2009 August | WoW Gold Facts

August 11th 2009

NEW PHISHING EMAIL ALERT!

Okay, GF is going to kill me for blogging first thing this morning while we’re still on vacation, but this is an emergency post that needs to be seen by all.

WoW Gold Facts reader Zayda forwarded me the email she received from "Blizzard":

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PHISHING EMAIL ALERT! If you guys received this email and if you mouse over the second link, you will see the url "http://battlenetlogin.epihost.net" on the status bar. Definitely not one of the normal urls of Blizz! (And if I’m not mistaken, Epihost is a company that offers web hosting services for a small fee, something even a scammer could easily avail of!)

If in doubt, call Blizz’s hotline or visit their website <http://www.worldofwarcraft.com> or if you have a Battlenet account, go to <http://battle.net>. Be wary of urls that contain domain names apart from Blizz’s!!!

Thanks for sharing this, Zayda. Guys, take care of your accounts. I’ll be posting regularly again after this vacay.

Peace!

WOWMINE CLOSED? NAH, JUST TYPE 666, I MEAN, WWW

Kids, I’m still on vacation and my gf is giving me the evil eye for typing this post. So this is going to be a quick one, okay?

To the folks who said that WoWmine.com has shut down, I just checked their site and it’s still pretty much around (so put the Krug champagne back into the cellar and reserve it for another occasion). If you type just "wowmine.com", the landing page won’t load. But add the triple-w and it’ll show up. Chalk it up to bad programming, I guess.

What’s that? Did you just saw "aaaaaaaaw shucks?"

Yeah my sentiments exactly. LOL.

Later, guys.

DESPERATE FOR A MOUNT? THINKING OF BUYING GOLD? READ THIS!

Dear kiddies (you know who you are!),

Okay, so maybe cyberbegging didn’t work for you. And if I was one of those who yelled at you or put you on /ignore after you demanded that I buy you a mount, I’m sorry but I just can’t stress enough that I am NOT a charity institution and I do NOT tolerate rampant, random begging in the game. Yes, this softie has his limits. I can’t buy everyone mounts all the time, and only to have my generosity abused by your calling ten thousand other friends to accost - nay harass - "that generous dude who paid for my training".

Anyhoo, you’re probably now toying with the idea of buying gold so you can stop pestering other players for dole-outs. Great! Now you’re probably wondering where to buy. Stop! Pause. Read my reviews. Check out the ones who earned my nod and avoid those who are in myblack list (not too hard to figure out who they are!).

And if you happen to be in a major city and you see this garbage FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME….

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(Screenshot submitted by WoW Gold Facts reader Zenchronus, Kargath server. Yeah, that Chinese seller responsible for that dead cheerleading act is on every server known to Blizzard and God)

…do not be swayed by their "impressive" display. Do NOT be tempted into buying from these spammers. BTW, has anyone noticed how the spam whispers have gotten more frequent — all pricking at your lowbie’s mount-less ego and incessantly exploiting that weakness hoping you’d choke and buy from them on the spot? BUYER BEWARE! STAY AWAY FROM THEM! SPAMMERS DO NOT MAKE TRUSTWORTHY GOLD SELLERS! It is better to shop around and wait a bit more than succumbing to the evil temptations of in-game spam. No mount in the world is worth falling for the tricks of those scammers. Your account is not safe with them.

So hang in there and study your options first. Need help? That’s what WoW Gold Facts is for - to help you choose wisely.

Peace!

EGF

WHAT I’D NOT DO WITH 500K WOW GOLD: BUY MOUNTS FOR THOSE PESKY BEGGARS

Here’s the darker side of Patch 3.2’s effect on the population:

So soft-hearted EGF was in Orgrimmar getting his stuff enchanted when he saw a Level 21 toon being bullied by a bunch of Level 80 ass clowns in Trade Chat. The lowbie was begging for a couple more pieces of gold to pay for his Apprentice riding training. The highbies were telling him to "work his ass off" like everyone else. Lowbie offered to sell some of his stuff. Highbies told him "wtf would an 80 do with wool cloth?"

"Shove it up your rectum," I wanted to say, but I held back and instead, whispered to the razzed lowbie that I’ll help pay for his training.

/violin

Warms the heart, eh?

It does, especially after seeing him do the /cheer and /charge thing after mounting his dire wolf for the very first time. Always feel good to see a happy member of the Horde. Maybe that would inspire him to stick around, level and eventually join us in raiding the other faction.

Well guess what?

A mere few minutes after he left two other players whispered to me asking if I could buy them mounts too! Turns out Mr. Lucky Lowbie told his pals about me and encouraged them to try their luck with me.

"Hey buy me a mount too," said one of the artless, brazen little moochers.

"Go work your ass off for your mount," I said, and promptly put them on ignore.

Oli and Trev , you are not alone.

So there you have it — rampant cyberbegging because every Level 20 (and above) toon wants their damn mount. As of this writing, Cletus is having a field day in Silvermoon City, agreeing to every lovely lady toon’s request to buy them mounts, in exchange for cybersexual favors. Let’s hope those are real women behind those Blood Elves.

I know someone (not personally, though) who doesn’t need to work his ass off to buy any mount he wants — that guy who won the Name the Twitter Pig contest. Chris - that’s his name - won the 500K WoW gold grand prize, to be distributed to his one gazillion alts. To protect his privacy, WoW Gold Pig won’t divulge his complete name, his toon names and his realm. But I bet my middle finger that a lot of players are now sniffing for clues as to his identity — and probably even praying that he’s on their realm….so they can BEG from him. Sounds bad, I know, but after what I’ve experienced, it won’t surprise me if a hundred cyberbeggars in the game descend upon Chris like a hundred loony maniacs on Amanda Kreuger. After all, he’s got 500 effing K to spare, right?

Gentle warning to Chris: don’t be bullied into buying every Tom, Dick, Harry and Sally a mount or anything their heart desires, okay? Let’s not encourage people to be abusive moochers. Let them farm their own gold or join some contest that’s also giving away WoW gold.

Or hell, they can always buy.

PATCH 3.2: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF THE LAG

Yes, I know the lag sucks, but hang in there, okay? Blizz is fixing the problem.

In the meantime, let’s resurrect our sense of humor and have a good laugh at “The Lag That Was Patch 3.2″:

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Man, I laughed like a hyena when I saw this video. Made me forget my own urge to break something after I got pwned no thanks to the lag.

So how are y’all coping out there?

PATCH 3.2: AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! (SORRY FOR THE ALL-CAPS)

THEY’RE RELEASING PATCH 3.2!!!!ADAM HOLISKY OF WOW.COM SAYS SO IN HIS NEW POST!!!

MY INITIAL REACTION:

EVERYBODY MOUNT UP!!!!! YEAH I’M TALKING TO YOU LOWBIES AND EVEN MY OWN LOWBIE ALTS!!!! HAHAHAHA

HOOOOOOOO!!!!

GAK! EXTENDED SERVER MAINTENANCE Plus Patch 3.2, Ya Dropping By?

Holy moly, there’s a big-a$$ downtime scheduled tomorrow morning, with select battlegroups starting 3 hours earlier than the rest of the pack.

Adam Holisky of WoW.com broke the news in his latest post (See below). Read it and weep if your realm is in the magic list. Er, a few of my realms are, which means our guild will just have to resort to washing our laundry and feeding our RL pets (if they’re still alive, that is). And of course, postpone your gold-buying spree till everything goes back to normal.

There’s a detailed server maintenance announcement for tomorrow, Tuesday August 4th. And off the bat: we still don’t know for sure if Patch 3.2 is dropping tomorrow… (EGF: aaaaaaaw)

All realms will be down from at least 3:00 a.m. PDT / 6:00 a.m. EDT until 11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT tomorrow. However a large group of special realms will be down from 12:00 a.m. PDT / 3:00 a.m. EDT until 12:00 p.m. PDT / 3:00 p.m. EDT.

All the realms which will be offline for an extended period tonight include:

Emberstorm Battlegroup:
* Antonidas- Normal
* Drenden- Normal
* Farstriders- RP
* Hydraxis- Normal
* Mok’Nathal- Normal
* Moon Guard- RP
* Nazgrel- Normal
* Nordrassil- Normal
* Quel’dorei- Normal
* Rivendare- PvP
* Shandris- Normal
* Tortheldrin- PvP

Nightfall Battlegroup:
* Aerie Peak- Normal
* Altar of Storms- PvP
* Alterac Mountains- PvP
* Anvilmar-Normal
* Arygos- Normal
* Blackwing Lair- PvP
* Deathwing- PvP
* Demon Soul- PvP
* Doomhammer- Normal
* Gnomeregan- Normal
* Icecrown- Normal
* Jaedenar- PvP
* Kel’Thuzad- PvP
* Lethon- PvP
* Onyxia- PvP
* Sentinels- RP
* Tanaris- Normal
* The Venture Co- RP-PvP
* Uldaman- Normal
* Undermine- Normal
Stormstrike Battlegroup:
* Andorhal- PvP
* Anetheron- PvP
* Archimonde- PvP
* Black Dragonflight- PvP
* Dalaran- Normal
* Dalvengyr- PvP
* Dentarg- PvP
* Duskwood- Normal
* Executus- PvP
* Haomarush- PvP
* Khadgar- Normal
* Mal’Ganis- PvP
* Norgannon- Normal
* Scilla- PvP
* Steamwheedle Cartel- RP
* Thrall- Normal
* Turalyon- Normal
* Ysera- Normal
* Ysondre- PvP
* Zuluhed- PvP

Whirlwind Battlegroup:
* Anub’arak- PvP
* Blackwater Raiders- RP
* Bladefist- Normal
* Cenarion Circle- RP
* Cenarius- Normal
* Darrowmere- PvP
* Echo Isles- Normal
* Hyjal- Normal
* Lightbringer- Normal
* Maiev- PvP
* Misha- Normal
* Ravenholdt- RP-PvP
* Sisters of Elune- RP
* The Forgotten Coast- PvP
* Uther- Normal
* Vashj- PvP

INTERLUDE POST: ALLY EPIC FAIL RAID IN ORG

Submitted by reader Quezohombre:

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"Around retarded 30 allies raided org. Too bad for them there were at least 40 80 hordes hanging out that day. lmao!"

LMAO is right. Only 30 of them? Must be a Kamikaze mission. Or they were just really bored that day.

Long live Uncle Thrall.

WOWMINE.COM: HUSTLER PAR EXCELLENCE WITH A LOT OF NERVE Plus And I Mean A LOT of Nerve

Disclaimer: I am not in love with the Lam brothers. I would sooner do the three-way nasty with Remus and Cletus than even touch the Oriental dynamic duo with the proverbial ten-foot pole. It’s not my fault that readers are often sending juicy stuff about them my way and it’s not my fault that they’re too awesome to not share. So again, if I talk about them a lot, it’s not because I’m in love with them. Methinks one needs to be heavily medicated and brainwashed to even half-like them (unless you’re their momma).

So with that little preamble out of the way, let’s check out the latest tidbit about Wowmine…

Below is a recently-approved comment from reader Wildboy, who left his say on the first installment of my WoWMine review .

I am one of the few people to have actually received good service a number of times, however, if you ever try and cancel the payment to WOWMINE (as it appears on your payments as something completely unrelated) they will respond six months later with a very unpleasant message telling you that you must respond in 48 hours or they will either send all your personal information to debt collectors and local law enforcement (yeah right…) or contact Blizzard and try to have your account banned for breaking the WOW terms and conditions (though if it is your first time it will either be a warning or a small timed ban for about 2 months.)

REALLY friendly behavior for a letter that could have just asked why the payment was not made and stated likely things that may happen to you if you fail to respond…

Please send $17.15 to gold@wowmine.com as soon as possible. If we don’t get a formal reply from you in 48 hours, we will take the actions as follows:

1) File a real name report to Blizzard by FAX as we have the full information of your character and the trading transaction details of your RMT dealing of gold. They will launch an investigation to your account activities for infringement of their terms. We will corroborate all of the pertaining information. Although Blizzard and we stand on different grounds in terms of business practice, we will share your fraudulent activities with them to prevent your future pursue of even more frauds.

2) Your phone number and all of your personal information will be served to the debt collection agencies, justice and law enforcement departments of your IP and your verified phone originating area for record keeping purposes or further action.

If you still have any questions, please connect us by MSN:Penquiry@hotmail.com

Is this sh*t for real? Okay, assuming it’s for real….

*clears throat*

Yup, REALLY friendly behavior from a bunch of alleged click fraudsters (if Microsoft’s claims against them are to be believed) and alleged malware perpetrators (based on an BruceOnGames writeup) who have to be severely retarded to even insinuate - and even believe - that Blizzard would be thrilled to deal with them. Who are you kidding? That’d be like the narcs extracting info from the most wanted drug dealer and letting said drug dealer waltz back into the streets. Think you could then walk away alive and with your business intact? Ha! I bet Blizz would chop your heads off in a nanosecond and put them on a platter, with soy sauce and chili paste on the side. (That is, if you could even muster the nerve to waltz into Mr. Morhaime’s office to begin with)

How they can even begin to write this threatening email already gives me the heebie-jeebies. So this is what you do to a customer who decides they don’t want to do business with you, eh, Wowmine? You f*cking shamelessly bully them (after 6 months, go figure) into sending you money.

Talk about f*cking chutzpah.

"They will launch an investigation to your account activities for infringement of their terms. …we will share your fraudulent activities with them to prevent your future pursue of even more frauds." — Ooooh, speaking of investigation and fraud and infringement and all that jazz, HOW ARE YOU FARING WITH THE CLICK FRAUD LAWSUIT THAT MICROSOFT SLAPPED YOU IN THE FACE WITH?

Should I bake you a cake with a file in it? Let me know.

UNWANTED SSEX: ANGRY WOW PLAYERS BLOW UP THE SUSAN EXPRESS (3/3)

Heya, delinquent WoW-playing teens who know their moms’ PayPal log-in info, if you:

a) want to buy WoW gold behind your momma’s back

b) don’t want to be hassled by Draconian verification crap

c) don’t mind being bombarded by incessant spamming in the game

d) don’t care if you’re supporting a web of Chinese companies engaged in dubious practices

e) all of the above

Then heck, go check out Susan Express dot com.

(Just in case you didn’t notice, I was being sarcastic)

Anyway, Jack was shocked senseless when the gold was delivered…after two days. Face to face. Just before his buddy’s mom could file a chargeback or something (and before she could whack her son on the butt with a soup ladle). Guess SSEX didn’t want to risk losing those precious American dollars so they trashed the auction house scheme (of course no bandage was put up for sale so that got them kinda worried, I bet) and went ahead and delivered the goodies when they saw his toon online.

And man, were they (SSEX) sure in a hurry to get it over and done with, ’cause their delivery toon kept telling Jack’s guildie’s toon to hurry up and haul his ass to Ratchet….and the guy was all the way in Dragonblight preparing to enter Azjol-Nerub. Guildie replied, "Cant. About to enter instance." SSEX toon said "plz plz go Ratchet".

So "go Ratchet" he did. He excused himself from the party and took a long-ass journey to Ratchet to receive his 2-day old, unverified order. So much for "plentiful WoW stock", "5-minute delivery", "all possible steps to protect our clients’ details" and "no best but better", whatever the hell that last one means.

Susan, you bitch, if you’re going to keep spamming us, you better live up to the claims you whore in the game. But given who your parent company is , I guess we can all just disregard what you say and dismiss you like an unwanted, aging hooker. We’re not THAT desperate for, um, SSEX, ya know.

And for a nice closing, here’s Jack’s conversation with a member of Suzie Wong, I mean, Susan’s brothel team:

(Warning: strong language and insults galore. Do not read if you are highly sensitive)

Lily said:
Welcome to SusanExpress. What can I do for you?

You said:
u delivered the gold 2 days late. Item #SSEX09XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Lily said:
Sorry we collected first gold then we waited for your auction but you did not email us

You said:
so u didnt have the stock. u also didn’t call to check the order. btw y do u keep spamming us?

Lily said:
But now you have gold.

You said:
answer the question y do u keep spamming in wow?

Lily said:
We will do better next time.

You said:
wtf u mean spam better and harder?

Lily said:
We will deliver faster next time.

You said:
there wont be a next time u dumb bitch u f*cked up starting with that spam sh*t

Lily said:
Please understand we try our best.

You said:
OMFG ur dumber than dirt u know that WE DO NOT WANT UR SPAM SH*T

Lily said:
You are angry that were late but I assure you that next time we will be better

You said:
Only starving f*cktards spam in game and thats what u guys ar! susanexpress is a major holy starving f*cktard Chinese spamming epic fail. btw do u pay ur spammers in rice?

Lily said:
We are good company please do not talk that way

You said:
a good company that spamslike satan himself thats something new

Lily said:
If you have nothing more to say I will say goodbye now

You said:
oh i have something more to say tell ur boss susan she’s a f*cking ho and to stop sending her slutty spamming hoes in the game susan express is an epic ho fail haha bye

And that, folks, was one cyber-SSEX chat that Lily will never forget.

You’re da man, Jack!

/salute

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