I am astounded...

[Tonuss]

Entertainment? Yeah, if you like watching some retarded kids get in a fistfight.

Don't underestimate the entertainment value in retarded kids having a fistfight.

As for a person threatening to call the media or claiming he did, I would assume that he's just venting. It's easy to lose your cool when something minor goes wrong, and most people regain their composure quickly and are able to get a grip. Other people don't, and it's not until they've vented that they look back and laugh at themselves for overreacting. Of course, if you go nutso in a forum post, your reaction stays there for everyone to see. That's all it is, really. Someone overreacted out of frustration and didn't get a grip until they'd made a nutty forum post.

Or at least I hope that's what it is. If there are people out there who really go that far instead of just saying that they did/will... I seriously hope they do not have ready access to firearms and/or explosives.

[Siaea]

You just have to see the entertainment value in it.

Have to agree. What else am I going to do at work?

[elroddo]

I've never frequented the wow forums.The only wow related forums i go to are this one and Elitist jerks, and both have mature respectful users.

[elsegundo]

the little kids that used to play cutesy games like maplestory and flyff have aparently grown up a bit and have invaded wow. unfortunately, not all things grow with age.
but this is only my assumption.

[Knobley]

The only wow related forums i go to are this one and Elitist jerks, and both have mature respectful users.

Hey, watch who you're calling mature and respectful princess!

[Bovidae]

Actually, the lack of candy bags is what drove me to the WoW forums for the first time in many months. It did not take me long to figure out I was not the only one, and Blizz had no intentions of fixing the droprate. I then left the forums and went to wash my hands.

it is too bad that Blizz still implements a minigame with such bad odds, especially since so many people are vying for the meta-acheivement.

[Brandish]

Well. I ran my 57 chars thorugh the V-day event.

It's RNG on top of RNG... which == pita.

If it's one thing I have, it's sample size

Large sample size gives me.... quite a selection of anectdotal outlier cases. Like one alt that pressed the gifts of adoration moderately hard and never once received a Silver Shafted Arrow (not the pet, just a bloddy stack of arrows to fire at others).

Or like the other alt that barely used 10 tokens and... received 2x Perma-peddles.... LOL



And.. regarding the crying.... they removed the Lovely Black Dress achievement from the meta quest.... but nearly every char received a Lovely Black Dress, if not 5.

[unseen]

Yeah you really have to sift through a lot of crap to find the gems in the forums. I would browse them with some regularity (looking for specs and info spell rotations, for example).

When they started putting ad-spaces up along the sides of the messages regarding warcraft stuff I thought "that is really annoying", but I kept plodding along. Now that they've officially put up revenue generating ads (for dominos, cell providers, etc), I'm not going back. They already have my money, why do they feel the need to generate even more off of visits to the forums? It just seems like bad customer service. At least don't harrass people that log in with their accounts with the ads.

[Stabface]

310% mount for noobs through some year+ long achievements was a bad idea in the first place. Once people get geared out in Ulduar I bet the 10-man raider achievement will be PUG-able by competent people anyhow.

[Tonuss]

I've never frequented the wow forums.The only wow related forums i go to are this one and Elitist jerks, and both have mature respectful users.

EJ also has a moderator team that is very strict and very efficient. I like that, it helps them weed out the people with nothing useful to offer, and it forces the rest to stay on topic and only post when they have something to add to the conversation. So when you go there for information, that's exactly what you get.

If Blizzard moderated their forums that way, they'd be a one-stop shop for WoW info instead of almost completely useless.