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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #30 on: January 23, 2004, 01:56:37 AM »
Yippee!! Beta signups! Another go at a one-in-a-million chance at testing a Blizzard game!
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« Reply #31 on: January 23, 2004, 09:08:34 AM »
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« Reply #32 on: January 23, 2004, 09:52:18 AM »
Something wrong Gemm?
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #33 on: January 23, 2004, 09:57:50 AM »
Yeah somethings wrong. I'm probably going to get in, and then I'll have the client downloaded and everything, and then, you what happens then?

My campus goes, "Screw you dude, we're not gonna let you play." And then BAM! my bandwidth is limited to nothing almost! And I will be peeved! And all will be worthlessed!

Stupid campus. If only someone knew how to trick the buggers. Man....
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« Reply #34 on: January 23, 2004, 10:11:35 AM »
Your university campus deliberately controls the amount of bandwidth you're allowed on a person to person basis? Yikes. If it's like other Blizzard games, though, the amount of bandwidth required should be relatively small. I've seen people playing Warcraft III halfway decently on a 56K modem. WoW might be somewhat more intensive, but it still shouldn't need much in comparison to most MMORPGs I expect.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #35 on: January 23, 2004, 10:11:40 AM »
it's so good to know you're an optimist.

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« Reply #36 on: January 23, 2004, 10:18:24 AM »
Yeah... maybe. I got into the beta testing for the War3 expansion. That was a cool time. Until it stopped working. But I had some fun times.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #37 on: January 23, 2004, 10:37:04 AM »
How about a link to that post?
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #38 on: January 23, 2004, 11:14:18 AM »
Well if for some odd reason you do get in (it's completely random) Blizz said you can request a CD of the beta instead of downloading the whole game.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #39 on: January 23, 2004, 01:53:25 PM »
I can download things fairly quickly (average of about 10-30 KB/sec here), but what happens is when I get on a game, BAM, bandwidth limited. They're real sticklers, I asked the help desk about this last semester and some wise-a** told me "I'm here for academics." So I pretty much was upset.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #40 on: January 23, 2004, 04:56:10 PM »
First, can we get a link?  I saw nothing on the blizz site or battle.net about it.

Second, Blizz games use an amazingly small amount of bandwidth.  I usually connect on dial up at 46.6 and I've never had any trouble with lag playing WCIII nor Diablo II on battle.net.  It can be a *little* laggy at times, but nothing like I expected.  I've never lost a battle because of lag....just my lack of skill.  So it's not terrible.

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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #41 on: January 23, 2004, 06:17:56 PM »
Ok... since no one wants to listen to me, let me give you an analogy.

When I play a game, it is like being a a 14.4 modem, and even then, it goes slow.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #42 on: January 23, 2004, 06:32:16 PM »
.... i doubt, but I'm in no position to whine, since my connection is absolute crap. It does make sense that they'd limit the bandwidth available for games. Since it IS for academic purposes, not entertainment.

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« Reply #43 on: January 23, 2004, 07:47:57 PM »
Oh yes, yes. Academics. Because thats all I want to do. Study, read, and do my homework. Yes, because I'm a good little sheep.

And to that I say bah. That's the lamest thing ever. Yes, I do do my work, but thats because I set aside time to do it. When I'm not doing work I'm either going to relax, surf the net, or play a game. Now, I've never had the awesome privilege of having a cable or DSL connection. So I'm not that whiney about not being able to play any of the FPS games I have on the net. BUT, for my RTS games, I do like to play those on the net. Since at home my dial-up can handle that. But, I'm elsewhere, and I supposedly have a "high speed bandwidth" connection. But here, no no no. They can put all the pretty banners on it, yeah. Nope, doesn't work. I'm sure there are many people here at this school who have woes over this. My roommate being one (he's such a whiney butthole). I'll stop here though, since this is starting to upset me, and I dislike being upset.

Also, you can go on and on that Warcraft 3 takes up a very small amount of bandwidth, and I'm sure it does, but whatever my school does makes it unplayable. Since whenever I join a room, about a minute later I drop. So where's your answer now? I'm sure you all have an answer worthy of being second to the "Meaning of Life?" question. So do, do tell.
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Re: World of Warcraft
« Reply #44 on: January 23, 2004, 08:24:19 PM »
Gemm : shut up.

I'd do that, since my computer and connection can now handle any game i chose to try my hand at. Someone drop me a line at the appropriate time.
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