Skywatcher

I log in, but get bored right away since I don't raid anymore. The scare beast one is funny =)

Well I can't find a raid and pugging lfr stinks. Usually it's only me and maybe one other person on most nights. The guild is dead.

Figuring SWTOR killed WoW for some of us. Time to consider just killing the accounts.

I've got assorted herbs, ore, potions, leather, and other mats on the various alts. If anybody wants them, better say something before I vendor them.or just trash them.

Yes, some of us do still play WoW.

I rather like some of the motivational posters posted weekly on Warcraft Hunters Union:

Hmm

Hate to say I told ya so, but....

Yeah, people abandoning the 10 man and Origin's original screw up on my account have me thinking no SWTOR for me. I always figured if you gave a commitment to something, you stuck with it, such as getting Deathwing down.

If you open up the origin client it will have the product code for the game when displaying the game info.

That only shows the early release/beta key. After a good bit of poking around, I did find a phone number, which had me go that route, but since it wasn't an official release key, they couldn't do any more. That got me sent to call Origin.

Origin did give me a key over the phone, so that's done. Apparently, it's not an uncommon problem. When I called and said I'd not received a key for a game I'd purchased, the rep's almost experated reply was "SWTOR, right?" It seems that a lot of people never got the keys for digital download preorders.

I dunno. It's left me frowning a good bit. I wasn't getting seriously into it during early release, but was giving it a go. Now that I'm far far behind anyone else, I'm not sure I'll stick with the game.

I do know that my first digital game purchase will also be my last. I'll stick with actual physical box n discs from now on.

I guess I just wasted a bunch of money.

I did the digital preorder, was invited to a weekend beta, and was able to log in during early release. That much worked properly. However, I never received the email containing my product registration code. The first thing I did was check my spam folder to make sure it didn't get routed there. I also searched the email client's trash just to make sure I hadn't accidentally deleted it. There was nothing in either location.

The next step was to contact support and ask them to resend it. That was last Wednesday. I got an email back Thursday morning asking me to send them a scan of my receipt and and a picture of my physical copy of the game. Well, since I did the digital download, I sent along the purchase information I had from that. I did get an autoreply thanking me for opening a ticket after that, but then nothing.

Granted, it was a holiday weekend, but I'd have expected some sort of response by now. I'm not exactly confident that I'm gonna hear anything from them at this point.

So, since I'm not gonna shell out even more money just to get a product code that I already paid for, I guess I'm not gonna be playing. I'll stick with WoW.

Got my email this evening, but I've already made plans to level an alt in WoW a little with a friend. I'll be in SWTOR tomorrow though!

Dungeons will be fun again!

Shien seems to be where a lot of AD guilds/people ended up.

Morgh: you in ? are you in?

Do you hear that a lot?

...and all they have to put up with.

An oldie but goodie from WoWCrendor:

Aw man, you beat me to it. I was gonna post that Darnell Vid.

I ran into something similar last night. I finally logged in to add security questions and it took a number of tries. Once I did log in, the site responded quickly.

Maybe they were doing some work on their login servers.

Aw man. There's a star destroyer ornament? Let me guess, it's from a few years ago and now goes for huge bucks on ebay.

For now, I'll just have to stick to overloading my tree with Star Trek ornaments instead.

Hmm. Patch 4.3 hits today. Hopefully it'll all be in place before raid time.

Shucks, I just went ahead and set my display name as Boven, since I'm not all that creative.

So they start faction'less and you choose Alliance or Horde.

Hmm...which to chooose...which to choose.....cupcakes or doorways....

I'd nearly forgotten about the significance of today. Remember back when there was the big to-do about the world ending May 21st? and it kinda sorta didn't actually...y'know...end?

Then the guy behind it said it'll be October 21 instead.

Darnit, and I was gonna preorder SWTOR tonight.

According to WoW Insider's liveblogging of Blizzcon:

-New talent system

-Pandaren race

-Pannaria region

-Monk class

-90 level clap

-Dungeon challenge mode

-PvE Scenarios

-Pet Battle System

What those last 3 are, I've no clue.

Oh, and a fancy wingypony mount and some special access to Diablo 3 when it comes out and (guaranteed?) access to future beta testing IF you sign up for an 12 month WoW pass.

Pandas...jeez...

Aw man, and I didn't study! You never said lighthouses were gonna be on the exam!

Courtesy of WoWCrendor:

I'm tempted to try it out. I wouldn't be abandoning WoW though. Hrm. Another 15 bucks a month, eh?

I wonder if I should refrain from mentioning that during the final moments of the battle, I was kept busy with Ragnaros' molten balls. He really did seem to want to roll them all over me.

Wow. The first bit is kind of like the Onyxia part of the old Quel'Serrar quest, only 4 times over.

Darn. I hadn't heard about the armor types having to match. I knew I couldn't go rockin the twill set, but had hoped to be able to use some leather armor appearances on my mail. Specifically, I'd thought about this piece with which to transmogrify my PvP chest. Oh well.

I'm torn between the Giantstalker and Dragonstalker sets, though I think shaman T5 would look good too.

I've seen a number of nice Tauren pictures done by this artist, so I contacted him to see about having one done of Boven.

On the left is him as a young bull. On the right, is a more current view of the semi-retired warrior who tells stories and tales to anyone who'll listen.

I'm very happy with how the picture came out. Unfortunately, I neglected to mention Bov's nose ring in my description to the artist. That's a minor thing, though.