Hmm? People actually recently complained that the game was feeling too small because it was too easy to get around. If it takes you more than 2 minutes to get somewhere, you're doing it wrong.

well, last time I checked (roughly 3/4 year ago) my roommate had to take the plane (some sort of dragon or whatever) for 10+ mins to reach his target destination, only to wait endlessly for scripted events, then die within 2mins and repeat the whole scenario. yawn. :<

The longest reasonable flight was 5-6 minutes about 3-4 years ago - that would be UC->Kargath. You could fly across an entire continent which would take 10+ minutes, but there are were shortcuts in place even back in the day to help that. WoW's progression was based on skills and items (mounts to make you move faster) that simply make the same tasks take less time.

dunno, but no matter whether it's 5mins for 10, it's still a retarded concept and annoying

You can currently get there in less than a minute from any place in the world.

I have quit wow like 2 years ago but I still remember the blessing of being a mage in that regard :D

Even more so since they are getting rid of ghetto hearthing in the next patch. =D

haha! perhaps someday I'll return to wow and hopefully they wont have deleted my dormand 70 mage.

No characters will ever be deleted, so you're safe. If you haven't bought the expansion yet, you can play it for a week for free.

unfortunately my comp sucks too much for wow as far as I can tell.

Also, wow means no work done and no social life :D

anyways, do you know if i can use my old char for the 1 week trial or would it give me some level 1 char or something (which wouldnt make sense so nm)

It's essentially a trial for your current account that you own. It's meant to try to get you back into the game by letting you play WOTLK with your old account for a short time.

If you do the trial, I recommend making a death knight instead of just going to northrend on your 70 as you won't get much out of that week unless you play a shit load. At least with the death knight, you can go through the whole instanced starting area and get a feel for how much they did with WOTLK.

net code is slightly better, rest of the game is shitty

slightly better netcode?
I guess that's why they hired arQon to implement CPMAs netcode.

clearly you haven't played both games if you are going to argue this!

guess I haven't played enough ql to have an opinion on the netcode :)
plus I'm a swede..
Guess they're going to make the netcode even better in that case.

zzz @ pointless flame on esr. the only redeeming feature in this article is the house reference.

why flame an attempt to make quake bigger? not got anything better to do with your time? if quake gets bigger, awesome. if it doesn't, oh well, already used to a stagnant game and community. but shit journals like this aren't constructive at all, it's just hypocritical.

i'm not on ESR to be constructive.

How does ESR make you feel?

its great, its like when that first bit of puke hits your p...

its ok.

he comes here to vent when his pussy aches

Good thread

I stand by it.