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Arena Skirmishes Bonus Weekend August 28 - 31
Next week is the Wrath of the Lich King timewalking event. Patch 6.2.2 and the new Timewarped Badge system will be live by then as long as nothing changes!
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Through the end of the day on Monday, Arena Skirmishes award triple bonus honor. There’s never been a better time to queue up for the Arena and crack some skulls. Keep an eye out for the event-only quest The Arena Calls. When you win 10 Arena matches, the quest awards 500 Conquest Points which do not count against your weekly Conquest Point maximum.

In case you’ve never participated in an Arena Skirmish, here’s an easy how-to guide:

  • From anywhere in-game, open the Group Finder (default hotkey: i)
  • Select the Player vs. Player tab on the bottom of the window.
  • Under Arena Battles, choose either 2v2 or 3v3.
  • Click the Join Battle button to be matched up with teammates.

It’s Arena PvP! Rush in and bash your opponents.

Will you answer the call to battle?

This Month in WoW – September 2015
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
September is here, and summertime is coming to an end. This month is chock-full of festivities, celebrations, and heated PvP action as we draw closer to BlizzCon 2015. Here’s a peek at some of the fun you can have!

In-Game Events

Darkmoon Faire Returns [September 6-13]
The wondrous and mystical Darkmoon Faire returns to Azeroth on September 6, and if you haven’t completed all of Silas Darkmoon’s new Darkmoon Races, now’s the time! Test your speed and agility on a variety of racing mounts as you dodge electrifying obstacles and zip all over Darkmoon Island for rewards and achievements. You may also want to take a few moments to be a kid again by going for a ride on the new Darkmoon Seesaw.


The faire continues to be one of the best ways to acquire heirloom gear, and don’t forget all of the toys, mounts, and pets that can only be gotten here. Get in that cannon!

Pirates’ Day [September 19-20]
Every year on this one day, Captain DeMeza lands at the goblin town of Booty Bay in Stranglethorn Vale, attempting to recruit land-lubbers into her buccaneer ranks. Don’t miss your chance to visit her or her henchmen in the capital cities. New for this year is the Big Bag of Booty. Be the Robin Hood of pirates by purchasing this one-time-use item which you can toss into the streets to help distribute piles of gold to those most in need. Yarr!


Brewfest [September 20-October 6]
Celebrated by both the Horde and the Alliance, Brewfest is a time to enjoy the fermented fruits of the harvest: pretzels, cheese, and brew! The competing breweries Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, and the Ogres, all come together outside of all the major cities in a bid to outdo each other with their special ales, meads, and beers. Brave adventurers are invited to sit back, take a pull, and sample the finest wares these brewers have to offer!


Brewfest is your only chance to acquire the Swift Brewfest Ram and Great Brewfest Kodo mounts, as well as the Wopertinger and Pin-Sized Pink Pachyderm pets. It’s also your chance to get your brew-covered mitts on a few new items: the Stout Alemental pet, and the Steamworks Sausage Grill and Brewfest Banner toys!

Harvest Festival [September 21-28]
The Harvest Festival is a time to commemorate those who have sacrificed their lives to help their allies. Throughout history, many have given their lives to that end. Every year, members of the Horde and the Alliance set aside time to honor the memories of the fallen, and to pay tribute to those whose memories are held most dear: Uther Lightbringer, for the Alliance, and Grommash Hellscream, for the Horde.


Members of the Alliance show their respect by lighting a candle at the Tomb of Uther Lightbringer in the Western Plaguelands. while members of the Horde show their respect to Grommash Hellscream by leaving a bottle of spirits at the base of the Hellscream Memorial in Demon Fall Canyon in Ashenvale.

But your determination to pay respects to the dearly departed doesn’t stop there! Show your patriotism by earning a new Spiritshard which will transforms you into an Anxious, Vengeful, Forlorn, or Peaceful spirit. It’ll be your chance to truly feel the emotions of those who have paid the ultimate price.

Upcoming World of Warcraft Tournaments

Road to BlizzCon: WoW North American Regionals
BlizzCon is only a couple of months away and teams are vying for a chance to make it to the finals. Don’t miss the WoW North American Regionals on the official World of Warcraft Twitch channel! We’ll be sharing more details on the event in the coming days.


GCDTV
GCDTV [(G)lobal (C)ool(D)own TV] continues its tournament hosted by DMachine, and cast by Arena veterans Supatease and Venruki.

  • Tournament #21 – Saturday, September 5, 5:00 p.m. EDT/2:00 p.m. PDT
  • Day 2/Finals – Sunday, September 6, 5:00 p.m. EDT/2:00 p.m. PDT

You can catch all of the action on the GCDTV Twitch channel, sign up to play on their Battlefy site, catch-up on previous tournament VoDs here, and follow their official GCDTV Twitter feed to stay up-to-date on all of the action.

ESL WoW (EU)
The Electronic Sports League continues to bring the weekend WoW action on:


For more information, head over to the ESL news site, and don’t forget to follow ESL on Twitch and Twitter.

Bonus Events
  • September 4-7 – Northrend Timewalking
  • September 11-14 – Battleground Bonus Event
  • September 18-21 – Draenor Dungeons Bonus Event
  • September 25-28 – Pet Battle Event

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
PvE
.Does LFR Archimonde drop the Ring upgrade?
No, Crystallized Fel is only available on Normal difficulty and above. (WarcraftDevs)

PvP
The biggest difference with ranked solo queue would be having a rating attached and MMR.
Keep in mind conquest does not exist in 7.0. Skirmish will provide honor and gear. (holinka)
I would certainly love to hear more ideas about how we can improve Ground Finder too. (holinka)
One common misconception about ranked solo queue is "I will only get great teammates!" (holinka)

But those good geared players do queue rated solo queue
The reward systems are different in 7.0 (holinka)

Ghostcrawler Tweets
Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Can I ask you, how much has the WoW team changed since WotLK?
Not much. The leadership team stayed virtually the same the whole time I was there. Some folks went to Titan and several came back. The team was growing the entire time so you always saw a lot of new faces, but they were additions, not replacements. Reading between the lines a bit, I don't think this is one of those deals where some kind of new team radically evolved the philosophy. Blizzard turnover, even between teams, is very low by industry standards.

Why do Blizzard devs think anyone who disagrees with their direction or believes previous iterations of WoW were superior are blinded by rose colored glasses?
I can't speak for them, obviously. I will say as a game developer on a long-running game such as LoL or WoW or even Age of Empires, you tend to hear in about roughly equal proportions "this feature is flawed and stale, please update it" and "this feature was better before, please revert it." Thus, it's possible to often feel like you are fighting nostalgia, which might make you perceive it even when that isn't the player's specific feedback at the moment.

You don't tend to hear "this feature is perfect, please don't change it," because content customers don't tend to post on social media, but you hear plenty of "this feature was perfect - why did you change it?"



Final Fantasy XIV - 5 Million Accounts
Earlier this month Square Enix announced that FFXIV is up to 5 million accounts (not active subscribers)! For comparison, World of Warcraft hit 100 million in December 2013.



Diablo III - Season 4 Has Started
Season 4 has started! Diablofans has all of the details.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Arena Skirmishes Bonus Weekend, This Month in WoW, Tweets, Diablo III - Season 4 Live started by chaud View original post
Published on 2015-08-29 07:12 AM
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  1. Adoxe's Avatar
    I'm already not interested. This is just one big computer.
  1. HikariNetto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by elvor0 View Post
    That tweet is from Square Enix(The company that made the fucking game) It says, given you seem to not be able to read: 5 million >registered< accounts. That is not the same as active.

    100m registered accounts for WoW, not active. Even if you took the 0 away, that would be 10m, which is lower than wrath.




    I dont think it really matters. They are still a business and that's a perfectly legit business strategy. Even then, if you're playing FF14 and enjoying it, are you going to sub to wow just to dick about at the darkmoon faire? Afaik, Chocobo racing> darkmoon racing anyway.

    Also, if you're enjoying FF14 and the expansion just launched, which you just bought, why would you stop playing to do Tannan jungle?
    No, you probably wouldn't. I just found it interesting. If they were in fact calculated moves by Blizzard I think it was more about keeping WoW players on WoW and less about getting XIV players to stop playing XIV and resub to WoW.

    In my particular case, my WoW sub was still active and I probably wasn't on WoW for more than an hour each time. In the case of 6.2 I just logged in ran around Tanaan for a bit to check it out and went back to playing Heavensward. It wasn't until about a month later that I actually started doing the Tanaan content regularly. Still, I would have liked for Tanaan to come out at some other time so I could have spent a more significant amount of time there at launch, but oh well.
  1. arcaneshot's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by HikariNetto View Post
    No, you probably wouldn't. I just found it interesting. If they were in fact calculated moves by Blizzard I think it was more about keeping WoW players on WoW and less about getting XIV players to stop playing XIV and resub to WoW.
    Except you're ignoring the fact both companies are running on the same Quarter system so both of them have incentive to make releases like that.
  1. Grevie's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by The Batman View Post
    Official report was 800k-1.2m
    There is no such a official report. We dont know about subs number it might be 1 player or 5 millions.
    But for sure people are playing the game and it's not going f2p any time soon.
  1. nnelson54's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rosebull View Post
    Activision has no input on blizzards decisions, remove the tinfoil hat.
    That is exactly what I said, equip the reading glasses.
  1. jdbond's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Fool View Post
    seriously, this movie looks like shit. overdramatized and completely flat. are they targeting 10 year olds? or at least people with the mentality of a 10 year old? blizzard can't do subtle anymore.


    Anyone wanna bet how old this guy is. Dat 10 year insult! I guess he saw the movie. In 10p quality, no less.
  1. Otaka's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by McFrotton View Post

    blizzcon. it will be good and polished BUt I think they should have use costume and practical effect instead.
    You have no idea what you are wishing for.... costumes: /watch?v=FMJPwRWaZBI

    Just doesnt work, dude. There will never be realistic enough costumes for orcs that are twice the size of a human bodybuilder... it would look very amateurish.
    Even the best looking orc cosplay at this moment looks too thin to be in the official movie.

    And practical effects are impossible.... its not Narnia we are talking about here... none of the exotic animals in warcraft can be found in real life. Gryphons dont exist, dragons dont exist, giant wolves dont exist... only thing they dont need to CGI is horses, unless your gonna kill them...

    Puppetry only works for dead creatures... they dont have to move. It would look very out of place if one thing is a puppet and the rest is CGI. The movement fluidity just isnt there in todays puppet-technology.
  1. StrayFox's Avatar
    I don't get people, "Blizzard you should make a movie using your cinematic talents!" They make a movie with cinematic CGI and real actors. "Blizzard, too much CGI, It's not like we asked for a cinematic movie!"

    It's cool doe, not everyone wanted a cinematic movie. I get it, but by god if that prevents you from seeing it you really need to open up your horizons a little bit.
  1. Gloriandus's Avatar
    That shot of Medivh ("potato" footage considered) looks pretty terrible. I just hope seeing it in HD helps everything blend in better.
  1. Malkantar's Avatar
    Is this a SyFy original Movie? Looks likw low budget CGI work. But Ill rent it once its on bluray
  1. HikariNetto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by arcaneshot View Post
    Except you're ignoring the fact both companies are running on the same Quarter system so both of them have incentive to make releases like that.
    Certainly. My original post though was in response to those who've been going on about Blizzard feeling threatened by XIV's success, so I mentioned the overlapping releases.

    While both companies do have incentive to overlap, in these particular cases it was Blizzard who placed their patches on top of dates that Square Enix had in place first. Dates that were in place months in advance even, in the case of Heavensward.
  1. Stncold's Avatar
    Playing FFXIV was about the same as watching paint dry for me with that GCD.

    If people enjoy it that's cool more power to them but even if WoW gets a lot worse than it is now I could never see myself giving FFXIV another shot as long as that 2.5sec GCD exists.
  1. HikariNetto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Maklor View Post
    Source to your claim please.

    I played for 2 months around launch and frankly I found the game fairly boring.
    They might be thinking of numbers that have been pulled from the game's API, but they're still not 2-3 million. Google "Jonathan Price XIV stats comparison," it's the first link. I'd directly link it here but I still have restrictions on posting URLs.

    That number of experienced players there is going to be pretty close to the actual number of subscribers, since level 50+ alts are virtually non-existent when you can access all classes and jobs on a single character.

    Also, these numbers only represent the global version of the game. They don't include players in China or Korea, as they play different versions of the game that are currently behind the global version in terms of content.
  1. Malackai's Avatar
    As someone that has been playing WoW for nearly 10 years. I haven't got a single problem with the slower cd. that a some of the people are experiencing.

    Combat in a game is just something that I tend to get used to after a week or so.

    When I swapped WoW for Aion it took me a couple of days getting used to the combat there (there were quite some derpy moments with targeting)
    When I went from WoW to Tera it took me a week or so to get used to the battle mechanics and when I swapped back it took me some time to get back to the Tabtarget WoW controls (the amount of dismount deaths I had in that time was hilarious)
    When I went from WOW to ArcheAge it again took me some days to get used to the battle controls same when I swapped back again. (many jump of ledge deaths where to be had because I forgot I dint had a glider.)

    When I swapped from WoW to FF14 it took me a week or so to get into the slower mode. When I stopped playing FF14 during SoO (had some raid responsibilities) it took me a week to get used to the old WoW spammy mechanics again.

    I started playing FF14 again in the start of this year after playing some ArcheAge and after that WoD. It took me 2-3 evenings getting back in the saddle and that's with even picking up a high lv character. Granted the whole WoW battle mechanic was pretty much worn out of me at that point (only played WoW for 3 months or so the rest was Archeage they don't differ that much besides targeting).

    The point is I did try some WoW again after playing FF14. However this time I simply could not get used to the WoW Battle mechanics again. it has simply become to button smashy for my tastes. But it the fault the combat? No its the fact that this time there's nothing there to distract me enough to ignore the combat so my body and mind can get used to the combat again without me noticing. So now it sticks out like a sore thumb for me.

    So I Am really wondering if that might be the case with other people that simply cant get used to the FF14 mechanics. It might be that they are simply not invested or really interested enough to be able to ignore the combat for a while. So the body sort of can get used to it. Or perhaps they are unable to really look at the game with a clean slate and keep comparing things to WoW.

    Personally I never really had the tendency to compare games in a way like that. i always shed of the "old game coat" and just go in clear seeing what the game has to offer.

    Maybe I am just weird like that :P
  1. Demoncrash's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Grevie View Post
    There is no such a official report. We dont know about subs number it might be 1 player or 5 millions.
    But for sure people are playing the game and it's not going f2p any time soon.
    Sure just like Wildstar, Elder Scrolls, SWOTOR, etc.
  1. ContentsMayVary's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Antermosiph View Post
    http://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy...ered-accounts/

    http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/...million-users/

    http://mmos.com/news/final-fantasy-1...on-subscribers

    " This is NOT a current subscriber number, but rather the total number of accounts that have subscribed to the game at one point, not counting free trials."

    Edit: Literally a 30 second google search
    Agreed.

    The active FF population around 4 months ago was only 730K, and I doubt it's increased a huge amount since then (if at all).

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...y_730k_active/
  1. HikariNetto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Demoncrash View Post
    Sure just like Wildstar, Elder Scrolls, SWOTOR, etc.
    Considering the fact that Square Enix has been operating Final Fantasy XI on a subscription model for well over 13 years now (and will be keeping subscriptions even after the game enters maintenance mode) and has been operating Dragon Quest X in Japan on a subscription model since 2012, there's no way XIV will go F2P when it already dwarfs their other two MMOs in players. FFXIV is not a flavor of the month game like many other MMOs have been; the Final Fantasy franchise is a brand with legitimate staying power and a very devoted fan base. The subscription model will continue for a long, long time so long as those currently enjoying the game are happy with it, which is definitely the case.

    Couple all that with Naoki Yoshida and the rest of the development team being very against F2P for XIV, as subscriptions allow them to keep a very steady stream of content, whereas earnings from F2P can be rather uncertain.
  1. Malackai's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ContentsMayVary View Post
    Agreed.

    The active FF population around 4 months ago was only 730K, and I doubt it's increased a huge amount since then (if at all).

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...y_730k_active/
    There's actually an other topic about that as well, however I have no idea how accurate his lodestone scrapes are:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...k_at/?sort=new

    Would have been nice to have a lv 60 sample as well.
    his sample is from the end of july.
  1. JohnGatsby1992's Avatar
    A video game is also an online interactive computer program that involves interactive interaction with a real user interface or hardware device through the Internet. Online gaming has become a phenomenon with millions of people from all walks of life playing video games online. Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation, Nintendo Wii, and the Play Station Portable (PSP) are some of the most popular gaming systems currently in use. PC gaming is referred to as massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) or massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs).
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