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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. mmocae1868ef01's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cynthilla View Post
    Gotta love the people who mistake registered accounts for actual subs, and deemed WoW dead because Final Fantasy was getting bigger than wow. But in reality there are still 95% to go
    By the way things are going, then FFXIV is gonna exceed over WoW's subs in no time.
  1. Suggs's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cynthilla View Post
    Gotta love the people who mistake registered accounts for actual subs, and deemed WoW dead because Final Fantasy was getting bigger than wow. But in reality there are still 95% to go
    Gotta love people that mistake actual accounts with actual players.
    100 million accounts doesn't generally mean 100 million players......
  1. Shilien's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Suggs View Post
    Gotta love people that mistake actual accounts with actual players.
    100 million accounts doesn't generally mean 100 million players......
    In your rush to be snarky you apparently didn't notice he said subs, not players. Subscriptions are all that counts, they're all that's EVER counted.
  1. klepp0906's Avatar
    100 million?...

    And why are we comparing wows pop years ago with ffxiv pop now? How by comparison wow has the same amount of subs give or take a few hundred k now?

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    Guys.. I'm pretty sure it's a typo and he meant 10 million not 100. The game never had 100 million anything. Smh

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zipzo View Post
    Now...as a guy who likes to keep neutral and leave things to preference I was a little bit taken aback by...



    How much of a shill for Blizzard this makes mmo-champ look like. Something to note, mmo-champ rarely if ever posts FFXIV news, so this tiny little tidbit comes off as nothing more than an attempt to step on FFXIV's toes, when SE has kept themselves, done their own thing, ever recovering from their admitted failure to produce a quality product a few years ago, and in the midst of their growing success with a project they completely did from the ground up in order to please their fans.

    I don't actively play the game or anything, but I at least respect what they've done as a consumer, but that quick little "comparison" to WoW on a piece of data that seems all to un-important to the modern day MMO-Champ repertoire for updates just seemed out-of-place.

    I'm sorry but this comment felt so back-handed, smarmy. I don't even play FFXIV and I could still smell the salt.
    This!!!! Sad really. I detest ffxiv also catered to the kids after ffxi but it's an amazing game that shows you don't need years for content and can still have amaZing graphics with a mediocre PC.

    That being said. 100 million... In 2013 they had around 10 million. Definitely a typo. It hasn even as high as 12 since the start of wotlk. Just like wod had almost double the subs at launch as it does now.

    The fanboys who spin on blizzards finger have no idea what an mmorpg even is.. They just eat this cake all day.

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    http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/06/05/meet-the-man-who-redeemed-final-fantasy

    There. Squeenix dev confirming 4m ACTIVE accounts pre heavensward. 5m is likely rounding down considering the new xpac.
  1. mmoc65680f5778's Avatar
    I wonder if people can read in here It's fun that most people have no idea that registered users != active users. If you would ever go to that infographic from 2013 you could read there, that 100m in that time was with trial accounts. According to IGN that announced 4m earlier this year it was without trials, but it really sounds weird to me, because registered account is also a trial, but I will assume that IGN is telling the truth. This means that WoW had 100m(2013) with trials and FF has 5m without trials
    Quote Originally Posted by klepp0906 View Post
    http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/06/05...-final-fantasy

    There. Squeenix dev confirming 4m ACTIVE accounts pre heavensward. 5m is likely rounding down considering the new xpac.
    The link from IGN states 4 million active subscribers but if you click on it, it states 4 million registered accounts. People don't be stupid sheeps and verify things instead of making fools out of yourselfs.
  1. La's Avatar
    Who cares how many people are playing each game? Some people really love to argue over such stupid things to justify the game they play as relevant or better. Swear it's like two elementary kids bickering on a playground around here so often.
  1. Aberrict's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shilien View Post
    In your rush to be snarky you apparently didn't notice he said subs, not players. Subscriptions are all that counts, they're all that's EVER counted.
    Revenue and profit are all that count.
  1. zoefschildpad's Avatar
    I registered an account for ff:XIV. played the beta for a couple hours and never bought the game. I wonder if I was counted.
  1. rikku45's Avatar
    Is the person that wrote this trying to start a FF Vs wow thing, You can't do a comparison between the two like that.
  1. mmoc553ea44d9a's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Spiral Mage View Post
    FF14 has 5 million >active< paying accounts, not 5 million accounts total.

    Also, WoW has never had 100m. I think that's a typo, one too many zeros.
    I suppose they may say WoW from its start (2004-today) might have 100m. They may combine any type of account WoW involves (sub/starter account etc.)
    Judging on those facts it MAY be a believable number...
    Still FF14 has 5m active accounts... and WoW has...maybe 6-7m (i do believe about 5m though, i think i saw it somewhere but can't remember where).
    The thing is... WoW is losing players and it will lose even more players if they won't up their quality and do something about their prices/ pay model as well. The new expansion seems promising, so i believe they will up their numbers in about next expansions launch or a month later ... But if next expansion goes as WoD did, even more players will leave, so the number will go down from 5m active accounts...in other words if FF14 keeps rising, we will possibly have a new "king" after...10+ years. And that's a first time in MMO-RPG genre history a game actually is a threat to WoW.
    On the other hand, if WoW has competition, they can do things to improve the game in many ways... not like they did 2 (or 3) expansions now,where they demoted the game...

    Also judging facts, blizzard always finds a way to overdo it in numbers and we can't check them out as well...
  1. Thyranne's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Skorpionss View Post
    how is this worthy of a comment? You've been here since 2009... it was always and will always be a Blizzard Fansite... and it's called MMO-Champion because it mostly focuses on World of Warcraft, which is the champion of MMOs

    Anyway I wonder if those FF14 numbers also include Trial accounts :-?
    Actually the 100M account in WoW does include trial accounts (http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/blog/123...ers-28-01-2014) while FFXIV doesn't.
  1. Antermosiph's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Darkdeii View Post
    The accounts counted are not all active. They were just accounts that purchased the game, basically. Not that many people play ff14 (and by that many, i mean 5 million).

    Surprised ff14 is even that popular. It's good for the story, then gets wildly boring.
    .

    I blame the 2.5 second GCD for the boring combat feeling.
  1. chaud's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zipzo View Post
    Now...as a guy who likes to keep neutral and leave things to preference I was a little bit taken aback by...
    I only included it in the hopes that people would read and understand the difference between accounts and active subscribers. Directly comparing an older MMO to a newer one would make no sense at all. I have nothing against it and clearly they are doing relatively well, which is why I included the news.

    Quote Originally Posted by rikku45 View Post
    Is the person that wrote this trying to start a FF Vs wow thing, You can't do a comparison between the two like that.
    Nope, just wanted to share some good news about another MMO!
  1. Brightbrown's Avatar
    Having grown terribly bored with WoW, I stopped paying cash and have been using tokens months ago. Still just as boring. Tried FFXIV... amazing game, love the story, love the engagement. Most telling, I have yet to hit any queue for the group content that lasts longer than 20 mins... compared to hour long queues for WoW with it SO MANY MORE PEOPLE PLAYING (not). Hell, it's not unusual to be sent in within 5 mins... only time I've EVER seen that in WoW weas when we had tank & healz guildies grouped with a few dps first. So arguments about active, registered is mostly smoke screen...
  1. Antermosiph's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Brightbrown View Post
    Having grown terribly bored with WoW, I stopped paying cash and have been using tokens months ago. Still just as boring. Tried FFXIV... amazing game, love the story, love the engagement. Most telling, I have yet to hit any queue for the group content that lasts longer than 20 mins... compared to hour long queues for WoW with it SO MANY MORE PEOPLE PLAYING (not). Hell, it's not unusual to be sent in within 5 mins... only time I've EVER seen that in WoW weas when we had tank & healz guildies grouped with a few dps first. So arguments about active, registered is mostly smoke screen...
    Keep in mind that if you're just starting you get priority queue. Queues suck the second time around.
  1. mmoc7fb8344b2d's Avatar
    WoW had 30 million 'accounts' during vanilla (thats roughly the same 2 first years). There was no trial in the beginning.
  1. Turaska's Avatar
    Worth noting the Final Fantasy figures do NOT include trial accounts either. Quite impressive when you consider the horrid launch FFXIV had, they've done well to make Reborn this successful.
  1. Juxtapawz's Avatar
    Well .... I'll just leave this here... http://www.mmospotlight.com/final-fa...-of-wow-users/
  1. chaud's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Juxtapawz View Post
    Well .... I'll just leave this here... http://www.mmospotlight.com/final-fa...-of-wow-users/
    Registered users != active subscribers.
  1. risingforce's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Juxtapawz View Post
    Well .... I'll just leave this here... http://www.mmospotlight.com/final-fa...-of-wow-users/
    Lol, bad enough a commenter confuses registered users for accounts... but hilarious that a 'games journo' does the same.

    Blind leading the blind much?
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