City Guards Have Lightsabers, Star Wars References in WoW, WoD Digital Deluxe Items Return, Hotfixes

Publié 17/12/2015 à 16:27 par perculia

Sabre jet-d'aïeEpée longue flamboyante de Teebu

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These aren’t the guards you’re looking for...

Some sort of force awakens in both factions!

We figured we'd pay homage to a galaxy far, far away that has long been near and dear to our geek hearts. ;)

Stop by Stormwind or Orgrimmar to pay respect to your guards and appreciate their exotic new weapons. They won't be able to maintain the unfamiliar technology for long!

Star Wars References in WoWStar Wars: The Force Awakens

Convertisseur de puissance is a toy you can pick up from Toshley's Station quests. The "technological terror constructs" is a reference to how Vader describes the Death Star once, and "The next best thing to going to the Academy" is a reference to Luke staying behind with Uncle Owen instead of going to the Academy. The quest Récupérer quelques convertisseurs de puissance also references Luke saying "But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!"

Couper quelques crocs... is another Toshley's Station quest that rewards Vibroperforeuse, Vibrodague, or Vibro-épée.

R-3D0 is a tribute to C-3PO and R2D2. When you speak to him, he'll say "I AM FLUENT IN OVER TWO LANGUAGES: DWARVISH, GNOMISH AND THE VERY COMMON TONGUE OF HUMANS. BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE SAYING."

Vengeresse d'argent, Epée longue du feu-sorcier, Epée longue flamboyante de Teebu, Lame de sorcellerie, and Sabre jet-d'aïe are a tribute to the iconic Jedi swords. They can also be transmogged!

More themed weapons include Etoile de la mort, Electro-bâton, Bâton de la force, Vibrocouteau.

More themed quests include Illégitimes défenses and La tournée de Kessel.

Aujourd’hui, c’est moi le maître: "I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master."

Bravo, mais attrape pas la grosse tête, p'tit gars: Reference to Han rebuking Luke.

Le cyclone détruit tout sur son passage: Reference to the Empire soldiers that were notoriously bad at aiming.

C’est un piège !: Admiral Ackbar's famous warning in Return of the Jedi.

Warlords of Draenor Digital Deluxe Items Return

Blizzard

While the Digital Deluxe edition of Warlords of Draenor is no longer available (blame the Burning Legion), we know some WoD players might still be interested in snagging the digital items that came with it—including the Rênes de corbeau de l'effroi mount and Bébé corbeau de l'effroi pet. Well, here’s another chance: we’ve created a special bundle that includes all of the Digital Deluxe bonus items, which you can purchase now for a limited time.

These Warlords of Draenor–themed extras for WoW, Diablo III, Hearthstone, and StarCraft II will be available for purchase until the pre-patch for the upcoming Legion expansion—after which point they’ll be sealed away into the vault. Please note that in order to purchase, you’ll need an active WoW subscription and a Warlords of Draenor standard edition or higher license on your account. Once purchased, these digital items will apply to all World of Warcraft accounts on your Battle.net account.

Visit the Battle.net Shop to buy or find out more about what’s included!

Recent Hotfixes

Blizzard

December 16

Winter Veil

Players are now automatically dismounted in the area around Greatfather Winter and Winter Veil presents.

Quests

Greatly increased the spawn rates of quest objectives for the following Winter Veil quests: Quels cadeaux horribles !, Grognus, La menace ronchonus, and Où sont nos enfants ?
Quels cadeaux horribles !: Spirit Bomb should no longer incorrectly cause players to become flagged for PvP.

December 15

Guilds

Guild Challenge completion credit for guild groups in dungeons and raids are now only awarded when completing current-expansion content.
To offset this change, Guild Challenge completion credit no longer requires Dungeon Finder to queue for the dungeon. This means guild groups can now complete Mythic dungeons for Guild Challenge credit. Additionally, the gold awarded for all Guild Challenges has been increased by roughly 50%.
A discussion for these changes is available in the forum thread: Guild Challenge System Changes.

Recent Ban Wave

Blizzard

We’ve recently taken action against a large number of World of Warcraft accounts that were found to be using third-party programs that automate gameplay, known as “bots.” As a part of this action, we have removed various currencies and inventory from these accounts including, but not limited to, gold, PvP currencies, and gear. The penalty for those identified as repeat offenders has also been increased.

We’re committed to providing an equal and fair playing field for everyone in World of Warcraft, and will continue to take action against those found in violation of our Terms of Use. Cheating of any form will not be tolerated.

If you believe that you’ve encountered a player abusing a bot, exploit, or cheat, please let us know! You can do so by using the right-click report functionality in the game, and/or by emailing information to hacks@blizzard.com.
So, here's the thing.

Through various studies (conducted both here at Blizzard and by other companies/groups), and by monitoring player behavior, we've discovered that suspensions are actually more effective than permabans for preventing repeat offenses by the same people.

There's some really interesting sociological hocus pocus behind it, but from what I understand, the TLDR is that if a botter gets permabanned, they'll often just buy a new account and go right back to botting. However, if we only suspend them -- meaning, they'll get their account back later -- they're less likely to buy a new one. Furthermore, once they do get their account back, they're EXTREMELY unlikely to bot again.

I'm not a psychology expert, but there's something about "I'll get this account back later" that leads more of these sorts of people to give up their botting ways than if their accounts had been permanently closed. It's kind of fascinating (at least I find it to be).

Side note: please avoid referencing bot programs directly by name, you're only making it easier for people to find them!

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