Fighting Spam
Some sorry fuckers out there have started leaving trackback links to my blog from various porn, health, mortgage, and other spammy businesses. I get notified of all comments and trackbacks, so I can remove them as soon as I get the email, but it’s becoming a pain in the ass. I’ve decided to install some anti-spam plugins to (hopefully) help combat the sorry ass spammers.
It might block some legitimate comments, but I hope to keep that to a minimum. If you’re a friend, and you suddenly can’t comment, drop me an IM. If you’re a friend, you know what it is. If you’re not a friend, then you don’t have it, and don’t need it.
WoW! What A Failure!
I’m a failure at World of Warcraft. Well, not really a failure. I prefer to think of it as WoW failing to meet my expectations. I just couldn’t get into the game. It was fun for the first 10 hours, but it got really repetitive after that. Sure, there are quests, but there are three basic types of quests:
- Fetch X number of items from monsters.
- Kill X number of Z types of monsters.
- Carry an item/message to another person.
There are only so many different ways that those three things can be done. There are a few other odd quests that were really neat, but they were few and far between. I guess the main problem that I had with the quests were that they were really the only way to level quickly, and you spend quite a bit of time on the road getting the quests done. I noticed that the higher my level got, the farther I had to travel to get the quests done. Higher levels should mean more difficult challenges, not wasting even more time on travel. I shudder to think how much time I would spend on the road at level 40 to complete a quest. That prospect is one of the main reasons that I’m no longer going to play the game.
Another part of the game was the daily grind of killing monsters for experience. Sure, that’s part of the game, but I find that boring these days. There just isn’t enough fun in doing this over and over and over and over. Either the monsters are too hard, team up with each other (thus leading to my repeated death), or they were too easy and didn’t yield enough experience.
I know. I know. I’m supposed to group to go out and have fun. The idea of teaming up with total strangers with questionable ability and intelligence just doesn’t appeal to me. Even when I was in the height of my mudding days, I rarely grouped with unknown people. I guess I’m a bit antisocial when it comes to interacting with people online. The two times that I did group, it was with much more experienced (but not higher level) people than me. I was basically led around by the nose, and I helped them kill monsters that they started fights with. I felt more like dead weight than an actual group member even though our levels were fairly even.
I do have some friends that play, and I could group with them. Their characters are much higher level than mine, and I didn’t feel like tagging along with them in their higher level places, and I’m not going to ask them to waste their time with me in the newbie areas. Just isn’t going to happen.
The final reason for me quitting WoW is that we can’t afford the monthly fees that they charge. They’re not outrageous fees. I actually think that they are quite reasonable, but we’re paying two mortgages right now. That extra $15 is just enough to make it difficult to pay the bills. I just can’t justify paying for a game that I’m not enjoying.
Spice. Jhianna. I’m sorry that I couldn’t get into the game that I know that the both of you love so much. I would have loved to have played with you wonderful ladies, but it just ain’t gonna happen.
