Crisis may make 1929 look a 'walk in the park'

[Board Game Geek]

1) recession hits hard

2) people cut down on unnecessary expenditure (this means everything apart from food, booze, morgage)

£8.99 a month ? That's hardly a major expenditure

3) WoW loses players - lots of them: they will be too busy looking for work IRL rather than for gold there

There are now 9 million players. You completely underestimate how many play wow and keep Blizzard cash rich.

4) Blizzard reduces expenditure on the game and finally shuts down servers

Again, WOW is a cash cow, it ain't gonna happen.

There you have it - you heard it here first!

Go back to playing with your beloved vermin :-)

[AtW]

Go back to playing with your beloved vermin
:-)

Just got back and having a nice meal

Anyway, WoW must be awesome, but I purposefully don't play these games since Dark Age of Camelot which was brilliant but too time consuming - you have to login every day or you fall back in Exp behind your buddies who will move on to kill bigger monsters that you can possibly handle.

WoW == too much time consumed, I play games only casually nowadays.

[BrilloPad]

whadya think about DFS?

I bought 2 electric recliners 2 years ago - they were ace. Took the mother-out-law there to get similar - but will deliver to North Wales.

Maybe it is just our local branch that is good? BTW it is Sidcup.

[Troll]

I bought 2 electric recliners 2 years ago - they were ace. Took the mother-out-law there to get similar - but will deliver to North Wales.

Maybe it is just our local branch that is good? BTW it is Sidcup.

I was dissapointed by their range when I last looked (a couple of years ago) & I've no idea how durable their products are either, but at those prices I suppose you can afford to treat them as throw-aways after a couple of years.

Any comment on quality?

[BrilloPad]

I was dissapointed by their range when I last looked (a couple of years ago) & I've no idea how durable their products are either, but at those prices I suppose you can afford to treat them as throw-aways after a couple of years.

Any comment on quality?

The electric chairs have lasted very well - but of course one range will vary from another range.

Personally I always buy cheapish. Went to my builder's house the other day - he had paid £100 for a top of range microwave last year and now it is broken. I paid £25 3 years ago and its still going strong.

I hate the idea of throwing things away after a few years - both environmentally and cos I am tight!

We also have an IKEA sofa bed - which is very good. I have a very bad back so am very sensitive to my chairs. I need lots of support.

[oracleslave]

I bought a lounge suite from them 3 years ago. Has also lasted very well but don't think thats down to the brilliance of dfs.

[Jog On]

Anyway, WoW must be awesome, but I purposefully don't play these games since Dark Age of Camelot which was brilliant but too time consuming - you have to login every day or you fall back in Exp behind your buddies who will move on to kill bigger monsters that you can possibly handle.

WoW == too much time consumed, I play games only casually nowadays.

You should try Everquest (1 not 2) - there is the biggest time sink I have ever seen. You can get from lvl 1-70 in WoW in about the same time it takes to set up a raid in EQ..

[BrilloPad]

Online games battle for top spot

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7156078.stm

Challenges to the dominance of World of Warcraft over online games and gamers look set to emerge in 2008.

[Jog On]

LOTR online flopped quite badly.

I'm sensing deja-vu here..

[threaded]

Oddly enough, historically speaking, Goldman Sachs being lauded for particularly clever trades and making a huge profit is invariably a prelude to a severe crash.

Remember you read it here first.