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Here we are again, a day late thanks to some technical issues, but here regardless, to discuss, bash, praise and poop all over some stuff happening in the MMO world.  Two come to the forefront this week.  As you’ll recall from the past week, we’ve been dealing with Blizzard and their lack of follow-through on their Warcraft Twitter contest.  There has been some updates and potential closure on that issue as well as some other things happening in Azeroth.  Warhammer has fallen on tough times, it seems.  I stated previously that I was going to hop into the game, and see what was what with the new patch and if it fixed the glaring issues destroying the core of the game.  Read on after the break!

As we’ve been delving into Blizzard’s failure of their management of their @Warcraft Twitter account’s #Battlecry contest, some rather disturbing news had unfolded.  It seems my case was far from an isolated event, that people from all over Twitter who participated in and won the contest were left out in the cold, waiting without word about what would happen to their winnings.  Well, it seems some applied pressure in a few of the right places and some help by the big dogs at WoW.com themselves has broken this case wide open!  A few days after my article and only hours after WoW.com’s coverage of the issue, I received the following mail in my inbox, as did apparently dozen of other contest winners.

We win!

Thank you to the folks at Blizzard, if it is a bit late.  All we wanted was this, some confirmation that the contest was not in fact some sort of MMO Marathon induced fever dream.  This issue has been closed for the time being, but I will be sure to keep all of our readers updated on exactly what we receive as prizes!

Now, Warhammer.  Poor, dying Warhammer.  Let’s face it folks, the game is done.  This week, it was announced and now confirmed that 80 layoffs have hit the Mythic staff.  Yes, 80.  That is roughly 40% of their entire team.  With Mythic working on Star Wars: The Old Republic alongside Bioware, as well as maintaining two older MMORPGs still… Well, I cannot help but think my prediction of Warhammer’s demise might come true sooner rather than later.  But wait, you say!  They introduced patch 1.3.2, all of the game play issues are fixed!

Not true.  Mythic has, once again and as usual, steered their Failboat of a company into the rocky waters of false promises and half truths.  I re-upped my Warhammer account and logged in, so hopeful that the game would be playable and all of the glaring combat mechanics fixed.  FAIL.  Tier 1 is highly populated right now due to the introduction of their “Endless Trial” (Another admission of MMO Death, in my opinion) so I had no problem getting into fights and testing mechanics.  Still broken, although not as broken as before admittedly.   Melee lag is still present, as is casting animation lag, spell progress bar lag and a host of other issues that make playing with any sort of precision impossible.  But hey, in a game that encourages 40 people to collectively slam their head into 40 other people, I guess precision is a fantasy.  Its Warhammer, not Warscalpel, dammit!

Now for your Weekly Worgen!  Rumors and conjecture about the new Cataclysm race have been flying faster than the fur, but here is a confirmed fact!  It appears Sarah Palin, famous for being a massive asshat and naming her children after NASCAR and other stupid things, will be a quest giving NPC in the Worgen starting area.

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