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Anyone have a loose ETA for this game yet?

The only way to take BoA stuff realm to realm is with a character transfer. You can send cross faction already if that helps.

Originally posted by Kurtz13

Legend of Mir. 

 

A Chinese 2D game played for some reason by primarily British folk. Only about 2k people in the game, pretty close knit community. 

 

Game still had some awesome features that I haven't found yet today. Had 2 main bosses. To get to 1 you had to get through a maze. To get to the main boss, you had to traverse these random rooms, each one with 4 doors. Some were empty, some full of enemies. Resembled the movie The Cube. 

Legend of Mir here too. For all its faults this is the game that gave me the MMO bug. It has a lot to answer for =).

It's still around now as a F2P MMO. but logging on kind of kills the nostalgia as the graphics are just terrible. The gameplay is still addictive though lol.

Originally posted by Haradeas

Very amusing and honest writing ^^

 

for the rest ... lol ... anyhow,  not gonna waste my breath further. Something did happen that they got your account but meh.. playing for 15 years mmorgps , never ever once I got compromised ( being an IT specialist helps I guess :p )

Anyhow hope you get all your stuff back , blizz improved rather a lot on that matter so relax get a drink ^^

Originally posted by Deewe

I do like housing too, especially SWG like system... without messy city plans and with /roll left|right furniture ;)

 

However before housing WoW really needs a social clothing tab and gear dies.

 

For now WoW is just a Diablo on steroids.

 I would love to see the outfit and dyes system from LOTRO brought over to WoW.

To the OP, If you are looking at coming back then reclaiming your account has to be a no-brainer surely? Even just based on cost alone. As long as you know your security info and have access to the original email account then go with it. It would save rebuiying the whole bundle. I've contacted Blizzard twice in the past, once was for account reclamation and it went really smoothly with no stress.

Regarding the game itself, I'm loving Cataclysm right now. I've not tried running my 80's through the new high level areas yet but the new starter areas are great. Just loving my new worgen druid with his funky run.

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you regarding end-game content in that I don't raid but I do get a kick out of doing heroics and pvp. It remains to be seen how the new rated BG's play out - I'm hoping they haven't been 'arena-ised' and had the fun sucked out of them but I'm looking forward to them with an open mind.

If rerolling is your thing then you have 10 character slots per server to play with. I have 3 toons currently as works in progress and the new game world has geuninely rekindled my interest.

Originally posted by cheyane

When I quit at 53 a Loremaster I was already bored and I fear F2P has made it unlikely for me to return to this game. One of the things I admired the most about LotRO was the community and I am not convinced f2p has not ruined that part . So I doubt very much this will entice me to return and besides too many games on the horizon for me to enjoy.

Fortunately it hasn't turned out like that so far. My experience since F2P started has been of the same mature and friendly community. (The kiddies still seem to be busy over in WoW - long may it continue to distract them). The noob zones are more populated with lots of old players returning and rerolling + a lot of new ones too. So community seems as good as ever :) on Evernight EU anyway.

Originally posted by just1opinion

 

 [snip]  I don't miss WoW.  I miss what WoW USED to be and is no longer. It's not going to return to that state. [/snip] 

 Amen to that. WoW had a great vibe back in the day. It's such a different place now

I've read pretty much everything I can get my hands on for this game but something that doesn't seem to get mentioned is trading. Not just player to player auctiion-house style but commodity trading between planets / stations, etc.?

Does anyone know if this is in yet?

Originally posted by Dubhlaith

The reason is simple.

The people that designed the game you bought years ago are no longer in charge of designing this game. Different people are making design choices, and they are making all the wrong ones, or at least ones very different from the seeming intent of the original designers.

I got to agree with this. Whilst I like a lot of the new features the expansions have brought, and even some of the later stuff in Vanilla, the original vision has been lost.

A heathly chunk of the team that put WoW together moved on to put various new studios together including Carbine (owned by NCSoft) and Red 5 Studios (to be published by Webzen). Both are worth watching for the future.

Red 5 Studios are going to announce their game at PAX Prime 2010 (Sept 3rd-5th) so by this time next week we should know what they have been up to these last 5 years :).

Carbine have an interview here outlining their upcoming game: http://vault.ign.com/View.php?view=editorials.detail&id=268

On the whole I'm looking forward to Cata but I don't see the end game as anything I will be spending bags of time on. Like the OP, I see WoW as a game of 2 halfs and the fun for me is in the first half these days. I can't stand the gear score spam - as if achievements weren't bad enough!  and Cata will not change that and will probably shift the split more over to 40% levelling/60 end-game which in my eyes isn't a good thing.

Cataclysm will be my swan song for WoW. I'm done with it now basically but I've stuck with it since the start so I'm going to see where they take it with Cata.

To be honest I don't think the community as a whole understands the scope of the changes that are going to hit them. I often hear people saying 'I can't wait to fly in the old world and go to my vaourite old haunts'.

Errr. newsflash... they won't exisit come Cataclysm. The world as you know it is going to be turned on it's head. All the quests you know and loved are being removed and replaced, the map is being re-written in a lot of respects. WoW as we know it will not be the same come November. Including talent system changes, changes to how the skills are handed out - no more going to the trainer (which I used to look forward too and will miss TBH) amongst others.

When I heard about the changes to the hunter and warlock classes I stopped playing them. My Lock was already kitted out at 80 but my Hunter was my new alt. I was one of the mugs who rolled a DK at launch in WotLK and got hit with the nerf bat every patch for 18 months until I was left with a dull 'anything-but-a-hero' class. I won't make that mistake again, I'll see where these classes are heading before I put the hours into it taking them to 85. I have 4 other 80's to choose from and a few alts so I'm lucky to have a choice I suppose.

With PvP their focus on raiders (getting best weapons) and Arena ratings was always holding the game back. I'm not convinced the new rated BG's will do anything to fix that and in a lot of respects make it worse. The game will become even more gear score and achievement driven.

So on the whole I'm getting Cata to see what they've done to the game I loved. I'm hoping I will be pleasantly surprised but I seriously doubt they will pull it off. Cata is odds on to be Blizzards NGE.

Originally posted by Daffid011

Originally posted by Garfunkel

You are wrong. I've been playing MMO's since 2000 and have been in worse environments then WoW's for hacking and cheats, I know the precautions to have in place and they are there. My security is as tight as a nut.

I have never been scammed, and I didn't have a trojan on my pc then and haven't had one since - windows and AV updates are bang up to date as is my spyware software. I have daily scans of each. I'm stting behind a software firewall which is behind a hardware firewall. I have never had an email from Blizzard but even so whenever I get an email from any company with some kind of offer requring a login I never click the link in it, I always go to the site manually.

My usename and pass for each game I play is unique to that game so if one gets jacked for whatever reason the others aren't vunerable as well.

I don't use my game logon details for forum / website registration which are commonly hacked and stolen.

The different email addresses I use to register game accounts on I don't read on the network I play on, I don't even have email configured at home and I use a package to remote control my work pc and read them remotely. Either that or I use my iPhone or iPad.

But going with your theory for a second, if this was from a trojan why would they not clean out the other accounts that I have? Only Battlenet was affected. I also play LOTRO and WAR amongst others.

If the Battlenet backend is impervious and Blizzard's employees beyond reproach, how are accounts that are inactive getting hacked and banned for inappropriate activities?

maybe 85% of the time it's down to the account holder's poor security and account sharing but there's too many reports of hackings that just don't not fit that theory.

Using multiple computers to access the various parts of your account just increases your exposure to the various threats on the internet.  For example, the computer you use just to read the email could have been compromised and been the point of access hackers used to get your information.  An account hacker only needs access to your email account to have access to your entire account. 

Anti-virus, spyware cleaners and firewalls and the basic minimum security elements for a computer, not something that makes your invulnerable to getting infected.  Simply having those tools does not allow someone to say they can't get infected, because it happens every single day.  Every virus definition you download is created in response to a virus that is found to already exist.  Even beyond that there are so many exploits that AV software cannot prevent against.

Why not steal your warhammer or lotro accounts?  The market is so small to nonexistant for those games for gold sellers that few deal in those currencies.  Why steal something you don't deal in?  Wow currency is easy to steal and resell.

The question to inactive accounts has been answered many times.  Hackers have learned they can sandbag a stolen account for a while to see if they go inactive.   So instead of getting to use an account for perhaps a day while it is active, they can use it much longer if the original user isn't playing.   Not to mention how many users get a phishing email from a hacker months after they quit and fall for the scam.  Then they turn around and say "how could my account get hacked when I wasn't even playing!".  An active subscription isn't required for someone to fall victom to getting tricked out of their account details. 

If you are going to put percentages onto who is at fault for getting hacked (users vs blizzard) you should at least have something to justify those theories should you? 

You are misguided in your belief that all hackings are entirely the fault of the users and are putting far too much faith in the integrity of BN's security and the honesty of it's employees.

The fault for mine was not at my end - that's a fact - there's absolutely no doubt in my mind. There's been no sign of a trojan or virus since the hacking dispite many scans, all updates are done and I use 2 different spyware cleaners in addition to my AV. As I've already stated I have never fallen victim to a scam or phishing attempt. I don't use the email that I have registered for WoW for anything else and also have a unique user and password for it. I don't click links in any emails. ever. period.

You may not value accounts in other MMO's, well that's your failing and to be honest, your loss. There's other games out there apart from Warcraft and those accounts and their contents have value.

However, you are entitled to your opinion however misguided. I just hope it doesn't turn around and bite you on the ass when you get hacked. and it will happen - unless you have an authenticator - as I found out.

Originally posted by Bunnyking

Nobody in WoW gets hacked.

They get keylogged or scammed. Which is entirely due to their own neglect or stupidity tbh.

Yes it still sucks and like any predator, those loggers/scammers are bad guys, but it can be avoided if you're careful enough.

You are wrong. I've been playing MMO's since 2000 and have been in worse environments then WoW's for hacking and cheats, I know the precautions to have in place and they are there. My security is as tight as a nut.

I have never been scammed, and I didn't have a trojan on my pc then and haven't had one since - windows and AV updates are bang up to date as is my spyware software. I have daily scans of each. I'm stting behind a software firewall which is behind a hardware firewall. I have never had an email from Blizzard but even so whenever I get an email from any company with some kind of offer requring a login I never click the link in it, I always go to the site manually.

My usename and pass for each game I play is unique to that game so if one gets jacked for whatever reason the others aren't vunerable as well.

I don't use my game logon details for forum / website registration which are commonly hacked and stolen.

The different email addresses I use to register game accounts on I don't read on the network I play on, I don't even have email configured at home and I use a package to remote control my work pc and read them remotely. Either that or I use my iPhone or iPad.

But going with your theory for a second, if this was from a trojan why would they not clean out the other accounts that I have? Only Battlenet was affected. I also play LOTRO and WAR amongst others.

If the Battlenet backend is impervious and Blizzard's employees beyond reproach, how are accounts that are inactive getting hacked and banned for inappropriate activities?

maybe 85% of the time it's down to the account holder's poor security and account sharing but there's too many reports of hackings that just don't not fit that theory.

I would say 75% of the hackings come from account sharing and another 10% from trojans, either through email or addons. But I'm pretty sure there's something going on with the backend of Battlenet.

My friend received an email a couple of days ago telling him that someone had changed his password - the classic precursor to logging on and finding your account hacked. Except of course his account has been inactive for over 6 months. So unless the hacker has paid for a months subs as part of the hack you could say it's a Battlenet issue.

I was also hacked about 4 months ago. No one knew my log in and the user and password were unique to WoW. I don't have email on the pc I play WoW on and have full antivirus, software firewall and hardware firewall. I also play LOTRO on a lifetime sub on this pc yet that account was totally untouched.  

Virus scans have found no trace of a trojan on my rig. The only browsing I do is online banking. No attempt has been made to access my banking which is worth a damn sight more than a few virtual items. So it's not as clear cut as Blizzard claimed it was when I phoned them to report it. They insisted the problem was at my end - which you'd expect them to for liabilitiy issues. (btw Other than that they were great and restored everything within 90 mins).

But looking back on it now I'm 99.99% positive it's a Blizzard issue. I received the email telling me that my password had been changed and at first I though 'Oh crap hacked!'. Then I thought how the hell? In order to change my password without administrator access to Battlenet you would need to know my secret question and answer. It's one thing to steal a user and pass and log in with it but entirely another to know details that haven't been typed in for years.They are also uniuqe to WoW and I haven't had to enter them since I created the account in 2005.

The only possibilities behind my hacking and that of my friend are either a rogue CS employee at Blizzard, harvesting items and gold from accounts, or their backend security has more holes than a Swiss cheese.

They are hardly likely to admit either so there are only 2 options open to you. Either get an authenticator for free on your phone or send off for it or cancel you accoutn and walk way. I downloaded the authenticator but I was sorely tempted to take option 2.

Originally posted by nariusseldon

Originally posted by Garfunkel

I pay £8.99 per month for the whole game. Why would I pay 20% extra just to buy from the AH on myiPhone? I think plenty will but not me. Fools and their money and all that.

My biggest regret over all this is the signal it sends to Blizzard - that they think micro transactions will be an acceptable way to go with their new MMO. I don't play free/micro transaction MMO's as I like to have a limit on how much I spend on them each month without being tempted to blow the arse off it. If Blizz goes down the m/transaction route for their next game I'll be gutted. and it's looking like they like that business model more and more lately.

 

It is already accepted. Just look at the pet & mount .. those are big successful. And i don't see the problem.

This is a new service .. a web/iphone service tying to a MMO. Blizz does not have to do it. They did it becuase there is a market and they profit from it. Seems fair to me.

And I would gladly pay $3 a month because now i can do my auctions at work. Plus, i bet the API will be learned and there will be tools for playing the market soon.

My problem was the price. It's very little extra functionality for a big % uplift in the sub. 

To be honest after trying the beta I have to say I am a convert. I'll probably stump up the extra £ when it goes live. It's just too useful. I still think it should be cheaper though.

All MMO games go top heavy after they have been out a while so expect the levelling zones to be a tad quieter than you remember them.

The other thinsg is since they brought in the random dungeon finder it's possible to basically sit in your capital city and just run instaced dungeons all day. Or do the same with BG's.

You should see an influx or re-rollers come Cataclysm when the two new races become available. I think every man and his dog will be rolling one or the other.

I have 6 toons over level 50, 4 of them at 80.

I wouldn't say that is a mark against the end-game, more a sign that the journey to get there is so good.

Although I would like to see a PvE end-game less dominated by gear score and achievements.

I pay £8.99 per month for the whole game. Why would I pay 20% extra just to buy from the AH on myiPhone? I think plenty will but not me. Fools and their money and all that.

My biggest regret over all this is the signal it sends to Blizzard - that they think micro transactions will be an acceptable way to go with their new MMO. I don't play free/micro transaction MMO's as I like to have a limit on how much I spend on them each month without being tempted to blow the arse off it. If Blizz goes down the m/transaction route for their next game I'll be gutted. and it's looking like they like that business model more and more lately.

Death Knight, or Warlock

Flying in the old world

Gathering a full set of Heirlooms for my Worgen feral druid

Equally interested in them all.