This patch updates World of Warcraft to version 3.3.2, and opens the last bastion of Icecrown Citadel to the public, as well as starting the next Arena season.
This trailer shows off the recently released World of Warcraft patch, which sends players into Icecrown Citadel to face the mighty Arthas, the Lich King himself.
This is a minor patch to address specific issues relating to patch 3.2.2.
- Fixed an issue players were having with the ‘Escape’ key causing the Battleground queue window to close.
- Fixed an issue players were having when attempting to enter a Battleground while dead or in combat when already in a Battleground.
- Fixed the Wintergrasp zone map so it now correctly shows the status of all keep walls.
- Fixed a crash Mac clients were experiencing with ATI driver.
- Fixed the performance of certain spells that have transparent components.
- Fixed an issue that prevented an item from being socketable after it is first obtained.
This trailer reveals the upcoming third expansion for World of Warcraft, Cataclysm. In addition, the trailer also lists all the changes that players can expect in this expansion.
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One of my all-time favorite blogs to read is Tobold’s. It’s a great place to get a fresh take on everything that’s happening in the MMORPG world. As I was perusing his site over the weekend, I ran across this article.
In short, he refers to the recent rumors that Blizzard’s Chinese World of Warcraft servers aren’t going to be coming back up anytime soon. For those of you who aren’t aware, Blizzard recently transferred their license to operate WoW in China to NetEase, away from The9.
The9 filed several lawsuits in an attempt to stop this transfer, and the Chinese government accordingly refused to give NetEase a license to operate WoW, saying that “in order to protect the interests of domestic gaming enterprises,” they would “suspend review of all games belonging to foreign companies in the event of lawsuits or arbitration between foreign companies and Chinese companies.”
The Chinese servers have already been down for a month or so, and there’s still no word on when they might return. This really doesn’t hurt Blizzard as much financially as you might think, as they received little revenue from the Chinese players, who pay as little as 6 cents an hour to play.
But how does this get Blizzard down to 5 million subscribers?
Today in the complete speculation department, we have this: Blizzard has trademarked the name Cataclysm. In fact, they’ve trademarked it three times, with the following descriptions:
1. Entertainment services, namely, providing on-line computer games; providing computer games that may be accessed via a global computer network; and providing on-line information in the field of computer gaming entertainment
2. Computer game software and related instruction manuals and guides sold together as a unit; downloadable computer game software; interactive multimedia computer game program; mousepads
3. Comic books, computer game strategy guides, trading cards, coloring books, adhesive stickers, rub-on transfers, notebooks, stationery-type portfolios, posters, greeting cards, calendars, instructional leaflets in the field of computer games, computer game instruction manuals, catalogs in the field of computer games, advertisement boards of paper or cardboard, photographs, art prints
So, now for the speculation: What in the world does all this mean?
Yesterday the internet was filled with the news China had banned gold farming. Just in case you live under a rock and don’t know what gold farming is, it’s the gathering of virtual currency in a game (usually an MMO), which is them sold to other players in exchange for real currency.
According to an article at InformationWeek, “the Chinese government has declared that virtual currency cannot be traded for real goods or services.”
Obviously, this was enormous news. Since it’s been estimated that 80-85% of the world’s gold farmers are located in China, this would have likely meant a huge drop in the amount of available virtual currency.
Unfortunately, there’s news today that the law being referenced actually does not reference gold farmers at all.
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