Adventures: September 2007 Archives

Blizzard has responded to my previous issue:

Greetings Nick, After a thorough investigation, we have found this account to be eligible for restoration. The details of the characters and/or items restored are contained below.

Hooray! They proceeded to list every item being restored to my character. Now I have to wait for the status of my coworker's account.

Tonight my World of Warcraft account was compromised. This means somebody changed my password and took all of my mage's armor and gold. I also have a sneaking suspicion that the hacker made a dwarf named "Woopwoop" on a different server.

It could have been worse, though. Today a coworker was telling me how he got hacked last night. His password was changed, several characters were deleted, items were sold, and 8 of his characters were transferred to other servers and accounts. The transfers total to $200 on his next billing statement.

What a glorious time. Apparently Blizzard has been having more problems with hacking recently--at least their account security page says so.

This is nothing I'll lose sleep over. I know people who have been hacked in the past, and Blizzard was able to recover all of their items. It's just a huge inconvenience and makes you want to squash the wormy little hacking fucktard who caused all this trouble in the first place.

The moral is: don't play World of Warcraft. Go outside or drink whiskey instead.