World of WarCraft Patch Repo!
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Posted by on March 15th, 2009Lately I fired up and installed my untouched copy of World of Warcraft bought from USA. It had been sitting in the closet due to some initial failures I incurred 
But finally it installed, I created an account and logged on.
Lo and Behold, I had to download some 3 to 5 gibs of updates just to play the game. I knew that would happen… without regrets I started downloading via the patch downloaded bundled with the game.
It uses a dynamic hash table (DHT) mechanism to keep a track of IPs sharing the same content. Much akin to the bittorrent protocol. Anyways, given to the fact that I am in Pakistan and I couldn’t really find people downloading the same patch to leech from, I was getting no where near completion of the 500+ meg download.
I knew Blizzard wouldn’t leave their fans in a lurch and searched up where I could download patches via HTTP. Thankfully there was a huge repository of reliable hosts that was serving them. It was Blizzard support themselves that listed various mirrors to these patches. Without wasting a second, I started downloading them one by one.
If you are having trouble download patches, or sit behind a firewall, I suggest you try the following link: World of Warcraft Patch Mirrors.
Good luck, have fun!
Blizzard reveal new Wrath of the Lich King footage and images!
Posted by on October 18th, 2008
Blizzard entertained Blizzcon 2008 attendees with a new set of media for their upcoming expansion pack to World of WarCraft MMO, Wrath of the Lich King.
Blizzard intend to include a lot more features into the game including a new hero class, The Death Knight. Wikipedia has a lot of information on this certain type of WarCraft character that has existed since earlier games.
Joystiq shared the video and images with us, head on over to their original post for more details and comments.
Blizzard has updated the Fan Art Section adding new artwork to their StarCraft 2 section.
New Era of the Lich [World of WarCraft]
Posted by on August 22nd, 2008
Blizzard begins it’s new era of marketing onslaught for their upcoming Expansion for the World of WarCraft, after the Burning Crusade expansion, with a tight new cinematic that features Mister Good Guy turn Badass. We have covered Blizzard’s astounding commercial success with this product time and time again on this blog. Here I have their new video for Wrath of the Lich King that really sets the pace in awesome computer generated 3-D graphics.
When ‘home alone’ ask Macaulay and Mila!
Posted by on April 27th, 2008
Movies are going down. The film industry is facing a slow down thanks to a surging gaming market and industry, plus the recent writer’s strike, etc. Apart from gadgets, web 2.0 web apps, and new media, the next hip thing is gaming. Ask these celebrities who have been interviewed by online e-Zine ‘Complex‘ who quized the two stars about World of WarCraft.
World of WarCraft is Blizzard’s massively popular massively multiplayer online role playing game. Which literally defines it’s genre, MMORPG. It is a paid subscription game that is extremely popular all over the world, especially North America.
Macaulay Culkin is famous for his Home Alone movies series, a cute face, and drug abuse. Mila Kunis is a more stable yet equally intelligent That 70’s Show (Wikipedia) super babe.
Surprisingly Mila and Macaulay were amazingly well informed about the game and was able to name famous sub-culture phenomenon that people on the fringe of the WoW world barely know. They both scored an awesome 5.8 on the quiz.
According to Mila, the nerdiest thing people can do on World of WarCraft, is “playing it”. She was also name the infamous name that was popularized by YouTube raid video.
Massively Multiplayer Call Of Duty in the pipeline ?!
Posted by on March 5th, 2008
It seems that Activision wants to compete in the Million Dollar Market of MMO’s such as Warcraft! And the game that they want to explore is the Game of the Year: Call Of Duty! Read on for more from Kotaku:
“The head cheese at Activision, Bobby Kotick, recently made headlines for his assertion that, in order to compete properly with World of Warcraft, publishers may need to invest nearly a billion dollars in such a venture. Fortunately for Kotick and crew, they now have access to the big brains at Blizzard and Vivendi, a group of folks who know quite a bit about the MMO business. How then, can Activision exploit its biggest earners into even bigger financial monsters?
Google Maps API + World of WarCraft: Google Maps for WoW!
Posted by on March 2nd, 2008
Yes! This is possibly the most innovative use of he Google Map’s API and the World of WarCraft, they have mashed up the both and come out with MapWoW. Just the way you zoomed in and out of the normal Google Maps, you can do the same with this map; Zoom in and out, etc. You can even select to view faction travel paths, herb growth, ore placement and many things more.
Earlier there was a blog about Azeroth being written at Metroblogging that is an example of projects done around WoW.
My quest to WoW: An epic FAIL!
Posted by on February 26th, 2008
So in a shopping spree in 2006 I went on an bought World of WarCraft US-CD and a 60 day game card, knowing that one day I will be able to play WoW. That day would be when I am free from studying, college, have a good internet connection and time to burn. So about a week back I decided unpack and install the virgin CD’s.
There are Five CDs in that pack and no it was not a DVD pack. By the time I reach the 4th CD, my CD drive heats up to hellish temperatures and with a “bong!” the installation crashes. A CRC Error on Patch.mpq. This has been happening to me over all of the previous installations that take an average of 2 hours to complete. 2 hours to get to the 4th CD. Every time I pray with fingers crossed that that “bong!” doesn’t happen, but it does.
Even reading up on the problem on the internet didn’t help. There is no clear solution to it than people suggesting hardware or firmware up gradation. Which for me is a quest still in the distant future.
Any tips or advice or help would be appreciated!
New WoW patch will let you be a better Archer!
Posted by on February 11th, 2008
I am more in love with the standard WarCraft 3 to give WoW the time it deserves. But I need to tell you there is a new patch coming out, 2.4. And SK Gaming talks about this patch, which’ll allow one to equip a new legendary ‘Bow’ that makes you a better Archer. Yes, the one you see on the right. This diagram shows a number of loots at the new Sunwell mission, raid whatever!
Blizzard Loots $1.2 Billion From 2007, Thanks To WoW
Posted by on February 1st, 2008
Vivendi, of which Blizzard Entertainment is a division, released its 2007 earnings revenues today, revealing that the World of Warcraft publisher raked in $1.2 billion (€814 million) in revenue last year. WoW’s 10 million large subscriber base contributed the lion’s share of the Vivendi Games division’s $1.5 billion take (€1.018 billion). Blizzard’s revenue was up 58% year over year which can be attributed to strong sales of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and a subscriber boost of 2 million people.
Vivendi pointed to lower earnings from its Sierra label, with sales of Crash of the Titans, Spyro: The Eternal Night, F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate, Timeshift and World in Conflict as “not as strong as the 2006 release slate.” Let’s hear it for World of Warcraft, ladies and gentlemen!
Vivendi Full Year 2007 Revenues Increase Significantly (PDF) [Vivendi]
Source: Kotaku
World of WarCraft sets population record… Again!
Posted by on January 26th, 2008
Once again, World of Warcraft has set another astounding record! The population of total WoW players has reached 10 Million, which excludes people that haven’t opened their WoW box sets (like me :/), says Yahoo! Games.
Which game boasts a population greater than Sweden, Israel or Haiti? Online role-playing phenomenon World of Warcraft is the answer: Blizzard Entertainment announced this week that subscriber counts for its smash hit fantasy RPG recently broke the 10 million mark. Warcraft players number more than 2.5m in North America, while Asian subscribers account for the majority of the remainder. (Mike Smith / Yahoo! Games)
I remember we discussed the same rise of number of WoW players a few months earlier where
Vivendi reported a 19% increase in their sales to to 216 million euros ($315.2 million). This phenomenal growth of sales has been attributed to their recent releases, the expansion to original World of Warcraft (WOW) called The Burning Crusade, and a new Real-Time Action Strategy brand called the World in Conflict. It was a well known fact that WoW had 9 million users as Blizzard announced late July 2007 that it had reached the 9 million user mark. (gamer.pk)
Where we also have happened to have said,
Which basically means that come maturity of The Burning Crusade expansion pack there will be more players playing WoW, than some of the smaller countries in the world. And there will be more revenue generated than GDPs of some of the third world countries. What if a country I ruled owned a company like Vivendi? (gamer.pk)
Soon enough, I will sit with a few Pakistani WoW’ers and ask them about their thoughts on such an astounding growth for such a product. This is really mind boggling!
