#0 - Aug. 29, 2007, 4:03 p.m.
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Is it going to affect the time of release for patch 2.3? I mean c'mon... we haven't seen the under development page updated for ages... we haven't see a meaningful patch for quite some time... yet you can't even throw us a bone? :S
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Heeey thanks for the response Neth... kinda bored refreshing the page while at work... greatly appreciated... sorry if I sounded a little annoyed.
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Actually, I would appreciate some kind of reasoning as to why Macs can get a recording program, and PCs can't, since PCs are the vast majority of your audience. I'd also like to know if anything new game-play wise was being added in this patch, cause lord knows it's been a long long long time since anything was added in this department. Starting to only log on for dailies/raids, aka the game's getting a little stale. I'd have figured you guys learned this lesson a bit ago when you broke up a patch into bits cause you realized it was taking too long to release, but here we are again apparently, and it's not even a content patch. :\
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I believe the Sunwell also includes a 5 man wing.
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Something I've been curious about for awhile is the use of this forum as the primary means of pushing information to the end-user. This seems pretty ineffective however - changes to class abilities and mechanics go through in patches and there are *lots* of players that have no idea these things have ever been changed. (I can find quite a large number of shaman on a single server who have no idea windfury now has an internal cooldown for example)
What I see here is a large gap between the information and the end-user. Sure, the info is being posted, but its really only available if someone reads the forums pretty heavily, and I'm sure the CMs can perhaps provide us some figures on the percentage of player base that actively uses the official forums. Secondly, the information that does get posted is frequently difficult to find since there's no official summary of this information available. One could use the BlueTracker website, but we really can't expect everyone to be aware of a 3rd party website. See the poster above me - he didn't know that the Sunwell is going to have a 5man component as well. Where would he go to have learned this on the official WoW Board? Unless he was specifically searching for those key words or stumbled into the blue posts that it was mentioned, he may have missed it completely.
Summary: Information on the incredible range of changes that have gone on in Warcraft is excruciatingly difficult to find for the average player. What do you say to this Neth?
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Blizzard does a great job communicating outside of the game, but some players only log in, play and log out. I suppose you could always have in-game newsletters with the same information, either mailed to each account's mailbox or posted on bulletin boards, or have NPC's that hand out newsletters. =)
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For the in game voice chat, is there a way to define WoW to utilize a separate sound card/sound device then the main one? For instance, when I use Mumble/Vent/Teamspeak I allow WoW to use my sound card's outputs for game sounds and the like, but define those applications to use a USB headset for voice input and output. That way, I have my game sounds coming from my speakers, and my voice coms from my headset.