Alright, I know that this isn't a gaming forum, and most of you have little to no interest in online games. But I've noticed a few members make reference to games that have been released over the past year or so. So I thought I would make the offer for anyone who might be interested.

If you've spent any amount of time online you've probably heard of World of Warcraft, even if MMORPG's (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) aren't your forte. It's a game set in a fantasy world where you select a faction, race and class and go to work killing your typical AD&D-esque fantasy creatures such as gnomes, demons, demonically-possessed gnomes, and gnome-possessed demons. This site contains some good info on what the game contains, while this write-up has some practical information for beginners.

World of Warcraft has a recruitment program going where if you recruit someone the two of you get several benefits. These include triple experience for both the recruiter and the recruitee while they are near each other and the ability to summon one another at will. In addition, the recruitee gets a 10-day free trial, while the recruiter gets a Spike Cohen-approved mount, as featured in the supplied picture.

Stinkies need not apply. The point of this game is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. Not to run around like a dickless idiot, fellating enemies and yelping at members of your own faction that they don't pay your useless ass enough heed. And I'm certainly not aware of any class that has a mixture of skills such as 'Strongly Worded Letter' or 'Worship Tyrannical Ruler and the Ground He Walks Upon'. I suppose that you could always emulate the actions of this video, and your repeated rapings of Africa could be equated to twinking. But regardless, I still don't want you by my side even in a virtual world, as the smell of unwashed French ass is probably powerful enough to emanate from your toon. And besides, I wouldn't be able to enjoy the game, what with you whining every time I kill a mob that I ignored all diplomatic channels and that I should have let the UN handle the giant half-rat/half-man that was charging towards me, swearing I'd never take his candle. And the sheer hypocrisy of knowing that after I log and I'm not looking you'll go on to slaughter thousands of defenseless little critters like a bunch of unarmed African protesters would irritate me.

It'd probably get to the point where I made another toon on the opposite faction just so that I could kill you. But that would get boring since I'm sure whenever you seen me you'd take off all your virtual clothes and have your toon bend over, just like your grandpappy did in WW2. Heck, it's bad enough that my server has a minority of Quebecers, which I've come to realize is the Canadian term for Down's Syndrome, without adding more French to the game. Plus, I highly doubt you'd enjoy the game anyway. MMORPG's are the ultimate form of capitalism. There's no taxes to pay and no hand-outs to be given. And no one is going to care if you go on strike from playing the game just because someone else has tens of thousands of gold while you're busy rubbing two coppers together hoping to make a third.

But otherwise, any non-French English-speaking peeps from FF are welcome to join me. I can hook you up with gold and bags to get you started. I play on the Alliance faction on the server Lothar. If you're interested PM me your email address and I'll send an invite your way. Or if you have any question feel free to PM me or reply to this thread.

Warcrack? No thanks.

I played this game for awhile:



World War II Online: Battleground Europe
en.wikipedia.org . . .
www.battlegroundeurope.com

I had a lot of fun shooting Stinkies.





The players who played the Allies were terrible.

I have been playing Warcraft for years. It's a good game.

It is a fun game.

My kids were nuts about warcraft when they were 9 and 12.

Don't

Do

It.


Step away from the keyboard.

A bunch of guys at work have been playing for years, including owners of the company.

It is very weird to hear these guys talking. Sales pukes, tech weenies, accounting dorks, company officers...all gathered in a conf room at lunch, laptops tuned into WOW, yelling about really geeky stuff.

I find it disturbing. They have been trying for years to get me to join. Sometimes I feel like the only adult in the company.

Stinkies need not apply. The point of this game is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. Not to run around like a dickless idiot, fellating enemies and yelping at members of your own faction that they don't pay your useless ass enough heed. And I'm certainly not aware of any class that has a mixture of skills such as 'Strongly Worded Letter' or 'Worship Tyrannical Ruler and the Ground He Walks Upon'.

If this isn't on the World of Warcraft box it should be.

Played for about 2 months, without stopping. I almost died. I never played it again.

Couldn't get into it myself, but my kid is a level 70 Death Knight

I only get close to this kind of game to sell them Terabits.

Everybody needs a Terabit

jerrylewissux wrote:

Stinkies need not apply. The point of this game is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. Not to run around like a dickless idiot, fellating enemies and yelping at members of your own faction that they don't pay your useless ass enough heed. And I'm certainly not aware of any class that has a mixture of skills such as 'Strongly Worded Letter' or 'Worship Tyrannical Ruler and the Ground He Walks Upon'.

If this isn't on the World of Warcraft box it should be.

There is a suggestion that should be addressed to French company Vivendi that owns Blizzard. Maybe a "strongly worded letter" will do the trick.

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MMORPGs are generally split between Europe, North America and Asia for various reasons and World of Warcraft is no exception. French people generally get servers in their own language as well, again, WoW is no exception. Somehow I don't see French members of FF.com going out of their way to get the american version of WoW to play with you Eynahsint.

Lily42 wrote:

MMORPGs are generally split between Europe, North America and Asia for various reasons and World of Warcraft is no exception.

When I played WWII Online (as it was called then) it was worldwide. There was no seperation by geography of players.

Often due to my work schedule, I found myself playing with Europeans during their "primetime". As I played on the Axis side, my co-players tended to be Germans, Finns, Italians and Spaniards. ALL of them knew English enough to get by.

My "Clan" was originally known as 1st Panzer Leibstandarte (The SS being deleted due to European PC laws) then pressured to become just LAH. Then to The Iron Brotherhood. I think its defunct now. The core of the clan were Canadian army soldiers. Good guys.

It's a slippery slope, video games. I spent at least a third of my teenage years, cracked out on Williams' Defender/Stargate and smoking cigs with all the other misanthropes at the arcade.

I got a PS3 to play blu ray dvds...haven't played any games yet...but it's a fantastic media server.

Doesn't anyone use the Internet just to look at porn anymore?

Lily42 wrote:



MMORPGs are generally split between Europe, North America and Asia for various reasons and World of Warcraft is no exception. French people generally get servers in their own language as well, again, WoW is no exception. Somehow I don't see French members of FF.com going out of their way to get the american version of WoW to play with you Eynahsint.

When I used to play, there was french guild on my east coast US based server. That was when I was in college, so maybe things have changed. I heard the germans have a real hard-on for that game. By the way, Blizzard is a US based company (in california) that was purchased by Vivendi about 15 years after it's founding. Vivendi has NO creative control over blizzard. That is why they make some of the world's best games.

Awthum....warcrack.

Can't knock the warcraft guys too much. I spent thousands of hours playing Unreal Tournament 2004.

I currently have Allied Assault : Airborne on my PC, but haven't really gotten far enough into it to be comfortable going online without getting totally owned by some 12 year old (great control system, btw).

I just don't play near as much as I used to.

The players who played the Allies were terrible.

Too bad, the campaign 52 has been a tremendous defeat for your German buddies.

That was quite funny to see them switching side on the last days of the campaign : a real bunch of yanks

letarsier59 wrote:

Too bad, the campaign 52 has been a tremendous defeat for your German buddies.

That was quite funny to see them switching side on the last days of the campaign : a real bunch of yanks

I played a long, long time ago. I am sure things have changed. Like I said, my old Clan is long gone.

You can play either side in that game, at any time. When I played, it was strictly 1940 France---none of that high end equipment (Shermans, Tigers, etc.) The Axis win ratio was like 56:1, back then.

My Clan even "cheated" once by staging an Operation Sea Lion. The game designers had placed some air bases in Britain for the RAF, never thinking Germans would ever go there. A couple of our more "devoted" members took a small patrol boat on the coast, loaded it with some infantry, and proceeded to spend over four hours in real time, crossing the Channel. Once they took over a spawn point, the invasion was on!

Good times.

I played EVE Online for three years. Had a male Acur with 31m SP. I no longer play. I nicknamed that game "World of Blobcraft" What happens is that you kick someone's ass, then they cry, then go get their friends, so it would be 6vsYou. The only way to excel in that game is to be a complete fucking pussy.

MMORPG's are pretty lame imo.

I prefer games where ones power is based on skill rather than the amount of time invested.

RTS and FPS are really where it's at.

Try Dawn of War II for instance.

www.dawnofwar2.com . . .

GreyUhu wrote:

World War II Online: Battleground Europe

I remember that game. It came out at a time when I wasn't interested in playing MMO's, but if I recall correctly Old Man Murray had a few write-ups about it. I'm surprised that the German players played the Axis. I would've figured the deeply embedded cultural shame of WW2 that Germans suffer from would have made them play as Allies.

trainer wrote:

A bunch of guys at work have been playing for years, including owners of the company.

It is very weird to hear these guys talking. Sales pukes, tech weenies, accounting dorks, company officers...all gathered in a conf room at lunch, laptops tuned into WOW, yelling about really geeky stuff.

I find it disturbing. They have been trying for years to get me to join. Sometimes I feel like the only adult in the company.

Yeah, a friend of mine went through a similar experience. At his previous job all anyone did was play Warcraft all day. He said they didn't do any real work. He played too, but I don't know if it was because he was interested in it, or just because he didn't want to be left alone to pick up the slack of everyone else. He stopped playing once he started working at a different company.

Lily42 wrote:

There is a suggestion that should be addressed to French company Vivendi that owns Blizzard. Maybe a "strongly worded letter" will do the trick.

It wouldn't work, I'm neither German nor Arab.

Lily42 wrote:

MMORPGs are generally split between Europe, North America and Asia for various reasons and World of Warcraft is no exception.

No shit. You're not telling us anything we don't already know. I didn't say that Frenchies didn't have access to the game. Just that I didn't want them at my virtual side. Incidentally is the number in your name a reference to your IQ? That'd explain a lot.

Lily42 wrote:

French people generally get servers in their own language as well, again, WoW is no exception. Somehow I don't see French members of FF.com going out of their way to get the american version of WoW to play with you Eynahsint.

Actually WoW is an exception to that rule. Those who purchase copies of the European version of WoW have to play on EU servers. There's no "French-only" server that they can gibber-jabber their dying language on.

geebart wrote:

When I used to play, there was french guild on my east coast US based server. That was when I was in college, so maybe things have changed. I heard the germans have a real hard-on for that game. By the way, Blizzard is a US based company (in california) that was purchased by Vivendi about 15 years after it's founding. Vivendi has NO creative control over blizzard. That is why they make some of the world's best games.

Yeah, my server is East coast as well, and has a plethora of Quebecers, Europeans and strangely enough Australians. I would think that Aussies would play on a Pacific server but I guess there's always

geebart wrote:

By the way, Blizzard is a US based company (in california) that was purchased by Vivendi about 15 years after it's founding. Vivendi has NO creative control over blizzard. That is why they make some of the world's best games.

Yeah, exactly. In fact I'm not aware of any games that are popular world wide that were made by the French. For that matter there's only a few game developers in Europe that produce anything that's popular outside of their continent.

monkybot wrote:

Can't knock the warcraft guys too much. I spent thousands of hours playing Unreal Tournament 2004.

I currently have Allied Assault : Airborne on my PC, but haven't really gotten far enough into it to be comfortable going online without getting totally owned by some 12 year old (great control system, btw).

I just don't play near as much as I used to.

I played to death the original Unreal Tournament. Wasn't a big fan of any of the follow-ups, though. And yeah, I know how you feel regarding playing online. Once FPS games became popular on consoles it was all over for us older players.

Lestier59 wrote:

That was quite funny to see them switching side on the last days of the campaign : a real bunch of yanks

Is this one of those TV episodes where everything is backwards? Yanks are cowards, Stinkies are brave, etc?

GreyUhu wrote:

My Clan even "cheated" once by staging an Operation Sea Lion. The game designers had placed some air bases in Britain for the RAF, never thinking Germans would ever go there. A couple of our more "devoted" members took a small patrol boat on the coast, loaded it with some infantry, and proceeded to spend over four hours in real time, crossing the Channel. Once they took over a spawn point, the invasion was on!

That actually sounds really fun. Now I regret not trying the game.

silverblue wrote:

I played EVE Online for three years. Had a male Acur with 31m SP. I no longer play. I nicknamed that game "World of Blobcraft" What happens is that you kick someone's ass, then they cry, then go get their friends, so it would be 6vsYou. The only way to excel in that game is to be a complete fucking pussy.

I played that briefly as well. I remember making a corporation just for kicks that was named The Sieg Heilers, with the corporate ticker name HITLR. Makes me laugh every time I think about it, though the corp was disbanded by the sysops within a day. The thing I liked about that game was that it was one server for all the players. WoW really amputates the community by splitting up so much of its playerbase among hundreds of different servers. Though I understand the need for such a thing when you have 11 million players.

NeoCon wrote:

I prefer games where ones power is based on skill rather than the amount of time invested.

RTS and FPS are really where it's at.

Try Dawn of War II for instance.

I actually don't disagree with this sentiment. But I also like being able to log in and build your toon up a little bit at a time, and not have the result of that effort disappear as soon as you log. I have played Dawn of War 2, and didn't enjoy it as much as the first one. I thought the single player campaign was fun though, with the RPG leveling system and gear drops.

Anyway, thanks for the replies all. KotR to all but the most worthless of Stinks.

WOW looks fun but I just don't have the time to play anymore. I use to rule at Call of Duty. I miss sliding my jeep sideways over an enemy.