They probably just watched the video of the World of Starcraft mod/map that's being made in the Starcraft 2 editor.

Like a lot of other people, they probably just assumed that "OMG IZ NEW STARCRAFT MMO" because they didn't care to read further up on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIOpHq0vUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWbmLpSHdmI

"This is a Starcraft II Galaxy Editor project that I (SCMapper.ebret) am working on."

Originally posted by Purplesaurus

I usually get 3 emails a week from their official email stating my account has been hacked or some such nonsense. The links don't lead back to the official site, are you sure that's not what you're getting? I can't even block the damn things since they use the official email addresses and I don't want to not get them in case one happens to be real.

Protip: It's not Blizzard's official email. Hover your mouse over it and you'll see.

Originally posted by Uhwop

The only thing you need to gain access to someones account is thier email that's associated with the account.  With that email you can change someones password, and gain access to the account.  Blizz doesn't require you to verify that you're changing the account password before it takes effect; you only do something if you didn't change the password.  You don't even have to have access to the email itself. 

If the email gets dumped into spam, or if you don't check your email often, it's quite easy to lose control of your account.

 

This happend to me several months ago.  It wasn't a virus, it wasn't phishing, it was as simple as someone changed my password. 

I recieved a notice from blizzard that my account had been suspended for spamming.  When I went to log into the account the password had been changed.  I went back and looked; sure enough there was an email from blizzard telling me that my password had changed.   I then changed the account password again, and was shocked to find that I didn't have to verify that it was even me doing it.  Changed the password, cancelled the account; which in itself was odd considering I didn't even activate it. 

Never had this happen until after I linked my wow account to the battle.net account. 

When i tried to call blizzard I got a message to call back because their call volume was to high and they didn't have enough people to handle it. 

Blizzard has history of stuff like this happening, and it's not entirely the end user, people just refuse to believe that a lot of people lose control of thier WoW accounts through absolutely no fault of thier own. 

There is a reason that they now have the authenticator, and ti's not just because of phishing and viruses.

To change the password of an account, you have to click an "okay" link, so what you're saying is false.

Originally posted by motorun

Originally posted by maacaaviityy

VERY few people really get hacked.

A lot of people get phished/scammed/betrayed by friends or something else.

In most cases, it's on the users end. Most people will say "but I didn't do anything or haven't been logged in for years", but it's usually their own fault somehow.

It's like people who buy gold or use bots to level up and then all of a sudden get banned. They all say "I didn't do anything" aswell.

What I'm trying to say is that it's almost always on the users end.

Do you have any evidence for anything you just claimed or did you make that all up? Simply spewing what you "believe" out into the internet ether doe not make it true. Please reference statistical data or or anything that can validate what you claimed.

If there really were people out there able to hack for real, don't you think they'd go for people in top guilds or people with shitloads of gold?

Most of the times when someone gets "hacked", it's some guy who is somewhat new to the game and doesn't have anything of value on his account.

It's common knowledge.

VERY few people really get hacked.

A lot of people get phished/scammed/betrayed by friends or something else.

In most cases, it's on the users end. Most people will say "but I didn't do anything or haven't been logged in for years", but it's usually their own fault somehow.

It's like people who buy gold or use bots to level up and then all of a sudden get banned. They all say "I didn't do anything" aswell.

What I'm trying to say is that it's almost always on the users end.

If someone still has a key, I'd REALLY be happy to take it. I've been looking for a key for ages.

Originally posted by Etra

Originally posted by maacaaviityy

Originally posted by xcalibur
They aren't up for another 40 minutes, and it should be at the entry.ffxiv.com site.

 

On the european site, it says Sep. 2, 2010 at 02:00 (GMT).

The time is now 2:20 GMT here and there's still nothing.

The guy who created this thread is probably european.

Mmmmm, no. It's 1:20 GMT right now. You're probably thinking of BST.

 

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

http://www.worldtimezone.com/

Originally posted by xcalibur
They aren't up for another 40 minutes, and it should be at the entry.ffxiv.com site.

On the european site, it says Sep. 2, 2010 at 02:00 (GMT).

The time is now 2:20 GMT here and there's still nothing.

The guy who created this thread is probably european.

People don't get hacked. Stop using the word "hacked" in cases like these.

Either people get scammed from buying an account, they gave their password out to friends/family or they have clicked on a link/downloaded a keylogger.

Originally posted by Horusra

Originally posted by teknician

Originally posted by Sauronas

There's two possible reasons.  #1 addons.  #2 wow players are newbs.

You can not get compromised by add-ons unless there is an executable included that you or the add-on runs.  If you install them manually and pay attention to what is in the file, this will never happen.  Lua files can not contain viruses or Trojans, and they can not steal your log-in information because they are initialized after you log into the game.

 Yeah right you can not get compromised by add-ons...dream on. 

 

I love the part about if you manually install them and pay attention...I am sure 10% might do this the other 90% just load it up.

Collecting ingame data is one thing they can do.  And it was proven last year even that some infected addons after initializing the first time after login would stay active after the gaming session stopped.  Thus catching you the second time you logged in.  They monitored account activity and info.  Thus why a lot of people get "hacked" when their accounts are inactive.

As far as I remember, it wasn't an addon that contained the keylogger, it was the Curse auto-update client itself.

Originally posted by Kidfierce

Originally posted by maacaaviityy

The ammount of people who REALLY get hacked is close to 0.

The ammount of stupid people who click random links, visit random websites, downloads random shit etc. = Pretty much anyone who claims to get "hacked".

 

 

Where can I look these numbers you've mentioned up?  Link please.

 

 

Riddle me this, if there actually were people out there who knew how to really hack, don't you think they would go for the characters of people in top guilds, who all sit at like goldcap and beyond?

No no! Surely the hackers go for the 14 yo kids who have nothing of value on their account! - Come on.

It's common knowledge that pretty much anyone who claims to get "hacked" has either clicked some fake link, downloaded something containing a keylogger or shares their account with someone else.

The ammount of people who REALLY get hacked is close to 0.

The ammount of stupid people who click random links, visit random websites, downloads random shit etc. = Pretty much anyone who claims to get "hacked".

Originally posted by FreeBooteR

11920x1200

That's pretty sick

FPS games - 800x600 with 100hz/120hz

All other games - 1280x1024 with 85hz

<- Oldschool gamer who can't get used to LCD/TFT monitors

Originally posted by GrayGhost79
One thing I like is that it at least "Seems" like RTW is listening to it's fans. In an interview they talked about a racing district that many fans have been asking for and talking about since beta, A zombie district etc. With the district design RTW has they are able to add on to the game in ways that makes players happy because not only will it add more to the game but it will do so in a way that has no negative impact on those that may not enjoy it. 

I can tell you one thing for sure, and that is that RTW doesn't listen to their fans/customers.

There were literally hundreds and hundreds of really excellent solutions to fix/add A TON of stuff in APB, that would have made it a way better game, but not 1 single thing that was suggested on the beta forums has ever been added (Atleast not from what I've seen).

Originally posted by Tarka
You're referring to PVP combat, this is PVE combat.  The two can be different in how they are executed.  What I mean is that in PVE, you aren't necessarily "kiting" mobs around, especially if you want to remain within range of the healer and ranged dps classes.

Now, its difficult to see just whether movement actually cancels a combat action (like in WoW) or whether the combat action continues (like in AOC).  But given that the players seem to be able to swing with their sabers whilst on the move, I'd say the general mechanic is possibly more like the latter than the former, and therefore the only reason why the players didn't move whilst firing / swinging was purely out of choice rather than restricted by mechanics.  I could be wrong though.

Movement in WoW doesn't cancel combat actions. What are you talking about?

The only things that cancels on movement are casts and channels, just like any other game.

It's called collision detection, not body block.

You can only manage 200 auctions per day. No real player who plays the auction house can settle for 200 auctions per day anyway, so this is useless.

Originally posted by Besttheiswow

So if we cn pay a tiny misly 10 dollars a month to play apb..why are people complaining about rtw?? i will spend 10 dollar a month thats it..

The reason why most people are complaining, is because RTW had been saying from day 1 that there would be no monthly payment and no cash shop at all. But then in the last minute, they throw in monthly payment AND a "cash shop". That's nice.

Originally posted by downtoearth

 yep and you can make rtw points in game

Yes, it's true that you can make RTW points ingame. But only if you have already bought RTW points(It costs RTW points to put your stuff on the Marketplace). And for you to earn RTW points from selling your items, you're forcing other people to buy RTW points aswell.

You see how RealTimeWorlds operate? They cover it up by saying "There's no cash shop", when in reality there is.