{"id":529,"date":"2005-02-14T03:05:50","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T10:05:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-14T03:08:50","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T10:08:50","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/529\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boston Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Asher on the overcrowding problems that the European players of World of Warcraft are currently experiencing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>Tim Edwards<\/b>:<br \/>\nThe launch of WoW in Europe has really brought this issue into focus. In popular areas (I&#8217;m thinking of Skull Cave in Durotar, for instance, where every Horde player will pass within the first days) we&#8217;re seeing hundreds of players crammed into a tiny space, bitching and shouting at eachother for a single monster. That&#8217;s not fun &#8211; it&#8217;s just stressful.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Asher<\/b>:<br \/>\nThis is just a temporary issue. It&#8217;s like the start of the Boston Marathon with thousands of people elbow to elbow. It won&#8217;t take long for players to spread out, and starting in the low to mid-teens the instances appear. It would be overkill to instance things like Skull Cave. In fact, after awhile instancing something like Skull Cave would be a negative &#8211; a few months down the road new players would go to Skull Cave and not find anyone to group with.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Asher on the overcrowding problems that the European players of World of Warcraft are currently experiencing: Tim Edwards: The launch of WoW in Europe has really brought this issue into focus. In popular areas (I&#8217;m thinking of Skull Cave in Durotar, for instance, where every Horde player will pass within the first days) we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}