The level cap is 85 now not 80. They aren't giving you a free pass to end game. They are giving you a free pass until Cata. This is meant to be directed at those players....like myself...who have played a ton of WOW over the years, but have given it up out of boredom or loss of interest. I played a ton of end game content in Wrath and quite enjoyed myself. Then real life bites you in the ass...I got an XBOX...and just lost interest in WOW. I stopped raiding and cancelled my sub a few months after that. I did eventually get Cata, but quickly lost interest. WOW just doesn't have the draw for me like it did a few years ago when I played it all the time.
This scroll is not meant for new players...players that have never played WOW before. This is to entice former players....preferably hardcore players...into coming back and giving it a go again with one of their alts they never wanted to level up because the thought of grinding 85 levels for the 5th or 6th time was a mind numbing proposition. I think that is the point you guys are missing. To say "ZOMG!!11!! Blizz is really desperate if they are giving end game away for free!!11 LOLZORZ!!111!!" is just slightly naive and greatly misinformed. They know they are losing subs and they know that getting new players into WOW is probably not going to happen. So, trying to get old players to come back is a very smart and viable strategy to boost sub numbers.
Blizz really needs to rethink the sub fee. It either needs to be reduced significantly or removed completely if they want WOW to continue to thrive. There are too many other options that cost next to nothing competing with them for a share of the gaming/MMO market.
If you want...you can go over here and stir up some shit with the EA FIFA Ultimate Team community which is the main reason for the account compromising.
@apoloimagod: This is exactly how most people are getting compromised. They call MS CS and say they lost all of their login info and sometimes...without proper verification...the CS rep gives it out. Maybe not all of it....maybe the hacker just says they forgot what email they used and the CS rep gives that out. Then it's a matter of cracking the email account....and if you have a shitty password....you are pretty much screwed.
SOCIAL ENGINEERING.
That is the culprit here....not traditional hacking.
It's not hacking it's social engineering...and yes...most of this is tied to FIFA Ultimate Team.
Google your gamer tag. Now, did you find anything interesting that could potentially make accessing your personal information possible? I bet you did.
These guys are not "hacking" they are just using the tools available to them to access your account. A simple search of your gamer tag on Google could pull up your FB profile....Twitter profile...Linkedin...personal homepage...blog...etc. All of these things could easily be analyzed to figure out your security questions. Then it is a simple matter of either calling up CS or using the web to access your account.
The link to FIFA Ultimate Team is the fact that the card packs bought with MS points are not freely available in the game without playing a ton of games. So, building a great team can either take a lot of time or a lot of money, but if you buy a preloaded account...the ones that Susans was broken off into....for a fraction of the cost that a 6000 MS point bundle would cost you, you would be well on your way to having that great team. Then there is the matter of the currency in game. That can also be sold on for real life money. This is not dissimilar to World of Warcraft gold farming via account hacks. In WOW accounts are hacked.....all items sold on...and the gold shipped off to another account and siphoned into a main account for sell on gold selling sites and Ebay. Most of these sites that are selling these preloaded accounts are in Eastern Europe....and 9 times out of 10 it is minors that are buying these accounts.
I am not denying the fact that there is quite possibly an actual hack or two happening, but most of this stuff is due to the massive amount of parity between all of our online identities. Regardless....MS needs to really reevaluate the way they handle this problem. The current system they are using is not working for anyone.
DA2 was the biggest disappointment of the year for me 100% I loved DAO and played through it twice. DA2 lost me before Act 2. I have not been able to go back.
To put it into perspective. I played 86 hours of DAO and only 32 of DA2.
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