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that sucks, my dad plays that game alot. hope none of his characters have gone missing or i'll never hear the end of it. (just like everquest)
Losing their characters sucks for the people spending so much time in that game. Hope everything turns out OK. For some it might be a reason to finally quite the game. For others probably a reason to play it even more.
@Chin35char
Funny, that's the same thing I thought about your comment. But then in the correct spelling. Retard.
@Chin35char
Funny, that's the same thing I thought about your comment. But then in the correct spelling. Retard.
If they have the time to spend on that game, then some more wont hurt.
I mean, most WoW players are too far gone now anyway.
I mean, most WoW players are too far gone now anyway.
Could very well be Chiniese Farmers (or the American version of them) removing characters and selling all the characters items for gold, and then selling the gold back to them.
This happened weekly in our guild, and partner guilds: a few times, characters were lost, and the hacker even STOLE all the money out of our guild bank!! I'm surprised this is happening so frequently now.
Matthew are you retarded? You obviously don't know much about World of Warcraft, so you shouldn't be putting up an article about it. Blizzard is NOT losing peoples characters that is retarded and almost impossible. If accounts are missing characters it's not Blizzard's fault it is the fault of the account owner, for getting his keys logged or getting hacked/scammed. Account scamming is at an all time high for World of Warcraft right now. Now don't post shit like this when you are so ignorant on what is going on. Change the fucking title too, it's incorrect, and misleading.
@tinymidget1979
Derp. If their accounts had been hacked, the hacker would have changed the password and they wouldn't be able to log in at all. On such a grand scale, I honestly don't think there's a huge burst of scammers suddenly getting a huge number of accounts right now.
Derp. If their accounts had been hacked, the hacker would have changed the password and they wouldn't be able to log in at all. On such a grand scale, I honestly don't think there's a huge burst of scammers suddenly getting a huge number of accounts right now.
@Tinymidget
Holy crap dude, it's a game, chillax.
And, in a sense, he's right. The issue is that the game servers are unable to find the character's literal in game location, and GM's are having to manually assign the character a location.
On a quasi-related note, why is that WoW has this incredibly polarizing effect on a gaming population? Jesus, it's nearly as bad as console fanboys. And both sides of the fence are pretty dumb.
I long for the day when gaming is rid of this type of behavior.
Holy crap dude, it's a game, chillax.
And, in a sense, he's right. The issue is that the game servers are unable to find the character's literal in game location, and GM's are having to manually assign the character a location.
On a quasi-related note, why is that WoW has this incredibly polarizing effect on a gaming population? Jesus, it's nearly as bad as console fanboys. And both sides of the fence are pretty dumb.
I long for the day when gaming is rid of this type of behavior.
They stole my account yesterday (someone merged it with his battle.net account). I hope that they'll fix THIS problem tomorrow, so i can call without a problem to Blizzard.
People not being able to log back on has screwed over a few friends & our raids for the past few nights. I had no idea some people have been losing their characters though! That really sucks and I hope everything gets resolved soon.
I'd be pretty terrified what might happen if Blizzard's servers went kaboom or something :P
I'd be pretty terrified what might happen if Blizzard's servers went kaboom or something :P
Whoever said WoW is "retarted"... Perhaps you should improve upon yourself a bit before passing judgment on other people/things. I mean, you can't even spell a word that I was able to spell in second grade. I'm just sayin'.
@everyone who replyed to me. There is and always will be a huge amount of scammers out there for as long as World of Warcraft is out. You're right this is a game but the reason I'm not going to "chillax" is because Matthew Razak has no idea what the fuck he is talking about. Blizzard is not losing peoples characters. The only way characters are lost is if they are deleted from the Blizzard's servers via the account user. Many accounts get scammed everyday I can link you to a fucking site right now where all people do is scam WoW accounts and they are very VERY good at it. Naktu, fuck you. Matthew made this fucking post for the people that play WoW but fails because he is so ignorant on the subject of WoW. Naktu you are fucking dumb, sorry but you are. The problem right now is the Battle.net merging thing and when scammers take your account they will merge it and it will change the last name on the account and make it practically theirs. Naktu there is no issue at the moment of GM's having to assign locations for the masses. Maybe a few petitions go in a day to have that done but not to a huge group of WoW players, so that is not an issue. The reason people can't log on is because they are fucking idiots that click on Keylogging sites or went to a phising site and gave all their info, if your account got hacked it's because of you not Blizzard. MERGE YOUR ACCOUNT WITH BATTLE.NET IF YOU WANT TO PLAY IT SAFE. If you don't it's your own fucking fault.
@tiny
It's the weekend, and a slow news day, so Matthew took an news story that might not be breaking news to you, but would be to other people. Sure he sensationalized it a bit, but it's such a standard journalism practice, I don't blame him for it.
The two of us are well aware of the keylogging issue, but that's because you and I play WoW: unfortunately for you, not everyone on this website plays the game, so they may not be aware of it. As far as I'm concerned, you should be happy Razak is introducing this otherwise low-key story to thousands of other concerned gamers, so maybe they can email Blizzard and ask for more suitable account protection.
That's that dude: get over it.
It's the weekend, and a slow news day, so Matthew took an news story that might not be breaking news to you, but would be to other people. Sure he sensationalized it a bit, but it's such a standard journalism practice, I don't blame him for it.
The two of us are well aware of the keylogging issue, but that's because you and I play WoW: unfortunately for you, not everyone on this website plays the game, so they may not be aware of it. As far as I'm concerned, you should be happy Razak is introducing this otherwise low-key story to thousands of other concerned gamers, so maybe they can email Blizzard and ask for more suitable account protection.
That's that dude: get over it.
Well lets see. He gave those "thousands" wrong information. He has no idea what he's talking about. If he was introducing to the "thousands" of concerned gamers so they could get more protection on their accounts, why didn't he put Blizzards account administration phone number, or email? Granted it's a weekday with little news, but I'd rather write about nothing than a subject I'm ignorant on. Sensationalizing does not mean giving out the wrong information, and misinformation is not a standard journalism practice.
Dear tinymidget,
Like Magnalon said, get over it. Its a WoW story on Destructoid. There's no running dialog about the game like other sites.
Sincerely,
Tubatic
RE: the article, I've seen this same sort of thing happen a couple times over the past few years of playing the game, and its been an easy case of just waiting a few hours for the fog to clear. Business as usual. I certainly freaked out a tiny bit, but its important to remember that you're accessing your character from the server. If you're not seeing your character, it could very well just be a miscommunication between the client and server, with your character being there safe and sound all along.
Dtoid isn't my number one source for WoW info, but I dig that its getting some pretty frequent coverage.
Like Magnalon said, get over it. Its a WoW story on Destructoid. There's no running dialog about the game like other sites.
Sincerely,
Tubatic
RE: the article, I've seen this same sort of thing happen a couple times over the past few years of playing the game, and its been an easy case of just waiting a few hours for the fog to clear. Business as usual. I certainly freaked out a tiny bit, but its important to remember that you're accessing your character from the server. If you're not seeing your character, it could very well just be a miscommunication between the client and server, with your character being there safe and sound all along.
Dtoid isn't my number one source for WoW info, but I dig that its getting some pretty frequent coverage.
I'm all for WoW stories on Destructoid I think it would make a lot of people happy, IF the stories were filled with factual information and not bull shit. If they want to do a story over WoW they should have a competent writer do it, not someone who is going to pretend he knows what he's talking about. Tubatic your RE: thing does explain a small % of what people are experiencing but on larger scale it is because the character is actually gone, either deleted or transferred to the scammer/hackers account. Hackers can transfer your character to their account easily if they sync it up with Battle.net because it changes the last name, which is all you need to transfer to a new account.
This has happened quite a number of times, it's no real big issue. The characters eventually pop up after Blizz kicks around the servers for a while.
News must be slow today.
News must be slow today.
I remember when I used to play that this happened once maybe twice. Unless you did something stupid like giving your account info away or deleted your char its still there.
@tiny
"Hackers can transwer your character..."
Right, which this article isn't even about.
No need to jump all over Razak for not covering the story you want him to care about right this minute. I'm sure a kindly tip would suffice rather than being a jerk about the coverage in the comments.
"Hackers can transwer your character..."
Right, which this article isn't even about.
No need to jump all over Razak for not covering the story you want him to care about right this minute. I'm sure a kindly tip would suffice rather than being a jerk about the coverage in the comments.
@tiny
Please tell me, you didn't create your account just so you can bitch about defending World of Warcraft and Blizzard?
Please tell me, you didn't create your account just so you can bitch about defending World of Warcraft and Blizzard?
You know, this tiny guy is an utterly perfect example of that xkcd comic, lets see if I can find it...
Sucks for the WoW players, anyway. I cant stand the game myself, but clearly its a pain when a game aint working right.
Sucks for the WoW players, anyway. I cant stand the game myself, but clearly its a pain when a game aint working right.
Well Tubatic he's not covering a story AT ALL. Characters are not going missing because of Blizzard so this entire story is bull shit. The reason I said that was because of the fact that people are getting hacked and that's what all these fucking comments are about.
I heard from a reliable person on the internets that characters ARE disappearing! So what have you to say now TINY?
Fracking WOW-tard kid...
Fracking WOW-tard kid...
WoW patch 3.3 - 3.5,(5/8/10) Xp users have experienced nothing but problems with crashes, Lat, or unable to repair Files. Forums are trying to solve each problem but they are all different, from memory preformance,graphic cards, reg.corruption, and prior 98 version secruity issues. Most have a error 134 appear, they try to repair, to find that they have to reinstall WoW. This works for a week or two, then crash reappears. ( I suspect maintence updates) To date i have not seen any sure fix. Any help with this would be awesome.
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