{"id":4390,"date":"2014-11-12T19:33:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2014-11-12T19:33:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:33:39","slug":"the-iron-horde-are-coming-but-i-wont-be-battling-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4390","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Horde Are Coming But I won&#8217;t Be Battling Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Warlords Of Draenor\" href=\"http:\/\/eu.battle.net\/en\/warlords-of-draenor-presale\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warlords Of Draenor<\/a>. Blizzard&#8217;s fifth expansion in the World Of Warcraft series launches tomorrow and in typical Blizzard style, they have launched a mightily impressive PR campaign with Videos, storylines, social media hype and a very angry looking ride in a New York Cab!<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard really are an impressive company when it comes to publicity, their cinematic trailers are superb and one wonders if they&#8217;ve ever considered extending those trailers into a longer series on their own, although I&#8217;d imagine they are damn expensive to make.<\/p>\n<p>Warlords Of Draenor takes a step back in time to create a new timeline and the rise of the Iron Horde to bring new chaos to Azeroth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TLzhlsEFcVQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are obviously going to be new quests, new places to explore, new dungeons, an increased level cap and more. Despite all this and despite the buzz I&#8217;m seeing around certain circles, I won&#8217;t be participating.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>They\u2019ve left their mark on New York City. Azeroth is next&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Warlords?src=hash\">#Warlords<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/zOY41QRJM3\">pic.twitter.com\/zOY41QRJM3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Warcraft\/status\/532252265730424832\">November 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>When Blizzard announced they were changing subscription costs for those who want to pay in pound sterling my first reaction was &#8220;<em>They&#8217;re taking the piss<\/em>&#8221; and it remains my only reaction to the news. That&#8217;s despite the fact that there&#8217;s a two year grace period for those who pay in pound sterling and stay subscribed and despite the fact that the actual rise is only a quid a month at most. I&#8217;m at the stage now where it&#8217;s not the cost, it&#8217;s the principle, it&#8217;s not like I haven&#8217;t been here before.<\/p>\n<p>When <a title=\"Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a> revamped their site in May 2013 I found the changes so abysmal that I cancelled my premium subscription to Flickr and that only cost twenty something bucks. I think that may have even been a two year subscription. However going on Flickr was so irritating. Flickr&#8217;s lack of understanding the issues people were complaining about was beyond absurd. I asked myself &#8220;<em>Why am I paying for this?<\/em>&#8221; and came to the conclusion that I really shouldn&#8217;t. Flickr has improved much since then, although some irritations remain.<\/p>\n<p>My issue with Blizzard is somewhat similar, I was irked logging in, wondering why I&#8217;m paying for this if I believe the company are really taking the piss and came to the conclusion that yes they are, and no I shouldn&#8217;t pay for it. Therefore I cancelled and won&#8217;t be going back any time soon, if ever. I&#8217;d rather have fond memories of World Of Warcraft, such as when the Cataclysm expansion launched and everyone wanted to fly:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Still waiting!!! by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/5239631798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5170\/5239631798_b30c3ba090.jpg?resize=500%2C322&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Still waiting!!!\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Still waiting by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/5239035111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5007\/5239035111_1fd1b63936.jpg?resize=397%2C382&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Still waiting\" width=\"397\" height=\"382\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to get to the stage where I lose all respect for Blizzard. They do a lot of things right, they are a company with fun in their PR and a lot of people will happily be fighting The Iron Horde over the coming months. I wish them all well, Blizzard will do very well out of it, but at this stage, it&#8217;s just not for me.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4390\" data-via=\"Ciaran_Laval\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warlords Of Draenor. Blizzard&#8217;s fifth expansion in the World Of Warcraft series launches tomorrow and in typical Blizzard style, they have launched a mightily impressive PR campaign with Videos, storylines, social media hype and a very angry looking ride in a New York Cab! Blizzard really are an impressive company when it comes to publicity, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Iron Horde Are Coming But I won&#8217;t Be Battling Them&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133,667,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-18O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}