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Write A WoW Haiku, Win A WoW:Cataclysm Beta Key!

By Randydeluxe on July 29th, 2010
Posted In: C - Drops

It’s really that simple.  Today, I’m giving two beta keys to the writers of two haiku about WoW.  You may post your haiku in the comments here or on our Facebook wall.  Please only enter with one haiku, the best you can contrive.

My bare dwarf feet on

Cool dewy grass feel just right

A fine hunter’s day

I will be convening a panel of judges when this contest is closed for entries, which will be at 9PM PDT (midnight eastern) today.  So you have six hours to give it your best shot! Good luck!
Note: Please don’t post your haiku someplace other than the comments on this blog post or our Facebook wall, if you want it to be judged.  Also, please note that we will be checking to make sure the winning WoW haiku are original before awarding the keys.  Thank you!


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Win A WoW:Cataclysm Beta Key Today!

By Randydeluxe on July 27th, 2010
Posted In: C - Drops

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to patronize The Instance fan page on Facebook.

On that page, I have just created a new photo album called “WoW In Real Life”.  Now it’s time for you to get creative.  Post one photo to the photos page that fits the description:

“…your WoW things juxtaposed with real-world things, or just real-world things that remind you of WoW.”

It could be a picture of your collector’s edition of WoW on a snow sled.  Perhaps your FigurePrint on vacation in the city.  Perhaps you have an actual pet pig named Hellboar.  We will select one photo at 8PM PDT today.  It will be a photo that is funny/weird/beautiful/catchy.  You have four hours.

Good luck!!


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The Instance Is Your Key To The Cataclysm Beta!

By Randydeluxe on July 22nd, 2010
Posted In: C - Drops

We’re happy to announce that every day for the next 25 days, The Instance will give away two keys to the World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta test, courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment! As we build up to our landmark 200th episode, we want to give you the chance to beta-test and be among the first to experience the coming cataclysm.

Every day, starting tomorrow – Friday, July 23rd – Scott and Randy will each give away one of two unique codes that unlock your access to Cataclysm. To win, you’ll want to follow Scott and Randy, as well as Instanceshow, on Twitter. They might give away a code on The Instance Facebook page any day of the week. You never know when Randy might announce a giveaway in The Instance forum, or Scott might give his daily code to a random person in the live chat room during a recording of one of the show. If you want to win, you’ll have to keep your eyes peeled, and your mournes frosty.

Start looking for Scott and Randy to each give away one WoW:Cataclysm beta code per day, and good luck! We’ll see you in the game.


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MMO-Champion.com Bought by Curse

By Dills on July 20th, 2010
Posted In: B - News

Curse.com, a portal that offers many tools for MMO players, has purchased MMO-Champion.com from Major League Gaming.  MMO-Champion.com is one of the most popular World of Warcraft news sites boasting more than 7 million unique visitors and over 80 million page views a month.  The site is popular for it’s simple design and Blue Tracker as well as providing many sneak previews of upcoming changes to WoW.  MMO-Champion’s founder and administrator, Fabien Bonte, will be joining Curse as a full-time employee and maintains that “99% of the decisions on the site” will still be made by him.  While Curse has been a leading provider of MMO tools and resources since being founded by Hubert Thieblot in 2005, some gamers will also be wary of the deal since Curse, along with WoWInterface, led to the downfall of WoWMatrix.  ↓ Read the rest of this entry…


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Nerdtacular 2010 video finally posted!

By Scott on July 19th, 2010
Posted In: C - Drops

A TON of you guys are in this! Huge thanks again to William Doran for shooting and editing this video!


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Spell Check – WoW Spells That Gotta Go

By Dills on July 16th, 2010
Posted In: D - Scuttlebutt

As Cataclysm approaches everyday news comes out about the changes that are being made to the game.  A lot of what we are finding out is that some things are going away completely and the game is being simplified in many respects.  Simple may not always be better but there are quite a few spells that seem extraneous or poorly designed that may have had a purpose at some point but now have outlived their usefulness.  Should Blizzard just dump them all or is there anything salvageable?  Let’s take a look at some spells that either need to be dumped or get a tune-up.

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Introducing The Instance Music Page!

By Randydeluxe on July 14th, 2010
Posted In: C - Drops

On our top bar above, you’ll now find a new page called Music, where we are cataloging every song we feature in The Instance, so you don’t have to! We know how much you want to be able to listen to your favorite WoW-related parodies and assorted songs that are submitted to the show, and we want there to be a one-stop-shop for you.

There is a long way to go before the page is complete, but if you’d like to help, feel free to comment there, or join us in discussion on this topic here.

Enjoy!


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The Instance #196 – The Rage! It Burns Us, Precious!

By Randydeluxe on July 12th, 2010
Posted In: The Podcast

Big News Of The Week

Blizzard Rolls A One

In a move that surprised some people, amused others, and mainly invoked a summer hurricane of nerdrage, debate, and more nerdrage, Blizzard announced on Tuesday an attempt to bring accountability to their subscriber-only discussion forums by identifying message writers by real name. What followed, and what followed that, and what now follows that…

Rumors And Scuttlebutt

Believe it Or Not, Other Things Are Afoot

Lost in all the real name kerfuffle, Blizzard speculated this week on changing the fundamental way you define what sort of mage or hunter you’re playing, by condensing talent trees in the game at some point in the possibly near future. On Wednesday, Zarhym announced a wholescale revamp that they would like to do… in a huge post in the forums.

Sending Things To Yourself, Only It’s A Different You

In another fun little tidbit, the new Blizzard community manager Lylirra popped up this week in a thread speculating about cross-realm functions to say the following,

“Adding the ability for players to be able to mail Bind on Account items cross-realm is something we’ve discussed on more than one occasion.  We understand that players would greatly appreciate having the option to send heirlooms, for example, to lower-level characters on different realms, so we’re exploring the possibility. It’s definitely on our radar! Due to the necessary infrastructure changes that would need to occur before cross-realm mail can be integrated, though, we have no immediate plans for adding this functionality as of yet.”

Town Cryer

Roger, aka Deafwolf, from the Aegwynn server writes: I have attempted to contact Blizzard through their website in the attempt to learn about sponsorship. I currently ride a road bike in charity events, criterium races, and distance races. I’m purely an amateur, but I believe I can offer good visibility outside the game. Who do I contact and how do I reach them about my request?

Cataclysmic Drop Of The Week

Go Raid Some Trolls!

This is the ninth in our limited series, wherein we’re highlighting things for you to do in WoW that you might not ever get to do again after the Cataclysm. It’s Zul’Gurub!

Additional show content provided by Darrell the Tipgiver, Steve “Buxley” Pietrowicz, James “Acuzod” Jefferies and the outstanding Instance Community.

Special thanks to DogHouse Systems, FigurePrints!, TypeFrag and SquareSpace for sponsoring this episode.

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The MP3 File
- The iTunes Subscription
The Zune Feed


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You Can Take Our Subscription Fees…But You Can Never Take…Our Freedom!

By Dills on July 9th, 2010
Posted In: The Podcast

In a huge victory for the thousands of posters to the Blizzard official forums over the last few days Mike Morhaime posted a response to the recent uproar about Blizzard requiring Real ID names on the forums:

“I’d like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. We’ve been constantly monitoring the feedback you’ve given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums. As a result of those discussions, we’ve decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums.”

And there was much rejoicing.


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Real ID Moves to Blizz Forums, Trolls Worst Nightmare?

By Dills on July 7th, 2010
Posted In: The Podcast

Blizzard ignited a huge debate in their forums with an announcement on the official forums.  Around the time of Cataclysm’s launch all posts made on the forums will use Real ID names which are also of course the real names of the posters.  At the time of this writing there are multiple threads on the US and EU forums, some with over 1400 pages and counting.  Some of you may know as listeners of The Instance, Scott and Randy are not known for their fondness of the official Blizzard forums but what does this mean for future of the forums? ↓ Read the rest of this entry…


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