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Activision doing well, Blizzard has spent $200M in upkeep on WoW Activision Blizzard (the parent company of Blizzard Entertainment) held an Analyst's Day earlier this week (in which a bunch of stock analysts sit down to crunch numbers and predict the future), and they came out of it really well -- according to those in the know, Activision Blizzard is set to do very well in the future. Buoyed by Blizzard and their other big franchises (do we have to name them by now? Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, etc.), 99% of analysts give the stock a "Buy" or "Hold" rating, and many were impressed with what Activision told them about their releases in 2009. And we got another interesting insight into just what kind of money Blizzard is looking at -- they reported on the call that since 2004, they've spent $200 million on the upkeep of World of Warcraft alone. That includes things like payroll, customer support, and hardware updates, of which there have been plenty of those. $200 million does seem like a lot, but of course when you consider just how much revenue they've pulled in via subscriptions (ten million players paying up to $15 a month, though Blizzard has all kinds of different subscription plans around the world), $200 million over four years isn't all that much. We're told, though, that that money doesn't include any development costs (pre-release, and we're not sure if it includes patch/expansion development or not, either). And it certainly doesn't include Blizzard-wide costs, like their new HQ, or what they spend on advertising, promotion, and those big events held around the world. There's no question, however, that there's plenty of money coming both in and out of Blizzard's doors. 15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes – from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you'd like to hear more about. Just a few weeks ago, we published a post about two guys who connected their treadmills to their computers to find out just what it would be like to really take a little jog down the road from Shadowglen to Darnassus. (Hilarity ensued.) But that got us thinking ... What if these guys had actually kept playing that way, turning their WoW-time into a potent weight-loss strategy? It turns out that quite a few players have done exactly that. Back in 2006, The Weight Lifter lost more than 40 pounds with two-hour "WarBiking" sessions on an exercise bike while playing WoW. 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Topics on last week's show include: The usual email answering: we answered questions about why there are no Auction Houses in Shattrath or Dalaran, what to do when your guild won't let you roll on damage gear when they ask you to heal, and why getting Champion tabards at Exalted would be a horrible idea. We talked about PvE to PvP transfers and why they might be a problem, but probably won't be. Racial abilites (and the suggestion to free them up a bit) came up in conversation We hit on Mages and why they're thrilled with Mirror Image (stay tuned for more Mage talk next week). 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Ask WoW Insider: How to PuG Heroics I've just rejoined an endgame guild (my Hunter just recently hit 70), and while I used to run Heroics pretty often on my Shaman with my old guild, my new guild is much smaller -- while I like them a lot, they aren't as much into running instances as I am, so endgame instance runs are few and far between with them. So I'm left to PuG Heroics on my own, and I'm having the same problem deviate_delight is: getting into PuG Heroic groups isn't proving to be easy. I'm a good player, and my gear is pretty good (OK, to be truthful, it's probably a little low, and I just need to keep running non-Heroic stuff a little more until I get luckier with loot drops), but for some reason, I'm having a tough time making my way into Heroic groups. So let's put the question out to you readers: any advice for players like me and d_d on how to start Heroic dungeons without guildies to run with? 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World of Warcraft Gold Guide - How To Make WoW Gold This is another fantastic guide that I have found on the main WoW community forums. This one is basically a how-to guide on making tons of World of Warcraft gold. It will tell you what to do so you will always have enough money for that mount and anything else you may need gold for, but it does take some time to accomplish. If you are short on available play time or want to make the gold ASAP then here is a gold resource that I use very often. Again, this is how I made my money. Ive been playing this game since the first week it came out and Ive never made an altthis guide is truly the path I took from lvl 1-60 (with a few modifications here and there as lessons learned from my mistakes!) There is hundreds of ways to make money in this game. You be a gatherer the entire time, selling mats and make money. You could do nothing but manipulate the Auction House and make money. You could grind areas that are known to drop rares and epics and make money. Theres tons of ways, this is just my way. Enjoy! Phase One Levels 1-40 Hunting and Gathering So youre just starting World of Warcraft, youve picked your race and class (gnome rogues ftw!), and youre at the point where you get to pick two professions. You might say to yourself oooh Im a rogue so Ill get leatherworking so I can make my own armor! or Im a warrior so Ill get blacksmithing so I can make my own weapons!OK just stop right there n00b! Lemme tell you a little secret about all those cool crafting professions ***With the exception of a handful of items per crafted profession, you wont make money! And hey guess what, those few items that are profitable are pretty much unattainable at lower levels!*** I hate to rain on your parade so early on, but its better I tell you up front than watch you waste what little gold you earn trying to level up your crafting profession. The problem with crafting professions is that you fall into the trap that I like to call Skill Leveling Fever, where you will do whatever it takes to raise the skill of your profession. Some of you will say Ya Gen, but thats why you take a complimentary gathering profession so you can farm your own mats. This is true, but you will VERY quickly reach a point where the materials you require will be unattainable at your characters level. And what are you gonna do, wait until you can farm them yourself? Hell no, I know you better than that! Youre gonna go run to the AH and start buying materials for the sole purpose of leveling your crafting profession. Welcome to the poorhouse! So instead, pick two gathering professions. The cool thing about gathering professions is that you start making money right awaywalk up to a mineral vein or a plant or a dead animal and grab those mats! Its 100% profit! And since you are going to be spending a LOT of time running around doing quests and killing animal sit only makes sense to take advantage of gathering professions. Mining and Herbalism are the biggest moneymakers, but since they share the minimap, I usually will pick mining or herbalism and then pick up Skinning. The one negative thing about gathering professions is youll find your bags fill up VERY quickly. Dont worry, the first thing youre gonna buy are 14 slot bags. These things cost like 2g50s on my server, which youll have after selling like 4 stacks of whatever you got. Buy 4 of these 14slot bags, youll need the space! At this point some people make alts that sit near the Auction House and they mail all their mats to the alt. This is a good idea for someto me it would drive me nuts having to mail stuff all the time Also, items with grey text are vendor trash, meaning you sell them to a vendor. ALWAYS pick up the vendor trashat your level every little bit counts. If its WHITE text, that means its used in a profession somehow. Hold onto it and see what its worth on the Auction House. If you can sell it to the vendor for 25s but sell it on the AH for 50s youve just doubled your profit! Dont laugh at 50s profit eitherdo that 1000 times (which you will do this 1000s of times in this game) thats 500g! You should be making more than enough money to pay for new skills, updated armor and weapons, gryphon flights, stupid noncombat pets (hey I love em too!) etc. But keep in mind you are working towards two things when you hit lvl 40: 1. Buying your mount, which is going to cost you 90g 2. Preparing for your first crafting profession, which will take money to level and buy schematics/patterns/recipes/etc. You cannot enter Phase Two until you have purchased your mount and have like 100g in savings. Trust me on this one. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT PHASE ONE: Q: Gen, you are a god among gnomes, and handsome to boot. But if you tell everyone to take up gathering, who will buy the materials were gathering?! If theres no money in crafting, nobody will buy our materials! A: It actually makes a perfect circlelowbies gather the mats, while highbies buy the mats and make crafted items (well discuss highbie strategy in a bit). These highbies in turn sell their items (for a profit) to other highbies and lowbies who NOW have money to spend (because theyre not wasting all their money trying to level up crafting professions!) It works really well like this. Q: Gen, you are kind, intelligent, and have abs you could wash clothes on. My character is lvl XX, and Im a lvl YY Crafting Profession and a lvl ZZ Gathering Profession. And Im BROKE! Should I drop my crafting profession and take up a second gathering profession? A: It depends on several things. If you are already close to lvl 40, you might as well keep the crafting profession UNLESS its really low level (like less than 125 or something) then ya drop it like a bad habit. If you are relatively low level but have a mid-level crafting professions, I would still drop it and take up a second gathering profession. Youll end up making much more money by the time youre 40, which is the real goal of this guide. Q: My materials arent selling! The market is flooded with them and I keep getting them returned in the mailbox! A: Ya thats going to happen from time to time. Some days you can sell a stack of something for 1g, the next day the entire AH is flooded with stacks selling for 20s. Its what I call the Retard Factor. The best thing you is get a general idea of how much stuff is selling for at that time, price your materials a little bit less that that, and hope for the best. Dont throw your hands up in despair when someone undercuts youits gonna happen. Just take your unsold mats and put them back on the AH someone will buy them, trust me! Phase Two Levels 40-59 Its fine learn 2 craft Youve hit lvl 40, you have your mount (sure beats walking huh?), youve learned all your new skills, and youve decked yourself out in some fancy new duds. Now what? Well, you *could* stick with your two gathering professions. They will still make you a lot of money, actually more money than in the first phase because youll know have access to higher level materials. If you dont feel like busting ass trying to make money with crafting professions, stick with gathering by all means. You could stop reading this guide right now and have enough money to make you happy. Still reading? Okay good lets talk about your first crafting profession Pick a crafting profession that sounds fun to you. Dont worry, its going to make you money (except maybe Alchemy Im sorry I *still* havent seen proof that you can make lots of money off of Alchemy). What your going to do is drop the gathering profession that doesnt complement your new crafting profession. For example, if you want to take engineering, drop skinning and keep your mining. The one profession I do not recommend you take at level 40 (besides Alchemy) is Enchanting. Enchanting is a great profession but its not for the faint of heart, and its a #@%$! to level up. If you are dying to be an enchanter now, welcome to the poor house otherwise try to hold off until youre level 60 (well be discussing that in the next phase). Now that youre level 40, it should be very easy to powerlevel your new profession to a certain point. Do everything possible to farm your own mats while leveling, it will save you a ton of money. This is important because you need your money for SCHEMATICS, PLANS, FORMULAS, RECIPES, ETC!!! These are what separate you from all of the other people taking up crafting professions. 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They’re just creatures, evil things that are made purely for battle, so if we spent a lot of time creating a mythology for Orcs and Uruk Hi then we really would be rewriting Tolkein.” We got a quick run through of the Monster Play in a presentation, and it looks like it could be a lot of fun – there is something really cool about running around as a hideous spider or rock hard Uruk Hi picking on other monsters of Middle Earth. lotro gold lotro gold lotro gold lotro gold lotro gold lotro gold lotro lotro lotro lotro lotro lotro buy lotro gold buy lotro gold buy lotro gold buy lotro gold buy lotro gold buy lotro gold lotr lotr lotr lotr lotr lotr lotr gold lotr gold lotr gold lotr gold lotr gold lotr gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings gold lord of the rings online gold lord of the rings online gold lord of the rings online gold lord of the rings online gold lord of the rings online gold lord of the rings online gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold sell wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold wow gold sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key sell wow cd key trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow gold trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade wow trade sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maple story mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maplestory mesos sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story gold sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maple story money sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory gold sell maplestory money sell maplestory money sell maplestory money sell maplestory money sell maplestory money sell maplestory money sell maplestory money maplestory trade maplestory trade maplestory trade maplestory trade maplestory trade maplestory trade maplestory trade maple story trade maple story trade maple story trade maple story trade maple story trade maple story trade maple story trade

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