![]() They’ve made travel easier, clustered quests more intelligently and removed a lot of the busywork of play without removing all of it. Virtually every zone has been scrubbed and rebuilt according to the lessons they’ve learned from running the game for six years. Important NPCs have died, boundaries have shifted, and as a result of the eponymous cataclysm, geography has been drastically altered in places.Īt the same time, Blizzard has taken the opportunity to fix…well…everything. How much is a bit of a question, as I have so far seen indications of it being anything from five to twelve years, but the net result is that the world has changed in ways that are _intensely_ satisfying to someone who paid attention to the lore. In game, they have effectively moved the clock forward. Basically, they rewrote the whole setting from the ground up. That may not seem like much, but it was actually quite huge. GRAVILUX SPLIT PATCHIn fairness, most of what I wanted out of the game came in the pre-release patch they issued in November that updated the world and introduced everything but the new content (The ability to level up to 85, opening new zones and so on). I lost interest a little while after the last expansion (Wrath of the Lich King) and turned my account off for a while, but I turned it back on just before Thanksgiving in anticipation of Cataclysm. For those unaware, this is the latest expansion for World of Warcraft, and it has successfully drawn me back in. This entry was posted in Technology on Maby Rob Donoghue. Though man, you can bet I’m going to get the new Garage Band for the Ipad (which BETTER be compatible with the Ipad 1) because it looks like the program I always wished Garage Band was. So, barring disaster or windfall, I don’t see myself buying an Ipad 2. For others, it has just created the secondary market for Ipad 1’s at a diminished price point. GRAVILUX SPLIT UPGRADEFor folks who carefully avoid Apple’s initial releases (due to their tending to be public betas) it’s enough of an upgrade to justify the wait. I look at the ipad 2 release and what’s scary is that it’s all about new customers. Not “buy a whole new Ipad” awesome, but awesome. Man, they put some thought into that, and as someone who has tried many covers, it really looks like it’s a good replacement for everything short of an otterbox defender. It may be shallow, but I admit the element about the ipad 2 that I find most jealousy inducing is the cover. Until then, I’m fine using my laptop for such things. Facetime will excite me more when its more widespread and, honestly, when I can run a game over it. Similarly, the addition of cameras are cool, but not compelling. As a practical matter, I’m fairly certain I’ll need to buy an Ipad3 when it comes out, if only because developers are lazy, and we’re going to start seeing games designed for the more powerful engine that will slog on the ipad 1, but I think that threshold is a ways down the road. Still, as a well documented ipad enthusiast who makes rigorous, daily use of his ipad 1, is it worth the upgrade? Honestly, probably not.Ī lot of this is because I’m still incredibly happy with my Ipad’s performance and form factor, so incremental improvements in both aren’t going to move my needle much. GRAVILUX SPLIT ANDROIDI still look forward to other tablets pushing the market as a whole forward (and I’m definitely looking forward to HP’s WebOS tablet – that excites me much more than Android or RIM at this point) but I’m also glad Apple keeps coming out strong, because i think that creates necessary pressure. I feel like Apple has re-asserted its place of prominence in the market by once again being the price leader, something I still can’t believe I’m saying with a straight face. They’re actually really impressive from a technical perspective, and the promised increases in graphical power alone seem to hint at fantastic future uses. Now, I don’t want to sound too jaded about these points. It’s thinner, lighter, more powerful, has cameras (front and back) and costs the same. Engadget has a good summary of the details, but there are really few surprises. So, the Ipad 2 comes out on March 11th, and we finally got to see what the fuss was about yesterday, in one of Apple’s now-standard presentations scattered hither and yon across the web. ![]()
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