WoW

[miko2]

I tried installing WoW on my main computer. It wouldn't install. At first, the cd burner simply wouldn't acknowledge that there was anything in it. Eventually I decided that In-CD was what was screwing everything up. I hate In-CD, it's done nothing but annoy me since it was installed.

This came with my Nero Burning CD software that failed to completely install last year even though I was installing it for my new cd burner that it came with. Nero sucks monkey ass, and so does their In-CD program. So I removed the entire thing and rebooted.

This time, the cd burner could tell that there was a Warcraft cd installed, and I was able to run the installer. Then I realized that I had less than 6 gigs of space on my 40 gig main hard drive left... so I removed a few things, and went back to reinstall. When it asked for disc 2, I put it in... and it refused to acknowledge that there was anything in the drive.

Well, fuck that. I decided to install it on my backup computer, Princessozma, which also happens to be my gaming computer too. Why not install it there to begin with? Dunno, I usually use that to play Second Life and I was thinking that I might want to run both at once at some point. Since, you know, most of the time I play SL I'm just hanging around doing nothing and actually doing other things on my other computer anyway.

So I installed the game on my backup computer. First big problem... when I run it, it fucks up my gamma settings. Second Life does this too, but only the first time it's run, and I can adjust the settings immediately since the game runs in a window with my toolbar visible. After adjusting once, everything's fine. I don't run into the same problem again until I reboot the computer.

WoW wants to fuck it all up every single time it's run, and I can't adjust it using my normal ATI control panel because I have to minimize or exit the game to do that, and when I go back the the game it screws everything up all over again. You can adjust the gamma from inside the game of course, but then you have to fix it again from the desktop when you exit. Talk about a major pain in the ass.

In the meantime I had to create a character with the settings turned to "too dark to see a fucking thing". Now I remember why I like playing on my main computer more.

I couldn't get the name I wanted either... any name I like is bound to already be taken on an older more populated server like the one everyone plays on. And I wanted to play a druid, but only the humans really look good to me. I made a night elf but I really hate the way they look.

I didn't actually do anything, by the time I was done and figured out how to fix the gamma, it was waaay too late to play.

I kind of do want to start a new mmog... SL is pretty boring much of the time, since I have so few real friends there... but so far I'm not very convinced that WoW is the game for me. The problem, of course, is that I'm not interested in most of the other games out there either. Aside from going back to City of Heroes/City of Villians, there's nothing that sounds even vaguely interesting.