The Addon Junkie

Sorry for the long silence folks, I’ve been working my butt off for a Tampa, FL non-profit agency, Hope for Veterans. My old buddy Chance and I have been working on the web site night and day and there’s so much work to do I haven’t even been able to play WoW letalone shoot video or test addons. Hopefully I’ll have the time to start back up soon, honestly I’m kind of losing it without my pastime

The Addon Junkie now has a CafePress Storefront. There’s only a few designs right now but we’ll be adding more in the future. On a related note, if anyone knows of a CafePress alternative that doesn’t charge a bajillion dollars for white printing on dark shirts please let me know down in the comments.

When I first heard about GameCrush I’ll be honest with you, I laughed a little. I considered writing something here but I honestly thought it’d be a funny little blip on the gaming community’s radar for a while and then it’d just go away. But it’s not going away…

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Never one to let a fun holiday pass, Blizzard’s entry for April Fools Day is impressively funny and poignant. In response to a certain type of addon used by a certain type of person, Blizz has (not) implemented a new feature called the Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number. Hey do those capital letters make an acronym or something?

According to the fake writeup, the system would show a “bar-like” object over your character indicating the quality of your gear and eventually drop you into “tiers” where you’d only have to see other people in the same tier. Those people shouting “5K+ GS or you don’t exist to me” would love this system. Oh, and you could supposedly get a noncombat pet too. A pet rooster. Yeah, a rooster.

The page is hilarious and I highly recommend you check it out. While it’s completely fake it’s also pretty awesome and it’s nice to see Blizz actually address the complaints about GearScore – especially in such a funny way.