Archive for category Rants

Email from a freelancer asking for a job, fueled by hate & wants to kill ministers

Sep 30

Posted by spooksie in Crazy People, Design, Rants | 2 Comments

One hateful designer wanting work

One hateful designer wanting work

Last night I was busy plodding away at my midnight work and I receive an email from a freelancer called Guy asking for work. However I get about 40 emails a week from people asking for work or experience. As I cannot offer any jobs yet I’d like to help the designer by showing pointers to improve their image. This email was very strange as it went on and on and Guy was clearly more focused on hate than actual making a career.

I have masked his full name and information for his protection.

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Is World of Warcraft lying about its 11.5 million subscribers

Sep 19

Posted by spooksie in MMORPG, Rants, World of Warcraft | 8 Comments

11.5 million subscribers, my ass

11.5 million subscribers, my arse

Could World of Warcraft be a victim of white lies? well they keep on bragging about the 11 million subscribers. Surely times 11,000,000 with the monthly subscription + games sold would equal a crazy amount of money monthly. The merge with Activision, if they are making crazy amounts monthly why merge?

Personally I think its figures they are using from free trials to lost subscribers added to the list. I myself have 4 accounts (3 for myself and 1 for my wife). I used to dual box for fun, as I was so bored leveling my 6th character to 70.

Finding the maximum players that can appear on a server, apparently its 20,000 but Blizzard have never released the official numbers. (Source)

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