Various Gripes.

EverQuest

A game that at one point in time used to be the most popular game to play, and almost everyone was playing it at one time, has become a major annoyance. It seems now, that you are paying more for the downtime and problems that are accompanying the game and service.

You pay for the service; you think you’d be able to play it, right? Yeah, I thought so. I refused to pay for the last expansion, for a long period of time because there is guaranteed (though Sony Online Entertainment does not say it,) downtime to follow with it.

The downtime could be anywhere from 15 minutes, to 4 hours, to 8 hours, even 12 and rarely 24 hours, but the sad part is, they cannot “estimate” time properly, much less count the time right. It seems that 15 minutes is more around 6-8 minutes, roughly 1 minute is 30 seconds apart. Now I know I am not perfect, but 1 minute is 60 seconds and not 30 seconds? Ok, it seems they are counting too quickly.

To make matters worse, Sony Online Entertainment does not reimburse you for time lost, even the time you have paid for. This means, you pay for 1 month or 3 months, 6 or 12, and there is 1 month down, 3 down, 6 down, or 12 down, you’re screwed – you won’t get your money back. This is one reason why I left EverQuest, almost indefinitely. I still login to talk to friends, or talk trash but lately, hardly either.

A new thing that has started recently, “EverQuest prohibits the purchase of platinum for money,” yet it seems that there are tons of people appearing all over selling platinum for money – and it seems that nothing is being done about it. OK, now here goes World of Warcraft now.

World of Warcraft
Whether you’re using World of Warcraft, or World of Warcraft: Burning Crusades, you are being spammed by messages saying they’re glad to have met you, (“Hello, like I know you? Get lost!”) or other messages saying they’re happy to have known you, etc., visit “insert web site here” for 1000 gold for $79.95 (act now, and get a 10% bonus on your purchase) or whatever gimmick they have to offer to try and get you.

OK, for all my fellow World of Warcraft players, here are two links that you may be interested in, the first one is the right address to go to, but if you’re unsure, check it out:

1. http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=3451
2. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SpamSentry
3. http://www.google.com/

The first address as shown came from Google, and it does help quite a bit. The second address is to show you my results (which show address 1,) and if you want to search for yourself, choose number 3. It appears to me, that advertising, even with politics are taking over the world.

What are the paying consumers (You know, for “Cable Television, Satellite Television, AM Radio, FM Radio, along with the internet, and others,”) to do, since it’s being taken over with advertisements and spam? OK, you might say, “That is what sponsors are for.” So if that be the case, why are we being shut out? Hell, 10 and 20 years ago, there has been a huge increase with commercials and advertising – and I’ve written about that on my blog.

Red Faction
This game was one of my most favorite games, despite Red Faction II that did not have multiple player interaction, was completely dead, it was a dud. Hell, Halo kicked the crap out of Red Faction, even Halo II and Halo III would dominate Red Faction I and II. OK, I will admit, I never played Halo II or Halo III, but from what I seen, Red Faction has absolutely no chance – considering it’s already dead these days.

EverQuest: Lords of EverQuest
No comment. It’s dead, it did not last too long (had fun with it with my girlfriend before she passed away) which I should mention was my fiancée.

Dungeon Siege
This is a game my fiancée and I had fun with, even though she bought Dungeon Siege II but we never got the chance to enjoy. Ok, 2 games I died with. Then there is Diablo that I started to enjoy again; comments for those two coming…

Diablo
I really started to get back in to this game duo to my fiancée but then lost interest after Diablo II, and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. I don’t think I need to use any more categories beyond this point from this game.

Command and Conqueror
This is a game she could not really get interested in, although she’s smash me most of the time inside of EverQuest: Lords of EverQuest. Strange a bit, don’t you think? Think about it, both games are almost the same, with similar concepts I guess playing this after months on end with EverQuest: Lords of EverQuest can kill other games quickly (especially after a game based on the same style of game-play.)


What is wrong with Microsoft/others
You have your 32 bit systems (i386/i486/i586/i686) and such, that are known as 386, 486, Pentium, then you have your PentiumPro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, systems, then you have the this type of system “Macintosh PowerPC G3” that is a 64-bit system, the others are only 32-bit systems, now they are becoming a 64-bit system (not all, some but not all,) yet the new “64 bit systems” are being sent with “32 bit platforms” when they should be shipped with both platforms. It does not seem fair or right, regardless of price; granted Windows XP 64/Vista64 costs more, but is it really necessary considering the fact that most companies are not supporting the hardware? Duh.

It seems that most of your Linux and UNIX systems (and your wannabe UNIX systems are aiming towards x86, x64, PowerPC, etc.) structures. And yet, Microsoft is still slacking behind – OK, I know I give them credit but discredit them, but they need to pick up the pace. Hell, what is their excuse? To “perfect” the product those have? Come on! Granted, Apple, Inc. has used FreeBSD as the core to Mac OS X, who is stopping Microsoft from doing the same? Yet people yell Microsoft is stealing from Apple, Inc. Hmm, I see cry babies. Hell, I own a Mac, and several PC systems; and by the way Apple, Inc., get a clue, you are posting commercials bashing a PC yet you signed up with Intel to make a “Mac Intel” to run Windows and Mac, get a freaking clue you retards.

OK, end of my gripe, I love both platforms, but I hate the bashes between Mac and Windows – remember, FreeBSD runs on PC (so you can’t say PC sucks, Mac is not superior or a God. Both systems are great for what they’re designed for – combine your technologies and you may have a God; till someone comes along and smashes you in to the ground. Ok, can see a “recycle” in the future? I bet.

SOME ODD HUMOR
The PowerPC Macintosh G3 does not see hard drives above 126 gigabytes. OK, yet “where is the Power” I hear about. OK, it beats having 2-10GB drives I had initially, and was still a good system. But going from Mac OS X 10.2 to Mac OS X 10.4 really crushed the space and forced me to go out and buy a 250 GB drive, that I can only use and still, am using 126 GB of that drive (so you figure, how much am I really missing. Some “PowerPC (“Power PC”) that Macintosh produced” at the time. But I cannot say wrong, they did have a “64 bit processor” before PC did. Oh wait, “PowerPC” hmm…

Windows Vista
I am transferring over 21.2 GB of data right now to a storage share, which I initially had 72 GB of data to send, had to restart 2 times (not sure if it was because I am not connected from a wire) but what the hell. Another commercial about Mac said something about USB, Wireless, and something else – I am sorry, but Microsoft made it a lot easier initially – but Mac OS X 5 does (from what I hear,) have its advantages coming, but at least wait till Mac OS X 5 is being shipped before talking trash. Needless to say, I have about 2 hours and 15 minutes left out of all this transfer, not including the 2 hours on top of that (including the cancel, restart, reset, etc.) some nice TCP/IP stacks, and UDP included in Windows, UNIX, and the firewall based on UNIX. DUH!