{"id":706,"date":"2006-10-09T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T23:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/10\/09\/update\/"},"modified":"2006-10-09T19:38:41","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T23:38:41","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/10\/09\/update\/","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for not posting much this past week. \u00a0Things are very busy in Johnson game-land. \u00a0Our World of Warcraft guild has close to 100 members now and we\u2019re experiencing growing pains. \u00a0In a \u201cbe careful of what you wish for\u201d scenario, becoming this large of a guild now makes it much easier to run the end game raids. \u00a0The bad news is that four or five officers just aren\u2019t enough to run a guild this size.\u00a0 We promoted three members to the \u201cCavalier\u201d rank (officer in our guild) Friday night with an elaborate ceremony in Stormwind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I feel like such a big nerd now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">All of the buzz is about the upcoming expansion pack.\u00a0 I made a rare visit to my local Gamestop to pre-order a copy of the Collector\u2019s Edition.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really care about the content.\u00a0 This is simply my homage to a game that has entertained me so much over the past year and a half.\u00a0 The store manager let me know that they already had over 60 pre-orders for the Burning Crusade, by far the highest amount this year for any game.\u00a0 I could see the drool forming at the corner of his mouth.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Blizzard is going to make a lot of money on this expansion.\u00a0 A lot.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In other news, our Out of the Park Baseball league is running with no problems to report.\u00a0 I finally saw some activity in the technical problem forum at the OOTPB site.\u00a0 Not sure if the paying OOTPB 2006 beta testers (that would be everyone who owns this game) will get another patch.\u00a0 But my boycott of SI products will continue until this thing is fixed and playable to my satisfaction.\u00a0 It just boggles the imagination how a game so immersed in player development could have such a poor player development reporting system.\u00a0 There\u2019s a reason that BOSI was such an important utility for earlier versions of the game.\u00a0 It had lots of neat stuff, but the ability to track player development was easily the neatest.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Oh how I miss a real player development report!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for not posting much this past week. \u00a0Things are very busy in Johnson game-land. \u00a0Our World of Warcraft guild has close to 100 members now and we\u2019re experiencing growing pains. \u00a0In a \u201cbe careful of what you wish for\u201d scenario, becoming this large of a guild now makes it much easier to run the &hellip; 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