Turpster and Scott defend the fort while Dills visits parts of Texas your mother never told you about in stories.

File tech incoming, happy 15 Diablo, Raid Finder loot rules explained, is hacking on the rise, authenticator followup, what happened to the Wolf Men, Trek goes free, aging player base, nothing wrong with Blood Elves, Massively awards and MORE!

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The last episode of 2011! So we do what we do, and we do it in style. Whatever that means. Anyway, on with the show.

Last show of the year! We take a look back at the years biggest stories in WoW, what 2012 might bring, how much money Blizzard makes on security keys, Streets post mortem on 4.3, and your very own WoW wig! All that and Turpster’s weird accent, so come on in!

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Scott and Dills saddle up for another episode, minus T today. He had holiday family stuff!

Losing your character name, what is a BattleTag, Blizzard at the VGA’s, account wide mounts coming, BattleNet Balance, and a great Christmas song! All that and more!

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Dills got hacked. We have some sobering security reminders for you guys today, plus:

A tale of hacking, the T on 4.3, LFR exploit gets some in trouble, Race to World first is streaming FREE, Talent talk again in the rumor mill, BIG christmas deals at Blizzard, and MORE! (Also, great contest winner from DogHouse.)

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4.3 lands, Turpster is doing charity, and we get a visit from AHSpy! Plus:

4.3 has landed, and we land right on top of it, battle.net authenticator by-pass now available, cross-realm real ID happenings, talents and Mist, the state of the WoW economy server by server, and WoW players losing a ton of Weight! Guest, Pierre-Luc Brunet joining us!

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The whole crew is here, ready to nail down the latest in Anzerothian goodness. Shall we begin?

How you will roll in 4.3, two new TV spots hit the spot, happy birthday to wow, future Blizzcon plans, MoP talent calculator is out, and get Starcraft II on the cheap today, and MORE! Your emails, calls, and some interesting side talk about Skyrim, and the future of leveling systems in RPG’s.

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Dills is back, and all three of us are ready to rock! Skyrim might just inform a bit of the conversation today, but not too much, we promise.

Mass layoffs turned out to be a mass lie, Vivendi sells a bunch of Blizzard stock, new WoW ad airing this sunday, 4.3 valor changes and what that means, 1000 guilds have killed heroic Rag, your calls, your emails, Gamestop wants to save new WoW players some money, and Minecraft Stormwind is something to behold!

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Dills is in Vegas, but that did not stop us from chatting it up about WoW, even on Skyrim day.

Big News of the Week
WoW subscriber numbers down to 10.3 million players. During today’s Activision Blizzard investor call, it was announced that WoW has a total of 10.3 million players. This is down from the 11.4 million subscribers announced in March 2011. That means that 1.1 million players no longer play the game, a decline of about 10%.

In the call, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said that the majority of the subscriber loss happened in the east. There was no mention of specific subscriber numbers in the United States. Blizzard also declined to provide a subscriber forecast.

-Most of the subscriptions were lost in China.
-There is normally an increase in subscriptions around December.
-The decreased profit came from all of the games in development and no launches occurring.
-There will be at least two major releases next year.

Patch 4.3 now available on the Background Downloader. In an effort to save my PM box from imploding, I had to do a breaking news to tell everyone that the Patch 4.3.0 is now available on the background downloader for both EU and US players.

It doesn’t actually mean much, it just means that we reached the point where Blizzard is comfortable enough to release most of the static assets to the live client while they finish polishing the PTR one. There was no release candidate build on the test realms and I don’t really see the patch happening right now, you can all calm down.

Rumors & Scuttlebut
Some Q and A is just what the doctor ordered (bits from the Class Design & Balance Q&A). Plus, Patch 4.3 – The New Darkmoon Faire is on Test Realms!

Drop of the Week
Get your replica wardrobe on! The very first class armor sets from the old level 60 5-man dungeons are back in the game, or at least replicas of them are back and you can buy them for Transmogrification purposes!

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