World of Warcraft

POSTED BY: RIVER6213
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 15:25
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RIVER6213

Monday, January 24, 2011 11:52 AM

Does anyone here play WOW?

PRETTYXPISTOL

Monday, January 24, 2011 1:01 PM

Death to Wow! May it burn in hell! I used to play Wow but I am retired.

[Inara: It's all right. I mostly keep to myself. When I'm not whoring.]

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, January 24, 2011 2:15 PM

Used to, off and on, up till they shoved everyone onto the notoriously insecure battle.net - which not only exposes their game account, but entire financial data...

Worse is that upon finding that out (thankfully before any damage was done) despite Blizzards endless blame-the-customer attitude and protestations, I discovered exactly how that was done in seventeen minutes flat, and had I wanted to could have sat there collecting logins at my leisure.

Their only answer to it so far is to offer to sell folks an "authenticator" for six-eight bucks, which runs to a tidy profit with a subscriber base that large, and they'll not tell you it's not an actual RSA key and the algorithm was cracked even before any were delivered.

So in answer to your question, no.

But if you happen to be asking this question because you have been "hacked" and are extremely, extremely suspicious of how that happened - do a little homework, and consider that if whole guilds are being jacked, member by member, what the possibility really is of every single member of that specific guild having the exact same trojan, at exactly the same time...

Versus a security flaw at the SERVER end, which Blizzard will not, can not, admit, because of the tremendous legal liability exposing not just game accounts, but personal financial data of potentially millions of people.

And then you tell me, which is more likely.

-Frem

BYTEMITE

Monday, January 24, 2011 2:48 PM

Yeah, Battle.net account standardization is one of the more stupid decisions Blizzard made for WoW. On top of that, the ridiculous patches, some of which have topped out at 11 GB, and which sometimes end up corrupting your old game data so boy-oh-boy good thing they have the full client available over the battle.net accounts for download.

I've had to do that four times since November. At least it's free. And to be fair, Blizzard actually had decent costumer support before WoW, but an MMORPG inevitably drags all of that downhill.

As for trojans, the only ones that are a bad deal for your WoW account (which might by proxy let someone get your financial information) is a keylogger. And luckily, it's pretty easy to tell when you have a malware and just not do anything security compromising until you run software to get rid of it. The server-side issue is a bigger problem, I think the only way around that is to periodically change your passwords and pin numbers and stuff. Which I've also had to do.

But yeah, If I didn't have far away friends who I only ever see anymore on WoW, I wouldn't play anymore either.

RIVER6213

Monday, January 24, 2011 3:11 PM

I've been playing WOW since 2004 and never been hacked or caught a Trojan, or any of those things some of you suggested.

BYTEMITE

Monday, January 24, 2011 3:19 PM

Never been hacked, but I have caught some keyloggers before they did any damage. Like I said, it helps that the symptoms are really obvious.

Since then, I got a no-script add-on for my browser and that seems to stop them.

Aside from the technical issues, I do think the game is well made.

PRETTYXPISTOL

Monday, January 24, 2011 4:09 PM

Blizzard is evil. Wow is Satan's spawn.

[It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get]

RIVER6213

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:19 PM

I don't know. I've never had any of those problems and the authenticator is free if you have an iphone. So far since 2004 I have a level 85 Death Knight, a level 85 warrior, a level 80 priest, a level 40 warlock, and a level 72 hunter.

BTW you can now go from level 80 to 85 with the new expansion that came out on December 7th.

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:42 PM

81 Shaman. I've been playing since WoW came out, but this is the first time I've ever had a high level character. I don't get a whole lot of time to play. Which is maybe good, since it can be addictive.

I hear Vashjr is something to see. I've been hanging around Hyjal, thought now with the Lunar Festival I thought I'd go get some of the holiday items for my lower level characters.

Done any raids?

RIVER6213

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:39 PM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
81 Shaman. I've been playing since WoW came out, but this is the first time I've ever had a high level character. I don't get a whole lot of time to play. Which is maybe good, since it can be addictive.

I hear Vashjr is something to see. I've been hanging around Hyjal, thought now with the Lunar Festival I thought I'd go get some of the holiday items for my lower level characters.

Done any raids?

Vashjr's pretty fun. I think this is the first new content area a level 80 can enter. It's all under water. With my level 85 warrior I shot through all the new content. Matter of fact I reached level 85 in only 5 days, but that involved not getting any sleep for those 5 days lol!

As far as raids go my guild has done many.

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