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[source: www.mmo-champion.com/news-2/non-battle-net-accounts-offline-on-november-12th/] Q: What happens if I don’t merge my World of Warcraft account with a Battle.net account? Q: How can I obtain the penguin pet? Q: Do I need to merge by a certain date in order to receive the penguin? Q: If I create a new World of Warcraft account, will I receive the pet? Gimme Gimme!
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blackthornn
Advanced Member
Joined: 7/31/04
OMG I'm not temp banned again? WTF?? This day does end in Y right? |
battle.net account needed to play wow. What a crock of crap. So, to sum it up, you will need to create a battle.net account and link it to your WoW account. They want ppl who have multiple accounts to add them all to the one battle.net account (and will require it it seems) so if someone cracks your battle.net account you loose all your game accounts instead of just one....brilliant. Oh, and if you're looking at getting StarCraft 2 or Diablo 3 you'll need to have a battle.net account for that too, even to play the single player campaign. Fun stuff, full of needless red tape, giving way more monitoring power to Blizzard who's already illegally done a hardware spec pull off all our comps about a month ago which is completely illegal since they didn't give an opt out option. And again there'll be no opt out option, get a battle.net account or have your account inoperable but still billed.
Fucking brilliant. -A low post count doesn't always mean a dummy account for flaming or fanboi posting, sometimes it just means you don't shoot your mouth off randomly to see the numbers under your name increase........or you only really post after the 2nd case of beer |
Originally posted by blackthornn
but.... we get a penguin
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blackthornn
Advanced Member
Joined: 7/31/04
OMG I'm not temp banned again? WTF?? This day does end in Y right? |
I think that'll only matter to the achievement whores who NEED to get every one of the useless achievements like "OMGZ I read all the books in Dalaran" and similar.
I think this'll end up costing wow more subs than Aion's release did :P -A low post count doesn't always mean a dummy account for flaming or fanboi posting, sometimes it just means you don't shoot your mouth off randomly to see the numbers under your name increase........or you only really post after the 2nd case of beer |
Originally posted by blackthornn Just don't let anyone "crack" your account then. Get an authenticator. And if you --- |
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blackthornn
Advanced Member
Joined: 7/31/04
OMG I'm not temp banned again? WTF?? This day does end in Y right? |
authenticator, no thanks, more bullshit for bliz to fuck up
legal - yeah, cuz joe schmo anyone can fight corporate attack lawyers .
btw, strikethru's make you look more foolish than anyone you're replying to. -A low post count doesn't always mean a dummy account for flaming or fanboi posting, sometimes it just means you don't shoot your mouth off randomly to see the numbers under your name increase........or you only really post after the 2nd case of beer |
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I have a steam account with probably 12 games on there, L4D,TF2,HL2,CoH, Batman arkam.. if some 1 got my steam logins I mighty lose all those games too. Why is it wrong when Blzzard want to create one account for all their games? More blizzard hate me think. Some times people need to look after themselves and learn some responsibility.
And if that is so hard to do, there is nothing stopping you making a bnet account for each individual game, so its all a fuss about nothing. Now give me my penguin!
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Hopefully they have all the bugs worked out with the b.net accounts. When I was playing WAR I got an email saying my WoW account was banned for suspicious activity and to get it back I needed to contact customer support. Out of curiosity I called Blizzard up and after telling the guy my WoW account had been canceled for well over a year he laughed and told me that they were seeing many problems with old (canceled) accounts being stolen with the b.net change-over. They were super nice and within minutes had my account reset with a new username and password complete with 21 days paid subscription remaining lol. Since then I have been leery about changing my accounts to b.net. Murashu ~ Shuey |
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Scalebane
 Elite Member
Joined: 10/28/06
Yours is not the path of force, though force is often needed to clear the path. |
i have had the Bnet account since they announced it, as long as you are smart about things you will never get hacked, unfortunately most people on the net don't seem to be. also for 6 bucks pick up an authenticator, they are nice added security.
We are all ignorant until truth is revealed to us.. However.. How do we know the truth is not in fact a lie.. "When a man has lost everything, he may despair and die. He might give his soul to the fate's... or, he can resolve to take action." "The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand." |
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Comon guys, merge the damn accounts to have the penguim... You can even buy a leash and show off your penguim on that space ship they turned in city, Exodar. Who doesnt like to buy an harley davidson like bike, and then go for a spin on a space craft city showing off your penguim. Groovy Playing: Aion, World of Warcraft, Dragon Age Origins |
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What if your WoW account got banned? can you still merge it? |
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Wow. Making it more of a hassle to resub isn't going to win me back, Blizzard.
Sometimes, it seems like the devs in the industry are having a competition to see whose customers will take more abuse. |
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Scalebane
Elite Member
Joined: 10/28/06
Yours is not the path of force, though force is often needed to clear the path. |
Originally posted by tryklon
the leashes are awesome, especially the pretty one, so i can't wait to put it on my penguin, collecting pets is nice and relaxing. I don't care much for the bikes, but in a way WoW has had that steampunk kinda feel to it with all the engineering n stuff. not sure which mount i like the best at the moment, i do ride my blizzcon bear alot, it has a cool murloc baby riding on the back =D Exodar is sweet, i like to do most of my business there since its not as crowded as other places.
Oh! and you can get a cool fetch ball to play with your penguin!
We are all ignorant until truth is revealed to us.. However.. How do we know the truth is not in fact a lie.. "When a man has lost everything, he may despair and die. He might give his soul to the fate's... or, he can resolve to take action." "The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand." |
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All I want is the penguin. I'll do whatever they ask. |
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Originally posted by blackthornn Nice comeback. I tremble. :-p --- |
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blackthornn
Advanced Member
Joined: 7/31/04
OMG I'm not temp banned again? WTF?? This day does end in Y right? |
Originally posted by Dreamagram Nice comeback. I tremble. :-p
only in anticipation when typing your next stellar post I'm sure. uhoh, time for you to change your troll underwear again I think you made a mess in those ones -A low post count doesn't always mean a dummy account for flaming or fanboi posting, sometimes it just means you don't shoot your mouth off randomly to see the numbers under your name increase........or you only really post after the 2nd case of beer |
Originally posted by blackthornn only in anticipation when typing your next stellar post I'm sure. uhoh, time for you to change your troll underwear again I think you made a mess in those ones Hehe, fair enough, a bit of trolling on my part. I get a bit tired of all the wanna-be lawyers who claim game companies break laws of free speech, privacy, data acquisition and storage, etc. without really having a clue (not saying you don't, but surely you must agree that it is the norm). I think a little poking fun of your (imo) overly snappy response was warranted though, just like your retort was warranted for me. No vendetta, I hope. :-) --- |
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Man, some people will just bitch for the sake of bitching. Katsma is Lithuanian for 'he who drinks used douche fluid'. |
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So know everyone will have Pengu and not just those of us that ground out rep with The Kalu'ak. That just blows. WTF.
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Originally posted by Eben
And then there are those who will just bitch about bitching... :roll-eyes:
So, I do Blizzards job of moving my info to the new account and they give me a pixel Penguin? I only have one Blizzard account, so why can't they just move the info over? And then give me the pet for having to go through the hassle of logging in in a different way? ;)
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Originally posted by maimeekrai
I agree and there will be lots of confusion. It shows though that Blizzard is planning a lot for that illusive BNet account. They hope to transfer players between Wow and their new games coming SC2 and D3. I can understand the policy and I bet & 100 dollars there will be much pay to play stuff on there for the non mmo's. Like competitive pay to play for SC2 etc... But the transfer method is not good implemented and certainly is badly communicated. So many questions, so few answers... what happens to people who left and will come back for Cataclysm? What happens to my 16 year old minor of which I still can control his account now, but needs another access account. What about hackers who simply have now a new method of transferring it to a new (!) named account . That must be a nightmare for the game masters btw to retrace it all. What about using a simple e-mail address as the ID to log in (I guess the security goes down 1000% with this). What about man/wife? Do they seperate their accounts or merge them and what if they break up.... It will not be as bad as the BNet China transfer :))), but simply too many questions for the average user and far too few answers on the official websites. And we all know most WOW players hardly consult the forums/ official websites. .... it will be a mess for a lot of players.
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Once I read the comment above, I checked outside my window, just to make sure the cataclysm didn't start already.
Just kidding btw. I'm not exactly sure what Blizzard is trying to do with battle.net. Hopefully they are not trying to create a steam service, so to speak. Whatever they are trying to do, hopefully it'll finish sooner than later. It's delaying SC launch :) |
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Originally posted by Teala
LOL at grinding rep, what a boring game mechanic. Have fun playing with your penguin? hahahaha Elitism over vanity pets, what type of community does this game breed.
Aion v3 "RELOADED" - A glimpse into the future of the MMO genre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PAM0wr7cZ8 |
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Originally posted by Xasapis
Bnet 2.0 biggest feature is the cross game communication, but unlike steam its intergated into the games, steam has an overlay system but in Bnet 2.0 I can be playing Starcraft 2 and in starcraft 2's chat box I can chat to some 1 playing WoW and it will appear in WoW's chat box. I can check my Friends list in WoW and see that 1 friend is playing SC2, 2 are playing D3 and 3 are playing WoW etc. theres a video on youtube all about it.
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It's true that Steam does not offer ingame chat integration between games. For most games however you can press shift-tab, select your friend from the list and send him a message that he'll instantly view. There is also a notification when somebody comes online. The list also mentions what game the other people are playing. You need to keep in mind that steam integrates games from different developers, while Blizzard is one big house hosting their own games. |
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