Thoro
6321
I got one of those emails too. Considering that my account was stolen from me and Blizzard basically shrugged and went, “Nah, we’re not interested in helping you”, I’m pretty okay with it being closed.
Not that I’d have an interest in ever returning to WoW or purchasing any other product Blizzard or Activision will make, ever again.
Wow, when my account was hacked I had everything restored within an hour of reporting it. How long ago did that happen to you Thoro?
Jag
6323
The fun part is that you have to do it without any support from your main. The toon can’t trade, use AH, get mail or join guilds, so there is no way to help it level, which I found actually fun. It was fairly quick using a dwarven hunter and once you convert to raid, you can shut down the WoW program with the free toon.
It is NOT an e-mail from blizzard. I have gotten multiple e-mails from noreply @blizzard.com that had real links for everything but the link to log into your account (and that looks really close too), and since it was right around the time I re-activated my account I opened a support ticket to check. I was assured on two occasions that the e-mails did not come from blizzard and they do not in fact include links to log into your account in any e-mail they send. The phishers are getting much better because WoW accounts are so valuable to them.
Sebmojo
6325
I think they’ve given up on the old players who are burning out and dropping out and are aiming for a younger demographic.
No particular problem with that personally - I might even take the 12 month sub for D3, as I’m not keen to buy it for itself.
I expect it will go F2P in a year or two.
Jag
6326
The one he listed was because:
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I got the same one that said my account was just locked and it now was (it wasn’t a few minutes earlier).
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I checked the source code for the email address (as per Blizz recommendations) and the link to login to your account was from bnet.
I’ve gotten alot of spoof emails that look like they are from Blizzard, so I would treat any email with skepticism. The best way to deal with it is to log into your account by typing in the web address directly.
WoW already is free-to-play for levels 1-20, with a few restrictions in place (no mail, no AH, etc.).
They’ve already stated that going f2p is not in the cards, aside from what they have currently done. There was a blue post saying that It did not fit their code and player base.
Thoro
6329
Around the time of the changeover to battle.net.
The World of Warcraft subscription numbers have dropped in the past few years down from 11.5 million to just over 10 million. As a response Blizzard has started a new campaign which includes Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris has let 10 million people live so they can play World of Warcraft.
WoW using Chuck Norris is like your grandma telling a ‘cool’ joke.
Yeah, that’s a fair assessment, but I still got a chuckle out of it. C’mon, they had Mister T also.
It’s interesting about the subscription drop. I wonder if the lost subscribers are playing F2P MMOs – there must be at least 30+ of those – or if they are just not playing MMOs at all?
Daagar
6333
Probably hard to ever prove just where they all went. Since no other MMO (to this point) has really swelled in numbers though, I suspect personally that many tire of WoW for whatever reason, hop to the ‘next big thing’ for the 30-day run, then a fraction come back and the rest fade away back to whatever they did prior to MMOs.
As for the commerical, I thought it was pretty weak overall, but I think it is clever/cool of both Blizzard and Norris to indulge in the meme. Those ‘in the know’ get a chuckle, and the rest get a commercial similar enough to their previous efforts so it doesn’t look out of place. It is the inverse of what they did with Mr. T where they took the commercial Night Elf Mohawk and put it in-game, and instead took something in-game to put in the commercial.
z22
6336
Most probably know this, but the official WoW Pandera Talent Calculator is up and running. Not many choices for players now. 7 choices for talents??
Yeah, except those 7 choices are between 3 pretty significantly different talents each. If you compare it to how it is currently, there will be quite a bit more room for customizing your build. My only gripe is just how often I’m going to need to switch those talents depending on what I’m doing at the moment.
The idea is to have a few interesting choices, instead of a lot of boring non-choices (how many talents are really optional in the current structure, anyway?)
As for switching between them, the idea is for it to be on par with switching glyphs – something you can do with a cheap consumable, on the fly. Whether this becomes an interesting sort of customization that people enjoy doing, or just another chore before a boss fight like making sure everybody is buffed, remains to be seen.
Yeah, I don’t get the criticism that you “only” have choices between seven talents. How much choice do you have now? IIRC, once you take all the mandatory talents, each tree only has 2-4 optional choices.
There are quite a few current options for disc priests which are simply vanishing.
Not so much for shadow, sure. (And I don’t play holy, so no idea)
