Blizzard Authenticator Warning: Only One Per Account
Just a quick heads-up here. I’ve now read on four separate sites that some people are ordering more than one Blizzard Authenticator for themselves, eg. if they play on a desktop computer and a laptop.
It doesn’t work that way, I’m afraid.
Blizzard Authenticator on EU Store - Sold Out?
At the time of this writing, the Blizzard Authenticator is marked as sold out. It isn’t entirely clear whether I missed the opportunity to buy it this morning (and they’ve gone like hot cakes) or they haven’t actually yet been offered for purchasing.
Master Blogging and Altitis Birthsday
So after a significant slowdown to my posting activities, this is my 300th post on Altitis. Incidentally, the blog is also 1 year (and 10 days) old now.
WWI: Totems to Effect Entire Raid
Just a few quick notes, while other class news look good as well, shammies get a few much needed enhancements coming their way:
- As per the post title, totems will now be raid-wide instead of just party
- Some totems will get merged (Grace of Air + Strength of Earth)
- Totems are confirmed to become physical [...]
So it’s Diablo 3 and it Looks Fiendishly Good
As you will have seen by now, the next game announced behind that cunning ice splash riddle building up to the blizzard worldwide invitational in Paris is indeed Diablo 3.
Blizzard Splash Page Speculation
Most of the people’s money appears to be on Diablo 3 at the moment. At the risk of eating crow tomorrow, my take is much more prosaic:
WotLK Beta starts tomorrow.
EDIT: Crow eating time. According to MMO-Champion, it’s Diablo 3.
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Why the Optional Blizzard Authenticator will Become Quite Mandatory
Blizzard announced a new tool in the arsenal of measures to combat account theft, their authenticator. In short, you buy the authenticator for a small sum of money, tie it to one or more Blizzard game accounts, and from then on, whenever you want to log in, you will be prompted to type in not just your username and password, but also a short authentication code.
Blizzard Buffing Seasonal Events
Until last Fall, I’ve always looked at WoW’s seasonal events as a bit of a waste of time, mainly because they only offered mostly cosmetic rewards.
Bartle doesn’t get MMOs says Tobold, who doesn’t get Bartle
In one of these interesting meta-spats in the blogosphere, Tobold took exception to Richard Bartle’s statement in an interview to Massively that “I’ve already played Warhammer. It was called World of Warcraft.”
Tobold proceeded to write a withering post about Bartle’s bitterness and irrelevance in modern MMOs which, Tobold believes, the old curmudgeon doesn’t grasp anymore.
Tobold on Story-Telling in MMORPGs
At the risk of being accused again of being a closet roleplayer (full disclosure: there’s no closet. I was a pen & paper roleplayer in my teens, I have fond memories both as a player and GM of these times, and that probably also explains why I spend most of my computer gaming in RPGs), here’s a heads-up on Tobold’s post about story-telling in MMORPGs, which I highly recommend.
Toon Midlife Crisis: Time for Some Space Opera
Despite the changes brought by patch 2.3, I’m still feeling the full force of the level 40-50 slowdown. This has always been the range where my motivation drops, and the only thing which has changed is that where previously it hit around 42-43, it now happens at 46-47.
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