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[Minifig]

no it really is current active(ie playable) subs.

trial and inactive accounts are not counted in that figure.

keeping in mind that in china they pay by the hour, so they might just have accounts there with a few hours left not being played for maybe months that count as active subs.

They figure that in on the calculations too.

[Minifig]

Druids are getting a new Tree of Life form apparently.

This isn't finished yet, and has been textured (sadly) by the person who found it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXEtwCpZYxs

[Lexcyn]

Druids are getting a new Tree of Life form apparently.

This isn't finished yet, and has been textured (sadly) by the person who found it:

LOL that looks retarded.

[Minifig]

LOL that looks retarded.

It's only because it's unfinished and poorly textured by the person who found it.

[Osiris]

So might wanna run a few dungeons this weekend if you get a chance.

[NotSoBad]

Received the following email, which i believe is a scam.

The give away was that it was addressed to a different email address than my Battle.net account!!.

NOREPLY

Add to contacts

To ***************

Attachments, pictures and links in this message have been blocked for your safety. Show content | Always show content from this sender

Dear customer,

Due to suspicious activity, the Battle.net account *******@******** has been locked. You logined your account successfully at 7:56:31 on 2010-10-7 from the ***.***.**.**, but our system shows this IP isn't your registered IP. We are concerned about whether your account has been stolen. In order to guarantee the legitimacy of your account, we need you follow these steps:

Step 1: Secure Your Computer

In the event that your computer has been infected with malicious software such as a keylogger or trojan, simply changing your password may not deter future attacks without first ensuring that your computer is free from these programs. Please visit our Account Security website to learn how to secure your computer from unauthorized access.

Step 2: Secure Your E-mail Account

After you have secured your computer, check your e-mail filters and rules and look for any e-mail forwarding rules that you did not create. For more information on securing your e-mail account, visit our Support page.

Step 3: Restore access to Your account

We now provide a secure website for you to verify whether you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address. Please follow this site to restore the access to your account: [snipped]

If you still have questions or concerns after following the steps above, feel free to contact Customer Support at http://us.blizzard.c...rticleId=20606.

Sincerely,

The Battle.net Account Team

Online Privacy Policy

[Shaun N.]

our system shows this IP isn't your registered IP

Since when do we register our IP address'

Go to Battle.net and if you don't have any issues logging in then its a scam. You don't have to follow any of their links to prove them wrong.

[Lord Zog]

Received the following email, which i believe is a scam.

The give away was that it was addressed to a different email address than my Battle.net account!!.

NOREPLY

Add to contacts

To ***************

Attachments, pictures and links in this message have been blocked for your safety. Show content | Always show content from this sender

Dear customer,

Due to suspicious activity, the Battle.net account *******@******** has been locked. You logined your account successfully at 7:56:31 on 2010-10-7 from the ***.***.**.**, but our system shows this IP isn't your registered IP. We are concerned about whether your account has been stolen. In order to guarantee the legitimacy of your account, we need you follow these steps:

Step 1: Secure Your Computer

In the event that your computer has been infected with malicious software such as a keylogger or trojan, simply changing your password may not deter future attacks without first ensuring that your computer is free from these programs. Please visit our Account Security website to learn how to secure your computer from unauthorized access.

Step 2: Secure Your E-mail Account

After you have secured your computer, check your e-mail filters and rules and look for any e-mail forwarding rules that you did not create. For more information on securing your e-mail account, visit our Support page.

Step 3: Restore access to Your account

We now provide a secure website for you to verify whether you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address. Please follow this site to restore the access to your account: [snipped]

If you still have questions or concerns after following the steps above, feel free to contact Customer Support at http://us.blizzard.c...rticleId=20606.

Sincerely,

The Battle.net Account Team

Online Privacy Policy

Look up the domain at whois.com they want you to click on.. chances are, its from china.. I get a lot of these also.. some from a batt1e.net.. :) If your account was compromised, you would know.. Your account would be "locked" and it would tell you when you try to login..

[monknster]

I have fun with those scam letters, just view full headers to see real spoofed email its usually from hotmail.com account and send them back same email :)

[NotSoBad]

Look up the domain at whois.com they want you to click on.. chances are, its from china.. I get a lot of these also.. some from a batt1e.net.. :) If your account was compromised, you would know.. Your account would be "locked" and it would tell you when you try to login..

Spotted it was scam straight away. Still have full access, but changed my password and added an authenticator just to be safe.

Haven't looked at the headers or domain on whois yet, but I'm sure your right about China.

I have fun with those scam letters, just view full headers to see real spoofed email its usually from hotmail.com account and send them back same email :)

Was sent to my hotmail account as well, which was the big give away due to my email for the battle.net account being completely different.

[Eric Veteran]

The "restore account" URL was definitely fake. I snipped the link out so nobody visits it by mistake.

[firey]

I got the exact same email with a different name (obviously) Gmail reported it as spam right away.

[NotSoBad]

The "restore account" URL was definitely fake. I snipped the link out so nobody visits it by mistake.

Sorry, should have thought to do that myself.

I got the exact same email with a different name (obviously) Gmail reported it as spam right away.

Just spotted that 5 versions of the same email are in my Hotmail spam folder, but 1 did get through to the inbox

[treemonster]

i used to get several wow and aion and combined wow/aion scam emails daily. now they come in waves(mostly wow ones) i'll get three identical mails within 2 minutes for example.

they're so obvious compared to actual blizzard correspondence. actual blizz emails will have your original account name somewhere in them. although i've seen a couple of convincing scam emails with graphics and such. but if you're in doubt, just navigate to the blizz bent account page through google or w/e(not from any links inside the emails) and see if there's anythingon your account.

often these emails warn of impending bans or suspension or account actions of some kind, which blizz will never do. that is warn you. if you get banned they will do it first and send you a notification email after teh fact telling you why, which also includes your account name in the email.

dunno about emails telling you got into catalcysm beta, that are actually from blizz, but i see alot of these scams as well.

scam emails are usually some kind of copy pasta from few different bad/obvious email addresses that have terrible grammar and word selection.

[firey]

^ I've seen some good cataclysm beta ones with full images and everything. However due to lack of code, or anything visible in the actual BNET account (on the real site) it's easy to see they are blizz impersonators. But based on the ammount we get, you must assume that there are a lot of people that fall victim to this.

[_neutrino Veteran]

Druids are getting a new Tree of Life form apparently.

This isn't finished yet, and has been textured (sadly) by the person who found it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXEtwCpZYxs

that is soo fake :p and horribly done at that.

[firey]

that is soo fake :p and horribly done at that.

I don't think it was that horrible. Granted it's way too far from current Tree Form to be a smart move, however it would be cool to see like a colony of tree people...

[treemonster]

^ I've seen some good cataclysm beta ones with full images and everything. However due to lack of code, or anything visible in the actual BNET account (on the real site) it's easy to see they are blizz impersonators. But based on the ammount we get, you must assume that there are a lot of people that fall victim to this.

yeah there are obviously people that these emails work on.

i know the first time i saw one i was like "is this real?"

i've enver input my info into one, and my computer came up clean after visiting one of the links in one one time, but i did get haxed several months ago.

luckily with a few off hand remembered details about my account like character names and states(like levels and places they were logged out at when i last played them and what kind of gear i had on them) i got my account back within 3 days after just a few emails. they left all the items and gear and gold the haxor left on my toons, as well as the play time they added to my account. and the haxor apparently used it as a chat ad spam bot.

[Minifig]

that is soo fake :p and horribly done at that.

There is a 7 + page about it on MMO-C, complete with screenshots of the Model viewer.

[Minifig]

http://countdown.onlineclock.net/

57 days left gang.. 57 days left. :)

[the evn show]

http://countdown.onlineclock.net/

57 days left gang.. 57 days left. :)

No, I still need 33 more shards :(

[iKenndac]

Sigh.

The cynic in me would think that everything Blizzard does these days is to maximize profit.

When playing with the 4.0.1 PTR, my character got flagged for a random re-customization. "Great!" I thought, having regretted making a male Night Elf, but not enough to re-roll. Said Night Elf is an almost-ICC geared 80, and as a "casual-ish" player he has taken me about a year to get this far.

Anyway, using the character customization thing on the PTR, I turned Guy Chesticles (my character's name) into Girl Chesticles.

What a stupid thing to do! Girl Chesticles looks badass. Guy Chesticles looks ugly and stupid.

After much soul-searching, I decided that even though I'm really attached to that character (I have a few alts), I'd much rather have it have a sex-change than carry on through Cataclysm with that stupid, ugly grimace on his face.

So, after a random flag on my PTR account, Blizzard gets ?12. Say goodbye to stupid, grimacing, Guy Chesticles:

... and say hello to badass Girl Chesticles:

Yes, yes, a fool and his money. Still, I really love World of Warcraft. A friend of mine once laughed at me for paying monthly for a game, until I pointed out ?8 per month for WoW was orders of magnitude less than the ?100's he spends a month on console games! I'll consider this a little treat :blush:

[Tharp Daddy]

haha, congrats. I always hated the male Night Elf look. Honestly - WoW gives me a ton of entertainment, and 15 a month is cheaper than it would be to spend money on movies and such for entertainment. 15 for tons of entertainment, or tons more for short bursts of entertainment?

[Osiris]

12hr maintanance tomorrow night, patch 4.01 inbound.

[Minifig]

haha, congrats. I always hated the male Night Elf look.

I cannot stand the Night Elves period.

It's the soul reason I waited so long to play a druid and the reason I'm so excited to play Cataclysm.. I will finally have a toon that I actually want to want to play and .. "own" and breath a life of personality into. I never really felt like my DK was "right" for me and he was just.. boring.