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GOD LOVES YOU, AND HE LOVES WOW TOO

Some God-fearing individual, clearly impressed at being able to kill, maim, slaughter and become the devil himself in a previous Blizzard game, has decided to review World of Warcraft.

What do we learn? The graphics and sound are cool. Evil magic is bad, but not if you think of a non-satanic reason for its existence. Violence is bad too, mmmkay, but it's only a little blood spurt here and there, and surely that won't make Jesus weep. And this too;

Some of the armor and clothes may reveal the midriff on the perfectly apportioned and full chested female models.

Oooh. He's going to Hell for that one.

DEAR DEAREST DIARY...

What to write, what to write.

I could write about the first round of World of Warcraft bannings (linked to Slashdot because that fly white g-dawg, Nebu, finds making permalinks hard), in which Blizzard banned people for using speed hacks. Of course, this comes after a beta period where speed hacks were widespread and old speed hacks such as Gear could be used amongst other such gems. Horse before the cart, people.

I could write about how this guy needs some sleep and some other of life's necessities like food, or even the attention of the fairer sex, but we already know that.

Or perhaps I could ramble about EA's mad scramble to plug the holes in it's HR policy and plug the mouths of it's employees.

Perhaps a little verbal diarrhea about Peter Ludlow and his campaign to take over your television and newspaper. Maybe I'll throw in my free observation that if you get the letters "Phd" after your name and expose the dirty under-belly of a MMORPG (which is something that seems to be known and understood already by everyone that plays MMORPGs), it seems you can get to be an instant media pundit. 6 more years of university, and mainstream credibility, here I come.

Maybe a little note that it seems I will soon be moving into my proper apartment, and will no longer acting as a freeloading freeloader on someone's spare bed, which will allow me to actually update this "news" blog once in a while. Fancy that, something not stale!

I could do all that. But I won't. Instead, go read why we need more dancing in games. And no, not the AFK Entertainer kind.

IN WOW, HELL LEVELS START AT LEVEL 20

Blizzard has decided to make some changes to the PvP aspect of WoW. One change in particular is this fucktacular;

-You cannot get a dishonorable kill for killing another player.

Yes, what you're thinking is correct. This means a level 60 Rogue can now camp exits/entrances to low level caves and kill anyone that comes past, and without fear of any game mechanical repercussion.

On it's own, that burns my grits. But we also must remember the bastard cousin to this change;

-You can get a dishonorable kill for killing a lower level NPC.

Which means you low to mid level characters can forget about questing in any zone where a level 60 Dickhead has just passed through.

Non-PvP servers with battlegrounds are looking pretty damn attractive to many people right about now.