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January 21, 2007

My "burning crusade"

Best conversation about WoW ever. Talking on the phone with a friend, we had the following exchange.

Me: "...Nah, I'm just tired. I went to WalMart last night and didn't get home until after midnight."

Her: "Why in the world were you there so late."

Me: "Well, sadly, you know, I had to go for The Burning Crusade."

Her: "Oh gawd I hate that. I'm sorry."

Me: "Well, I blame it on my husband. It wasn't so bad, though. I did meet a couple a of great guys who were there for the same reason."

*long pause*

Her: "The same reason? And you talked about it?"

Me: "Well, yeah. For about a hour or more."

Her: "They talked about your burning crusade for over an hour?!

[At this point I am pretty sure we are not talking about the same thing. I pause to try to figure out what she is talking about.]

Me: "Oh No! No! I am talking about the World of Warcraft game: The Burning Crusade. Not my burning crusade. This has nothing to do with Vagisil."

Her: "Thank God! Because that was one hell of a weird conversation!"

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January 18, 2007

So in love I slept with them

Don't they make a beautiful couple?

Is it wrong that I slept with this:

I even licked it a little. And whispered words of love and devotion to it.

~~~~~

So, all those times I made fun of geeks for getting in line early for a midnight release of something and all of those times I rolled my eyes and all of those times I said, "You wouldn't see ME out at midnight for some stupid game!"...well, I owe you an apology. I won't actually give you one, but I do owe you one.

Monday night around 11:00pm I found myself in the electronics department at Wal-Mart with 2 other ~~geeks~~ WoW players.

I met up with Jordan, a saxophonist who has been playing WoW since back in the day of 2004ish. (The cult got him early.) He, too, was hoping to score a copy of the Collector's Edition since he scored one of the originals. (I hear you, Jordan! I was a bit freaked thinking I would have to play without knowing I had that big box announcing my cult membership.) He knew way more about this game than I could ever hope to know.

And then there was Doug who writes for Beckett Gaming. Leave it to me to end up with strangers and the writer in me strikes up a conversation with an editorial director of a magazine. And I didn't even hit him up to write for him or for him to write up this whole momblogger turned gamer experience. But it was late and I was obsessing about getting a copy of the CE. I learned a lot more about gaming and WoW just from this time spent talking.

Jordan and Doug were great companions to keep me entertained and educated while we waited.

As we waited for midnight, David--a store employee-- came by and told us and three other people that the store received six copies of Burning Crusade CE. Since there was six of us waiting patiently and rather well behaved that we would each be able to purchase the game. (I was number 3 thankyouverymuch!) We were told to go wait by the register and we would get our copy at midnight. (There was much rejoicing--in our well mannered way.)

Meanwhile, at a WalMart miles away sat my unsocial husband who didn't actually "meet" anyone but rather spoke briefly with others in his line. (Have I taught him nothing??)

Which leads us to the question: Who gets the Collector's Edition? The teen boy who brought WoW into the house in the first place? The tween who really wants to have something cool that his friends don't have? The husband who really knows more about this game than God Himself? Or me? Because Blizzard loves me?

What do you think?

tags: gaming, Burning Crusade, world of warcraft, Blizzard

Hell yes it is mine.

Sorry boys! I love you. I will send you to a good college. I will even get you a regular copy of the Burning Crusade. But unless another collector's edition becomes available and I can get it, you are--how do they say it-- out of luck. Boy that sounds harsh. Bad mom.

Oh well. All is fair in love and WoW.

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January 15, 2007

An Open (love) letter to the creators of World of Warcraft

Dear (beloved) Creators of World of Warcraft,

How could you? How could make fall in love with playing WoW and do it in a way in which the timing is such that I didn't realize I was in love until it was too late to order my copy of the Burning Crusade Collector's Edition? I mean, you hooked me up with the CE edition of WoW when I was still such a noob. You even sent me the key to my heart anytime-- t-shirts! And after months of alpha testing and beta testing I discover I won't be able to have a collector's edition of BC. Oh, Blizzard, what have you done to me? Why did you not warn me about the shortage or CE's? Why did you not prepare me and let me know that even though when we found each other I could never understand it, but one day I would want a CE and should pre-order it? Why? Whyyyyyyyyyy?

I weep.

How can I live without my vanity pet? And knowing there is a new one coming? How can I look over at just a regular expansion pack edition without anyone's signature? Was this part of the plan? Are you breaking up with me? Please don't break up with me. Or is this your way of saying you want to see other players? So soon? I mean, I thought we had something special. You know, the whole "we will make you ours" type of relationship we had going? Remember how you said I amuse you? Is the magic gone?

Is the the fact I haven't mooned you yet? I will! I name all of my characters something "moon" related. That's for you, my friends. All for you.

And now, on the eve of the BC release, I weep that I was not indoctrinated into your cult sooner. If I had only known.

If I had only known.

But I still love you. I didn't want to. I tried not to. But we are helpless as to what our heart feels. You had me at "vanity pet."

Begrudgingly yours,
Jenn

ps- When is the next expansion pack coming out? What's next? Can I put my name on the waiting list NOW?! I mean to avoid this heartbreak between us.

tags: gaming, Burning Crusade, world of warcraft, Blizzard

You made me love you
I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it
You made me love you
and all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it.
You made me happy sometimes, you made me glad
But there were times, Dear, you made me feel so bad

You made me sigh for, I didn't want to tell you
I didn't want to tell you
I want some love that's true, yes I do, deed I do, you know I do

Give me, give me, give me what I cry for
you know you got the brand of kisses that I'd die for
You know you made me love you

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October 18, 2006

A is for Alpha. B is for Beta. BC is for Burning Crusade alpha and beta tester!

For those of you who read my other blog, Mommy Needs Coffee, you may be aware that I have had some medical issues I have been dealing with. So, you may be assuming that is why I have not blogged about World of Warcraft or Marama, my beloved Night Elf. You may reason that I have not been playing WoW and therefore couldn't blog about it.

Well, actually, you would be wrong. Well, partially wrong. I haven't actually been playing my character Marama in World of Warcraft as much as I was. Did I quit? Nope. Did I decide I couldn't be a gamer? Not at all.

So what have I been doing?

Playing the Friends and Family Alpha edition of The Burning Crusade, baby.

You read that right. Me--the "latest neo-gamer" I believe I was called by some silly website. I have been having the time of my life playing WoW- The Burning Crusade.

I have been playing the so called secret "friends and family alpha test" for relatives and associates of Blizzard's employees for quite a while now. It was very hard to not talk about playing The Burning Crusade, but there was an agreement that contains a clause strictly forbidding participants to even acknowledge the program's existence. But let me tell you something. It existed.

Now I am playing the Burning Crusade closed beta edition. How do I let you know how much fun this is? How about...it totally kicks ass! I have created character after character to just see what new spells and talents they have. I will continue to blog about both the WoW experience and Burning Crusade experience--now that I can acknowledge that it exists.

I can admit to playing the game and can tell you with no fear of you ever coming back to me doubting my word, you will really enjoy WoW-BC. I wouldn't lie to you.

tags: World of Warcraft, The World of Warcraft Burning Crusade, Burning Crusade Beta testing, Blizzard

Here are a few screenshots from the Blizzard website. If you enjoy WoW, you will really enjoy The Burning Crusade!