The Instance #196 – The Rage! It Burns Us, Precious!
By Randydeluxe on July 12th, 2010Posted In: The Podcast
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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 [...]
You Can Take Our Subscription Fees…But You Can Never Take…Our Freedom!
By Dills on July 9th, 2010Posted 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 [...]
Real ID Moves to Blizz Forums, Trolls Worst Nightmare?
By Dills on July 7th, 2010Posted 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 [...]
Big News Of The Week Lifting An NDA Is A Great Workout Blizzard blew the doors down on this joint this week with the opening of the last major raid dungeon before the coming Cataclysm, and the sudden release of the beta version 4.0 of that forthcoming expansion to the world. The non-disclosure agreement has [...]
Recent developments in the MMO industry have led some to believe that World of Warcraft will one day indeed become free-to-play. The addition of micro-transactions in the form of the Blizzard Pet Store as well as several notable games such as Lord of the Rings Online switching to the free-to-play model have stoked the embers [...]
Big News Of The Week It Just Got Real Blizzard implemented World Of Warcraft version 3.3.5 this week, laying the groundwork for the opening of the Ruby Sanctum dungeon – but not yet making that raid instance available to players – and suddenly and irrevocably changing the nature of the game and every game Blizzard [...]
The Instance #193 – Remember The Path Of The Titans
By Randydeluxe on June 21st, 2010Posted In: The Podcast
Big News Of The Week C’est La Vie, That’s Just The Way It Goes Like many possible changes to the game that have never reached full implementation, Blizzard announced last week that two of their proposed changes to the game with the Cataclysm expansion have met the cutting room floor. Specifically, linear guild talents and [...]
The Instance #192 – I’m Just Going To Call It Kalimuhdor. Deal With It.
By Randydeluxe on June 11th, 2010Posted In: The Podcast
Big News Of The Week Blizzard Sells Out Tickets For Blizzcon, So They’re Available Everywhere Last week in two rapid-fire sales events, Blizzard sold tens of thousands of tickets to Blizzcon 2010 in October. The tickets were in such high demand by potential attendees and, more likely, speculators, that they can properly be considered to [...]
The Instance #191 – The Ruby Sanctum Has No Eye
By Randydeluxe on June 1st, 2010Posted In: The Podcast
Big News Of The Week WoW Is Back On Deck Blizzard’s spin-off company Cryptozoic released their first set in the WoW Trading Card Game this week, and it’s called Wrathgate. You can read all about it in three parts here, here and here. Rumors And Scuttlebutt It’s The Eve Of Ruby Sanctum Public Test Realm [...]
The Instance #190 – One Naked Wolf Lady Coming Right Up
By Randydeluxe on May 23rd, 2010Posted In: The Podcast
Big News Of The Week Money Money Money Money. Money! In two mostly unrelated moves this week, Blizzard announced the upcoming sale of tickets for Blizzcon 2010, and they released the beta version of their long-rumored remote auction house application. The tickets are going to cost you $150 each, while the auction house application is [...]
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