New computer ships with WoW account-stealing software

L80BelfDK - 199 days 18 hours ago

It's quite the lucrative scam from what I hear. I for one would be devastated if I lost my account or had all my gear stolen.

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Milk is for Babies - 199 days 18 hours ago

It's all a scam. Blizzard encourages it so they can sell those authenticators and make even more money.

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Twizlex - 199 days 18 hours ago

Oh geez, here we go with the conspiracy theories...

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IdleLeeSiuLung - 199 days 13 hours ago

Even more amazing is the fact that this slipped through in the first place. You would think that a computer manufacturer would be a little more careful about how they prepare their software for release....

This certainly isn't the first time something like this has happened to a manufacturer. One of the ones I vaguely remember is Apple with their Ipod.

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TheAntiFanboy - 199 days 11 hours ago

You DO realize Blizz would give those authenticators out pretty much for free if there weren't shipping or assembly costs involved? If you have an iPod Touch or iPhone, you can download a free authenticator.

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Awesome Possum - 199 days 11 hours ago

edit: I just read that it was a NEW computer.

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ChampIDC - 199 days 11 hours ago

Yeah, it's sad what people will do for getting further in an RPG. I had my account hacked twice, but at least Blizzard is good about recovering your lost items usually.

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f789790 - 199 days 10 hours ago

My friend sold his for $600. You can earn back all the money you spent on the subscription.

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Zeevious - 199 days 9 hours ago

Blizzard has even waived regional shipping & handling costs.

The device lasts for years...so explain to us all again how the conspirators at Blizzard are racking up that 10-CENTS a month they're getting in profit - AFTER manufacturing & even shipping it to you for FREE?

If this is a conspiracy, may they all be as cheap and helpful...securing gamers from password miners, thieves and crazy conspiracy theorists.

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kydrice - 198 days 9 hours ago

Not only is Blizz scamming us into buying those authenticators but I hear if you go high up enough in the chain of blizz authority it traces all the way back to Obama and even the Vatican. This is all being pulled by the Pope. The authenticators are funding a massive project that the Vatican and Crab people have teamed up to take on. I also hear it's a giant Deathstar being built behind the Moon to blow up Rival MMO company buildings. Obama also has a hand in this for he's going to use the Deathstar to keep the Republicans in check. Death awaits us all.

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L80BelfDK - 199 days 18 hours ago

Yeah, of course! You're crazy if you doubt the power of WoW! The expansion is only a few months old, so it's still new an plenty of people are still picking it up! Plus, people playing a game for this long makes their accounts potentially that much more valuable.

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h0tz0rz - 199 days 18 hours ago

Calm it, I was just kidding :)

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Cookigaki - 199 days 18 hours ago

Warcraft is not game, it is disease. People lose their life to it every day.

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Twizlex - 199 days 18 hours ago

Kinda true. I've lost friends to that game. It's sick what it can do to people. Sometimes I think people getting their accounts stolen could be the best thing that could happen to them.

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UltimateIdiot911 - 199 days 17 hours ago

It's sad when you see a friend give up their life to WoW. I've stopped friends from trying WoW to spare them from that fate. It took me 2 years to convince my cousins to get off. One of them even lost some of his friends when he stopped.

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Twizlex - 199 days 17 hours ago

Indeed. I don't blame the game or Blizzard for making it, but it makes me look at people in a whole different way when they can actually lose themselves THAT MUCH to a f**king game. I've had incredibly long gaming sessions myself, but I've never chosen a game over the lovin' of a good woman. I can't say the same about some of my friends.

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AntoineDcoolette - 199 days 15 hours ago

The real question is "People still play Ever Quest?"

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TheAntiFanboy - 199 days 11 hours ago

WoW is a disease to some, an innocent pastime to others. Blame not the game for the addiction, but the gamer.

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Mindboggle - 199 days 17 hours ago

Unless you wanna lose your life...Dont do it

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UltimateIdiot911 - 199 days 17 hours ago

It depends on how well you resist MMORPG. I have high resistance to MMORPG.

But I've seen and heard of many good people go down a very sad and lonely road.

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L80BelfDK - 199 days 17 hours ago

Depends on what kind of person you are. I love WoW. I can play it all day every day for a week and then stop for the rest of the month. Part of what makes it addictive to people now is that there are daily quests that if you want to maximize everything, you need to log in every day to do them.

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somekindofmike - 199 days 17 hours ago

I've considered trying WoW recently too, seems like it should be a pretty amazing game, but considering my addictive nature (games like football manager overtake my life and i have the work hard to stop myself playing it) I think I should just pass up Wow for my own health and well being.

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Tony P - 199 days 16 hours ago

A friend started playing WoW and stopped playing all other games. Kind of a buzzkill with game conversations now. She won't be starving herself to death but she never really goes out anymore. A bit addicted imo. I rib her about it from time to time, but it's pretty sad. Hell, she's playing right now. I wonder if we should have MMO interventions. :S

If you want to play an MMO, I suggest you make a proper attempt to get out every week.

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Nuri - 199 days 15 hours ago

To be honest some of the stories aren't all that bad, I for one have tried WoW. Twice on both occasions and the total time spent on that game (counting both of my times) was less than two weeks total. I don't know, just couldn't get into it really.

I think their is a free trial for it to, you could always try that first and see what happens. Or just flip a coin to have it decide.

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Cheeseknight28 - 199 days 11 hours ago

This probably isn't the best place to gather an opinion from. I would recommend trying the free 10-day trial to see if the game is your style before sinking money into it.

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TheAntiFanboy - 199 days 11 hours ago

That's like saying chores are addictive. Doesn't help your case much. Speaking as a Devil's Advocate, the idea of being forced to commit to the same repetitive set of actions in order to garner some sort of meager reward isn't a very enticing incentive.

The psychology of Warcraft's addictive nature is intricate and complex. I personally play Warcraft because it's more like an extension of my social life to me, one where you actually have a coherent image that you can portray yourself through. I use it to connect to friends and family from beyond my walls and across the oceans, where physical, face-to-face interaction is not an option or extremely difficult. It's a chatroom. Where you kill stuff.

Suffice to say that if real people didn't exist in that game, I wouldn't be playing it.

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JHUX - 199 days 11 hours ago

I personally never got addicted playing the game, I never understood what the hype was for it, but I have seen some go down a sad road to it.

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Darkfocus - 199 days 9 hours ago

I played it for about 2 months a couple years ago and maxed out a warrior(thats what the class with rage instead of mp is called right? I haven't played for a long time) then started a file with a warlock and leveled up a bit before thinking wait why am I wasting money on this? theres much better games out there. haven't played it since.

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Twizlex - 199 days 16 hours ago

Thing is you could just replace all of your other games with one good MMO and actually save money. The problem is that since there's no definitive end, some people don't know when to stop playing.

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dktxx2 - 199 days 13 hours ago

thats not entirely true. i personally had the most fun leveling from 1-70. i never enjoyed end game content, it required to much time and effort for me to put into a game.

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The Lazy One - 199 days 12 hours ago

It's designed to be addicting. There are lots of people with non-addictive personalities that get addicted to WoW because the social structure is set up in such a way that you are either grinding for levels till you get higher, or you're grinding instances. Grinding end game instances really can't be done casually till months after their release, because no decent guild will let you participate just once or when it's convenient for you.

I had a friend who's guild made him skip school a few times to raid before he quit.

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llMurcielagoll - 199 days 5 hours ago

Yes I agree, once you have reported hacking. Blizz will ask for account info. Then they do some investigation and it takes about a week or less, give you a new password and reimburse you with the lost items gold, gear and so on.

Personally I got hacked once, but the good news nothing was lost. Hacker changed the password of my account and I think he did the same to my e-mail address so I dont get a new password in WoW account. Contacted blizz and they gave me the a new password.

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danielle007 - 199 days 4 hours ago

I was completely locked out of my account and my sister set it up for me and she had forgotten the email for it soo I was screwed, but blizzard fixed everything and was soo overly understanding, it was crazy. and barely any of my stuff was missing because they noticed suspicious activity and froze it. Soo I still had all my valorous junkorz and just hadta get my gold and some other junk in my bags restored.

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Obama - 199 days 1 hour ago

how did they manage to hack your account anyways? The program can automatically search for password?

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danielle007 - 199 days 1 hour ago

It sucked. haha.

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