One of my favorite parts of World of Warcraft is jumping off stuff. The other day I found a diving board of all things. And so the scene was set. I went down below and had Jeff just jump right off. Now if we can only get a diving mini-game. I wouldn’t put it past Blizzard.

Later I was looking for some metal in the mountains and didn’t feel like walking down so I found the quickest way down I could. Looks like those little kobolds, they are like flies to Vigo.

All that excitement made me tired….

See, doesn’t this all look like fun? But Tim, I can only show you the door.

I can’t hear you, my gryphon’s giant wings are making too much noise.

So I am finally done helping my pop get his new machine running and I am all set to start playing World of Warcraft for the night. Wouldn’t you know it, they are having login issues. Thing is, everyone else logged in earlier so they are all playing, and I’m not!

So I went looking in the forums to find out more about the servers in general and I came upon this thread:

Ksengage:
Login Issuse | 1/5/2005 6:59:05 PM PST
Umfor some reason me and a Few others on my Guild can’t Login…. like one of them got all the way connected and it disconnected them??? We are on Magtheridon Server? any ideas.

Luciuss
1/5 Login Issues | 1/5/2005 6:45:26 PM PST
We are currently investigating the reasons behind the login problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Updates will be posted as soon as we have more information. Thank you for bearing with us!
Luciuss
Senior Game Master
World of Warcraft

Ksengage:
Re: Login Issuse | 1/5/2005 7:02:41 PM PST
Moonguard of Elune Will Own You!!!

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Here’s a barrage of World of Warcraft Screenshots:

I used to watch people play other MMORPG’s and it seemed like all they ever did was walk around forever. Like when you are in Target. In WoW you can actually take a gryphon to get around. Its kinda like an airline. The graphics in this part of the game are outstanding. Also, EJ pointed out the subway to me. No kidding a subway! They even have benches you can sit on to wait for the train. I don’t have any screenshots of that at the moment, but I’ll get some. And now so more amusing stuff…

Comedy like this makes the $15 a month worth it. Ok, that’s a lie, but still I definitely laughed when I came upon this in Tinker Town.

Apparently no one in Azeroth ever learned how to stand in line and wait for Santa.

So here he is, the man of the hour. Santa (or the more PC “Greatfather Winter”) gave me presents but more importantly he gave me what I really wanted for christmas, XP.

I am making “friends” with a bear. He eventually became my pet and I named him “BigPapi”.

So I started playing World of Warcraft. Now I know what you are thinking… “We’ve seen Mike get pumped up about games before and then nothing.” Let’s not forget the Star Wars Galaxies debacle. That’s just it though, those games gave me no reason to keep coming back. That’s why WoW has been declared the new king of video games. It’s like Diablo online with super awesome pills. I mean really has Blizzard ever done you wrong? Whoever it is that is Jeff’s friend and doesn’t like the Warcraft Series, you need to get off your high gryphon and get with the program. For real though if you guys wanna play we are on the Skullcrusher server. Just whisper (that’s the way the HeyDudes talk to each other in game) to me “mikegray” or my buddy ej “Gryph” and we can hook you up with all sorts of goodies.