Category: world of warcraft

  • World of Warcraft: Subscriptions Down By 2.9 Million

    Activision/Blizzard announced their Q1 2015 earnings and one of the not-so-shocking results was the subscription loss in World of Warcraft. Specifically, the loss amount to 2.9 million subscribers, which is a pretty massive loss ($43,500,000 in revenue per month potentially). What happened? And why is this not exactly surprising?

  • World of Warcraft: More Permabans

    It seems that the banhammer is now in full force over at Blizzard. Currently, Sodah (the guild master on the high end PVP guild Im MVP on Tichondrius) as well as Cdew have been added to the permaban list as a result of account sharing. I’ve read various tweets from these streamers/gamers as well as…

  • World of Warcraft: Reckful Permabanned

    Reckful, one of the top PVP Arena players in the World of Warcraft, was permabanned for “account sharing” on Christmas. A lot of people had sympathized for him and it seems like there won’t be any question in terms of revoking the ban (at least from the conversation over on Twitter). Was the permaban too…

  • World of Warcraft: Why I Decided to Cancel My Subscription for Warlords of Draenor

    For the third time, I decided to give up World of Warcraft. Originally, I wasn’t too keen on the expansion given partly that I never received a beta key (despite the supposed thousands that were handed out) and just a few of the changes that I saw (namely the Silver Proving Grounds, more gated content,…

  • World of Warcraft: Hitting Level 100 and Warlords of Draenor Impressions

    Probably, one of the most eagerly anticipated expansions, Warlords of Draenor, to come down the pipeline erupted to a pretty abysmal launch this past week. Since launch, the game has been plagued of numerous bugs, outages, horrendous lag, server capacity issues and DDoS assaults that has the World of Warcraft community up in arms. For…

  • Diablo 3/World of Warcraft Vlog: Gaming Etiquette Part 2

    After having a demotivating event occur during a public Diablo 3 game, I became motivated in providing some more thoughts on how the gaming community at large needs to start looking themselves, behaving and treating each other. It’s nothing new that anyone with common sense should be able to easily figure out. But I think…

  • World of Warcraft: Warlord of Draenor Ability Pruning and UI/UX Design Vlog

    Is the upcoming ability pruning in Warlords of Draenor a good thing? Is this just something for bloody casuals? Is this game getting dumber? Watch this video to see my feelings: Watch live video from conark on TwitchTV

  • Gamer Motivation Talk on Diablo 3, World of Warcraft, Warlords of Draenor Starting Zone Thoughts

    A new vlog on what keeps me playing a grindy game like Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft: Watch live video from conark on TwitchTV

  • World of Warcraft: Boosted 90s Implications

    So with the boosted 90s, one of the major impacts that occur in the game is further degradation in grouped situations. For the boosted 90, they might see their situation as being “easily” carried via better geared/skilled players. However, for the skilled/experienced/geared players, they end up having to deal with the frustrations of people who…

  • World of Warcraft: Boosting, Is It Worth It?

    Since I pre-ordered Warlords of Draenor, one nice little perk was being able to receive a boosted level 90. I debated whether to create a 90 on my friend’s server or just boosting an alliance toon on another server I occasionally play on. What ended up happening is that I figured that since my friend…