World of Warcraft 60 Day Pre-Paid Time Card Review
Blizzard's customer service takes place by phone (which can involve a long wait in queue) or via an in-game trouble ticket. You can only have one ticket per character and, often can wait days for an answer. Their site directs users to the publicly readable forums for customer support issues and general game questions. Currently, the postings show the avatar selected by the user. In future, Blizzard's parent company will require all postings to the publicly readable forums show the posters' real first and last names. This will be in conjunction with the new version of the game, Cataclysm. The announcement has set off a firestorm in the publicly readable forums. Forget getting phone support right now - they can't even queue calls.
Concerns posted by users include violation of the ESRB privacy requirements for minors, LGBT players getting harassed, female players who are stalked in-game being stalked in real life (Advanced players use a voice app to talk to each other during some aspects of the game, hence the "outing" of females.), professionals are concerned that their jobs and job prospects may be affected (a recruiter in Australia is quoted as saying he never hires Warcraft players), singles are concerned about their dating prospects (stereotypes about guys in mom's basement), and others are concerned for personal safety. (Players kill each other in-game and some get very heated up about it.)
The realID system has already proven buggy (Add-ons can get this information and potentially expose billing email addresses to criminals) and, with the CEO's obsession with Facebook, we are bound to have Facebook-like security associated with the product. (In other words, none.) So, watch your credit card and credit rating.
In future, I will be using these game play cards. I can order them reasonably safely here on Amazon and apply the credit to my Blizzard account, without further risk to my personal credit card.
World of Warcraft 60 Day Pre-Paid Time Card Feature
- Box contains Game Card only.
World of Warcraft 60 Day Pre-Paid Time Card Overview
MODEL- 72305 VENDOR- Vivendi
FEATURES- The World Of Warcraft 60 Day Time Card
Lets gamers enter the world of Azeroth for 60 days of real-time
combat in an incredible fantasy setting.
Available at Amazon Check Price Now!
*** Product Information and Prices Stored: Oct 23, 2010 16:35:28
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