS and their consumer computing in exchange for focusing on business computing. While the entire withdrawal from the PC market is a massive change in direction for them that bewildered me, the end of WebOS wasn’t so much…