Season 4, Blizzard Store, Isle of Quel'Danas progress in China

[Boubouille]

Arena Season 4 Items now in German and French
The season 4 item lists are now fully translated in German and French, I can't promise I'll do that everytime there is a major feature added to the game because it takes a tremendeous amount of time, but I guess it will make a few people happy.

The remaining parts of each parts of each post will be translated later today, any help on the german version would be greatly appreciated.

The new Blizzard Store is now open
The new Blizzard Store is now open ! You will find plenty of things here.

• PC Games - All the recent Blizzard Games are available you can also buy World of Warcraft Game Time here ! Note that Warcraft 3, Warcraft 3 TFT, and Starcraft are also available through digital download.
• Table Games - Everything related to the WoW Trading Card is available, you will also find Starcraft/Warcraft/World of Warcraft board games.
• Apparel - T-Shirts and caps.
• Books - All the Blizzard novels are here, including the World of Warcraft ones of course. You can also buy Strategy Guides and a few other nice books.
• Collectibles - Only Action Figures are available for the moment.
• More Products - Posters, DVDs, and a few other things.
  

Also, the account will let you register to the Blizzard Insider newsletter and ... also be warned of any upcoming public betas for any Blizzard game.

European stores aren't available yet but according to this page it's only a matter of hours/days before we see them online.

The9 Manually Set Chinese Realms' Isle of Quel'Danas Progress (Via WoWinsider)
"The9, the company that operates World of Warcraft in China has announced today that all Chinese realms will have their Isle of Quel'danas progress manually set to be fully completed, since "all players have contributed as they should to the world event". They also apologized for the server problems players experienced these past few weeks, while wishing everyone a happy Mayday (a four-and-a-half day holiday this year in China).

This rather drastic measure comes amidst widespread player complaints of their servers' poor performance after patch 2.4. Many of the more populous realms suffered frequent restarts and periods of downtime, especially at peak hours. As a result, a significant number of these realms also fell victim to rollbacks. Some of the hardest hit realms had their IQD progress reset multiple times in a single day."

Read the full article on Potato Skin

[insidelane]

Hey sounds like frostmourne :

[Remiel]

Oh poor chinese.

Every server in BG9 goes down 3 times daily, with lag inbetween after 2.4 and we get what? 1 day free playtime! The chinese get handfed progress and items.

Not really suprising considering the joke that is chinese WoW.

[Deleted]

I really hope they activate the european shop soon. Was looking forward to buying the card game's raid decks that you can't find here in any shops at all in crappy Belgium, but the shipping fees for the American shop is 80 dollar.

[Kreo]

Great news with the store!
And bloody lucky Chinese.

[gwwfps]

Oh poor chinese.

Every server in BG9 goes down 3 times daily, with lag inbetween after 2.4 and we get what? 1 day free playtime! The chinese get handfed progress and items.

Not really suprising considering the joke that is chinese WoW.

Chinese players pay by the minute, so The9 is actually pretty cheap by doing that. : And what items are handfed exactly? It's not like the epic gems don't cost badges on Chinese realms.

[Deleted]

Chinese players pay by the minute, so The9 is actually pretty cheap by doing that. : And what items are handfed exactly? It's not like the epic gems don't cost badges on Chinese realms.

LOL Pay by MINUTE???? yea right... O_O

[gwwfps]

LOL Pay by MINUTE???? yea right... O_O

It's true, that's why almost no one but the obscenely rich go AFK on Chinese realms.

[Dessimus]

Blizzard only just got an online store going?

[Nevermindz]

The new Blizzard Store is now open.

[Firen]

@gwwfps / Fyreeze

(Quote from http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2007/07/...r-for-wow.html):
In China World of Warcraft is payed per hour, at a rate of 0.45 Yuan per hour. At today's exchange rate, that is 6 US cents per hour of World of Warcraft. But of course the wages in China are lower, and 6 US cents buys you more stuff in China than in the US. So at purchasing power parity (PPP) the 0.45 Yuan per hour correspond to about 25 US cents per hour. Which isn't quite that cheap any more.

Well, I prefer the monthly system still...

Oh BTW: If you're making a british/US flag for the english language, you should also make a german/austrian flag for german! :O (we exculde switzerland now cos they dont just speak german but also french and italian)

[KONATA]

@gwwfps / Fyreeze

(Quote from http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2007/07/...r-for-wow.html):
In China World of Warcraft is payed per hour, at a rate of 0.45 Yuan per hour. At today's exchange rate, that is 6 US cents per hour of World of Warcraft. But of course the wages in China are lower, and 6 US cents buys you more stuff in China than in the US. So at purchasing power parity (PPP) the 0.45 Yuan per hour correspond to about 25 US cents per hour. Which isn't quite that cheap any more.

Well, I prefer the monthly system still...

Oh BTW: If you're making a british/US flag for the english language, you should also make a german/austrian flag for german! :O (we exculde switzerland now cos they dont just speak german but also french and italian)

LOL! Germany for the Germans !!!

na j/k but no need cuz we speak the same language ! Just the dialect can be different but thats everywhere

[Firen]

LOL! Germany for the Germans !!!

na j/k but no need cuz we speak the same language ! Just the dialect can be different but thats everywhere

yeah we do speak the same language. but so do britains and americans just different accent and some words different. so why wouldnt there be a Austrian/Germany flag? :O

and yeah, germany for the germans, BUT austrian for the austrians! <- and german is the national langauge in austria as well! :O and like 100 years ago Austria was still the second biggest country in Europe!

[Digitrevx]

The gift to your self or friend ad on the main page works like a game card but is instantly sent to your e-mail for immediate use without leaving the conforts of home. Also you get the same discount as having a regular subscription.