Warcraft addict?

[Flip]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/gam ... rs/1255554

<img src="http://l.yimg.com/jh/content/p/2/125555 ... jpg"></img?

[Eric]

More like filthy rich and nothing better to do with his time.

[Tessian]

Holy crap... he claims the reason for doing this is so he can run raids BY HIMSELF. How freaking sad is that? The whole point of raids is to force you / allow you to play together with other people... that's not a hobby that's beyond an obsession. This is just a whole new level of sad... although it is one hell of a talent. Gotta give props to a guy who can manage a raid all by himself... that takes some multitasking skills that must be amazing to behold. I'd love to see a video of him playing.

"It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule," he writes. "Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft."

I'm pretty sure most if not all of us COMBINED would not spend this much on games in a year... that, and his costs don't include how much it costs to purchase and maintain those 11 computers. And I would assume he has more than 1 ISP connection to keep all that going.

Anyone else wondering why most of his 11 PC's are laptops? Sure they've got a smaller overall footprint, but I'm sure you could set up a grid of 11 LCD monitors on a wall and a staggered desk with 11 keyboards and... trackballs (shutter) that would be easier to use.

[Kupek]

But there's less pieces with laptops. If you bought desktops, you'd have three pieces to arrange for each, and two require power.

[Julius Seeker]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/gam ... rs/1255554

<img src="http://l.yimg.com/jh/content/p/2/125555 ... jpg"></img?

I bet the guy who sits in front of that every day for 3+ hours is sterile.

[bovine]

does it get less boring when you play it like that?

[SineSwiper]

The whole thing looks fishy. Nobody can control 30 characters at the same time. Nobody. Jesus couldn't do that. Hell, why is it the same character in that screenshot for all of the PCs?

[Don]

The characters are controlled by macros, something like:

If Don says "Attack", cast Fireball on Don's target
If Don says "Heal", cast Heal on Don

Obviously no one can actually control 30 characters at once.

[Tessian]

Leave it to Don to state the obvious that we were all overlooking... so he plays with 35 homemade bots... fun?

I'd definitely see how this would be more WORK than fun... if you got that much shit to keep track of it's a task now, not a game.

And Sine, I'm going to assume he did that so as not to reveal all his characters

[Shellie]

If you look closely..and I read this from another article about it...he plays 36 Shamans. They have slightly different armor (colors, etc).

[Zeus]

So much money, so little brains/life

[Flip]

If you look closely..and I read this from another article about it...he plays 36 Shamans. They have slightly different armor (colors, etc).

Oh yeah, you can see the differences, cool. Thirty six shamans, though? WTF, can they make a great raid group? I would think something more well rounded would do better.

[Don]

If this was before the Bloodlust nerf, 36 shamans would by far be the strongest characters you can get because you can get permanent Bloodlust. Also, not every class is suited for macroing. Even a class like Mage occasionally has to switch nukes to optimize damage (fireball scorch cycles, arcane blast cycles, etc). I'm guessing most of these are elemental shamans who only have to spam lightning bolt the whole time, but even enhance shamans have a very predictable attack pattern (melee, stormstrike whenever it's up, earth shock whenever it's up). You obviously want to avoid using classes that actually require a decision on what to do.

[Eric]

Silly Don, that wouldn't have been possible, Bloodlust was on a 10 minute cooldown with a 45 second duration, so you would have only had 37.5% uptime on it per group.

[Don]

You're supposed to just rotate Bloodlust on your best DPS group and rotate Shamans in/out on that group. I'd assume that's not actually very hard to do via a script if you can control raid movement, though I have no idea if WoW's scripting allows this.

Besides 37.5% uptime is still a lot more than under 10% for even guilds with a good number of Shamans.