Looks nothing like me but its a morph of an old pic and my Avatar I know this is a topic that has been covered by others, but not by me, and people got mixed responses from the people who commented on their posts as to how much your blogging identity and your real identity should mix with each other in a blog such as this. The popular consensus was – It’s your blog write what you want to. Most don’t make any money from it – and I guess few would make enough to make a living on blogging about Wow so therefore your not obligated financially at least to provide content that people want.

In the open Sunday thread Void expressed his opinion that most MMORPGs either cost $15 a month, or are Free2Play, and wondered why there was no middle ground. That seems to be a common enough thought, Syp from Bio Break just posted about Cryptic games not being worth $15 per month and suggested they go Free2Play instead

Did first 4 bosses on ICC 25 man - My better upgrades are going to come from 25 so I should do them more often. Don’t need much loot in 10’s.

The Warcraft Econ Hall of Fame is a column featuring the few elite players that have hit the World of Warcraft gold cap of 214,748 gold 36 silver 46 copper. We have with us, Seata of Hulan of Moonglade-EU, who will be sharing their stories with us today

Due to circumstances – my Foray into the Bloggers guild, Single Abstract Noun and rolling a new toon as horde with a friend – I started leveling two new toons this weekend from scratch. My #4 Priest Pugnaciouss  ( yes I am insane) I got her to level 14 and a Tauren Shammy  Zahrah on Gundrak who is now level 15 Leveling a priest like that

This Saturday’s WoW Insider Show featured regular standbys Mike Sacco and Matt Rossi as well as two special guests — Mat McCurley , our new addon/UI columnist, and Amy Schley , our new legal columnist. Love was, apparently, In The Air, but so was an hour or so of WoW discussion ranging from what’s going on with the WoW TCG to a sort-of-confirmed Cataclysm release date thanks to the Activision-Blizzard financial report, on top of answering reader emails and talking amongst ourselves

This Saturday’s WoW Insider Show featured regular standbys Mike Sacco and Matt Rossi as well as two special guests — Mat McCurley , our new addon/UI columnist, and Amy Schley , our new legal columnist.

We’ve discussed the reported death of the WoW TCG before, but its publisher Upper Deck reported that everything was good in the hood , so to speak, where the TCG was concerned. Today, however, Magic: The Gathering news site Mananation reported that Upper Deck and the WoW TCG are parting ways , citing confirmation from two sources.

MiamiHerald.com Activision Blizzard: Q4 Results Are Good Overall Seeking Alpha (blog) World of Warcraft (WoW) now has 11.5 million subscribers. It has been operating normally in China since its relaunch on September 19th through Netease. …

Activision Blizzard’s Q3 financials revealed quite a few nuggets of information on their performance over the 2009 holiday period and also brought news of new releases coming scheduled for 2010.

MiamiHerald.com Activision Blizzard, Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha (blog) 1 online subscription title, World of Warcraft . As we look ahead, we’re presented with more market opportunities than ever before.

Washington Post Highlights of Activision/Blizzard’s earnings call GamePro.com We don’t need to tell you Activision Blizzard made a ton of money last year between Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft . …

Washington Post Highlights of Activision/Blizzard’s earnings call GamePro.com We don’t need to tell you Activision Blizzard made a ton of money last year between Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft . … Activision Results Top Street, Starts Dividend ABC News Activision Blizzard Losses Widen, Still Beats Expectations Gamasutra WoW, Call of Duty Drive Activision Blizzard’s Sales to $4.28 Billion in ‘09 GameDAILY BIZ PR Newswire (press release) ?- Orange County Business Journal ?- G4 TV (blog) all 330 news articles??

Aperture Games (blog) World of Warcraft : Cataclysm still set for second half of 2010 release Game Daily Blizzard’s third expansion pack for their hit MMO World of Warcraft is still scheduled for release this year. During Activision Blizzzard’s financial ..

Aperture Games (blog) World of Warcraft : Cataclysm still set for second half of 2010 release Game Daily Blizzard’s third expansion pack for their hit MMO World of Warcraft is still scheduled for release this year. During Activision Blizzzard’s financial ..

Netease Up As Co To Reapply For ‘ World Of Warcraft ‘ License Wall Street Journal Susquehanna Financial Group analyst C. Ming Zhao said in a note to clients: “The message on the [ World of Warcraft ] Web site has sent a positive message

It is somewhat fashionable amongst players of MMORPGs to lash out at a game’s quality assurance team whenever a bug or exploit manages to make its way into the live code. I ran across a couple of particularly galling demonstrations of this attitude in the comments section of the Blessing of Kings blog.

Cooking dailies, while not the flashiest daily quests in the World of Warcraft, are still important for people who are both interested in Raiding and making easy money on the Auction House. I’ll get into the value of these dailies at the end of this post, after I’m done giving you brief overviews and descriptions of each quest.

Twisted Nether Blogcast interviewed Tristan from The Elitists Podcast  who while is accomplished in many things. He is also a member of a male only progression based guild. He explains in the interview that the main reason, for the existance of this guild ’s “Men only ” policy seems to be that it’s the men who cannot behave clear headed when women are involved, and it ‘protects’ women from the behaviour of the males in the guild.

I am reading Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely and I am enjoying it. The last chapter I read was “The cost of social norms” which talked about how in a social circumstance if someone asked you a favour, your more likely to do it free – and better then if you were offered $10 bucks for the same task