WoW Magazine Canceled, Blizzcon Store Pre-Sale, Blue Posts

[kerwyn]

Magazines are a dead form of media, I'm surprised it took them this long to axe it.

[greyghost]

Oh man. I hope this means that Paladin teir will be based off of Inquisition.... and look like an epic Scarlet Crusade suit of armor.

[squeedwiddle]

There's a wow magazine?

[Messick]

Haha i paid 2 years when it came out, got 5/8 issues and now i get $60 worth of pets for my wife.

[subanark]

I wonder how exactly are they going to nerf Wind Shear. Looks like my shammy will be even more useless in raids now...

Note that the original poster that the blue responded to mentioned restro shamans. It might be the case this only get nerfed for restro, which as much fun interrupting halfus or alyas's adds as restro is, I can see requiring a dps to do it making sense.

[davep]

Only thing they can do to Wind Shear is put the CD on the same CD as all other interrupts, which is dumb, they should just buff everyone else interrupt if anything.

[Hean]

So to get a refund I have to send a hand written letter from the EU to the US ...really? Is it that hard to just refund on the paypal which I bought my sub with ?

[Deleted]

I don't think that a pair of flashlights is fitting for top of mage head. Why not at least wear the goggles? I still need to confirm that the lights don't look good in game, but we will see.

[squeedwiddle]

Funny how they won't even say what they're doing to wind shear, yet everyone assumes the post about the rogue legendary is real.

[Deleted]

Nerf resto shamans, frost mages and dks and the game might be balanced again pvp-wise. Dont nerf above classes and the game will continue to be faceroll-fotm-specs for gladiator. Interested in how 4.3 will be. Fail as usual or good for once

[blackangel209]

Only thing they can do to Wind Shear is put the CD on the same CD as all other interrupts, which is dumb, they should just buff everyone else interrupt if anything.

Because the mere existence of a single 6-second-CD interrupt isn't already OP in PvP. Nerfing it to a 10 second CD makes a lot more sense.

[Prag]

Magazines are a dead form of media, I'm surprised it took them this long to axe it.

I've been a media buyer for advertising agencies long enough to call you out on being dead wrong.

[mikefrosty]

When the magazine started during wotlk, the magazine sales were doing great. Then left the swarms of people during cata when blizzard ruined this game. It's no wonder everyone cancelled their magazine subs.

[Deleted]

...play off a new ability the class got in Cataclysm...

Oh, wow, yes! Smoke Bomb for rogues, my expectations just rose by a 100%.

[JamesCGamora]

I can only imagine what Hunter Teir 13 is going to look like with Camouflage being our new ability for Cataclysm.

Shame about the WoW Magazine though.

I wouldn't be too terribly surprised if they went with a Predator theme for the armor to make resemble the Camouflage ability.

[balatro]

I've been a media buyer for advertising agencies long enough to call you out on being dead wrong.

Magazines currently out, generally speaking, cater to an older demographic or a primarily female audience. While it's a generalization, individuals who play are heavily involved in technology, play video games, tech savvy typically don't subscribe to magazines.

Walk down the magazine aisle of your grocery store and take a look - the magazines are geared for an older demographic or young female teenagers. The magazines geared for mid 20's-late 30's don't generally target gamers.

[Amsden]

Wait... there was a Warcraft Magazine? I need to pay more attention to the launcher.

[Mofux]

Tier 13[...] Most of this tier was attempting to play off a new ability the class got in Cataclysm, so for instance Time Warp for mages and Wild Mushroom for druid, in some cases (like warrior or warlock) there's playing off of the raid and those themes, and then for others it's a bit more just doing something we think represents the class in a more abstract manner. We're putting them up as soon as they're done, essentially, so from here on out they're likely to be posted rather randomly. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)Wind ShearIt's still a part of the plan and you'll find out more information once we get into discussing patch 4.3 class balance. I'm not really able to reveal any plans as of yet. Without any context the information I could provide would only lead to a slew of follow-up questions, which will be answered better in our upcoming announcements. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)Tier 13 and Future Armor ArtThere is only one objective truth about every single armor set we've ever made -- some people love, and some people hate, each of 'em. The art is completely subjective and your tastes reflect your viewpoint.That said, our design philosophy for epic sets is not changing at all with the introduction of Transmogrification. We're still going to keep designing what we think is fitting and awesome for each class and tier. We want people to want to wear all of the major armor sets we release. In the future you'll just have the option of deciding what set fits you best aesthetically and adventuring to obtain it, without worrying about the stats. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Yeah... WoW is dying.

[Kraide]

The problem with the magazine (and I was a subscriber from issue one) is that they didn't give any exclusive info in there. It would have been the perfect place for a few reveals, and putting some in there would have gotten it a lot more sales. Unfortunately, the last issue was about Firelands; it was FULL of great developer interviews about how they felt about Firelands and what was going to go into it and what kind of content you would have access to... but the issue wasn't released until AFTER the patch was. A bit of a wasted effort there.

The magazine was fine, and would have been awesome if developers decided to divulge that information EARLIER than it could be datamined and not long after.

[Revanchism]

They had two open positions for the Magazine a few months back too. Shame if anyone had to move out to San Fran for one of those spots.