Not a Day for Online Gaming
Today I decided to start playing WoW again. I last left my level 49 human rogue at Feralas and was keen to explore that place again. So I paid for a month via Paypal and waited… and waited… half an hour later I cancelled the subscription and began to look for my old Sacred Gold DVD.
Last time I tried running it on Vista, the DVD wouldn’t run. Never mind. I couldn’t find it. Nor would the problem go away, as found on the Sacred and Gamespot forums.
Finally I tried downloading Guild Wars, which looked rather promising. The download was very speedy but the payment for an access code was a bloody nightmare.
First they want you to register. Fine. Then after verifying my email, it refused to let me login:
We were unable to verify your login. Either your login information was entered incorrectly, or the account system is currently unavailable. Please check the normal downtime schedule and announcements.
I tried again, in case I typed my password in wrongly:
Too many failed login attempts, login temporarily disabled. Please try again in a few minutes.
Sigh. Guess no one wants my money.
I’m going to stick to good old offline games for now. Sadly, Elder Scrolls sucked. What a waste of $60.
Time to reload my old Eye of the Beholder 2.
Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
