Source: The Guardian

Summary: "As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells."

At first I thought you would get to choose between hard manual labor or gold farming, but it turns out you have no choice. On top of that, you are beaten if you don't hit your daily gold quote. Wow that's just... [Read More]

Source: Markeedragon Youtube


RPG Exploiter



Summary:



Gold sellers using PayPal received this email. Blizzard's argument is that Gold sellers are infringing on intellectual property rights.


Several larger sellers have been contacted. These resellers can choose to no longer support PayPal, but Blizzard can do the same thing to alternative payment methods.



URL: http://www.****************.com
You were reported to PayPal as an Intellectual Properties violation

... [Read More]

Source:
Facebook
MMB

Summary: Someone wrote a facebook app to track your WoW account. I'm not 100% sure on the technology on how it works.

Source: Markeedragon Youtube

Summary: Catch and deal with the gold farmers and other unwanted pests. Interviewee: George Dolbier, CTO for IBM's InterAcitve Media (Games, Social Media, Digital Special Effects, CGI, Animation). (Speaking on his own and not representing IBM) http://pennymo.com/ and Interviewee: Regine Weiner, Director Operations for Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group.

How to catch gold farmers. Look at statistics. How they are creating userna... [Read More]

Source: Markeedragon Youtube

Summary: King of the Chinese-side of Gold sellers. It's 40 minutes long.

My comments: This looks exciting, but I don't have time to watch it right now. Pretty smart gold seller though. Master's degree... geez. More on this later.

Source: Markeedragon Youtube

Summary: Interview with the "King" of Gold Farmers today. Oh can't wait.
He's willing to help developers stop people from having their accounts hacked. He can farm gil for $200 to $300 per month but can't compete with people who get the gold for free. Stolen accounts hurt everyone.

How to prevent 90% of game hacking: Chang WoW account password every month.

Chinese hackers hack community database sites and steal password. Then they apply that... [Read More]

Source: Youtube

Summary: Just watch it!

My comments: I'm not a WoW fan, but I always did enjoy Blizzard cut scenes.

Source: MMO Crunch

Summary: Release date Dec 7th. On Windows and Macintosh operating systems at the MSRP of $39.99 and the Collector’s Edition for $79.99. The Collector’s Edition is only available in stores, but there will be a digital download of the $39.99 version available at Blizzard’s online store.

Source: MMO Crunch

tl;dr: Will you be going to Blizzcon this year? If not at least viewing it could net you some impressive in-game items for both Starcraft II and World of Warcraft.
For those attending, or the World of Warcraft subscribers who are watching online, you recieve Deathy. Deathy is a baby murloc reskin made to look like Deathwing, the main antagonist of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Although the little guy won’t be causing any major lore events, he will be... [Read More]

Source: WoW-Europe
via: Markeedragon

tl;dr: Blizzard announced limited-release Collector's Edition of World of Warcraft®: Cataclysm, the third expansion of World of Warcraft. Bonus items available: Art of the Cataclysm art book,

Exclusive in-game pet: he may not be a breaker of worlds just yet, but Lil’ Deathwing will still proudly accompany heroes on their struggle to save Azeroth from his much, much larger counterpart

Behind-the-scenes DVD, Soundtrack, mouse pad, Tra... [Read More]

Source: Tech Eye

tl;dr: A Buffalo Grove teen who allegedly stole credit cards and used the information to play Internet games led police to his home, where his parents were arrested for growing marijuana.

My comments: I bet his parents are going to steal all his gold and delete his character. haha

Source: Suburban Chicago News

tl;dr: A Buffalo Grove teen who allegedly stole credit cards and used the information to play Internet games led police to his home, where his parents were arrested for growing marijuana.

My comments: I bet his parents are going to steal all his gold and delete his WoW character. haha

Source: Masked Crusader

tl;dr: PlayerAuctions will be swapping over to Masked Armory as their default armory solution. This new partnership could be very beneficial for both Masked Armory and Masked Crusader.

Source: MMOBay

tl;dr: Posted by: HordeFancyMe

So apparently blizzard is starting to do this new thing with battle.net, they are now randomly resetting passwords if people with different IP's log in, at first we thought it was like if 2 different people logged in around the same time, but we just had an account that wasn't logged in for 25 days, and as soon as one person did, BAM it got the password reset.You gotta be really careful now, appanretly if it happens a few times, th... [Read More]

Source: WoW Gold Facts

tl;dr: The Spammer uses email subject: "Honey, his wife would love you." Email Body is bunch of WoW Gold spam written by someone who obviously has trouble writing good English.

My comments: I hope none of you guys are getting spammed too much. I always worry about my TrustWho email sitting there out in the open for spammers to collect.... [Read More]

Source: Battle.net

tl;dr: Real ID required to post on Blizzard forums. Real ID is a new Blizzard feature that shows your first and last name and accounts on all Blizzard games. These changes will go into effect on all StarCraft II forums with the launch of the new community site prior to the July 27 release of the game, with the World of Warcraft site and forums following suit near the launch of Cataclysm. The classic Battle.net forums, including those for Diablo II and Warcraft III... [Read More]

Source: World of Warcraft

Beta codes issued to those who signed up.

My comments: If you have beta access and don't intend to play. Consider selling your battle.net account so others have a chance!