My G5 PowerPC Mac & WoW May Just Officially End with Cataclysm

Well..... for the most part been on somewhat a long break from WoW. Though I did re-activate my account about a month ago. I've only logged in once for maybe 5 minutes in all that month of time. Though quite aware of Cataclysm, I have refrained from reading almost anything about classes, changes or anything much about the new expansion. However while surfing on my IPhone last night at work I happen to surf over to Massively to catch up on some MMO news and read the new PC requirements for Cataclysm.

Hmm, that caught my attention and curiosity. So hopped over to WoWInsider who I haven't visited or read anything there in months. And reading through I noticed the requirements for Cataclysm and Mac PC's. Quite Cataclysmic to my G5 PowerPC Mac.

Seems will only be able to load and play WoW Cataclysm on a Intel based Mac PC. Blizzard won't any longer be supporting players that play on Mac PowerPC's. Which mean my very good running G5 PowerPC Mac Desktop wont be able to play Cataclysm. Allot of people like to say that very few people play WoW on Mac's. I'm betting its allot more people than most people think as well as play other games on Mac's though no where as much as the amount of Windows based PC out there.

I'm well aware the love and hate between Mac PC users and Microsoft based Windows PC users its as bad as the love and hate between Republican and Democrats. Me I'm independent thinker so I can't say I like either. Think different I guess, probably too why I use a Mac.

I've had my G5 PowerPC Mac so long I can almost barely remember the year I bought It. But I do remember I bought it way back in 2003 I think it was around the time I started playing Secondlife I bought my G5 Mac and junked my Windows desktop PC. That was before I had heard of and started playing WoW. All these years later the damn thing still runs like a champ even though Apple stopped making PowerPC based Mac PC's a few years ago switching to Intel based Mac PC's.

My G5 still runs just fine running Mac OS X version 10.5.8 and for 5 years I played WoW its run WoW just fine, some lag here and there when server was loaded but pretty much smoothly for a 7 year PC. And I still use my G5 desktop for almost everything else I do the majority of the time.

So was quite disappointed having read that won't be able to play WoW Cataclysm on my G5 Mac desktop like I have for the entire last 2 WoW expansions. Bummer, yeah bummer that is!

I'm not planning to upgrade it to play WoW Cataclysm or buy another PC. I don't plan to ever buy another Windows based PC's either! Now several months ago earlier this year I did buy another PC a MacBook Pro. I do use it for other things and play just a few other games on it including EVE Online.

But playing WoW is another matter with all the damn addons and all the problems you also get with downloading so much damn addons to play WoW with. And I don't really want all that on my fairly clean hard drive on my MacBook Pro. If I was to decide to install WoW on my MacBook Pro, it would be straight up Vanilla WoW with no addons. Ahh that sucks too!

I'm not mad I won't be able to load up WoW latest expansion on my G5 PowerPC who still runs fine, I'm just more disappointed. The feeling would of being worse if I had been playing WoW fully all year long and all jacked up about Cataclysm. So not really the case there.

Who knows, Cataclysm will wreck Azeroth and it just maybe might have killed my hopes of playing WoW into the next expansion.

Nothing ever last forever, not including playing WoW. Or maybe might just have to install WoW on my MacBook Pro laptop and go vanilla.

Resurrection: I'm Very Much Alive...

Yet I was always here as I weren't that far away. Actually according to the last post this blog was moved to wordpress according to the last blog post as well. Anyway I've been on a long break from WoW for over 6 months, and really I have really been enjoying the break. So haven't written much about wow either in that time. Have slept well in the last 6 months and no dreaming of playing WoW in my sleep as well.

Thus other than what I knew about the coming expansion of Cataclysm 6 months ago I've stayed completely clear of reading anything about the expansion. Nor have I checked to see if there really is a beta invite in my wow mail account. I've read just about zero and know about next to nothing about the expansion. Thus my perspective is completely fresh without all the overload, obsession and frustration you all been reading and writing about the next expansion. Its good to take a long break sometimes to recharge one capacitor.

So I'm very much alive and really I've only been playing EVE as a good distraction and enjoying it. Other games to play and enjoy besides completely locked into the universe of just playing WoW. Its really good to try other things.

I'm still amazed that I still have over 500 subscribers here though I haven't posted here in months and though my official blog has moved to wordpress. As well I get more daily/monthly hits on this blog than on my same blog at wordpress. Yeah its probably due to all the wow links here probably. Anyway the wordpress blog here is my official mmo blog.

Though I have read a few wow blogs here and there haven't kept up all that much in months reading just enjoying the wow break vs the constant overload of WoW and expansion information everyone else is reading. Thus I have no idea what classes will be like in the new expansion or Paladins as well. I'm Completely clueless. What would you expect from someone being on a complete WoW hiatus.

I guess if you've been missing from WoW for a while your somewhat dead or some form of it. Yet one is truly never dead playing WoW, just somewhat missing. However I'm slowly just starting to read again and be reawakened in Azeroth. Its been a while, and the break has been very good.

Checked the WoW Armory to see if I was still there as well, I guess I am. With as many millions of players that play WoW and amount of names in use, good names may be in short supply according to Rohan in a recent post over at Blessing of Kings for the next expansion. So I was still amazed checking the armory realizing that my actual name is unique in the WoW Armory. That's for almost 5 years now which is quite a long time. And since I checked the Armory today today, I'll know anyone else in the future is a bonafide imposter :)

I'll probably be back to some low casual WoW soon. If I can only remember what my Blizzard battlenet user account information actually is.

Thanks for still stopping by!

Officially Moved Blog to WordPress: Ardent Defender

Moved the blog to WordPress platform with a new blog for Ardent Defender and will no longer be updating the blog here on Blogger platform. Though I will have the blog account here will consider this blog here pretty much Retired! The new blog url is linked below.

So if you had me linked in your RSS Feed or Blog Link then you probably need to update the link to the new url for the new blog. So please update your links.

Blog moved to new url here on WordPress: Ardent Defender.

Blog: A Few Changes...

Around here on the blog, not really all that much drastic changes. But moving on to playing other MMO's and I'm keeping my blog and its name, the adventures just will change a bit from one MMO to the next. Over the course of 4 years I've grown to like my blog. Its been a bit my companion while I played mostly WoW as well the feedback from readers which I have enjoyed.

These days while I have taken a very long break from WoW I've decided and have moved on to play or try other games. One MMO just don't do it for me anymore to keep game play interesting and fresh as I have interest in playing other games for my own fun and enjoyment as well need for more interesting game play.

WoW will always be there and the great community of bloggers and readers that have supported this blog and many others whenever I decide to return to WoW from time to time whenever that may be. The focus will never be quite the same when I do in play style for many reasons. Its hard to keep up when your not all that focus on a specific game all the time.

Its also too difficult and just not that fun to maintain more than one blogs about MMO games just because the games are different and cater to different readers playing different games as to not offend the readers. So I've decided to just maintain one blog if possible and just make it a general blog on the MMO's I play. If that offend some long time readers, oh well. Much better than having a abandoned blog for all the effort it took to grow over the years and maintain. Plus I like my blog name!!!

I don't really like a flashy blog with too much content thrown at a reader to find anything. I like simplicity in finding things so I'm keeping my blog simple as its always been. Plus I don't want to spend that much time playing around with making changes to a blog either. I rather spend it doing other things or playing games.

Didn't realize how many dead WoW blogs there were until I had to purge quite a few of the dead ones out of my WoW blog list that wasn't updated in the last 4+ months. Was allot! For the most part just changed my blog title, removed quite a bit of links, added some new blogs I been reading for some time on other games I play. I read quite a bit of blogs and most just reflect all the various blogs I actively read in some way.

But not really all that many changes. I kinda like using Wordpress as well but too bad I don't own the name there for AD. But still Ardent Defender, just defending Time, Space, Universe and Mystical Realms in other MMO's other than just WoW. The journey and adventures continues in different and diverse adventures.

Anyway more changes are possible as well as I play around with things.

Blog Note

Change is coming. Many changes are coming to this entire blog.

In Life things eventually change for better or to worse. Azeroth is undergoing change. All thing eventually does. Even our interest in things change. Blogs sometimes eventually do as well.