Posts Tagged ‘ GODDAMN BLIZZ ’

World of Warcraft Fanart Profiles: Troll women

November 15, 2010
Ushtarak Berserker – Rob Ten Pas 08/31/06

This is part of an ongoing series that reviews and attempts to deconstruct common tropes in the Blizzard Fanart Gallery. This is not a critique of the choices of individual artists, but a look at the choices Blizzard and those artists have made. For reasons of time/expendiency I am limiting this series to what is currently in the Blizzard Fan Art Gallery, but please feel free to share your favourites from the fan community in the comments. Just please try to make sure they are credited properly and on the theme of the post. I was browsing the official galleries...

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Real ID Redux

September 30, 2010
Communication Preferences - Battle.net

So I was a bit upset about Real ID on the forums, back in July. I’m still not particularly pleased with the in-game functions either, although I do carefully make use of them. Today I’ve noticed a change. Pointed out on twitter by @NDMiko, the change enables users to hide themselves from friends of friends. As you can see from the image above, under ‘Settings’ in your battle.net account there is now a simple toggle for enabling Real ID. Like facebook are wont to do with their privacy settings, the Real ID system is toggled on by default. Not so...

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[Cataclysm] Latest Beta Build Changes

July 21, 2010

These beta builds are just a whole lot of up and down, aren’t they? Why did you take Ancestral Swiftness away, Blizzard, WHY? I hope it becomes a glyph, or something. (Also please go vote or suggest a name for the new Shaman Community) Elemental Elemental Devastation is now an Enhancement talent. Ancestral Knowledge is now an Elemental talent. Enhancement Improved Shields is now a Tier 1 talent. Down from Tier 2. Ancestral Swiftness is gone. Frozen Power *New* – Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lava Lash and Shock spells by 5/10% on targets...

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Real ID Saga Part Four: Real Names Ain’t Happening!

July 9, 2010

So what happened to Parts 2 and 3? Wee, the WoW Community happened. Source Hello everyone, I’d like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. We’ve been constantly monitoring the feedback you’ve given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums. As a result of those discussions, we’ve decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums. It’s important to note that...

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