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The new Guardian Cub, the pet you can buy with real-world currency and exchange for in-game gold, has been available for sale on most realms’ Auction Houses for a good 24 hours now. And early reports are looking very favorable for Blizzard; it is now significantly cheaper to buy gold through Blizzard than through one of the less-reputable, third-party Chinese gold sellers.
The price of the Guardian Cub varies wildly by server — a function of supply and demand. An impromptu Twitter survey suggests that the pet is currently selling for between 6,000 gold and 40,000 gold in game, depending on server size, competition, and a number of other factors. Most realms are currently seeing prices just north of 10,000 gold.
Certainly, the final page of the Guardian Cub saga has yet to be written, and prices will be extraordinarily volatile in the next few days, weeks, and months. Still, even at a conservative exchange rate of for a 10,000-gold pet, players can get a far better (and safer!) deal buying gold through Blizzard via the Guardian Cub than dealing with a gold seller. The difference is stark — the same amount of gold may cost you or through a third-party site. And even then, you have no guarantee of getting your gold, no guarantee that your account won’t be compromised, and no guarantee that your purchase isn’t supporting forced labor and account theft.
Will the Guardian Cub kill off third-party gold sales? Probably not, at least on its own. Interest in this new pet simply cannot be sustained long term. But if the last 24 hours of trading on the in-game Auction House are any indication, Blizzard just fired a shot into a multi-billion-dollar gray market.
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Guardian Cub taking a bite out of third-party gold sales originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Drama is as drama does.
Dear Drama Mamas,
This is something I thought you’d be interested in. WoW being a social community and Facebook being the king of social connectivity right now, I’d like to share recent activities in my guild involving Facebook.
To start from the beginning, about a year ago I quit my first guild with a large group to go form a raiding guild. The guild we left was a very large rp guild on an rp server. I was reluctant to leave the guild, as I had a lot of friends there, including the GM and it was my first guild ever. Needless to say, the way the group presented our leaving did not sit well with the gm of the guild we left. Toons were kicked, we were black listed, harassed, snubbed, etc.
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Drama Mamas: Taking guild drama to Facebook originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Drama Mamas: Taking guild drama to Facebook
Joystiq All these people you're playing World of Warcraft with? They're real people. World of Warcraft happens in the real world, and all those guildmates you're playing with have real feelings. What you do in game matters just as much as what you do anywhere … |
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New Product Call Of Juarez Taking Position On BYGAMER.COM
The Open Press (press release) As one regular consumer expressed his idea about this new game, "I intended to search some cheap world of warcraft gold to continue my WOW play when I found the cd key of Call of Juarez. I had known this game before. So, I gave up the wow gold google … |
Looks like someone needs to borrow Granny Weatherwax’s “I aten’t dead” sign. Buffinminka of Annihilation on Burning Blade (US-H) just stopped to doze in this convenient wooden box on her way home from a long day of questing. She woke up a few hours later in some unfashionable crypt with magic symbols chalked all around her. Doesn’t anyone check for a pulse anymore? Actually, that wouldn’t work in this situation, but they could have at least put bamboo under her fingernails or used any of the other weird old tests to determine if someone is actually dead.
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Around Azeroth: But I was just taking a nap originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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EA: Old Republic 'taking the fight to World of Warcraft'
Computerandvideogames.com In a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference listened in on by Gamasutra, he said the company wanted the No.1 spot in the market currently held by Activision Blizzard's World of Warcraft. "We're going right at it. … EA: Star Wars: The Old Republic "going right at" World of Warcraft EA Chief Targets Rival's Key Franchises Riccitiello Talks Turning EA Around, Old Republic's Prospects |
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EA: Old Republic 'taking the fight to World of Warcraft'
Computerandvideogames.com In a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference listened in on by Gamasutra, he said the company wanted the No.1 spot in the market currently held by Activision Blizzard's World of Warcraft. "We're going right at it. … EA: Star Wars: The Old Republic "going right at" World of Warcraft EA Chief Targets Rival's Key Franchises Riccitiello Talks Turning EA Around, Old Republic's Prospects |
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EA: Old Republic 'taking the fight to World of Warcraft'
Computerandvideogames.com In a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference listened in on by Gamasutra, he said the company wanted the No.1 spot in the market currently held by Activision Blizzard's World of Warcraft. "We're going right at it. … EA: Star Wars: The Old Republic "going right at" World of Warcraft EA Chief Targets Rival's Key Franchises Riccitiello Talks Turning EA Around, Old Republic's Prospects |
I always thought I would love a no trash dungeon. I came up in raiding in the days of MC and BWL, raids that were absolutely chock full of trash. AQ40? Oh, so much trash. Trash to the point of absurdity. Going into the original Naxxramas meant dealing with a huge space absolutely stuffed full of rotting, slimy, or arachnid horrors. You spent far more time coordinating pulls on those annoying warlocks in Blackwing Lair and their dynamite throwing goblin friends then you actually did on bosses.
In Burning Crusade, the five mans had trash galore. Five, even six packs in Shadow Labyrinth, constant streams of adds in Shattered Halls, complicated trash pulls in Karazhan and Serpentshrine. I still remember with dread being the tank standing there using spell reflection to get the attention of Hyjal caster waves. Dealing with trash has always been a part of the game, as it has been part of the genre. In fact, one of the reasons that Naxxramas 10/25 felt so empty to me was that it simply held less trash than it did as a 40 man raid at level 60, so huge stretches of the place were deserted, as if Kel’Thuzad had gone on a staff cutting binge and pink slipped half of the Scourge before you even got there.
After we’d gotten Ulduar more or less on farm, and moved on to Trial of the Crusader, I was pretty ready for a break from trash. I was very excited about a trashless dungeon where you just fought bosses. Wouldn’t that be epic? Wouldn’t it be awesome for every fight in a raid to be an epic struggle against a named, powerful adversary?
Turned out, not so much.
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Taking out the trash originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.