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Far earlier than any of us had expected, Daelo has announced that the normal modes of Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana’thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King will no longer have limited attempts. The heroic modes of these encounters will still have limited attempts, however. To quote:

After each region’s maintenance this week, raids will no longer lose attempts on wipes in Normal mode for Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana’thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King. There will still be limited attempts in Heroic mode.

We will continue to monitor developments in Icecrown Citadel in the future, especially since the Heroic difficulty has been unlocked by a significant number of raids.

A very interesting development, and I’m curious why they decided to lift the attempts system from normal modes entirely. Is it due to a relatively low number of guilds actually killing these bosses right now, or is there some other reason?

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Icecrown Citadel normal modes no longer limited by attempts originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Far earlier than any of us had expected, Daelo has announced that the normal modes of Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana’thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King will no longer have limited attempts. The heroic modes of these encounters will still have limited attempts, however. To quote:

After each region’s maintenance this week, raids will no longer lose attempts on wipes in Normal mode for Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana’thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King. There will still be limited attempts in Heroic mode.

We will continue to monitor developments in Icecrown Citadel in the future, especially since the Heroic difficulty has been unlocked by a significant number of raids.

A very interesting development, and I’m curious why they decided to lift the attempts system from normal modes entirely. Is it due to a relatively low number of guilds actually killing these bosses right now, or is there some other reason?

Filed under: Raiding

Icecrown Citadel normal modes no longer limited by attempts originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One of our readers, Bill, sent us a tip about a WoW account issue on The Consumerist. It seems that the ownership of Anonymous’s friend’s account is under dispute and Blizzard won’t let him use it in the meantime. The ownership became disputed after the account was allegedly hacked, even though there was allegedly a mobile authenticator on the account. His friend has given up on the account, complete with Val’anyr, and has created a new one.

We can’t confirm any of the facts in this case. I am willing to believe that Anonymous is truly upset and believes the story he tells to be true, even though he is posting anonymously. There are some serious red flags, however, that seem to point to Anonymous not having all of the facts:

Continue reading Debunking another hacked authenticator story

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Account Security

Debunking another hacked authenticator story originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One of our readers, Bill, sent us a tip about a WoW account issue on The Consumerist. It seems that the ownership of Anonymous’s friend’s account is under dispute and Blizzard won’t let him use it in the meantime. The ownership became disputed after the account was allegedly hacked, even though there was allegedly a mobile authenticator on the account. His friend has given up on the account, complete with Val’anyr, and has created a new one.

We can’t confirm any of the facts in this case. I am willing to believe that Anonymous is truly upset and believes the story he tells to be true, even though he is posting anonymously. There are some serious red flags, however, that seem to point to Anonymous not having all of the facts:

Continue reading Debunking another hacked authenticator story

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Account Security

Debunking another hacked authenticator story originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One of our readers, Bill, sent us a tip about a WoW account issue on The Consumerist. It seems that the ownership of Anonymous’s friend’s account is under dispute and Blizzard won’t let him use it in the meantime. The ownership became disputed after the account was allegedly hacked, even though there was allegedly a mobile authenticator on the account. His friend has given up on the account, complete with Val’anyr, and has created a new one.

We can’t confirm any of the facts in this case. I am willing to believe that Anonymous is truly upset and believes the story he tells to be true, even though he is posting anonymously. There are some serious red flags, however, that seem to point to Anonymous not having all of the facts:

Continue reading Debunking another hacked authenticator story

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Account Security

Debunking another hacked authenticator story originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Lawbringer! Each week we’ll dive into the intricacies of law and the World of Warcraft. Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to slay demons of ignorance for the benefit of your fellow denizens of Azeroth. Demons of ignorance slain: 1/4782*.

*Number of ignorant demons may be subject to nerfing.

So last week I introduced y’all to a bit of legal theorizing about how law and WoW might mix if they got pugged together. (Hint: not very well.) Y’all also were clamoring for my dissertation on gold farming. I want to give a big thank you to commentator Arnold for his excellent suggestions for improvements to make, and I promise I will be making those corrections soon. This week we’ll be moving into some more concrete topics, prompted by a email from my mailbag:

The new armory prints out date and timestamps for every little move you make in game. Run a heroic, it will show the date and time for every boss you kill. I didn’t mind when it printed a date for achievements. But such fine-grained detail being so publicly available is .. invasive of privacy.

This is an excellent issue, Wendy, and a subject of much qq-ing on the forums. However, before we can look into what privacy Blizzard may be invading, we need to understand our relationship with Blizzard; to do that, we need to look at a bit of contract law.

Continue reading The Lawbringer: Contracts and the achievement tracker

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Lawbringer

The Lawbringer: Contracts and the achievement tracker originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Lawbringer! Each week we’ll dive into the intricacies of law and the World of Warcraft. Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to slay demons of ignorance for the benefit of your fellow denizens of Azeroth. Demons of ignorance slain: 1/4782*.

*Number of ignorant demons may be subject to nerfing.

So last week I introduced y’all to a bit of legal theorizing about how law and WoW might mix if they got pugged together. (Hint: not very well.) Y’all also were clamoring for my dissertation on gold farming. I want to give a big thank you to commentator Arnold for his excellent suggestions for improvements to make, and I promise I will be making those corrections soon. This week we’ll be moving into some more concrete topics, prompted by a email from my mailbag:

The new armory prints out date and timestamps for every little move you make in game. Run a heroic, it will show the date and time for every boss you kill. I didn’t mind when it printed a date for achievements. But such fine-grained detail being so publicly available is .. invasive of privacy.

This is an excellent issue, Wendy, and a subject of much qq-ing on the forums. However, before we can look into what privacy Blizzard may be invading, we need to understand our relationship with Blizzard; to do that, we need to look at a bit of contract law.

Continue reading The Lawbringer: Contracts and the achievement tracker

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Lawbringer

The Lawbringer: Contracts and the achievement tracker originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Last week Eyonix started a poll on the forums asking players what they do directly after logging in (all of the options are listed in the picture above). For me, it’s no contest — before I do anything else, I always pop the friends list up to see who’s around. The only time this doesn’t happen is if I’m logging on in a rush for the night’s raid, but I try to limit the number of times that occurs. Reading this poll has made me realize the extent to which I depend on my bank alt for mail and AH-related business; my main very rarely needs to check her mail.

If you’re interested in responding to the poll, it’ll be running for another day or so, and you can find it here. Because it’s on the official forums, you’ll be prompted to log in to your forum account before replying.

Filed under: News items

Upon logging into World of Warcraft, I immediately… originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Last week Eyonix started a poll on the forums asking players what they do directly after logging in (all of the options are listed in the picture above). For me, it’s no contest — before I do anything else, I always pop the friends list up to see who’s around. The only time this doesn’t happen is if I’m logging on in a rush for the night’s raid, but I try to limit the number of times that occurs. Reading this poll has made me realize the extent to which I depend on my bank alt for mail and AH-related business; my main very rarely needs to check her mail.

If you’re interested in responding to the poll, it’ll be running for another day or so, and you can find it here. Because it’s on the official forums, you’ll be prompted to log in to your forum account before replying.

Filed under: News items

Upon logging into World of Warcraft, I immediately… originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Last week Eyonix started a poll on the forums asking players what they do directly after logging in (all of the options are listed in the picture above). For me, it’s no contest — before I do anything else, I always pop the friends list up to see who’s around. The only time this doesn’t happen is if I’m logging on in a rush for the night’s raid, but I try to limit the number of times that occurs. Reading this poll has made me realize the extent to which I depend on my bank alt for mail and AH-related business; my main very rarely needs to check her mail.

If you’re interested in responding to the poll, it’ll be running for another day or so, and you can find it here. Because it’s on the official forums, you’ll be prompted to log in to your forum account before replying.

Filed under: News items

Upon logging into World of Warcraft, I immediately… originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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