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J. Allen Brack on the World of Warcraft Social Experience
While answering a question regarding sustaining subscriber trends during the Activision-Blizzard earning report, president J. Allen Brack asserted that World of Warcraft is just as social as the day it launched.
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Blizzard Hiring for Unannounced Mobile Project
Blizzard has put up new job listings for an unannounced mobile project, reminding us of the BlizzCon 2018 claim that more mobile titles are in development across all Blizzard IPs.
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WoW Classic Hotfixes for May 5th - Raid Lockout Warning When Party Member has Defeated Gahz'ranka
WoW Classic hotfixes include a raid lockout warning when a player enters ZG with a party member that has defeated Gahz'ranka.
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Activision Blizzard Q1 2020 Earnings Report - Warcraft's Active Player Community Growing
Activision Blizzard had its 1st Quarter 2020 Results Conference Call today, highlighting the company's results for the first three months of 2020. For those unfamiliar with those conference calls, they are held by Activision Blizzard to inform their investors about financial results every three months, including highlights from their games and plans for the future. Keep in mind that these results pertain to all of Activision Blizzard and their subsidiaries, of which Blizzard Entertainment is just one studio.
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WoW Classic Children's Week Holiday - Complete Orphan Quests for Reputation
Classic will have its first edition of Children's Week starting today, May 1st. In the Classic version of the event, players can complete orphan quests for reputation and experience.
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Earthfury Realm Returned to Single Layer on Classic WoW
Blizzard has announced that the Earthfury Realm has been returned to a single layer on Classic WoW.
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Classic Free Realm Transfers Closing Today
Blizzard has announced that the Free Realm Transfers for Classic are closing today. Those transfers were available to fight the overpopulation on select realms.
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Mike Morhaime on Accessibility and Declining Social Experiences in WoW
Mike Morhaime, cofounder and former CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, spoke with Seth Schiesel of the New York Times at the
VentureBeat GameBeat Summit
yesterday, and while many topics were discussed, the former president had some interesting things to say about the evolution of World of Warcraft and the MMO genre.
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WoW Classic Hotfixes for April 28th - Battleground Holiday Start Time, Item Enchantment Fixes
The WoW Classic hotfixes for April 28th include a change to the Battleground holiday start time across all American realms, as well as bugs related to green dragon spawns and item enchantments.
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How the Nightfall Proc Works in Classic WoW
Blizzard has responded to concerns that the
Nightfall
proc in Classic WoW, which can apply a debuff increasing the spell damage taken by the target by 15%, was not working as intended. The proc is behaving as expected and they detailed advanced mechanics of the proc.
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Blizzard's Virtual Take Your Child to Work Day - Samwise Didier Tutorials, Chris Metzen Storytime
Blizzard shared their virtual Take Your Child to Work Day celebration, which included art tutorials by Samwise Didier, and a video of Chris Metzen reading his book Snow Fight: A Warcraft Tale.
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Blizzard Explains Bug Preventing ZG Enchants From Working
ZG enchants
have been bugged in several different ways since the launch of WoW Classic Phase 4. They didn't stack with items that had identical bonuses, and also consumed buff slots which knocked off helpful consumable effects. A fix should be out by next week's maintenance.
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Zul'Gurub Enchant Exploit Hotfixed
Blizzard has pushed a hotfix correcting the
Zul'Gurub enchant exploit
, which allowed players to trade
class enchants
between one another. While the fix does not stop the ability to trade them, the enchant effects will be disabled if the equipped character is of an unintended class or below level 60.
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Blizzard's Response on the Zul'Gurub Class Enchant Exploit
Blizzard has responded to reports about players trading
ZG class enchants
, which is unintended behavior as the enchants are BoP. They have called it an exploit and recommend players don't enchant gear in this way.
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WoW Classic Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza Is Here For First Time This Sunday
Grab your fishing poles, the WoW Classic Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza is here for the first time on Sunday, April 19th!
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Layers Return to Classic High Population Realms - Shorter Queues, Character Creation Restriction
Continuing their measures to improve the queue time on the highest populated Classic realms, which were over 3 hours for some realms, Blizzard has announced the return of the 2nd layer for select realms. Realms affected have also had their new character creation restricted, players previously without characters in those realms may not create new ones there for the time being.
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Dragons of Nightmare Bug - Fix Made Some Locations Spawn Dragons Twice
Blizzard had a bug with Dragons of Nightmare spawning, and as part of the fix, some locations had a second dragon spawn.
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Classic WoW Restricted Realms and Free Character Transfers
Blizzard has restricted character creation on a few overly popular realms realms and enabled free character transfers in an effort to reduce overpopulation and long queues on those servers.
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World First 5 High Priest Impossible Hakkar Kill
Several raid groups have already cleared Zul'Gurub since went live today with Phase 4 of Classic WoW, but <BLaDE of KiLL> on Arugal-US was not only the very first group to defeat Hakkar, they did so with all 5 High Priests still alive! Long considered nearly impossible, this is a major accomplishment never achieved during Vanilla WoW.
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Classic WoW Dragons of Nightmare Will Spawn Thursday April 16th
While Phase 4 of WoW Classic started today, Blizzard has just made a bluepost specifying that the Green Dragons of Nightmare will begin spawning April 16th at 3pm PST.
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