http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft News from the Warcraft universe Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:19:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft/archives/wrath-of-the-lich-king-trailer/ I saw an ad for a WoW gold guide that claims you can make 400 gold per hour. Now, I bet some of the guys who practiced it finished with their accounts banned. In order to make their mistake let me tell you what the guide is about teleporting to Dire ... http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft/archives/400-wow-gold-guide/ Heres the basics of Arena Point Distribution: Each week, during tuesday maint, your team is awarded a point value based on its rating. Example: Your 5v5 has 1400 rating. Lets say hypothetically this gives 350 points. Each member of your arena team gets 350 points if they played at least 30% of ... http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft/archives/wow-arena-points/ For Starcraft fans, the wait is OVER. Starcraft 2 has been announced in Korea. Blizzard have released a Starcraft 2 trailer and I managed to find some gameplay videos (in amazing detail - 1280x768) from the WWI. The game doesn't look much different in terms of gameplay but the graphics definitely ... http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft/archives/starcraft-2-goodies/ NRP has a report on gold farming in China. Playing online games for 12 hours is a fulltime job for thousands of Chinese workers. They're accumulating virtual money — or "gold" — which they can sell for real cash. But it's a dull and labor-intensive job with limited payoffs. According to the ... http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft/archives/npr-pities-chinese-gold-farmers/ Blizzard are done with the patch it seems. You can view the Black Temple trailer below: There's also an HD version of it here. http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft/archives/black-temple-trailer/ I know some of you are interested in purchasing WoW gold. I haven't seen a reliable comparison of prices between vendors so far but this one seems pretty close. US Gold ... http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft/archives/cheap-wow-gold/ The Arena titles has finally surfaced - courtesy of Drysc. There will be four rankings to be attained: 0.0% - 0.5%: Gladiator (and Armored Nether Drake sent in mail) 0.5% - 3%: Duelist 3% - 10%: Rival 10% - 35%: Challenger The rankings are per Battlegroup. http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft/archives/wow-arena-titles/ I've probably seen hundreds of spam messages advertsing WoW gold as well as powerleveling services. Blizzard has struck back recently - banning over 100,000 accounts and deleting 11 million gold (yes, that's 11,000,000 of WoW gold). I imagine this means no more cheap wow gold for a month! TechDirt are comparing this ... http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft/archives/11-million-wow-gold-disappear/ World of Warcraft has been a million-dollar business for Blizzard but it's a million-dollar business for companies who sell WoW gold, accounts, and more. Game outsourcing has been here ever since Ultima Online came out more than a decade ago. Diablo 2 item trading was quite a big business but ... http://www.maxfreak.com/warcraft/archives/wow-gold/