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How Long Can You Play At One Time?

January 17, 2007 By Gitr 7 Comments

What is the longest you have played a game, any game in one stretch? I’m not talking about not going to sleep or going to get some lunch, I’m talking about how many days have you done nothing but played the computer, console, or other game system because of vacation, school break, sickness, etc.?

EDIT: While these are cool…I mean in one sitting folks. Anyone can play a game for a year. How many can not go to work, school, grocery store, or anywhere important or fun for a year? I’m talking 1-14 days here…so what is it, really? [Read more…] about How Long Can You Play At One Time?

Recap of TBC and Gitr’s First Impressions

January 17, 2007 By Gitr 4 Comments

I had a blast last night, unlike I have had in-game in many many moons. When I got home, I made sure I had enough HD space on the game drive and made a backup copy of all my 2.0.1 patches on up, just in case the upgrade overwrote them. It doesn’t, by the way. I installed the latest drivers for my nVidia card after reading in the manual at work (I really didn’t want to be there after I picked up the game) that if the game ever locks up or restarts that you should update your drivers. It worked like a charm. No lockups for the first time in a month!

I got the 2.0.3 to 2.0.5 patch, which was only a 2MB download and got in-game. I quickly created Bloodr on Burning Legion and jumped ship to go play Gitr on Kargath. I ran through the portal and was presented with a huge staircase leading down to a gigantic ?? level monstrosity at the bottom of the stairs. Instead of trying to kick his butt, I went to the left to turn in my quest that I picked up outside the portal, accepted a new quest from the Flightmaster, and hopped on a grif to Honor Hold.

Once I landed, I made my way around following little golden dots on my minimap to get and complete little quests around the hold. [Read more…] about Recap of TBC and Gitr’s First Impressions

Humble Outland Beginnings

January 16, 2007 By Gitr Leave a Comment

Here is a photojournal of my day so far:

No Collector’s Edition for Gitr

January 16, 2007 By Gitr 1 Comment

Apparently my local Best Buy only had reserved copies available, and I was unwilling to actually spend any money on the expansion, sooooo I had to settle for the regular version. I’m bummed, yes, but still satisfied that I’m a responsible member of society and meeting the family budget at the same time.

I am pretty sure I was the only person at my store that was going to work today. I left work shortly after 9:00 and really had no need to stand in line since there weren’t any CE copies. They ordered 300 extra regular version for the shelves, so showing up during lunch break would have been fine. :/

I’ll be getting off at 3:30 to go play. 🙂 Gitr is standing on the steps of the portal with his Nethergarde Bitter, all ready for walking right through.

I will also be rolling a new Blood Elf, with class pending what the racials are. It is too difficult to find that information at work from behind this firewall. Any guesses as to the name?

May I come in, please?

January 16, 2007 By Gitr 2 Comments

Knock, knock.

What!? I need to have the expansion to enter? Doh! I guess I shall mount up and ride to Best Buy. Too bad they don’t open until 10:00. ARRGGHHH!!! Stupid non-midnight stores!

Today is THE day: Burning Crusade hits the stores!

January 16, 2007 By Gitr Leave a Comment

Short of the Good LORD coming back, this is the day we’ve all been waiting for. I am heading to Best Buy today with my gift card from Christmas to get the coveted Collector’s Edition. I will either go during lunch or maybe even…gasp…wait until after work to pick it up. More likely than not, I’ll go right away and go back to work to listen to the soundtrack and read the book.

If I get on to play tonight, I will consider it amazing, because I predicted in December that this will be the biggest server crash day since the gates opened in 2006. Each realm experienced massive population problems as everyone rushed over to Kalimdor to watch the event.

Also of note, and I missed it, yesterday was the 13th anniversary of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans