Hyperstrike

No but they sure as hell can drag you with!

What you're experiencing here is NOT an interface glitch. It's a function of lag/load/slowness on the market server. I used to have the same thing happen in the old interface every once in a while. Usually it's the market DB server screaming for a table rebuild, defrag, and reboot.



Not for me it hasn't. You can't simply drop stuff ANYWHERE on the interface.

To put it mildly, yeah.

Not necessarily. You have to remember, not everyone in the world is a paragon of tolerance, felicity, and goodwill.

There are people with strong opinions about online gaming. Hell, until a couple years ago, *I* used to rag on "rent to pwn" games.

And the identity I establish here is JUST the identity I establish here. It's probably very similar to the identities I establish in other online venues (I'd be flabbergasted if it weren't). Yet I prefer to compartmentalize my participation. Both for security and out of necessity.

Years ago, I received a couple of serious death threats. Serious because the guy lived in proximity to me and had the wherewithal to do it. Nothing REALLY came of it. But still.

A few years after that, I got into a serious community dispute in a hacker/security forum I was running. Turns out the guy who I was arguing with was a few hundred cans short of a six pack. He'd been getting into altercations with police, not only in my area, but traveling to places across the country. Moreover, he thought nothing of hacking into machines owned/run by people he didn't like and stealing/destroying things. He actually caused problems for company I worked for, simply because I worked there, and broke into a couple of my private systems and e-mail accounts. Luckily he didn't get anything important. One of his victims had nearly 5000 credit card numbers stolen from their e-commerce system.

I wound up working with the FBI to put this idiot behind bars for a few years. Since then I've taken up other pursuits (like this game). And I'd MUCH rather he not be alerted to the fact.

My bosses know I'm an online gamer, gamer in general, and own a gaming company. They're gamers as well, with their own ties into the gaming industry.

Again, compartmentalization of facets of your life. Maybe to shield facet A from B. Or maybe to shield facet B from A. Or maybe you may just not want those facets of your life overlapping and causing the appearance of a conflict of interests.

Sorry about the circumstances of your switchover. But welcome to the game!

We've got to take you after a couple giant monsters then.


Honestly, we have our share of jerks too. Still, glad you're finding the experience so agreeable thus far.

Perhaps you don't understand what I'm doing.

No. Not perhaps.

I'm not bashing them for (finally) listening to their players (after the players fought back in the media and monetarily).

I'm bashing them because they ever thought this idea was a Good Thing in the first place.

This is where we're going to have to disagree. Simply spending 15 minutes hashing their plans over with a real security professional would have gotten them the tongue-lashing for even thinking something like this was okay.

Again, YES. It WAS a bad idea. Monumentally so. There's a whole RAFT of nasty things that could have come out of this had it gone live. And it either never occurred to them, didn't register as important enough to them, or they just didn't give a damn. None of these says ANYTHING complimentary about the decision makers.

That's just it. They DID tell the fans "just deal with it".

The fans dealt with it in the appropriate way. Penalizing Blizzard financially. Bypassing a nads-shot and kicking them firmly where they live. The pocketbook. They also hit them where Blizzard simply couldn't defend or silence. THE MEDIA. The company was made to look like a bunch of jackbooted imbeciles because of this.

Wrong.

When someone can issue a command in-game to return your RealID, you're boned.

And, since the GMs direct a majority of tech support questions to the forums, forum use CANNOT be treated as "optional"

See above. Would you like to try again?

That's because their tech support staff isn't known for taking 3-7 days to respond to tech support queries, if they respond at all. And the tech support staff RARELY direct the players of CoX to go to the forums with their problems.

The acronym you're looking for is CLM.

Career
Limiting
Move

No. It's worse. Misappropriation and misuse of your personal information can have far worse effects than simply losing you a little money.

No. The minute the resolution to go forward with this idiocy was made was the point at which they were pretty much damned. Period.

The fact that it was considered A Good Thing, and wasn't shouted down, internally (or mitigated in any way), LONG before ever hitting the public with the equivalent of "like it or lump it" shows just how completely out of touch they were. And having been barely bright enough to about-face when the opposition hits you where you live is not something worthy of a reward.

They've already proven that they're perfectly capable of hitting MACH1 on the slippery slope.

Placing one's trust in them afterward goes beyond the realm of naivete and delves into the nether reaches of idiocy and carelessness.

In short, why continue to put your trust in an entity that's already shown that it's incapable of being trustworthy unless its ongoing existence is threatened?

Uhm. WHY?

Seriously. They went and pulled a massive, PUBLIC cranio-rectal insertion maneuver.

They then got bitchsmacked by a very vocal portion of their userbase and lost a not-isignificant number of subscriptions over this.

They also got handed a large, slimy poop sandwich by several large media outlets about it too.

So, under threat of collapsing their paying playerbase, they caved.

Why exactly should they get kudos for this?

They shot themselves in the foot, then resolved not to do that again with their other foot. At least just yet...

That's NOT something deserving of an "attaboy".

Nope. We're pretty much here every Monday night.

Additionally, there's some evidence that the parental controls can be bypassed.

We have a couple people in the 35-50 range thus far.

And AFAIK, all the spawns in the ITF scale to the mission holder.

Actually they possibly didn't. One of the links provided to another site where it was being reviewed had someone step forward to claim the post. Said that the account was perma-banned from the boards for "releasing sensitive information".

*Puts on some Mellencamp*

When the walls come tumblin' down;
When the walls come crumblin', crumblin';
When the walls come tumblin', tumblin' down.

Ooh. Could it be that the REAL WoW killer is not another game?

This kind of thing could have a HORRENDOUS impact on subscription rates for them.

And it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch!

Yup. Would roll a few at 10-14, then switch and do 30-34. Rinse and repeat until you're out of merits.

For just straight inf-generation, doing random rolls in large lots is probably your safest bet. Doing one every time you have a multiple of 20 merits might work too, but the lag time between rolls may make your haul seem "crappier" if you may get a couple bad rolls in a row.

Just trying to get the guts up to get rid of those 900 merits on my controller now.