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Ever since canceling my World of Warcraft count a year ago, I am occasionally tempted to jump back into the game.  However, the idea of constantly updating addons, and big grinds to get anything cool always turn me off.  I never expected WoW to put out a patch that would actually cure my need for quest helping addons, nor did I expect them to lower the level requirement for a mount again as well as the cost.

Check out these little bits from the 3.2 Patch Notes:

• Apprentice Riding (Skill 75): Can now be learned at level 20 for 4 gold. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 20 directing them to the riding trainer.
• Journeyman Riding (Skill 150): Can now be learned at level 40 for 50 gold. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 40 directing them back to the riding trainer.
• Expert Riding (Skill 225): Can now be learned at level 60 for 600 gold from trainers in Honor Hold or Thrallmar. Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold for Alliance; Thrallmar for Horde). Flight speed at this skill level has been increased to 150% of run speed, up from 60%.
• Item Comparisons: Holding the shift key while hovering over an item will now display the stat differences with the item currently equipped in the relevant slot.
• Quest creatures and objects will now show on the player’s world map.
• The quest log is now double-paned for more easily viewing quest information.
• Vendor prices will now be listed on items whether or not players are at a vendor.

Wow, I am very surprised.  I know some players might say this makes the game too easy, but for me it just makes it a lot more fun and playable.  I don’t know about you, but I HATE spending a half hour running around looking for a quest objective.  Whenever this patch makes its way onto the live realms, you might just see Kargo roaming around again.

It has been FOREVER since we’ve put out a new episode, but now we finally did.  Considering the fact that tonight’s episode went so well, the chances of us staying consistent are really good now.  Since we had 6 months worth of stuff to cover, this was an extra long show. Topics included E3, UP, and pretty much everything else that’s in the below mountain of tags. At a little over an hour and a half, the show should keep you busy until next Sunday!  :-)

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At long last we have an episode again!  In this episode we talk about the delay, a car accident, Wrath of the Lich King, Quantum of Solace, Left4Dead, the iTunes app store, Thanksgiving festivities, and so much more!

In the show, we shared a few links with you that would allow you to keep tabs on what we’re doing.  They will be found below.  (But hey, you’ve already found my main site!  )

My Twitter

Larry’s Twitter

Larry’s Blog

Larry’s Live Show!

And for those of you interested, you can see pictures of my wrecked Camaro right HERE.  (You can throw me a friend request on there as well if you like.)

And finally, the show!

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I found THIS ARTICLE to be interesting indeed.  The juicy part of this article is that Blizzard announced that over the last five years it has only cost them $200 million in upkeep.  Now at first glance this looks like a lot, but let’s put things into perspective.  5 years is 60 months.  World of Warcraft currently has something like 10 million subscribers (I think it’s actually about 12 mil now) paying about $15 a month.  (They can pay $1 or $2 less if they pay for multiple months at a time)

So this is about $150 million they are making a month.  150*60=9000.  So they’ve made $9 billion dollars from monthly fees alone.  So in other words, only about 1% goes to upkeep.  Interesting.

Update: Let’s look at something else, shall we?  How many subscribers, paying $15 a month, would they need to break even after five years?  Well, $200 million divided by the 60 months is about $3, 333, 333.33.  Not divide this by $15 (for the monthly fee), and you get 222,222.22 which would round to 222,223 subscribers.  They currently have more than 10 million.  I’d say they did Ok.

Now let’s look at one final thing.  What if they took a method like Guild Wars did and only charged for the main game and expansions.  Well, $50*$10 million gives you $500 million.  Then you can pretty much double that considering the Burning Crusade expansion pack.  Again, looks like they would be Ok.  Hmmm…it does seem like the subscription model isn’t necessary.

It’s episode #10, and, as promised, we were broadcasting live with a chatroom! The cool thing? The people in the chatroom got to listen to the show almost a full day before anyone else. Cool, huh?

But anyway, in this episode we talk about the new Mummy movie, X-Files, Hot Fuzz, Fallout 3, DC Universe Online, Champions Online, Team Fortress 2, a five grand computer, annoying checkpoint saves, and so much more!

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In this episode Larry and I talk about Wall-E, Journey to the Center of the Earth, iPhone/iPod applications, and tons of stuff from E3!

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Since the comic already takes up a fair amount of space on the blog page, read the rest of this article after the break.

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This is one of those times where I just could not think of a good image to search for. Instead I just searched for “fat bulldog.” This is the result!

In this episode Johan (From Sweden!) joins us and we talk about everything from EVE Online to Hancock to gas prices. It’s worth a peek! Just to warn you though, you might have to turn up your computer/.mp3 player’s volume to hear Larry at certain points.

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*Sorry that I haven’t been updating the blog as much lately. I’ve been a bit busy!*

EDIT: Want to check out our guest’s show? Come see it HERE! It’s in Swedish by the way!

In this episode Larry and I talk about Diablo 3, Wall-E, The Wanted, the 300 sequel, Authenticators, college, Apple and so much more!

By the way, sorry about the delay on this episode.  It would have been up earlier but my internet seems to be moving at about 1kb a year right now. 

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Ok I’ll be honest, this surprised me. Blizzard has announced at the WWI in Paris that Diablo 3 is in the works. In fact you can go see the site right HERE. The gameplay trailer is huge! I’m downloading it right now, and it’s 807 MB!

For those World of Warcraft players out there WoW Insider had an awesome right up on the changes that are coming in WoW. Pet talent trees and Illidan Form? Neato!

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