Battle.net Ultimatum Date Draws Near, Merge Accounts Or Perish
Blizzard is advising all players in their vast and sprawling World of Warcraft empire to join together in merging Battle.Net and Warcraft accounts. The move to merge all players onto a single account system has been coming for some time, with Blizzard offering gentle nudges and suggestions. The gentleness has ended.
Now the axe comes out.
All players, users, hackers, spammers, pubbies, puggers, scammers, keyloggers, and ERPers must merge their accounts before November 11th. Dire wrath faces those who resist the purity of Blizzard’s single-account system.
Read more at World of Warcraft’s community site.
World of Warcraft and PUGs the fix is coming?
Well, as much of a fix as can possibly be done to the bane-of-all-MMOs. Speaking of which us voces absolutely love PUGs—ignore Nelson’s complaints and objections, he won’t play with anyone not vetted by the FBI. They are an experience in both frustration and hilarity for any given game play event. PUGs are the groundwork that we use to gather our friends, sally forth into a strange world, and get our shy socialization shirts on.
Needless to say, Blizzard is introducing a new thing that should make PUGs the next-big-thing.
Blizzard drops details on the new dungeon and raid system for World of Warcraft, which brings with it cross-sever instancing, daily random dungeons, and special rewards for taking part in a pick-up group.
Pick-up groups, or PUGs, are the bane of many an MMO player’s existence. Rather than grouping with your guild
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World of Warcraft: Icecrown Citadel Preview
Part of the Citadel, anyhow. The back entrance up through the Lich King’s rose garden, it’s known as the Frozen Halls.
Read about it at WorldofWarcraft.com.
World of Warcraft: Pirate’s Day
As we all know, September 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. A fine tradition and a noble internet holiday. To celebrate, World of Warcraft is hosting their own event, Pirate’s Day.
In short, Booty Bay gets taken over by pirates, and they have stuff. Lots of stuff. For you. Including an achievement. But it’s one day only!
Check out Blizzard’s WoW holiday page for the details.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Rumors and Speculation
Recently, a few rumours broke out about the next planned expansion to Blizzard’s crushingly popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft. These whispers in the dark centered around Cataclysm, the next expansion to WoW after Lich King.
It’s said that the great dragon Deathwing will join forces with the immortal and exiled elf-queen Azshara to summon a great power that will shatter the world.
It’s said that Warchief Thrall will pass the Doomhammer to the son of Grom Hellscream, and open war will come upon the Horde and the Alliance.
It’s said that Humans and Undead will finally get Hunters, I mean, damn, what took so long?
Oh, and something about new races and a complete rebuild of Azeroth.
Right now, MMO Champion has a decent rundown of the expected, or at least, more believable changes and details leaked out …
World of Warcraft Q and A Series Continues
Questions and Answers about the classes in World of Warcraft. Simple concept, deep insights. All you gamers sitting on your couches, downing snack chips and hooting like baboons at the screen, you don’t know what it’s like out there behind the curtain. There’s math hidden under the hood. And tradeoff. And compromise. And comparison. Designing games is a tough job, fit only for the most rugged of our kind, the sort who bites the legs off rabid pitbulls for breakfast. Designers abandon their families and curse their gods so you can grind away in blissful ignorance of what’s happening just out of sight in the code and the structure of the game.
So, here’s the Hunter. The Rogue. The Priest.
PaymentOne Destroys World of Warcraft Accounts with Inexplicable Chargebacks
The World of Warcraft is reeling under an assault, but not from any mortal enemy. Instead, the masses of elves and orcs alike suffer under the cruel whip of bizarre credit charges canceling their accounts.
The monster at the heart of this attack is PaymentOne, a company that allows players to pay their game subscriptions through their phone bills. It seems that PaymentOne has issued thousands of credit card chargebacks against WoW players, which caused their accounts with Blizzard to go deeply negative. In response, Blizzard shut down the accounts.
A chargeback is a type of credit card protection people use to defend themselves against nasty and unexpected charges on their credit card. It bodily sucks the money directly from the merchant’s account back to the user’s own, leaving the merchant …
World of Warcraft Dev Q&A — The Warrior
A new Q&A session with the World of Warcraft dev team is up, and this time it’s focused on the Warrior. For my money, the Warrior is probably the most complex class in the game to play, and the one that relies most on technique, finesse, and situational awareness. Of course, my first main was also an Undead Warrior, so maybe I’m biased.
You can read it all over here at the Under Development logs on worldofwarcraft.com.
World of Warcraft Blizzcon Photo Update
When thousands of Warcraft players gather, what you have there is a party. A really strange, geeky, somehow unclean party. Blizzcon 2008 is no exception, and for those of us who couldn’t make it, Blizzard was kind enough to take pictures and post them up. One-hundred and nine pictures. Of geeks. Of costumes. Of geeks in costumes planning on doing horrible things with those costumes up in their hotel rooms later.
Oh, did I mention the dance contest?
Check out the terrible evidence and photo gallery right here.
World of Warcraft Opens Up to Questions for Latest Blizzcast Q&A
Just in case you have a question that really needs an answer, Blizzard has opened the floor to your queries with their Blizzcast podcast type show thing. This podcast show revolves around interviews with the developers and a look into what life is like under the Blizzard yoke, then ends with a mailbag segment from the community. You can listen to the podcasts here.
You can send in your questions either in mail or as a voice recording, which is nice for those of us who like to hear ourselves talk. Even if you don’t have a question of your own, the forum thread on the subject is hilarious and filled with all the wonderful wit and insight that makes the Warcraft forums such a magical place. Check it out over here.
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