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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. Continue reading

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Broken Toys on Pierce vs Deboneville Lawsuit

For people living on the moon, Broken Toys is the blog of one of the earliest MMOG commentators out there, Scott Jennings (formerly known as Lum the Mad). He has recently posted and reported about the latest lawsuit in the … Continue reading

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The Bastard is everywhere

Even in my Aksimet moderation queue. Caught the bastard, though. And no, I have no second thoughts about publishing the bastard’s IP.

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Gold Spam in the Blogger part of the WoW Blogosphere

Within 24 hours, several of our blogging peers have reported being hit by gold ads in their comments, and have therefore tightened the requirements for commenting. Unfortunately, where Gmail shines with its rather strong antispam mechanisms, Blogger currently has little … Continue reading

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How to Improve your Account Security

As you will have noticed, there’s a widespread account hacking activity going on at the moment, and many people, me included, aren’t exactly happy about the customer service options currently provided by Blizzard. However, to be perfectly clear about one … Continue reading

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Blessing of Silence

Levelling a young alt? Fed up with the constant invites to get spammed by level 1 orc warriors? At long last, Blizzard has taken action. Says Drysc: We applied a small hotfix early this morning to include an additional restriction … Continue reading

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