This morning’s Warcraft viral scammer: Urockwhitey. Don’t click on his link, kids. This is one of those: Get Rich, Almost Quick schemes that are almost too good to be true. Be more demanding of your schemes: You want rich and TODAY, not four days from now. (Flickr image to use when the mods get into the office and delete his viral ass.)
A goblin as redeemer. Frightening thought.
This statue is on a small island, Janeiro’s Point, off the coast of Booty Bay in World of Warcraft’s Stranglethorn Vale. With a subscriber base of 6 million-ish, in a popular questing zone for the mid levels, I wonder if this statue sees more tourists than Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer. I also wonder if Blizzard ever got an indignant email(s) from an offended Christian(s). I would not doubt it; people like to sweat the small stuff.
Enjoy your Easter weekend, or your Passover celebration. And if you’re Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, Agnostic or et al, you guys get to play ALL weekend if you want. (Lucky bastards.)
Learn about real life:
Major religions of the world
Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer
World of Warcraft recently banned 5,400 accounts and suspended an additional 10,700 for Terms of Service violations, including “… using third-party programs to farm gold and items.” (Front page item dated 4/12/06 and forum discussion.)
Also from the post: “Please note that selling World of Warcraft content, such as gold, items, and characters, can result in a permanent ban of the involved accounts from World of Warcraft.” Well, there it is, a line in the sand.
Upon reading this, I immediately became concerned about everyone’s favorite webcam bot: The World of Warcraft Bot. Did he escape the bloodletting or was he caught in their net too? I hadn’t checked on the little nipper for a few weeks, and I’m sorry to report that little World of Warcraft bot was indeed caught and banned recently. R.I.P. Bot 3.
You can review some stills from the prior bots’ lives at the gamecam site, currently disabled until Bot 4 is born … due date April 15, 2006.
Ya, I’m as excited about the new bot as you, but I’m going to need a few moments alone with my thoughts. (Taken from us, so young, and on the brink of starting his new life at level 60!)