The Queue: One week until we become Portal 2 Insider
I wish.
Portal2.joystiq.huffingtonpost.com -- let's make it happen!
Brandon asked:
Has Blizzard ever made mention of an option to allow simultaneous access to a single account for multiple computers... to play... if they have not. Is it not a bit viable? Or a pipe dream?
It's a pipe dream. Blizzard tolerates multiboxing, but only when you have two separate accounts (they can be on the same Battle.net account, though). If Blizzard allowed you to log in to your characters on your same account, you'd just be able endlessly multibox without any real restrictions or impediments, putting insane strain on already taxed servers.
Jos Coco asked:
How and what does blizzard do about dwindling class members? Iirc rogues are the most under represented class and it seems that most of the things cataclysm has bought us has not taken rogues into consideration (ie. various unfixed bugs and the terrible makeup of our talent trees).
It's hard to know what the most underrepresented class is right now. We don't have access to the real data (only Blizzard does), so the best we can do is look at log breakdowns across a relatively small sample. Remember here that if 1 million of us are raiding right now, that's still only 1/12 of WoW's population. Blizzard looks at things on a much larger scale.
As far as what Blizzard will do to boost up an underrated class, most of the time it'll buff the classes' abilities and talent trees. This will lead to more people being interested in the class overall and, given some time, boost the numbers.
Obed asked:
What stops Blizzard from taking care of the Bots once and for all?
Bots are part of the underground economy of WoW. As long as there will be a vibrant market in the game, bots will be a prevalent force in the black market (and even then, they'll still exist because cheating at game is something most people don't consider to be a moral problem).
Blizzard has done a lot to limit bots, though -- it's gone after the creators, banned hundreds of thousands of accounts, and let forth unto the world the Warden program. Overall, bots are a lot less prevalent today then they were 5 years ago.
Shinae commented:
I get the feeling that Mat often has conversations with himself.
Mat just told himself to tell me that Mat doesn't know what Shinae is talking about.






Reader Comments (Page 1 of 13)
Utakata Apr 14th 2011 11:08AM
Um...is that a belated April Fools joke regarding the Puffington Post addy? O.O
razion Apr 14th 2011 11:39AM
Nearly two weeks too late for it to be that... ;;
coville Apr 14th 2011 11:45AM
Portal2.joystiq.huffingtonpost.com? Why would you want to open the door to discredit your site by aligning it with huffingtonpost?
We hope to find some truth on this site, we all know there is none on huff post.
Squelchy Apr 14th 2011 12:02PM
Because the Huffington Post merged with AOL's blogging properties, and they've been gradually dismantling some of the better blogs they own.
RogueJedi86 Apr 14th 2011 1:38PM
To back up Squelchy, if you look at the bottom of the page you'll see Download Squad has had the same "Farewell, Internet" latest news for days. I got curious after a day and looked, and Download Squad was shut down. It seemed random since it's quite popular, the software counterpart to Engadget's hardware coverage. Apparently others were shut down too, like Tech Crunch and I don't know what else. I haven't seen a statement on why they were shutdown either. I loved Download Squad.
Koleckai Apr 14th 2011 1:50PM
Techcrunch and its subsidiaries are still running. They even have an interview with their new boss and overlord on the front page today. Shame to see the others go though. You'd think instead of closing them, they would be merged into Huffington Post. Or maybe the authors didn't want to merge so closing them was the only option.
I think we'll see more disappear in the future. Hope WoW Insider has its revenue generation in order because that will be the first thing they look at when cutting strings.
Utakata Apr 15th 2011 3:03AM
I knew that Squelchy...but I wasn't expecting they would go so far as to force Joystick and it's properties under the Puffpo domain. Since WoW Insider and such has much in common them as they do with Wall Street Journal. That is to say, absolutely nothing.
...to suffice to say, this is worrying.
(cutaia) Apr 14th 2011 3:59PM
"...to suffice to say, this is worrying."
Holy crap...no it's not. Adam was just making a silly joke (i.e. "Hey guys, you know how our domain changed from wowinsider.com to wow.com to wow.joystiq.com? Wouldn't it be funny if it got even more complex and we not only became a subdomain of Huffington Post but changed our main focus to Portal 2 as well? lolol?")
benbettis Apr 14th 2011 4:35PM
WOOSH!
way over their heads Adam :)
Zhiva Apr 14th 2011 5:59PM
Why are Utakata's comments in this thread downvoted?
Utakata Apr 15th 2011 3:02AM
He could be (cutaia), but then you could be reading more into than what's there. /shrug
...and I agree benbettis, there's a fine line between clever and stupidity.
And I don't know Zhiva. People are weird here. I've been down voted for agree'ing with the person who was upvoted. And visa versa. Who knows what strange bed these people fall out of in the mornings. And not to mention some may have gotten bored trolling the WoW forums...so they come here to spam vote buttons just for the hell of it. Just saying.
loop_not_defined Apr 14th 2011 11:12PM
Utakata's comments are getting downvoted because Utakata's comments are fretting over a known joke here at wow.joystiq.aol.timewarner.us.af.mil. It really is just a play off the constant domain name changes. That's all.
Utakata Apr 15th 2011 2:58AM
Correction...known to some of us joke. But you know...playing jokes on the readers is never trolling when staff do it. But I digress...
...and of coarse being joke, one would not be downgraded since this was in all good fun. Thus I'm not one being disingenuous here. People like loop_not_defined and other "downgraders" are. So you guys know where you can stuff your votes...since you're all are being quite about it. /thread
Utakata Apr 15th 2011 3:00AM
*serious
loop_not_defined Apr 15th 2011 7:42AM
Freaking out over nothing tends to get you downvoted. It's nothing to get upset about. Calm down.
Laying out casual insults to readers will...get you downvoted. And the sky is blue. News at 11.
Cutaia told you exactly what is going on and you still fretted, btw.
Plastic Rat Apr 14th 2011 11:10AM
Question: So what does everyone have against that little Village in Tol Barad. Rustberg village I think it's called. As far as I can see it's a quiet little fishing village made up of various races from across Azeroth, all living in harmony. Yet we're sent over there daily to take their food and murder them. Not always in that order.
The only thing bad about them I can figure is that they attack members of the Horde and Alliance.. and for good reason! We go over there daily and murder them and steal their fish! Of course they're going to be unfriendly!
So what gives?
NeSuKuN Apr 14th 2011 11:27AM
http://www.wowpedia.org/Rustberg_Village
MattKrotzer Apr 14th 2011 11:28AM
I brought this up with my guildmates a few months ago. We came to the conclusion that they're all just tremendous assholes.
Everyone's got that one neighbor that nobody likes, who sprays the hose at your kids or pets for venturing too close to their lawn... Rustberg's that neighbor.
pinteresque Apr 14th 2011 11:33AM
There's nothing at the moment behind it apart from the quest text which boils down to "something odd is happening in Rustberg Village. Kill a bunch of...I mean..."investigate"...them."
The only thing that I've seen that even MIGHT be a hint to what's going on is that some of the mobs leap at you from 30 feet away when you engage them in a surprisingly animalistic manner. Worgen from races other than humans, maybe?
I don't know. But it really does feel like it's intentional, and I'm gonna like finding out.
Grovinofdarkhour Apr 14th 2011 11:41AM
At this point I've accepted that it's a chicken-or-the-egg dilemma without one clear and correct answer. Do we go kill them because they have always attacked us on sight, or do they attack us on sight because we keep going and killing them? The only real answer: it doesn't matter. We do, and they do.