Comments on: BRK’s Farewell

By: gloonor

gloonor — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:49:57 +0000

good for Hobbes, he made the right choice. Yes, A new hunter quest might be in line to get eather a non combat or combat pet. Needs to be in a neutral location, as you mentioned, those dwarfs love thier drinks so he might be looking for the perfect rasbery latte

By: Infares

Infares — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:35:20 +0000

Grats on BRK’s willingness to prioritize. It can be difficult to come to such a decision.

By: Oakshorn

Oakshorn — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:10:05 +0000

I agree – a tribute to BRK – he greatly deserves it with all the work he did to help the WoW community at large and hunters specifically.

By: Sheeno

Sheeno — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:30:47 +0000

If they ever make a tameable beast i will be sure to get it and just have it by my side when sitting in Dalaran!

You shall be missed BRK!

By: Kuldrad

Kuldrad — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:28:18 +0000

Daniel made me really love playing the Hunter, and as such, I will miss his blog and his podcasts greatly.

If Daniel is smart, after three months he should return as a casual player, and lose the podcast and blog. No more ‘Project Lore’ crap, no more merchandising, just casual play.

His wife took the first test of thier relationship by leaving for a job for three months. She found out she could handle it. So she confroted Daniel, and he made the right move. But the test is just starting. If he goes back to his full-time raiding, blog, podcast and all that, I’m afraid she’ll make a more permanent move. Daniel needs to continue to put family first after the three month hiatus, and she’ll be watching him closely.

As much as I hate to say it, I hope I never see another BRK blog entry or podcast. That way I’ll know he’s putting his kid and his relationship with his wife first. You can be a great spouse and parent and still play quite a bit of WoW, but not at the level of committment Daniel was giving to the WoW community.

By: Shir_Kirakira

Shir_Kirakira — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:10:12 +0000

While I am sad to see BRK go, I’m honestly not surprised.

Call me a bit of a pessimist, but after reading his blog for awhile, and seeing how much time he dedicated to the hunter community AND the fact that he had a family and children, I told myself, “Yeah, we’ll see how long this lasts.” I can’t even log in a quarter of the time that BRK does, without my spouse b**ching at me (and we don’t even have children!). I don’t see how he could have kept up his playtime and balance his family, and kudos for him to admitting that he couldn’t and doing the right thing.

And for a memorial, there should be a dwarf NPC with a kitty pet following the coffee vendor in Shattrath, harassing him for a raspberry latte.

By: Ikara

Ikara — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:02:39 +0000

I think he made the right choice in leaving WoW like he did. A lot of people get really into that game. My Step-dad used to play it a lot instead of spend time with me or my mother, or doing something else with us or when we had family over. He quit too though, but mostly because he got Carpal tunnel from too much playing.
A lot of people spend too much time on the game, and even though I still play, I’m not as excessive as I used to be, and I learned to pay attention to my schoolwork and whatnot. However, BRK should still be honored in the game. If not for being an excellent blogger during his time in the game, then at least for making a good example for some people in the game.

By: Frazzle.d

Frazzle.d — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:08:01 +0000

As a fellow dwarf hunter I feel a hole in my heart as I have one less stoned, drunken, fat, stupid oaf to roll on loot on phat epixxx for… uurgh I mean, I’ll miss him and his humor a lot. If he’s on youtube a fair bit he’ll probably come back after watching some video that’s better than his and has a really happy crocodile in it, inspired to force us with priest alts to watch ever increasingly bigger and redder kitties not only do most of your dps, but LICK THEIR OWN BEHINDS. Nerf.

By: Shagrat

Shagrat — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:08:29 +0000

The NPC would have be in a neutral place like Dalaran for us Hordies :( I’m sure he’ll be back in some extent once he makes up some much-lost time with his red-headed maelstrom of fury and son. WTB BRK the novel :)

By: Gunsnbutter

Gunsnbutter — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:52:56 +0000

While the non-combat pet or tamable pet idea is nice…..I really like the idea of an NPC version of BRK wandering the halls of Ironforge. And someone suggested the name of Daniel Hobbes…..that would be too perfect. Hope Blizz is reading this. Thanks Mania for giving us a post to comment on this.

Gunsnbutter/Cerdwyn on Uther