I apologize to start for the lack of updates on this blog, I had a very close death in the family and was away for a few days and really was not up to updating my blog. But I'm back and still trying to get back into the swing of things. While I was gone some major things have happened in the World of Warcraft and in my own world, while playing World of Warcraft.
Patch 3.3.5 has dropped, though with Ruby Sanctum soon to follow, we now have our new Vote To Kick up and running and the Real ID is in place. There are a lot of mixed feelings about Real ID, but I like it. I am one of those people, and I'm sure there are a ton of us, who has a bunch of friends who play WoW but none of those friends are on the same server. This is a way for me to connect with my IRL friends even if we are on different servers. It has to be stressed that this is just for that, only real life friends who you can trust, because you are giving out your email address that is linked to the account, which could make it very easy for hackers to compromise your account. Speaking of hackers...
The hell I've been through lately with my WoW account.
My roommates and I have a computer that is kind of free for anyone to use and it's not a bad computer at all, thing is, I'm pretty sure we HAD a keylogger on it. My account was hacked and all of my mains items were stolen, along with my gold. So I did what I was supposed to do, contacted a Blizzard Rep in game, got everything sorted out, changed my password and then began to wait for the 8-11 day reset on my account.
Then it happened again a few days later, having only ever logged on to that computer with my WoW account, I cleaned up that computer and called Blizzard (the hacker had stuck an Authenticator on the account), this time I decided to cancel the account until I could get an authenticator. Which is probably a blessing in disguise, as I haven't had work in nearly a month and my money is running short.
So now I am without WoW for the time being, basically until I get another job lined up and I'm not worrying about money so much. Then I'll buy an authenticator and then I'll start my World of Warcraft account back up and I'll be back in business. I must say though, for as much as having your account hacked sucks, Blizzard has been nothing but a pleasure to work with to get everything straightened out. I hate having to deal with any sort of customer service, but theirs was amazing to work with.
So yes, that has been my crazy ass life and I really just want everything to settle down.
I've had nightmares of my Runescape account getting hacked. *Shudders* I refuse to play WoW because I've seen too many people get sucked in by it. And I have enough gaming addictions already. *^_^*
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You can tell I'm up late. My brain completely glossed over the first part of your post. *^_^*
ReplyDeleteI'm very, very sorry for your loss. *Hugs if you want them.* Real life comes first, so don't feel bad about not posting. Sometimes you have to take things one day at a time.