As I mentioned previously, my World of Warcraft account got hacked back in February 2010. One of the things I did after wiping my computer and recovering my account was to add a Battle.net authenticator to my account to add Two Factor authentication. But, of course, even two factor authentication won’t stop a man in…
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Edward Castronova has a peculiar post on what he sees as the end of resistance to real-money trades in MMOs. Castronova sites a study finding that people who want to role-play within MMOs are a decidedly small minority, and then concludes from this that RMTs are inevitable since, apparently, the only argument against RMTs was…
Museum Replicas will be releasing this replica of the World of Warcraft Alliance War Flag later this year. This will set you back $40, and yes there will be a Horde version available as well.
So on February 3, 2010, I checked my email on my way to work to find this lovely message, From: WoWAccountAdmin@blizzard.com To: brian@carnell.com Subject: World of Warcraft — Account Closure Notification — Exploitative Activity Found English speaking customers: Please refer to the start of this mail Para los clientes españoles: Por favor vayan hasta el…
The Unofficial World of Warcraft Papercraft has plenty of amazing papercraft projects from the world of Azeroth. Each papercraft has a downloadable PDF so you can give it a try, and ranging from the extremely simple to the mind-boggling “how did they do that” like this Illidian Stormrage, That is some awesome nerdcraft right there.
DC Unlimited is producing World of Warcraft Collectible Coin Sets — one each for the Alliance and Horde — that should hit in June 2010 for about $70. The Alliance one is depicted below. Each set will feature a gold, silver and copper plated coin in a display box with a metal plaque featuring the…