Clueless me

For years, I have always wanted to immerse myself into the gaming world but had no idea where begin or what I wanted to do.  So in 2009, I joined a website called FFXIVCore which covered a game called Final Fantasy XIV. I spent alot of time making friends with community and one day I saw a post from the owner of the site looking people to join his staff. I applied for the wiki team, better to try than never try at all. 

After having a online interview with several of the admins and the owner, I was recruited to research and find news in any shape or form as long as it didn't break any terms of NDA. So for a year I did a number of community relations and researching day and night for information and getting information translated from Japanese to English.  The owner of the site, worked for Curse so once the site got popular he sold it to his company. Curse kept us on but still as volunteers. I did the best I could with the limited resources I had at my fingertips. I ended up taking over as Lead wiki/researcher and design. Later on I left due to lack of help and other reasons. However to this day I still get random people from that site adding me on Facebook or Twitter for reasons unknown but it's an awesome feeling regardless. 

Awhile later one of the writers FFXIVCore sent me a link to a web magazine for SWTOR (Star Wars: The Old Republic) saying they needed writers. I was surprised because I am by no means a writer but he encouraged me to do it anyhow. I applied and ended up getting two articles published in one magazine. (The articles can be views several posts below this one.) It was a good experience but it was not for me.

After I left TORMAG, I stalled out for awhile with no clue what to do so I made up my mind this summer to re-enroll back into college and try hand at progamming, level design or possibly community relations. Wish me luck!

Passing Part 2

*Dusts off his blog and stares at the screen tries to think of what to type*

Guess I should start off what has happened since my last post. After getting the news about my Uncle, I had to find his daughter which none of us have talked to her in 8-9 years, since she is the next of kin and the funeral home would not proceed any further until we did. It was something I was not looking forward to doing since I had no idea how to get a hold of her. So I started with her mother which was not a pleasant conversation by any means since she was rather HATEFUL towards me for reasons unknown. 

 We finally got in touch with her and she stated she did not want to have anything to do with the funeral and she was true to her word. She didn't even show up but had us read a letter to friends and family. The memorial was nice and sadly we were unable to view the body since he had been dead for 2 whole days before he was found. He was a unique man and will be missed.

Passing....

Earlier, tonight my mother called me and asked me if I was sitting down, I replied "Yeah...why?" She said "Ken is dead..." Her Brother, my Uncle was found dead and the details are little unclear of why he died but we think it was due to kidney failure. Deputy Coroner informed us that we have to go to his house and secure the rifles and any valuables. I will update at a later time...I am tired..and have a long day ahead of me.

Nerd Rage Activated!

On September 14 2010 at the Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix announced that they will be remaking Final Fantasy X into High Definition. So they are making FFFX-HD instead of FFVI or FFVII HD better yet...CHRONO TRIGGER HD! GRRRRRRR NERD RAGE!

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First Published Articles

Earlier this month, 2 of my articles were published in a magazine. Here it is for your reading pleasure. If you have any problems with the viewer please let me know!

Lessons in reading: Part 2

If you read yesterday's blog you will get an idea what I am having to put up with. Here is the continuation of it.

GM:

Hi,

Have you tried downloading the client again ? What download did you use ?

Best Regards,
GM Lovakat,
EVE Customer Support.

(Eye twitch)

Eye Twitching Me:

Lovakat:

No offense or anything but do you NOT read anything I type? I said I downloaded it from your site and I am not the only one with this issue.

Here is the link I got it from and why bother redownloading it when LOT of other people are having this issue as well? ITS on your end that needs to be fixed not ours.

This is where I got it from.
LINK: https://secure.eveonline.com/ft/FreeTrialSignup.aspx?aid=103543

I do apologize if I seem snappy but you have had me repeat things twice. I have explained the issue..4 times on the client and 3 times on the forum. Its bound to make anyone annoyed.

GM:

Hi,

I understood that you downloaded the client from our website, however, there is different types of download. There is the online installer and the offline one. It is why I asked you which one you used.

Could you please try downloading again from: http://www.eveonline.com/download/ ?
Downloaded files can be corrupted during the download and we have no indication of a corrupted file on our side.

If you could also give me the link to the forum thread so I can have a look, it would be nice.

Best Regards,
GM Lovakat,
EVE Customer Support.

(Sigh)

Me:

1: http://www.eve-search.com/thread/1521967/page/2#36

2: http://eve-search.com/thread/1532929/author/Vjorn%20Angannon#1

3: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1524127&page=2#37

4: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1524127

All with the same issue I do.

Just go to google and type in the following:

EVE Online valueError: too many values to unpack

and you shall see the issues and be sure to set it for the past week.

GM:

Hi,

This is an issue I wasn't aware of.
Have you tried to download this: http://cdn1.eveonline.com/client_repair/324/repair.exe as said in the forum thread ?
Have you followed the other tips in this thread ?

Best Regards,
GM Lovakat,

EVE Customer Support.

(Wonders if people understand the meaning of certain things....)

Me:

How am I going to repair something I cannot install? I have no directory for it to direct the file to or put the file in unless I put it in the

C:\ProgramData\CCP\EVE\downloads folder?

GM:

Hi,

I'm really sorry, but this is really out of my knowledge, I will move this petition into technical so a specialized GM can help you with this.
Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.

Best Regards,
GM Lovakat,
EVE Customer Support.

(REALLY?)

Me:

Ok thank you for trying to help. I have also enclosed 2 pictures of my issues.

*Still waiting to hear from the specialized GM*

Lessons in reading...

So my curiousity got the better of me after so many years of hearing about EVE Online, I decided to download EVE Online for the free 14 day trial. Once I had it downloaded, I could not install it due to corrupt file, so I went online to find the solution which lead me to the EVE Online forums where apparently I am not alone in this matter. So I tried to reply to the post and it asks me for my account name and password. This is not a problem so I do so, but the next screen was the problem. It asks me for the character name on the account....one problem with this. I CANNOT create a character if I cannot even install the game. So I set out for support and explain to them about my issue.

Here is the replies between me and the GM.

Me:

Hello, I am trying to login to the forums so I can post MY other issue. I installed the free 14 day trial client and having issues with it. I DO NOT have a character made yet so kinda hard for me to confirm WHAT my characters name is when it does NOT exist yet!

Alot of people are having the same issue I am having with the download client so...how am I to fix my issue when I cant even login into the forums properly.

GM:

Hi,

Can you please tell us you bought the game via steam, or did you just want to use the trial ?

Best Regards,
GM Lovakat,
EVE Customer Support.

(Seriously?)

Me:

I stated I installed the free 14 day trial client so I wanted to just use the trial to test it out but apparently there is an issue with your client.

I wanted to try the game out before I buy it, but if the free client doesn't work, kinda hard to test it out don't ya think?

GM:

Hi,

Have you created the trial account at this address https://secure.eveonline.com/ft/FreeTrialSignup.aspx ? Could you please try with this one and tell me what account name you chose ?

Best Regards,
GM Lovakat,
EVE Customer Support.

ME:

Yes I have created an trial account,just cant even install the game because the client is corrupt, so therefore I cannot login and create a character.

Username: Name withheld

GM:

Hi,

I have checked the account, and everything seems to be fine. Did you get the client to work ? You should be able to log in game to create the character. Once you will have created the character, you will be able to log in on the website.

Best Regards,
GM Lovakat,
EVE Customer Support.

(bangs head on desk repeatedly)

Aggravated Me:

No I CANNOT get the client to INSTALL as I said previously which is WHY I was trying to log onto the forums to join in on a post with the people with the same problem as I have.

Forum- The issue is that it REQUESTS a name of the character on your account. I DO not have ONE made yet so therefore I cannot get onto the forums.


Client- Will not install due to corrupt installer which I downloaded directly from your site.

To be continued...I am still waiting for a reply...