Originally posted by booskA

I am surprised to eve see WoW on the list. A couple of my friends are barely able to play because of something Blizzard did to the network code. They have cancelled their accounts, since the game has been unplayable for them for months. There are plenty of others on the boards complaining about the same thing. The amazing thing is that some of them have already purchased race changes and such, even though they are currently unable to play.

 

"A couple of your friends" are barely able to play while millions are doing just fine. Yep, definitely Blizzard's network code!

Still, I am surprised to see WoW on there. "Most improved" should be games that were floundering before.

Originally posted by Elidien

I have never been hacked and I have played the game for almost 5 years total since launch.

I have an authenticator. Best $6 I ever spent on a game. And I do not miss it - spent more than $6 on breakfast this morning.

I have an e-mail address dedicated to WOW and only WOW. NEVER any spam.

I have another e-mail address I use to register at 3rd party and add-on websites. All the spam goes here.....interesting huh?

I use very limited addons and when I do use them I install them manually and review the folders once I install them.

My password is non-sensical and cannot be found anywhere. It contains multiple characters.

My wife has played the game for 2 years and never been hacked either.

 

I played off and on for 6 years before I got hacked. Don't get too cocky just because it hasn't happened *YET*.

Originally posted by Wizardling6

I still don't understand how so many people are being hacked. Use a secure password unique to WoW. Use an email address unique to WoW. Only login to Blizzard websites using a bookmark. Don't play on other people's computers. Use a minority web browser (and install noscript or the like) and email client. Apply updates immediately.

I'm also tempted to say get a Mac or run WoW in Linux using WINE or Crossover. But that would just invite trolling... ;-) Still, I run WinXP too and it's not _that_ hard to secure.

Just how are people constantly getting hacked? How is this still happening? I'm baffled.

 

You know what? I do that stuff. I'm not an internet idiot. I'm a Network Management student. I still got hacked somehow. Gold selling makes big bucks. Stealing accounts is a highly effective way of getting gold fast to sell. They've got some clever people working for them...

Originally posted by DevilXaphan

Yeah my battle.net acount got hacked as well as my WOW account, went thru the online petition but only got the battle.net account back, after that got an authenicator so this would not happen again.

 

Got hacked once myself. In my case, I got an email notice about "unauthorized access" and found my password had been changed. I went through the process of getting the account back only to find someone had put an authenticator on it, too. Fortunately, it was pretty simple to get that removed. I downloaded the authenticator app for my iPhone and set it to my account. 

The account had been inactive for 6 months. I have no clue how someone could have gotten into it. I have script blockers on my browser and don't download strange programs from sites I don't trust, and scan the hell out of the ones I download from sites I do trust. A couple months after getting my account back, I get another email from Blizzard. Apparently the people who hacked it had also payed for a month...then reversed the charge. Now Blizzard says I owe for that month before I can reopen my account. I was gonna come back to try the expansion, but I suppose Blizzard can go screw themselves now...

Originally posted by Murashu

It may have been a great article however, I stopped reading at "To maintain my credibility, I have an 80 Shaman with a 5700 gear score". How does GS give you credibility?

 

Yeah, epeen waving has the exact opposite of the effect he was going for. :p

Originally posted by Aguitha

Originally posted by TwwIX

Looks like Going Rogue didn't meet NcSoft's sales figures and now some people are getting the boot. I was thinking of going back to the game but now i have even less desire to return to it.  This is not good news at all.

It was priced way to high.  For what was offered asking 40$ is a joke.  WOW Cata is coming out in Dec and it's the same price and we getting  a hell of a lot more stuff.

 

$40 was only if you bought the "complete edition", which was the expansion plus basic account. Targetted at new players. Just the expansion was $30. Note, however, that the complete edition came with a free month of play even if you already had an account, so it was effectively cheaper than just the expansion ( $40-$15=$25 )...

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Nothing good comes from cutting staff. It means COH is hurting big time.

 

CoH's population EXPLODED with GR. And far from just returning players checking it out. The free month that came with the combo pack is up and people are staying. CoH isn't hurting...

Originally posted by Caskio

Wait....in order to put a greater focus on CoH, they are reducing the team size?  Some one explain how that works to me.

 

You're assuming that they didn't have any other projects in the works...

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by Robsolf

** Please note all active or reactivated accounts that will be granted temporary access to Going Rogue will only have access to the Praetorian content up to level 14.

Anybody have any Idea why they're using this limitation?

 

Because Praetoria only has 20 levels of content and they want you to buy the expansion. NCSoft and Paragon Studios have become greedy bastards as of late.

 

How terrible of them. A BUSINESS wanting to actually make money off their hard work. HOW DARE THEY! GREEDY BASTARDS!!!!!one1!

Originally posted by Robsolf

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by Robsolf

** Please note all active or reactivated accounts that will be granted temporary access to Going Rogue will only have access to the Praetorian content up to level 14.

Anybody have any Idea why they're using this limitation?

 

Because Praetoria only has 20 levels of content and they want you to buy the expansion. NCSoft and Paragon Studios have become greedy bastards as of late.

Well, with all due respect to them, I'm not gonna pay 30 beans for 6 levels of gameplay... yes I know it's kinda lame to ignore the trial bit you get for nuttin...

I must be a bit misinformed about this xpack... another lvl 1-20 area experience, and an option to switch from goodie to baddie or vv doesn't seem like a whole lot of content.  Especially knowing the first 10 levels are maybe a few hours of gameplay.  Have I missed something?  Couple new power sets?

 

Indeed you have. Pistols and demon summoning. I think a new melee set is in there as well.  Plus, the morality system with the side-switching is only available with the expansion. And some other stuff. Try actually going to the website and reading about the expansion...

Originally posted by Forgeknight

    As long as you don't post on the forums this doesn't effect you. 

 

Yeah, it will. If you'd been following the discussion on their forums about it, it's already been shown how easy it is to get around the settings to hide your name in your profile. So, piss someone off in-game, they can look you up on the website and still find your RL info.

Originally posted by Hyanmen

Originally posted by Aguitha

Hypocriticism at it's best.   Yeah we listen but we already made up our mind.

It's their game, which is why I give them my respects for having a spine for once and not letting the players dictate everything that happens in the game. It's why I don't play it after all; a game made by players for players doesn't appeal to me.

 

I don't mind them "having a spine". But on this issue, they're being HUGELY irresponsible. Forcing people do display their real life information creates massive opportunities for identity thieves and hackers. As was very aptly demonstrated when one of the CMs posted his real name in response to the complaints.

Originally posted by Seffren

Well we all know a game turns ftp when it's becoming/is crap .... so we will know what the majority thinks of wow at that stage.

 

Not entirely true. LotRO is going ftp not because it's "becoming/is crap", but because going ftp turned DDO from a failing game into a smashing success. No subscription fee + microtransactions ( "Free to play" or "f2p" is a bit of a misnomer, but simpler ) is becoming more and more viable these days, and even looking more profitable than the traditional subscription fee format. Why do you think so many f2p games have cropped up these days? Because the system WORKS. And extremely well.

People are blowing the changes way out of proportion. The changes aren't that bad. The numbers on paper look a lot worse than they are. And the outcry? No worse than what you see with every patch on the WoW forums. In fact, I'd go as far as to say significantly less than that. The trolls are just having their field day. They expected "superheor" meant "godmode" and are mad to see they were wrong.

Originally posted by Krilster

I honestly see this as the last expansion for WoW if it's even true at all, considering Blizz is currently making another MMO.

Why? SOE is still putting out expansions for EQ1, why do you think Bliz would be stopping with WoW expansions after only 3?

Servers cost money to maintain. Support crew costs money. Development costs money. Guildwars manages to run for free because it's not a "true" MMORPG (They even admit to this themselves). The instancing reduces the server load MASSIVELY. It's basically a pretty Diablo 2 in terms of how the game is hosted. Most of the load is client-side. Additionally, GW's expansions pay the upkeep cost. Not to mention GW doesn't have anywhere near the support staff that WoW does.

Besides, they're in this to make money. Why would they want to lose 8,000,000*$15/month?