The Queue: You ain't nothin' but a Core Hound
by Adam Holisky 
May 29th 2009 at 2:00PM
There's a few good questions today of various voluptuous varieties: raiding, legal ToS (TNG > ToS, by the way), and new gaming hardware. Yummy.
Start me off, Delks...
Edit: Please be sure to listen to Fly Me To The Moon by Ol' Blue Eyes during today's Queue, or you can listen to the title's name sake song.
"What's the point of running old world raids and instances?"
Several, besides the obvious one of achievements. First, they offer compelling story lines that really help tie up many of the arcs that run through the stories present in the 1 through 60 game. Secondly, the dungeons are quite visually impressive if you haven't been through them a few hundred times already. It's just fun from a gameplay stance. Finally, running the old world content can still give some unique rewards that people covet, like bug mounts in AQ40 (although they're only usable in AQ40), or the tiger and raptor mounts from ZG.
George asked...
"Here's a question about the terms of use agreement that we must accept every time the game gets patched. I certainly don't bother reading it and I'm fairly certain that most others don't either, so couldn't Blizzard pull a fast one and make us agree to something we wouldn't normally agree to by hiding something in the legal fine print?"
They could sneak something crazy in, but that would be supremely evil and cause a significant backlash against their company. They won't do such a thing for that reason alone. If there was anything way out line, like the example of signing over your first born that Erik pointed out, you'd have quite a powerful argument.
In the end remember that the agreements between you and Blizzard really amount to nothing more than a fair set of rules normal and fair minded people would agree to abide by: no botting, no harassment, no hacking, etc...
Of course, I Am Not A Lawyer (iAnal), and there is fine print for a reason... See? Now I'm not culpable for anything I said. Horray! Drinks are on me. Oh wait...
Okkienookie asked...
"Any dates when the new Logitech keyboard is coming out?"
The Logitech G19 is showing up as released on the Logitech site, and you can order it for $200. It's not showing up as released on Amazon yet, and Best Buy doesn't have it in their inventory either. So it likely was just released in the past few days. I've heard rumblings that Dell had an exclusive deal with Logitech, but wasn't able to find anything on it while briefly searching.
I'll be ordering mine after I find out how many BlizzCon tickets I'm buying this weekend for people.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Harithing May 29th 2009 2:06PM
You can only run the old instances if you can get them to launch.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17368007967&sid=1&pageNo=1
Jon Do May 29th 2009 2:13PM
Hmmm.
Getting rid of ghetto hearthing was supposed to fix that.
Guess not.
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Anyway, I was quite surprised that perhaps the most obvious reason for running old-world instances wasn't mentioned:
Achievements.
Task May 29th 2009 2:15PM
Yes I believe AQ is 1 of the few raids (or the only one) that once it opens then the mount that is in there, can be obtained. I believe once its been obtained, then its gone.
Can anyone clarify this to be sure? I'm going by what I've heard and read before.
And I saw the Logitech keyboard on G4's Attack of The Show last night. It was awesome.
Tinwhisker May 29th 2009 3:08PM
@Task
That's just the black bug (which is usable anywhere). There are several other colors that can only be used in AQ20/40 that drop from the trash in AQ40 and that's what Adam is talking about.
Those trash mounts drop like candy.
Futue May 29th 2009 3:11PM
@ Jon Do
"Several, besides the obvious one of achievements."
First line?
Fenn May 29th 2009 3:36PM
And the other reason for doing old raids and instances? Experience.
Not XP, but the actual experience of running content *before* it becomes 'important' at level 80 (for 'important' read 'if you screw up here, other people will be annoyed' - not quite so much an issue in older raids.)
I think it's a good idea to look at the legacy content whilst levelling if you can because playing that stuff at near the right level, even with a few capped players helping out, can teach you a lot about tactics.
Jon Do May 29th 2009 4:03PM
@Futue & others:
Adam added "obvious achievements" as a ninja edit.
It was so obvious that I double-checked myself, and you can see for yourself that others early comments were about achievements as well.
SeanOr101 May 29th 2009 2:09PM
I was disappointed to see that we weren't asked to play a song while reading today's edition! What song am I supposed to be thinking of Adam!?! The Queue needs daily theme music!
: - D
Jon Do May 29th 2009 2:14PM
I guess you're not quite old enough to get today's theme song.
Hound Dog by Elvis
Adam Holisky May 29th 2009 2:20PM
I tried to find some Elvis, but instead I put up a hound dog himself, Ol' Blue Eyes.
Linked in the article and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG9e0TTBi0c
Enjoy!
Adam Holisky May 29th 2009 2:22PM
Apparently I fail at searching:
Hound Dog => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JALwwaASg
SportsChickee May 29th 2009 2:25PM
....It says right at the top of the page which song to listen to while reading.....
Bubsa May 29th 2009 2:29PM
A triumph, Holisky. Puts to shame the kind of chaff that littered yesterday's Q
SeanOr101 May 29th 2009 2:36PM
Horray! Listening to music while reading The Queue makes it much better!
You're the greatest, Adam!
Josin May 29th 2009 2:15PM
What's a "Laway"?
Osc May 29th 2009 2:20PM
While most people don't read the EULA, I guarantee there's a few intrepid people out there running a diff on the changes to see if Bliz is sneaking any shenanigans in on us.
In other words, if they did sneak something supremely stupid/questionable into the EULA, I'm certain we'd catch wind of it pretty quick.
Kitrine May 29th 2009 5:24PM
I've always wondered why Blizzard doesn't do a sort of "patch notes"-type thing for changes to the EULA/Tos. Why can't they just highlight the changes?
Nick8708 May 30th 2009 3:53AM
@kitrine
If you're brand new to the game it'll auto patch before you even get that far, so if you're the type that's inclined to read that stuff it'd all be new to you. I imagine it's easier to keep it that way than track what version a person has (in case they've been away for multiple patches), patching, then figuring out what all has changed between their previous version of the EULA and the newest one.
Also, I think it changes less often than the game is patched and agreeing to it again is only necessary because the software itself has changed.
Dightkuz May 29th 2009 2:22PM
Another reason to do old instances and raids is for achievements and reputation. Atleast that's why I do em.
Sean May 29th 2009 2:38PM
Actually, that was the first thing he mentioned.