Blizzard Announces New Battle.net Matchmaking

thefritob writes "Blizzard is announcing their new Battle.net Matchmaking service. Find your perfect partner to lay waste the the Zerg hordes or meet that lvl 70 Orc warrior that shares your taste for 'ganking noobs.'"

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[dan828]

With a level 70? Hah! Tell the noob to get of her ass and make 80!

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[twoallbeefpatties]

With a level 70? Hah! Tell the noob to get of her ass and make 80!

And that is why she left you to go raid with a casual guild.

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[Locke2005]

Hey, if she's just gonna grind all day... well, I've got better things for her to grind against!

Kill me! Kill me!

[e2d2]

JFC Kill me now! Just do it! Kill me now and get the pain over with!

BattleMatch

[JWSmythe]

    {sigh}

    Boring.

    Even that site is bored of itself.

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[dan828]

Clearly. Anyone that could hook a WoWer/slashdoter up with an actual girl has the skills to accomplish anything. Though lets go higher than Starcraft....how about world peace?

Re:WHERE'S STARCRAFT 2

[Monkeedude1212]

I know a buddy of mine who wrote a simple shell script that could do that.

The world peace thing, I mean. Not the hook up.

Try another game?

[twoallbeefpatties]

Maybe you just have to get some crossover between guys who just spent 10 hours raiding in WoW with girls who just spent ten hours raking hay in Farmville.

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[Mongoose Disciple]

Maybe you just have to get some crossover between guys who just spent 10 hours raiding in WoW with girls who just spent ten hours raking hay in Farmville.

I'm sad to say my first thought in response was: Maybe there's some way to skin WoW so that you can get women paying to gold farm for you. You would also sell the gold. I can't see how this could possibly go wrong.

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[twoallbeefpatties]

...And I read that as saying, maybe a woman will skin your character in WoW and try to sell the leather. D:

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[masshuu]

clearly if you knew what today is and what it is like for a lonely level 80 hunter to spend months on end doing nothing but grinding, then you would know this is more important than any game.

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[BlackSnake112]

clearly if you knew what today is and what it is like for a lonely level 80 hunter to spend months on end doing nothing but grinding, then you would know this is more important than any game.

If you are role playing with your girl, the "months on end of doing nothing but grinding" sounds like a good idea.

Not talking video game grinding.

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[pwfffff]

I play it daily. Don't be bitter that you didn't get a key :)

Orc's are the easiest.

[adosch]

I hear that level 30 Orc's put out the most on the first date. Every Mage's wet dream in their parent's basement eh?! There's no bondage like gruesome death and destruction on the battlefield.

Re:Orc's are the easiest.

[Locke2005]

Level 30 Orc's put out the most on the first date Dude, everybody knows that's because they are so friggin' ugly! The Elves are the one you wanna date; they are really good in bed... only problem is, it's a bit difficult to tell the female elves from the male elves... oh, and their ears aren't the only thing that's pointed!

I prefer Queens quest

[CrazyJim1]

Funnier Blizzard April fools joke [blizzard.com]

ganking noobs

[voodoo cheesecake]

I don't know about you, but that little comment just made my fUc&!^g day! Thanks!

Meanwhile....

[BJ_Covert_Action]

Microsoft announced that it would be partnering with OnlineBootyCall to work on its new service, OnliveBootyCall for the popular 360 network. When approached about this decision, Microsoft executives insisted that OnliveBootyCall was significantly different from battle.net Matchmaking as OnliveBootyCall was strictly to be used for random, casual meetings that may or may not involve the teabagging and desecration of pixelated corpses. Whereas battle.net matchmaking promised gamers the opportunity to find a c

Not really a horrible idea

[mikael_j]

I'm not saying this is a great idea but somehow the basic idea of integrating a dating/matchmaking service into something else sort of makes sense to me, but maybe that's because I'm one of those people who would rather meet someone I have something in common with.

It would of course be very hard to implement but the basic idea is interesting, kind of like integrating a matchmaking service into Facebook (no, not as a third party app, as an integrated component where you can look for people in your area who are available and who seem to be compatible with you), but then I'm looking at this from the point of view of someone who would like to try coding said functionality using the available data...

I met my wife PvP'ing at Crossroads

[Orga]

We're expecting our second peon in October. No we don't play WoW anymore but we still play a multitude of other games together, online and off.

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[Locke2005]

I hope you've discovered that "role playing" is not just something you can do online...

An April Fool's summary article

[idontgno]

At The Escapist, there was a summary of this year's gaming-related April Foolery. The article [escapistmagazine.com] had one actually useful tidbit of information.

I now know a good acronym synonym for "gearscore" [curse.com], which is the current fetish on every WoW Looking-For-Group chat channel.

It's "Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number (EPEEN)"

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[Locke2005]

"Do you think he's maybe compensating for something?" -- Shrek

E.P.E.E.N.

[dbet]

This one [worldofwarcraft.com] was a little funnier I thought. Although it pokes fun at WoW culture rather than generic game culture.

To be fair...

[thetoadwarrior]

Fake or not, it would be better than making those people try through normal means and cause a scene in bar and clubs. I'll hold out for a clown fetish service before I shop for ladies online.

Fireflown

[Froboz23]

From the Battle.net progress bar:

Land: burned; sea: boiled; unable to acquire sky, please wait...

Ouch. Just ouch.

Competing with Jerry Springer.

[Neanderthal Ninny]

Have a few chairs and ....

haha blizzard

[nataflux]

I hope I don't get my sc2 beta invite today, that would be sad...

If only this was an April Fools joke

[nEoN nOoDlE]

The only joke is that Blizzard is announcing it. Unfortunately, this service is actually being released [presslift.com]

I am a Zerg you Insensitive Clod!

[twmcneil]

Actually, I thought this would be a great idea. I mean now that most of the Zerglings are out rushing with their friends all the time, it's way too quiet around the Spawning Pool if you know what I mean. Seems like every time a get a good thing going, those damn 'Toss show up and ruin it all.

Firefly!

[Clock Nova]

Just wondering if anyone got the firefly reference in the series of progress messages you get when you try to actually find a match.