Archive for April 6th, 2009

WoW subscriber numbers still increasing, multi-boxers trivial

Monday, April 6th, 2009 33 views

There has been a long thread about WoW and the philosophical changes and approaches over the past four years, and in particular to some of the larger design decisions made recently (dual specs). In it Ghostcrawler makes an offhand remark about WoW's subscriber numbers: "Wrath of the Lich King is still ...

QuickArmory offers localization, boss tallying

Monday, April 6th, 2009 19 views

Our friends over at QuickArmory, which is a site with a whole slew of extras for parsing and checking out Armory information, have sent along a list of updates to what they've done lately. The site itself is still pretty barebones (it focuses on getting information together fast rather than ...

Custom-made Troll Rogue action figure by Abotu

Monday, April 6th, 2009 38 views

We posted that fan-made Draenei Barbie last week, and a few commenters sent us a note about this figure, custom made by Abotu over on Emerald Dream. The Barbie was just something funny that a few fans did while bored, but this Troll Rogue is the real thing -- custom ...

Rolling restarts, some maintenance

Monday, April 6th, 2009 10 views

The opening in game announcement tells us that there will be rolling restarts tomorrow beginning at 5:00 a.m. PDT / 8:00 a.m. EDT. Each realm will be down for about 15 minutes, and all the restarts should be done by 7:00 a.m. PDT / 10:00 a.m. EDT. This is important in ...

Are we being teased about the next expansion?

Monday, April 6th, 2009 30 views

So there's been a feeling in the air lately that some of the blues have been in a bit of a teasing mood. Sure, that's not neccessarily new, but what is interesting is what exactly they may be teasing us about. For example, here's a recent post in which one ...