Excessive Opinions

I’ve started playing WoW recently. I know, I know, I’m late to the game and everyone already knows about it. I first heard about WoW back when I used to use IRC, people were chatting about this WOW and I was confused. I was familiar with “:)” and “LOL,” it was before “LMAO” and “ROFL” were even around. What was this WOW and why are people so amazed by it?

You’ve got to pay? Well damn. I’ll stick to Runescape and SimCity. So I pretty much ignored it up till now. So yeah, I’m a couple days into my 11 day free trial and I’m probably going to buy the client. There’s a bundle for the game and one expansion for around ten quid, that comes with a 30 day card and so I’m sure I’ll have a more in depth opinion of it then but for now, a thought or two. 

World of Warcraft is the fourth game in the Warcraft series, after Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. It was realised in 2004 and has a MASSIVE following, many Blizzard fans only play this game and no other game at all. It’s the biggest MMO of all time and it’s hard to imagine any other game overtaking it any time soon. The figure everyone seems to throw around is that they have 11.5 million subscribers, yet this was back in 2008. Blizzard has said they expect this to continue to increase and that they’ve still not got to their entire possible audience by far. That’s a creepy high number of players.

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Why does iTunes suck on Windows computers? Seriously. Mac users don’t seem to complain too much, I mean it’s the operating system’s primary media player so I’m going to assume it works. Then again, technically Windows Media Player was designed for Microsoft… Regardless, iTunes just can’t be as bad as it is on Windows. I’m sure of that.

It’s slow, just, it’s so slow. And on top of that sluggishness it crashes a lot. You plug in an iPod and it’ll take a good couple minutes before it’s connected and if you try to add new music to the library; it will crash. Not only do I have to use Task Manager to force it to close as it completely freezes up every time I try and change anything but when it does work it uses up a ridiculous amount of CPU. This is a major problem because even when you’re not physically editing the music info and album covers, it takes too much CPU to leave open in the background.

Is it an attack on Microsoft users? Does Apple do this on purpose or did they just put it together and now doesn’t care about editing it further. Putting their focus on the Mac iTunes and not increasing usability and fixing glitches so obviously present in our Microsoft version. I do sort of understand Apple not wanting to spend that much time and money on increasing the Windows users’ experiences. As someone who owns three Microsoft computers I don’t have any real reason to have iTunes beyond that I need it for my iPod Touch. I wouldn’t be too surprised if I found that the iPhone and iPod’s are the main reason PC users have iTunes.

This post doesn’t have a real point other than to bitch about iTunes for a second. I hate that I need this stupid piece of software on my computer that Apple doesn’t even try to make usable. With all the shit they’ve said about Flash (which I do agree with) it’s slightly hypocritical, as iTunes is the same as Flash when it comes to crashing frequency.

A new feature of my site, it’s been available for a while now but I’m only now actually bringing your attention to it. So, sorry if you’ve been waiting for this. (I doubt that you have.)

http://www.66seven.co.uk/ask

Basically, you can now submit subjects you want me to cover, ask me questions if you wish and generally try to steer my attention towards what you want me to cover in this site. I’m going to read everything submitted and I’ll incorporate anything useful into future posts.

You don’t need to log in to submit anything, I don’t want yah details. It’ll literally just take five minutes and unless it’s completely abused I’m going to keep it for a while. Mosey on over and give me something to read and respond too!