OwnedCore Report #73 - Blizzard Spies On Us? >Sponsored by MMOGOLD4USA<

**Kenneth** · 05-05-2019

An interesting week for gaming especially on the Blizzard side of things. We got a blue post for Classic and even though it wasn't much it is always nice to receive them but then we got the Blizzcon news revolving their new mobile app ticketing system. On the bright side I wrote up a pretty cool and detailed class guide for people who want a refresher on how each class and spec do in end game content in Classic but also serves to help you choose a class based on this information. Lastly we got some cool news in the VR world with Valve announcing their new Valve Index.

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Gaming News from Around the Globe

Blizzcon Drama

So if you haven't heard the Blizzcon tickets for 2019 will be done 100% through a mobile app called AXS. Once this news was announced a reddit post by u/udeathcoil stated

"Took a glance at the AXS App permissions.. It's.. bad. Spyware level bad. "

Things the App has access to include:

Contacts

Location

Camera

Wi-Fi connection information

Other

This caused a major outrage by the community for obvious reasons because this was a huge breach of trust from Blizzard. It apparently also has access to Adjust System Settings which gives permission to turn on GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc. A Blizzard employee on reddit points out that in the post about the app Blizzard says

'If for some reason you find yourself at the show with a dead mobile device or some other unexpected issue preventing you from accessing the app, don’t worry. Just head to the Solutions Desk at registration and they’ll help you out."

. So if you are going to Blizzcon and don't want to mess around with the App you can use the Solutions Desk instead..

Fast forward to today when a new post came out by reddit user u/__versus. claiming a ton of misinformation in this latest controversy. Versus goes on to say that the permissions list

"is only ever present on the web version of the play store and does not reflect the permissions of the application once it's been downloaded, nor does it reflect the permissions listed on the app version of the play store or the permissions listed in the application manifest. I still don't know why the web version displays different permissions. "

Versus proceeds to list the full permissions as specified from the application manifest which include things like contact reading, location, and other. Versus than goes on to say the permission system doesn't work how we think it does and that the app WILL continue to work without granting access to Contacts or Location services and that it is only a ticket app if you want it to be only a ticket app. (This is only for Android)

In conclusion it seems that the original thread about all the stuff it asks of you might have been blown out of proportion but at the same time people have the right to know what the app they will be REQUIRED to use for Blizzcon does to the fullest extent. It just may be that it won't do all these things and will simply be a QR code reader if that is all we want it to do. Part of me feels like a lot of the anger from the original thread comes from just the trend of being mad at Blizzard in 2019. Seems almost easy to cause a commotion with anti Blizzard stuff these days which is sad but at the same time they put themselves here for the most part.

Valve Index

The internally created VR named Valve Index is able to be pre-ordered. Right now that pre-order is a 'reserve" because the new VR sold out in under 30 minutes. For the headset alone you pay $499 and the full bundle including controllers and Steam VR 2.0 base stations costs $999. Some information about the VR headphones is:

Two 1440x1600 LCD Displays. RGB Stripe which = more subpixels

144hz Display

Controllers and headset are backwards compatible

Dual microphone array

All in all this is definitely going to be the top VR on the market in 2019 if you can get your hands on it and honestly I personally love Valve being on the top.

Classic News and Class Guide

Any time you see a Classic WoW blue post it is a good day. This one might be a reply and not packed with vital information like 'will there be cross realm bg's?' or 'will there be blizzard faction change options?' but what we do get is some information about character limits. Kaivax posted "In WoW Classic you'll have the following character limits per WoW account:

A maximum of 10 characters per WoW Classic realm

A maximum of 50 characters across all of the WoW Classic realms in your region

Only one faction per realm on PvP realms

No overlap or regard with the character limits in Battle for Azeroth

What we can gather from this is that you can play both factions on PvE realms which is a surprise but at the end of the day PvE realms don't count in Classic hehe and we get a maximum of 10 characters per realm which is 1 up from the original 9 in actual vanilla. What information we didn't get was stuff about RP-PVP realms.

Also in Classic news I wrote a huge guide to help everybody with picking their class in Classic WoW. It is great for the uninformed, the mildly informed, or just anybody really who wants to learn more. I did a lot of research on each class over the last 2-3 months and not only do I feel like my grasp on each class has increased ten-fold but I link a ton of sources with videos that you can also watch and learn. The guide can be found (The Ultimate Classic WoW Class Guide)HERE

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