A strongly worded letter to Blizzard
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Q u o t e:Definitely. Dinner? Say 8 pm?
Nethaera wrote:
What are you serving and I can bring friends right? *Looks around*
Q u o t e:Definitely. Dinner? Say 8 pm?
Nethaera wrote:
What are you serving and I can bring friends right? *Looks around*
Q u o t e:Are you implying one of my choices break some ToS rule?
Nethaera wrote:
From the Naming Policy Overview that I linked for you:
Q u o t e:Restricted
Names which fall under the following categories are restricted and will most likely not receive an account penalty on the first instance.
Q u o t e:
I can’t decide on a new name and I’m pretty sure I want to change myself to a female orc…My current name ideas are…
Avoidance
Gearedtank
ProtwarriorI’ll probably go with Gearedtank tbh but if anyone could give me some more ideas id love that
Nethaera wrote:
I’d suggest reading the Naming Policy first before picking a name. It’s the best way to avoid having to do an additional name change due to a GM seeing the violation or someone reporting you for one.
Q u o t e:
Dear Blizzard Entertainment, For over the past four years, the goblins of the Steamwheedle Cartel Postal Service, an independent agency of the Steamwheedle Cartel, have worked tirelessly to deliver mail to denizens in all corners of Azeroth. It has been our responsibility to deliver every letter, package, and parcel to every known settlement across the world, and it is a duty that we have performed with utmost distinction and satisfaction in these past four years. From the last minute rush of presents and gifts sent out for Winter’s Veil to the more recent holiday event of sending romantic letters and candies during the Love is in the Air season, our members have always ensured that the postal service is fast, efficient, and on-time to the world’s citizens. This we pride ourselves on.
Given both the changing world economy and the recent expansion of postage routes in Northrend, however, the S.C.P.S. has been working harder than ever to uphold our mission of providing the world with a fast and efficient postage system. In the recent months, our agency has been forced to lay off hundreds of hard-working goblins simply because we have had to cut back on our annual budgeting and resources. As if this was not enough, we have also been forced to more than double the shifts of all our hard-working employees. Our goblins are now struggling night and day to keep up with the demands of today’s postage system. Yet, the greatest of our concerns and issues with the current postage system is as follows:
For all of our hard work spent delivering mail throughout Kalimdor, the Eastern Kingdoms, to Outland, Northrend, and beyond, our employees are still forced to endure the minimum wages of our profession. The average mailgoblin earns roughly 16.5 gold per month delivering mail 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! 16.5 gold a month! There was a time when this salary was sufficient and reasonable to the average goblin household, but with the increasing inflation of gold in the world’s economy, this is no longer the case. Given what the common warrior earns per month by today’s standards, this number is just outright insulting!
Therefore, we, the goblins of the Steamwheedle Cartel Postal Service, formally put forth our request that the price of postage stamps throughout Azeroth be raised from 30 coppers to 40 coppers. By increasing the price of postage stamps, the S.C.P.S. will be able to raise our workers’ annual salaries as well as allocate more resources to both improve and maintain the world’s postal service system. It is our hope that both our parties may come to an agreement in the near future in deciding upon the necessary stimulus plans needed to maintain the Steamwheedle Cartel Postal Service during this economic crisis.
Sincerely,
The Steamwheedle Cartel Postal Service
P.S. – We would also like to suggest a new stamp design featuring baby murlocs (or more recently referred to by the term ‘gorlocs’) of the Oracles and baby wolvar of the Frenzyheart Tribe that in no way, shape or form depicts the violent, aggressive, and hostile relations between both factions.
Nethaera wrote:
Dear Steamwheedle Cartel Postal Service:
The lower pay rate is merely a means of compensating for the failed experiments that continue to be tested within the mail room by staff. As you know, this directly violates mail room policies yet continues.
Q u o t e:
OMG. Blue? Blue on the PRIEST forums??be still my heart.
And here I thought the only way to get blue attention was to misspell STRUDEL on the healing forums:)
Nethaera wrote:
We like to lurk sometimes. I would also suggest not stilling your heart. You don’t appear to be undead and we don’t want to lose you to the Scourge.
Zarhym wrote:
Creating new druid skins is a task on which our artists have been working on very recently actually. I don’t have a time frame for you, but we did speak specifically with our developers about this in late January. Druid forms are a work in progress. I haven’t seen them, but have heard some cool things about them.
Q u o t e:Smile, little skull, while you still can…
er.. I mean good luck tomorrow! (:
Zarhym wrote:
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Q u o t e:Wow, you’re just a baby.
edit (implying you’re really young if you’re just having your wisdom teeth out now)
Zarhym wrote:
No, I’ve just put it off for about twelve years now. =\
Q u o t e:
Why do you guys constantly do things to encourage 0.2% of your market to stop all over the other 99.8%? Honestly which portion do you think really supports you? You could at least hold is in a bit more regard.
Zarhym wrote:
If the whole idea behind these achievements is to make it very difficult to get a 310% speed mount, that would naturally imply the majority of the player base would have a tough time getting their hands on one. That is the point.
You have access to the dungeons and the loot.
Q u o t e:Thank you for clarifying. Everything in the game will either be handed to you, or is only for those "elite" players. I have been educated, I will not strive for anything.
Zarhym wrote:
No, now that’s not true. Don’t go hyperbolic on me. The content in Ulduar is generally meant to be more difficult than what we’ve seen in Wrath — it’s the next tier after all. Those who progress through the 10 or 25-player Ulduar content and really get the mechanics of the instance down will have a fair shot at the associated achievements, as well as the 310% mounts.