Battle.net finally mandatory in 30 days.

#0 - Oct. 12, 2009, 8:28 p.m.
Blizzard Post
On the login page blizzard is giving a 30 day notice that you will have to upgrade to battle.net to continue playing World of warcraft after November 11th, 2009.

For all of the QQ posts I just wanted to post a couple thoughts:

1. Make a new hotmail, gmail, yahoo email just for Wow. If you want to get fancy set up a forwarding service to your regularly used e-mail so that blizzard e-mails will come to you without having to regularly log in and check the new e-mail (for the lazier ones of us out there). This will take care of the objections "I don't wanna use my e-mail for all my accounts.. HAXX HAHHAXHHAXXX"

2. Battle.net is a blizzard icon. Battle.net was around way before WoW. Remember WC3 starcraft were all played through battle.net.

3. If you hate the game so much that you don't want to spend 5 minutes doing #1 and upgrading then really.. should you be playing in the first place.

4. Make sure to update all of your account info and keep it up to date.

5. If you are really really worried about hackers: AUTHENTICATOR = NO HACKS

Just my 2 cents.
#7 - Oct. 12, 2009, 8:46 p.m.
Blizzard Post
Here is the post we made announcing this: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20433765714&sid=1

For any further discussions or feedback please post it in this thread.