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BLIZZARD REMOVES “HOMOSEXUAL,” “TRANSSEXUAL” FROM LIST OF BLOCKED PROFANITY IN WORLD OF WARCRAFT

2012-01-29T23:10:00.000+01:00

The big news on the Blizzard front this week was that they’d decided not to have a BlizzCon in 2012; that is, the large fan convention at which the titan (ha ha insidery Blizzard joke) of the gaming community makes the biggest of its big announcements. The reasoning was that with three games/expansions expected to drop within the next year and a half, the company’s time would be better spent working on them and, moreover, they just didn’t have anything really exciting and new to show.

But there was a tidbit of smaller news that we feel is still important to highlight. Blizzard was successfully pressured to remove “homosexual” and “transsexual” from the list of words that the in-game profanity filter of World of Warcraft automatically blocks.

World of Warcraft‘s profanity filter defaults to the “off” position, and when turned on, automatically replaces certain words with cartoon-typical exotic punctuation. A recent bug, however, resulted in the filter being turned to the on position at every log in, consistently showing a lot of players who’d never tried out the feature exactly which words it did and didn’t permit. This is undoubtedly what caused a lot of people to realize that the profanity filter doesn’t let you say “homosexual” or “transsexual.”

Blizzard’s attempts to keep drama out of the game have not always been the best when it comes to the LGBTQ community. Allow me to quote myself in explanation:

The idea that banning the use of LGBT terms entirely is a good way to protect users from harassment is one that has a number deep flaws in it. Primarily, it doesn’t work because you can’t tell someone that they can’t do something on the internet.

Otherwise, banning a term that a minority uses to describe itself in many ways renders that minority invisible and incapable of fully representing itself. Blizzard ran afoul of this problem in 2006, when one of its moderators threatened to punish a player who was advertising her (World of Warcraft) guild as LGBT friendly, because of a context neutral ban on using LGBT terms in public chat channels [in order to prevent harassment]. After a considerable amount of controversy including a letter from Lambda Legal, Blizzard publicly stated that the player would not be penalized and that the warning was a result of “unfortunate interpretation” of their harassment policy

Secondarily, banning words that communities use to self-describe symbolically removes their ability to self-identify, which is also a pretty crap idea. LGBT friendly guilds have become numerous enough in WoW to put on a yearly in-game Pride Parade on the Proudmoore server (what better server name, really?) complete with plenty of pink shirts and tabards.

Blizzard reacted quickly as soon as the issue was pointed out, with a community manager responding: “We’ve reviewed our filter list and there are a few words there that should not be blocked as profanity; we’ll be removing them in a future patch.” This is not entirely inconsistent with Blizzard’s policy towards offensive content. For example, the company has made clear in community statements that it relies on players to know and report violations of its naming policy (no offensive content, no names of actual celebrities or famous fictional characters or Blizzard NPCs, no sentences) so that it can enforce the naming policy, rather than spending manpower on seeking out all the think-they’re-so-clever Anigavs and Sineps. Not to mention all the deathknights named Arthazz.

Even if it’s a feature that very few players actually use, you’d think that Blizzard’s own curated profanity filter would deserve a company review now and then, if only to keep up with the times and remain relevant to parents whose children play. When that future patch hits (perhaps with the expected update next week), World of Warcraft will not imply that “homosexual” or “transsexual” are dirty words for the first time since its launch in 2004. Would this be a good time to mention that the seven letter F word and it’s oh so charming diminutive are not masked by the profanity filter? Apparently it can’t be used to harass players like “homosexual” can.

(via WoW Insider.)

Instanced Shadowmoon via Black Temple.

2012-01-29T20:59:00.000+01:00

I hadn't seen this method posted anywhere, but here is a video of a player escaping Black Temple.
This is a no skill required explore. Also on a side note, you can go the other way instead of going the way I did. it will yield the same result.

Blizzard to Auction WoW Servers and Give Proceeds to Charity

2012-01-29T19:16:00.000+01:00

Here's a feel-good story to help justify all those hours you spent wandering through Azeroth and leveling up in World of Warcraft when you should have been working, spending time with family, or, if you're really addicted, showering. Because of you and millions of other WoW gamers, Blizzard needed to upgrade its server hardware to keep the gameplay experience up to par, and it's going to auction off its retired Hewlett-Packard p-Class server blades and donate the proceeds to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Not just a portion of the proceeds, mind you, but every last penny.

"For a time, these servers were doorways into a universe of magic, mystery, and unlimited adventure. People vanquished mighty foes, they formed bonds of friendship, and some even found love in the game worlds that ran on these servers," Blizzard said in a statement. "If you listen closely on a starry night, you can still hear the ghosts of the past running through their circuit boards, recounting tales of epic conquest.

"Now you have the chance to own a very real piece of game history and help us support a good cause in the process. Blizzard Entertainment will donate 100 percent of the proceeds after auction expenses to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital."

What Blizzard is doing is nothing short of rad. The auction has already begun and will run through January 30, 2012. Each server comes with a plaque with the specific real name. If you want to bid on one, head over to here.

Fuck people who do this

2012-01-29T18:55:00.000+01:00

And fuck the same guys who are yelling "Quit fighting! Let them win! I hate this game!"
I'm always like "LET THEM WIN?! YOU! OFF MY TEAM! You never let them win!" and then I give every match my all. Because that's what I signed up for.

WoW The 5 Stages of /PLayed

2012-01-28T20:02:00.003+01:00

Bargaining might include rolling an alt so /played goes back ZERO FTW!! Then you discover the altoholic addon and all the numbers get added together and the cycle starts over again

Get any twink into any untwinked BG!

2012-01-27T23:55:00.000+01:00

So about a week ago I stumpled across a very nice and extremely easy way to get into untwinked BG's WITHOUT receiving a single point of XP!

This works with any twink at any level, in any BG you desire.

This allows lowered queue times, more honor and in most cases more fun.

As an example I geared my 70 twink priest in a matter of hours using this exploit, without getting any XP at all.

To do this you first of all need a macro. It is possible without, but I strongly suggest using it, as it makes it a lot easier. I believe it is possible to fully automate the process aswell, however I am no macro-expert so I don't know how to create it.
Anyways, here it is:
/click StaticPopup1Button1

Along with this you also need 20g for every BG you enter. I consider this a very small fee, and is not that great a deal.

So, how does it work?

As you may, or may not be aware every time you enter a BG theres a small timeframe in which, you wait to get teleported in. We are gonna use this. Go to your local XP-stopper (the NPC that can freeze your XP) and be ready to talk to him when any queue pops. I assume you at this point have queued for a non-twink BG, all the while still able to receive XP.
When your queue pops up you do the trick. You talk to the NPC and press "I no longer wish to gain experience". A pop-up window will appear, don't touch this.
At this point you have two windows up, the BG queue and XP freeze.

You accept the BG and count to one, then press the macro which accepts the XP freeze. This way you will enter your BG with XP frozen, while everybody else still gains it.

I have failed on this a few times and if you don't get it right you can always /afk out of the BG and try again. It takes a few times of practice to get it right.

I will add screenshots if needed.

Cheers

If you have any questions feel free to ask me here, or in PM.

Enjoy the fun :-)

My favorite kind of tank..

2012-01-27T19:53:00.000+01:00

If that tank survive the pull without heal ( because healer is drinking ) .. then yes that's my favorite kind of tank who doesn't need much healing.

If he take too much damage and I (healer) have to break drinking and start throwing emergency heals .. then that will be my least favorite kind of tank.

My buddy always try to find a single mob that the dps and he can beat on while the healer drinks. he lose 10% of his hp at most, he keep the dps entertained, and the healer can take his time. I'm not saying he is the best tank, but I like to think he is all right :)

I guess he pissed somebody off...

2012-01-27T19:51:00.000+01:00

Must've ninja'd the Raven Lord, But why anyone would take all the time and effort to name these chars and move them there, much less why the guy is afk so long or what makes the spited party think he even cares, is beyond me.

Incidentally, if you tend to not look at names like I do (at least first glance), they look more like the dude's cowed slaves.

Battle.net World Championship and no BlizzCon in 2012

2012-01-26T22:51:00.000+01:00

All battle hungry players has a huge reason to joy this year - Blizzard Entertainment is making Battle.net World Championship, one of the biggest eSport best pro-gaming focused competition focused tournament. Event will take his place in Asia toward the end of 2012 and will include StarCraft II and World of Warcraft Arena Championship. Players from all over the world will be invited to attend and witness some of most experienced pro gamers fighting for cash rewards and glory.

The sad part of the news is that in 2012 will be no BlizzCon. As Blizzard said the reason of moving BlizzCon to next year is that they are too busy with Battle.net World Championship and upcoming games premieres, which are: Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, WoW Mists of Pandaria and of course Diablo III.

It's not necessarily bad news, BlizzCon is huge event that consumes a lot of resources and Blizzard employees attention which means they will have much more time to focus on more important things like polishing Diablo III, Starcraft II or new WoW expansion.
We can basically say that Blizzard is more focused on final moves then ever before, and that means we will not only get our long awaited games bit sooner, but also that they will be more polished and better working from the very first patch.

The question is: If newly released games will be more polished, it also means they will be bug / exploit free?

Hardcore RP

2012-01-26T20:50:00.000+01:00

For those who don't get it, the herbalism-only item Lifegiving Seed can transform herbalists into a random herb and temporarily changed the character's name into "Peacebloom."

This is fun to do whenever NPCs will be yelling your name.

Thrall: Do something, you useless peacebloom. My allies are giving their lives for you

WSG in Vanilla

2012-01-22T15:29:00.000+01:00

There was no forced time limits so games could literally go for a while and usually there was only one or two games going. Mostly you would just go in and play until you got sick of it but it was rare for WSG to go this long (usually it was AV).

[Movie] Across the Horizon : the movie

2012-01-19T23:34:00.000+01:00

Have you ever thought about reaching the horizon ? We never have. We prefer to go across the horizon.

Exploration is an activity that appeared at the beginning of World of Warcraft. It's an "alternative" way of playing the game, mainly based on the pleasure of discovering. Go where most of the other player probably won't ever go.

Some people said that Cataclysm would kill exploration with flying mounts allowed on the old continents.
Across the Horizon is here to prove the opposite. We wish to show that there are still people exploring, that it still offers new surprises, and mainly that exploration will only be dead when there'll be no one to maintain the flame. As a proof, this movie is made with explorations existing in Cataclysm only.

AtH is a collaborative project filmed by the members of the Royal IdP Essploring Fundation, and edited by Zhao. It is also the first movie entirely dedicated to our members.
It follows the rules and traditions of our creations. This means that it was entirely made on live realms, without hacks, and it was filmed with an "aesthetic" goal.

Watch this video as a magic show. Or, if you prefer, as the memories of a band of egocentric freaks who enjoy watching themselves in unconventional places.

After all, as our motto says, if the world knows no limits, so does our ego.

Here's a link to our website : The Royal IdP Essploring Fundation - Les dernières nouvelles d'Azeroth
And another one to our forum : The Royal IdP Essploring Fundation

Aléquia / Saouline, head of the RIdPEF

World Of Warcraft: Patch 4.3 Last Cataclysm Content Until Pandaria

2012-01-19T22:32:00.000+01:00

WoW's lead quest designer Dave Kosak has revealed that there won't be any more Cataclysm content released between recent update 4.3 and the release of the next expansion Mists Of Pandaria.

"4.3 is definitely the climax of Cataclysm so there's no more Cataclysm content," Kosak revealed in an interview with Videogamer.

"Traditionally we've had a grace period where we patch the game before the expansion comes out," Kosak continues, "and you get sort of mechanical changes before you get the new expansion content."

He then goes on to reveal there will be additional content alongside these mechanical changes in the form of a world event, but that this is seen more as "part of Mists of Pandaria's launch and it's not really more Cataclysm content."

Alongside this, Kosak reiterates that Blizzard has been "trying to roll out content at a faster pace, with a better schedule so players have more to do."

So WoW Patch 4.3 signifies the last of Cataclysm content as Blizzard moves onto preparing for its latest expansion pack, Mists Of Pandaria.

Start a fight with 20-40 sec bloodlust (NO CD)

2012-01-19T21:30:00.000+01:00

In deepholm, Earthcaller Torunscar, randomly casts bloodlust when in combat. This effect is like the normal bloodlust, but doesnt give you cooldown. This could be used with a summon, to start a fight of with a "mini bloodlust", depending on peoples computer and loading times :-)

If he isnt in combat, you can just pull mobs to him and he will start attacking.

Oh god, its spreading!

2012-01-19T20:29:00.000+01:00

you'd like to think they're just makin' novelty alts but you know they'll lvl cap and you'll have to deal w/ a flash in the pan name forever. Or until they name change. I know a warrior who had to rename to a stupid name because he lost a duel and had a bet on it. Name changes arent that uncommon.

They had SOPA and pipa bots on my realm shouting every 5 seconds to sign the petitions against both acts, happened in ogrimar for quite a while, I'm sure a few people checked it out!

Interesting how similar you are, SWTOR yet yearn to be different. Hmm....

2012-01-18T14:33:00.000+01:00

I know you can find similarities such as these in any large scale MMO, simply because of the fact that WoW did indeed set a large standard for MMO's, and it would be foolish to mess with a concept that has worked for so long.

That said, SW:ToR did make a game of it's own with storylines, combat style, companionship, as well as other aspects.

It's hard to say anything copies WoW, when you can trace back what WoW copied to multiple MMO's from the past.

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Outland is a nice place.

2012-01-18T12:28:00.000+01:00

My first time to Outlands I went down the front stairs... We all did.... Up to that point we had no fear.... So they instilled it in us right out the door. It really was brilliant. so many of us had gotten used to running around at 60 with amazing gear that meant that we didn't have to worry about anything else in the world. Hellfire Peninsula did such a good job of reminding us that suddenly, we weren't shit anymore. It was great.

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Dupe and Godmode Exploit - bigest exploit in cataclysm!

2012-01-17T17:31:00.000+01:00

This is, if not the BIGGEST exploit in cataclysm.. This is the Trade Window Exploit. This is the infamous Dupe shorty posted which is NOW FIXED, Credits to RAoV and Dmxdawg4321. This Exploit has MANY in it and today ImperiousVideos is going to show you the biggest one. This is LEGIT godmode... the ONLY godmode where they cant attack you... but you can attack then... SOLO BOSSES IN DRAGON SOUL... Follow the directions in the video. Once you start the exploit and you logout, you will have 15 min to do whatever it is... The logout is delayed by 15 min so you have 15 min of PURE invincibility.... There will be more to come with this exploit and many different exploits so stay tuned! Thanks again and Subscribe to stay tuned. Directions below will be for the dupe that is FIXED. does not work.

Take note that this works the same way for inside a dungeon but if ur inside a dungeon NO MATTER WHAT you will always run through the instance so the only real way from doing it inside a instance to see if you REALLY GOT IT is to logout and take the 20 sec logout which will make u unable to move, then do the d/c trick and ur good!

We believe this exploit is already fixed on the next coming patch 4.3.2. So now it is time for the rest of Azeroth to have a taste of glory. Enjoy.

Toon B - Helper Toon A needs to have three lesser heavenly shards on him and his inventory needs to have at least 1 regular heavenly shard, which ill explain later.
Step 1 - Park toon a and b in front of an instance and open trade
Step 2 - Toon a puts an item in the box and clicks accept
Step 3 - Toon b hits accept and runs into the instance at the same time
Step 4 - Toon a is now bugged, but in order to start the process to dupe you must /logout
Step 5 - Because Toon a is now bugged he wont log out for 15 minutes, he however will not be able to cast or interact with the game in any other way either.
Step 6 - Toon a now disconnects himself, and starts a timer for 60 seconds
Step 7 - At 60 seconds Toon A logs his account back into the game and is now able to cast spells and interact with items. Theory behind this is hes logging back in at the exact moment the game is logging his toon out of the game post disconnect
Step 8 - Now when Toon A combines those 3 lesser heavenly shards to form a regular heavenly shard it wont consume the 3 lesser mats at all, but still stacks the shard onto the one you already have in your inventory.
Step 9 - However when the 15 minutes is up those fake shards will disappear unless you delete one of them off the stack. Thus when the 15 minutes is up and you finally actually log out you have now duped heavenly shards, or any other item that requires mats to create, like vial of the sands

^^ When you do it now, it no longer creates the new item. Enjoy!

What it feels like when I create a new level 1 character...

2012-01-17T17:25:00.000+01:00

Whichever one has level 25 and has as close to offensive name as possible without getting banned is an instant join for me.

I like to piss these people off and say "reported for spam."
One guy even said "I didn't want you in my guild anyway." when he was the one inviting me.

Nightsong - Video Game Music Choir

2012-01-16T21:12:00.001+01:00

Julia play an 85 NE hunter on the Perenolde server. She goes to a music school in Boston, MA, where she run her own video game choir. They perform student arrangements of game music, and this past December, they decided to do "Nightsong" from the Cataclysm soundtrack.

I'd like to share a video we put together for the song. The choir is completely student-run, and we're all incredibly passionate about video games! I hope you enjoy it. Now, back to grinding rep...

Check it out below:

810 honor an hour WITHOUT BGs

2012-01-14T23:34:00.000+01:00

So someone posted something about farming venture bay tokens back in wotlk using the seeking solvent quest. But i thought to myself, man i have a quest bot and i could script my own path to just do the quest over and over again for me. In the thread, the person said they could do the quest 15 times in 10 minutes, and you get 9 honor per a turn in. That means 15x6x9=810.

On my battlegroup as horde, my BG bot makes around 800-1k depending on how many wins i get. But this is a guaranteed 810 honor per an hour, where almost no one every goes. Plus you wont be reported for getting stuck on fences in BGs or barely doing any damage or healing.

Once my bots servers are back up ill hopefully be creating a profile to do the quest and repeat it. If anyone knows how to script in honorbuddy and would like to make a quick profile, let me know.

Bossland GmbH (Maker of Honorbuddy) Files New Lawsuit Against Activision Blizzard

2012-01-10T16:34:00.000+01:00

If you've been following the Blizzard Entertainment vs Bossland GmbH lawsuit, this is big news. I did an interview with Hawker awhile back that gave us some indication that Bossland GmbH had been prepping up and insulating their company against a lawsuit by Blizzard Entertainment for a long while, but now the unexpected has happened.

On January 9, 2012 at 18:40, Bossland GmbH formally announced on their official website that they will seek recompense from Activision Blizzard in a lawsuit in which Bossland GmbH and their legal representatives assert that Blizzard's End User License Agreement and Terms of Service were not a part of the game's purchase contract, and that the EULA and ToS are, "...intransparent, surprising, and incomprehensible..."

The lawsuit will be handled by the court in Berlin, and the German rejoinder can be found at this link for those interested. As always, we wish Bossland GmbH the best in their battle against Activision Blizzard. MMOGlider was not fortunate enough to have the legal insulation and preparedness for an onslaught from Blizzard Entertainment's lawyers. but perhaps Bossland GmbH will level the playing field and change the precedent in the ongoing legal battles between game developers and third-party software developers.

For more information, stay tuned to Ownedcore as well as Bossland GmbH's official Honorbuddy forums.

Funny chat glitch

2012-01-09T17:43:00.000+01:00

Its quite simple, and I guess useless in a way but you get attention and people asking you how you do it.

This glitch makes your text go outside of the chat box for everyone. Its not just for you, but everyone will see the text outside of their chat boxes. Problem is so far I've only managed to get it to be question marks. But its funny so I thought I'd share it with my favorite wow site.

All you do is open chat--> hold CTRL + ALT and E. Then spam question marks untill it reaches its limit and enter.

This Is What Im MOST looking forward to in MoP (Fanmade by me)

2012-01-08T14:01:00.000+01:00

for the last couple of expansions, its been very dark and grim, im really looking forward to what they do with this one.

Quite quick way to lvl 83-85 (if you don't like questing)

2012-01-08T13:51:00.000+01:00

found this while questing in Uldum, I am not sure if you will have to complete an awful lots of quest to be able to get to this, so would be nice if someone could try it. I had 102/105 quests completed when getting this quest, but I think you can get it a lot earlier, i'll write it in the end.

The quest you will need to obtain is I'll Do It By Hand - Quest - World of Warcraft you will be sent down to a chamber where you need to kill 3x level 85 mobs called Lunar Crystals that are lvl 85 wich has 38.7k health Lunar Crystal - NPC - World of Warcraft. These will die very quick and they award normal XP, and because I was lvl 84 while killing them I received 7134xp per crystal. I don't think it's intended that they give you the same amount of XP while they have very low health. If you are lvl 83 you will probably get more XP, and they are not hard to kill and don't do almost any damage at all.

You just accept the quest, and you don't hand it in, there will spawn 3 new crystals every once in a while quite fast and from what I took time I managed to kill 18x crystal in almost exactly 5 minutes, wich gave me 128412 XP in 5 minutes. And in one hour you can get 1540944 XP in 1 hour.

If I have read it right I don't think you need to do that many quests, you will have to do about 15-20 quests.

First go and kill Schnottz Air Officer - NPC - World of Warcraft they have a 15% chance of dropping a book Efficient Excavations - Item - World of Warcraft that starts a quest chain, do the quests down to the southwest in Uldum and then I think you will be sent up to the northwest, from there just do the quests untill you get the I'll do it by hand quest!

And according to the book you can start this chain at lvl 83.

This is very nice for those who don't like questing and just if you wanna bot over night and ding without having to make huge waypoint and stuff that is in the bots, they just stand still and kill the 3 mobs that keep spawning!

Hope you enjoy! I can upload a video if you guys want to aswell, just let me know.