Buying classic content

Yesterday Tesh said this, responding to my "what would get you excited?" post.I'm with Leah; drop the stupid subscription already and run with a GW business model. I'll pay for content, but paying for time pisses me off.That would even allow for classic servers; players only play the "chapters" of the game that they have paid for, including the mechanics for those chapters. I wonder how the pricing would work with that. If it was just content, then a base + expansions model would work ...

Articles tagged with: Raiding, Cataclysm

Is height a requirement for a serious character?


I'm 5 feet 3 inches tall. When I wear heels, I call them my tall shoes because they make me tall. Not taller, because that would indicate that there were some degree of tallness to begin with. Trying on platform shoes is an exercise ...

What signals the end of an expansion?


Wrath of the Lich King ended on kind of a sour note for me, largely because I didn't get to participate in my guild's one and only 25-man heroic Lich King kill before Cataclysm launched. Part of the rankle was ...

Officers' Quarters: Dropping the drama totem


Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader's Handbook, available from No Starch Press.
Selecting players ...

Identify the Fail


In which I realize that WoW raiding and software development have a common element.
How does this relate to raiding? Well, it has to do with learning from one’s mistakes.
In the software development world, we have ...