Highlights of the week 2/8/09

[JD]

The Weekly Highlights!

Since Hunterplay is gone for a couple of days (Have fun bro) so I'm taking over the weekly highlights. The only problem is that this week hasn't really been exciting at all so I'm just bringing you the less-important stuff that happened.

Scammers Beware!

"WTS Spectral Tiger Card Code! 4000 Gold!" - "Dude, They've changed that system, scammer" - "STFU"
That's how blizzard destroyed the spectral tiger scam. A new system. Currently, if you have a loot code,
you redeem it and then "purchase" the mount from an NPC vendor.
The mount immediately becomes soulbound.
This gives all you scammers out there an opportunity to make a lot of gold in a small ammount of time.
We have a problem tho. Blizzard doesn't like scammers
anymore so when you now get a code
you can redeem it and get a "bind on use" mount that you can still sell.
This does take away the fake code selling which means that this scam is dead.

Blizcon Live Stream

Blizzard has announced that they're streaming
most of the tournaments at BlizzCon this year yet again.
Even if you don't sign up to the DirecTV feed,
you can still watch most of the Arena,
Starcraft, and Warcraft III matchups online on the BlizzCon site.
And this year, for the first time,
you'll be able to watch them in full HD quality
(assuming that your connection can hold up).
There will be one full stream dedicated to
Arena matches, and one stream
split between Warcraft III and Starcraft tournament coverage.

That was it for this week!

[Dombo]

Too bad the TCG scam died .. *snif* Nice read JD!

[Krillere]

Wait, i dont understand the TCG thing. Can we buy like a Spectral Tiger from people who actually redeemed the code or what? You write that its Bind on Use. So does that mean you can sell / buy the stuff? o.o

[JD]

You can buy/sell the actual mount so it's useless to buy/sell the code since the mount you get will be BOU

[Hunterplay]

Thanks for doing this JD. +Rep when I can

[wac]

Hunterplay gone? :O He looks kinda here to me..

[Emilie Autumn]

mm pity i was hoping for more mind numbing highly tension building news. but oh well =P

EDIT: @wac clearly he is jut saying thanks not writing a whole article =P

[Hunterplay]

I'm on holiday and I don't want to be on the computer all day while I'm away. So -JD- Said he would do it for me.

[SwedishGuy]

Less scam. good.

[Emilie Autumn]

having forgotten to mention. good bout time i can actually buy a spectral xD

[Krillere]

Hell yeah! Spectral Tiger here we go!

[Mr Krabs]

now i need to scam differently, ill figure something out

[Laniax]

as far as i can see on EU 3.2 the mount is still BoP

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apparently this was a very short week