The annual World of Warcraft Hallow’s End celebration is in full swing now … that’s Halloween to us real life people.
Kinda-sorta, almost-spoilzorz details are available on Blizzard’s event page.
Better-quality, gritty, real-time screenshot photography is available in the AFK Gamer Flickr photoset.
(There! I said it. I can photoshop better than they can.)
In a move of unprecedented brilliance (Or just trying to squeeze every possible dollar out of people regardless of the havoc it can wreak), Blizzard has decided to reduce the wait after server transferring to one month. Want to steal a guild bank? Scam people out of their gold in Ironforge? How about getting into a guild and doing your best to ninja those phat purples before guildremoving? Worry not, your reputation will not follow you for long! You’re now free to move about the country (and do whatever shitty thing you want without fear of lasting consequences).
At least it’s not without its silver lining…expect to see many a new story here quite soon.
Archives: Server transfer cooldown reduced to one month.
One-month server transfer cooldown revised to three months.
If you didn’t preorder one of the Collector’s Editions for the World of Warcraft expansion, The Burning Crusade, and you’re still looking to score, Blizzard’s Drysc advises that you camp the store spawn on release day in this forum thread, “I want the Xpack CE”. Blue text: “Some retailers have been taking Collector’s Edition pre-orders, but from what I have seen of the online retail sites they appear to have sold out rather quickly. Some retail stores are still allowing pre-orders if you walk in, but the number they have available is limited. We are not offering the CE for purchase in our online store at present. If we do sell it we probably won’t take pre-orders but I would recommend keeping an eye on the website. Your best bet at this point would be to find a store who is still accepting pre-orders or get up early on launch day and wait at a store that didn’t take pre-orders at all.” Alternatively, you can camp the online spawn at Amazon’s link. I’m still on the fence about this CE. I might make a half-hearted effort to get a pack o’ nerd-swag; I might not. If they were giving out something worthwhile for the $$ like a 24-slot bag, I’d kill my own mother to get ahold of one. Hell, she’s had a good run and she knows how important bag space is in this game. (Archive: I want the Xpack CE)