WoW Wednesdays

As Blizzard has warned us, Phishers are trying harder than ever to get our information and hack our accounts. I received this whisper while playing one of my alts.

As I received this, I had to wonder who really falls for these type of things, and I apologize in advance if you are reading thing and have fallen for something similar. I could only think of 3 groups of people who could fall for something so obvious.

The Young: The first that came to mind, would have to be the young. The little kid who plays this game and is still so naive to realize people have bad intentions in the world. They don't even understand what a phisher is or to be aware of them. What's worse, they probably won't understand what happened to their game either once it's been hacked or how to go about contacting Blizzard about getting their stuff back.

The Old: Maybe someone who falls for this is just really out of the electronic age. They are playing the game to be cool and hang out with younger members of the family. You know of these people. They vaguely understand the computer world and are enjoying playing WoW. They've heard about other people talking about Cataclysm and truly believes it's legit.


But my favorite and I'm sure it has happened.

The Stupid Significant Other: The girlfriend or boyfriend that you share an account with, trying to get them into playing WoW. They are minding their own business when suddenly a whisper like such comes around and they think; "OH! I remember my bf/gf was talking about how excited they were to play Cataclysm! I should totally go to this website and sign them up!" :( How terrible.

If something like this has happened to you, I'd love to hear about it. I want to hear stories about blatant phishers actually getting peoples information. I've received whispers, in-game mail, seen things in /2 and I'm sure more attempts I can't even remember. Or if you've just got a really good story in general about phishing, feel free to share.

Something neat I found online. I'll admit, I'm a terrible person who loves my monthly Cosmo Magazine... and my Cosmo radio on the satellite radio.

Plus, I would totally want to know what the "3 Stances that will drive your boyfriend WILD" are.

Kind of really wish this was real.

WoW Wednesdays

WoW Wednesdays are the one day of the week I'm allowing myself to write about WoW. I've decided to use these Wednesdays as a palate cleanser from our downtime on Tuesdays (and it will totally give me something to do when WoW is down for maintenance). I'm going to give you an update on the week behind us. News on updates, patch releases, and just anything exciting that happened.

This week was a busy one, lots of blue posts on the WoW forums for us. I'm going to start off at bat with some not so fun news.

With the up coming release of Patch 3.5.5, everyone is awaiting the highly anticipated new level 80 dungeon, Ruby Sanctum. This may not be the case though, says the blues. Zarhym, a Blizzard rep states:

"Due to the fact that we will be delaying the release of patch 3.3.5 in Europe, Korea and Taiwan in order to ensure the patch process in all regions is as smooth as possible, the Ruby Sanctum will not immediately be available on North American realms upon the release of the patch. Once patch 3.3.5 has been released in North America and we are confident about a time when we can open up Ruby Sanctum, we will provide an update here on the forums."

 An update for anyone who has not been previously informed, Ruby Sanctum is the newest dungeon and the one that kicks off the storyline to be revealed in Cataclysm. This raid will be like most in that you'll be able to run it as a 10 man or 25 man on either Normal or Heroic. Ruby Sanctum has been up on the play testing realms for a short while now if you can't wait for it's official release.

Patch 3.5.5 will be an interesting one as it will greatly effect many of the ways players socialize in the game. Something I'm excited about is new Battle.Net System. This new system will basically allow players to know when their real life friends are online, without being on the same server. And since Battle.Net is used for all Blizzard's online games, you'll be able to be on WoW and see your friend playing his game on Starcraft. The huge caution with this release is that you use this with people you actually know. You'll be giving out your Battle.Net email for people to find you which could make it easy for someone to hack your account. If you are like me, then you probably have a few character alts on servers with friends. I'm hoping this new system will make it easier for me to level alts on servers with friends. I'll be able to see a certain friend is online and switch over to that server and play with them and level that character.

Other new chat features with Patch 3.5.5 is that you'll be able to take chats out of the main chat roll and have a separate tab. I like the idea of being able to have a separate tabbed chat for my whispers or even raid chat. I know I can lose whispers easily if I'm in an area with the trade channel going on.

The last thing I'd like to touch up on is more of a reminder. Tomorrow is the start of the first batch of tickets to be sold for Blizzcon 2010. The ticket sales start on June 2 at 7:00 p.m. PDT/10:00 p.m. EDT. If you can't make it to the first batch of tickets being sold, the second date is on Saturday, June 5 at 10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT. As we all know these tickets go fast and you have to be prompt and ready if you want to purchase them. Blizzcon 2010 will be taking place this year on October 22-23 in Anaheim, CA. Tickets are $150 each and as usual, for those who are unable to make it, DirectTV will be having their PayPerView option for Blizzcon for $39.95.

I sadly will be unable to make it. But there are always hopes for next year. Good luck to those buying tickets, as we all know those tickets will be gone in seconds and up on ebay for a hell of a lot more.