Why Stand Alone Movie Programs?

[Feider]

This may be a silly question but I'll ask it anyway. Is there a reason that people don't use the in-game movie capture?
Does it kill performance or is it just that third party recorders have more options?

Thanks.

[Bettysue]

Windows is the reason, the video capture ability is restricted to the Mac client only...

[Feider]

I did not know that. I do play on a Mac and thought everyone had the ability.
thanks for the reply.

[Bettysue]

Not a problem, glad I was actually of some assistance :P

[Multibocks]

Hmm didnt know that Mac WoW had that, learned something new today.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Is the in-client movie capture thingy on Macs a full movie capture or a machinima type capture like Quake used to have? I'd kill to have quake-style movie captures where you could play 'em back natively in the client. :P

[Feider]

I'm not positive what you mean but It just records your screen just as I've seen on other videos uploaded here.

[Coltimar]

Macs are just sick. There is another thread here of people Mac bashing. All I can do is shake my head.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Macs are just sick. There is another thread here of people Mac bashing. All I can do is shake my head.

For me, it has nothing to do with which is "sick." Has everything to do with me being able to use the tool to its fullest extent, which I can do with PCs. Plus, being that I work in the PC market, obvious choice is obvious.

I see people on [this and other] forums all the time talking about getting hacked, viruses, blue-screens, game performance problems, etc. ad nauseum. I just shake my head at people who just can't learn to properly use a complex tool to save their lives.

[Mokoi]

I don't know about you guys, but even if this feature was available on the PC version, would we use it?

Do any of you use ANY of the tools that Blizzard has added to their game ripped off from other third-party software?

Threat meter?
Voice communication?
Arena Frames?
Gear Manager?

Which of the convenient addons have Blizzard created which are better than what the community has made for itself?

Alomst none.

Not to say they can't make good stuff, we all know they can, but this doesn't seem to be their strong point :P