Tag Archives: WoW

Remove World of Warcraft Forum Ads with Chrome and Privoxy

December 18, 2008 – 11:43 pm

So, today Blizzard added advertising to the forums.worldofwarcraft.com webpages.  Normally I don’t mind dealing with ad revenue on websites, but I’m already paying them $15 a month for their game.   Over four years of WoW subscription, three convention tickets, and two copies of the game and two expansions means  well over $1000 that they [...]

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Adventures in Northrend

November 17, 2008 – 11:03 am

Circus Circus
Since midnight of the 13th most of my non-sleeping, non-working hours have gone into playing ‘Wrath of the Lich King’.  On last thursday, my impression of the game was somewhat nonplussed, mainly because the quest grind brings out a jealous competition in everyone.  Everyone is racing each other for that quest kill, or trying [...]

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Wrath of the Lich King has new Shadows

July 26, 2008 – 2:39 am

The WotlK wiki has some details on activating shadows in the beta: http://wotlkwiki.info/index.php/Graphics_Upgrade
I did some quick cruising around and took a few screenshots with the new terrain shadows activated in the beta client.  These shots are set to Medium (aka #2 of 6), which is “Full environmental and PC/NPC shadows, low-res, med-dist.”

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First Impressions of the “Wrath of the Lich King” Beta

July 24, 2008 – 6:40 am

I finally got my BlizzCon 2007 beta key Tuesday night and got the download installed Wednesday morning.
Nothing Ever Works…
Last night after getting home from work I finished patching up, and started the long annoying process of migrating all my UI settings and AddOns over to the beta install of Wrath of the Lich King. Of [...]

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