Warcraft

[Guest Jessie05]

I play it, even though it's not the best game ever I still like it. I only have one 80 at the time, Jecko, but I'm working on a shaman.

[Guest Melanie Dawn]

One other thing i wanted to drop in this thread i discovered last night, but Proudmore server is a LBGT friendly server, i rerolled last night and plan on joining one of the big guilds..i had no idea such a thing would exist on wow but it does

Melanie Dawn

Ya, i am quoting myself lol and I did get into that guild and the people there are very nice and funny, and extremely helpful

Melanie Dawn

[Guest Jessie05]

Wow the whole new Real ID thing makes me a bit upset apparently a few others on the forums too.

[Guest Mikku]

why, jessie? you dont have to add peoples email, its only an option so you can add them and contact them if they are on starcraft, or diablo. its truely a very great system, like steam! it only makes it a little more inconvenient for the social tab, but totally worth it ^^

[Guest Jessie05]

why, jessie? you dont have to add peoples email, its only an option so you can add them and contact them if they are on starcraft, or diablo. its truely a very great system, like steam! it only makes it a little more inconvenient for the social tab, but totally worth it ^^

Oh it only bothers me a slight bit that the people are replying to the name I don't like to be called. But yeah it is a wonderful system.

[Guest Mikku]

never thought about it that way.... haha, i never used my real name online anyway, only my last name.

[Milly]

why, jessie? you dont have to add peoples email, its only an option so you can add them and contact them if they are on starcraft, or diablo. its truely a very great system, like steam! it only makes it a little more inconvenient for the social tab, but totally worth it ^^

Ahem... http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1&pageNo=1

Yep it was coming. It will only get worse should this be implemented. It's basically a "post your real name on the forums or don't post at all."

That's wonderful, because we all know the damage that can be caused with just a name over the internet. This is the single worst idea I've ever seen them come up with imo.

I really at a loss for words on this. Just let the 1000+ page 19000+ post thread(which currently holds the wow record for longest thread ever) tell you how bad of a idea this is if almost every post in that thread is anti real id.

[Guest RachaelAnn]

I've never played but I've been interested for a while. What's the best way to get started, and how much does it cost?

Rachael

[Milly]

Well 15 bucks a month after you buy the games and their expansions. I don't know what the price on them is at the moment. However when the real id thing goes through and they go through with their "other plans" for it I would say it might cost you your privacy. As a trans this would be doubly worse. If you haven't changed your name it shows your name on the forums as the name that's on your credit card. At the moment the real id in game is "optional" but with their plans they may make it so when you armory someone and thats looking up their character they play on, it may show their real name and the characters associated with that account.

Paranoid? You betcha, this is horrendously bad for a RP game to blur the lines of RP and real life and give out peoples real names. How long can you say you are a female or male before someone finds out your name? I'd hate to think of what happens.

However it's still a great game I just wish they wouldn't do something so terribly dangerous for people, if anyone were to find out your name all they have to do is look it up, pay for the info etc and boom your address, your number etc and with the hate crimes on trans being so high I fear what would happen should they find out...

Ashley, uber paranoid? Just be safe please, all of you. However it's like 15 bucks a month, 60 for the bundle pack i think. Another expac is supposed to be coming out this month I think. That will be another 30+ dollars I think.

[Guest RachaelAnn]

Well 15 bucks a month after you buy the games and their expansions. I don't know what the price on them is at the moment. However when the real id thing goes through and they go through with their "other plans" for it I would say it might cost you your privacy. As a trans this would be doubly worse. If you haven't changed your name it shows your name on the forums as the name that's on your credit card. At the moment the real id in game is "optional" but with their plans they may make it so when you armory someone and thats looking up their character they play on, it may show their real name and the characters associated with that account.

Paranoid? You betcha, this is horrendously bad for a RP game to blur the lines of RP and real life and give out peoples real names. How long can you say you are a female or male before someone finds out your name? I'd hate to think of what happens.

However it's still a great game I just wish they wouldn't do something so terribly dangerous for people, if anyone were to find out your name all they have to do is look it up, pay for the info etc and boom your address, your number etc and with the hate crimes on trans being so high I fear what would happen should they find out...

Ashley, uber paranoid? Just be safe please, all of you. However it's like 15 bucks a month, 60 for the bundle pack i think. Another expac is supposed to be coming out this month I think. That will be another 30+ dollars I think.

Isn't there a law against offering up my private info on a silver platter? If that's what they're doing then forget WoW. I'll stick with Diablo II.

Rachael

[Guest KatieT]

Isn't there a law against offering up my private info on a silver platter? If that's what they're doing then forget WoW. I'll stick with Diablo II.

Rachael

Actually that's the bigger problem, at least to me. They're planning to expand that realid or whatever to battle.net too, which affects ALL Blizzard games... meaning, I won't buy another blizzard game. I mean it's just SUCH a bad idea... there's just waaay too many creepers who upon finding out your RL name would start trying to find your facebook/twitter/etc accounts and tracking you down. No thank you. They could AT LEAST hide the names by assigning each customer a customer ID number. It would protect your identity and allow them to deal with the other issues they have... but whatever. I hope the community somehow grows a brain and stops playing that game until that's removed.

[Guest Melanie Dawn]

However it's like 15 bucks a month, 60 for the bundle pack i think. Another expac is supposed to be coming out this month I think. That will be another 30+ dollars I think.

Actually i think these days you can DL the trial for free, buy the newest xpac (next one isn't til holidays this year-most likely-closed beta JUST started like 2 weeks ago (xpacs for WoW have been 50 bucks btw)), and then pay your 15 bucks a month after your trial is up. Don't pay for anything til you have tried it. The Real ID thing is a sad pathetic joke, but i suppose the only good thing about it, is your name associated with your account (not your credit card-as some people use prepaid game cards) will only appear on the message boards (if you post), I rarely post as it is, and now i will never post (even though I AM changing my name and gender marker this month most likely). As with everything on the net, always use more caution than you think you should.

Melanie Dawn

[Guest Kieri]

I decided to quit WoW 2 weeks ago, and I'm not sure if I'm even going to buy Starcraft 2 with this new real id nonsense. I have no idea what is going through their heads, but the price people would be paying to post on forums using their real names is potentially far worse than whatever annoyances are caused by trolls. I just shudder to think what could happen if some screwball decides to exact real, tangible vengeance upon someone that wronged him in-game.

[Guest Lady.Violette]

Well, luckily for us all Blizzard decided to pull of their stupid idea (thank God).

Anyway... I was thinking we should all go to a server and create a Trans/Adro/Gay/Lesb/Bi Guild I think I'd be fun.

Actually I couldn't join ATM because I decided to quit until a month or so before CATA comes out.

I think CATA is gonna be the most fun expansion to date. Specially because I've been playing since vanilla, so seeing the world change in such drastic way, is awesome!

Oh yeah, my toons are:

Demon Soul:

- Veledesh Lvl 80 BE DK (very epicced out (reason I stopped playing))

+ Other toons

Hakkar:

- Jackineof (funny name I saw once in a porn site(I thought Blizzard would make me change it, but the haven't yet)) Lvl 73 Gnome Warlock

[Guest Melanie Dawn]

Anyway... I was thinking we should all go to a server and create a Trans/Adro/Gay/Lesb/Bi Guild I think I'd be fun.

Actually on the Proudmoore server, there are several... The Stonewall Family is an awesome alliance guild and Taint is a pretty wild Horde guild..BOTH are LBGTQ friendly. The Alliance one moreso, but i haven't been in the horde guild for very long (My rogue is only 19), but on alli we have peeps of all levels ans I have 2 80s and a 45ish. Transferred 2 from an other server

If you, or anyone for that matter decides they want to roll over there, drop me a PM and I will give you my toons names and direct you to our guild site to sign up.

Melanie Dawn

[Guest Katrina_Carter]

Thanks to discovering wow my already non-existent social life became even more so

I started on Velen cause, well, it said it was for new players when I started playing.

I skimmed the last 2 pages of this thread because the rest of the posts were about a year old, so I apologize if I missed it, but is there a list of LGBTQ friendly guilds on each server somewhere? I finally decided to join a guild about a month ago and within a few days one conversation led to another and they found out I was bi. After that I was labeled everything from a "man hating, butch a small levee" to "it", I was told to shut up and stop talking almost immediately when I mentioned my ex bf and ex gf and they figured out I was bi. It kind of scared me if they had found out I was trans too, probably would have had to leave the server. Even though it was only 3 people in the guild giving me grief, no one else said anything or stood up for me so I left the next day.

So a place to socialize and not have to be afraid what I might let slip about my real life would be nice.

[Guest Katrina_Carter]

not sure how the "a small levee" got in there, my mind slips sometimes apparently ^.^

[Guest Melanie Dawn]

is there a list of LGBTQ friendly guilds on each server somewhere?

I don't know about that, check the server forums. Also, as I said earlier, Proudmoore is "famous" for being LBGTQ friendly with at least 2 HUGE guilds, and I know of several others.

Melanie Dawn

[Guest Melanie Dawn]

Well, I did it... i finally did it!

i quit wow!!!

at least until the next x-pac comes out

Melanie Dawn

[Guest Lizzie McTrucker]

Proudmoore is THE place that's most famous for GLBTQ-friendly guilds.

I, personally, cannot quit WoW until the next expansion. I just got a second toon to 80 (Hunter) and I've been playing like a mad woman to get decent gear on her.

So now that makes 2 toons at 80, 1 at 73, and a few others below 50.

I also realized that melee DPS to me is really really boring. I'm bored with my Death Knight. I'm bored with my Paladin. I'm kind of bored with my Druid. My Warlock and Hunter, though (the two 80s). They're lots of fun.

[Guest Melanie Dawn]

Proudmoore is THE place that's most famous for GLBTQ-friendly guilds.

Yep, I am a member of the Stonewall family just taking time off til Cata... i mean i have 6 80s all with GS a min of 4500, and 3 over 5k so there's not really much for me to do besides raiding which i refuse to do. I am not missing it so far.

Melanie Dawn

[Guest Maria (Hilda)]

Eh, the only reason I play WoW is to socialise... 13 80's already, (5 being priests), and I don't have the connection to raid (not even 10 man) I just disconnect every 3 seconds, and I'm limited to strand of the ancients at max for PvP, and Winters is out of the question!

So...

I talk and level, and play the Auction House :<

I've tried quitting before... But All my mates keep pullin' me back in!

Now you've got me walking a tightrope

[Guest Melanie Dawn]

Eh, the only reason I play WoW is to socialise... 13 80's already, (5 being priests), and I don't have the connection to raid (not even 10 man) I just disconnect every 3 seconds, and I'm limited to strand of the ancients at max for PvP, and Winters is out of the question!

So...

I talk and level, and play the Auction House :<

I've tried quitting before... But All my mates keep pullin' me back in!

Now you've got me walking a tightrope

5 priests/ sheesh i had lvled one to 60 when that was the cap, deleted it and rerolled horde priest and that was more than enough..the most numerous class i have rolled is shaman and warrior, but shaman will always hold a special place in my heart.

[Guest Lizzie McTrucker]

I tried a priest but then deleted her because I just couldn't get the hang of it.

Then I tried a shaman and deleted her because I kept forgetting to put totems down and I didn't like having to be confined to fight close to where the totems were. I also tried an undead mage and that ended badly.

I'll just stick with my warlock and my hunter.

My DK is my herb and mining toon anyway for my lower level alts.

[Guest Melanie Dawn]

Then I tried a shaman and deleted her because I kept forgetting to put totems down and I didn't like having to be confined to fight close to where the totems were.

Never had that issue, as the totems do have a 30 yard range, and heck, when i am enhancement, I killed things too fast to worry about the totems effects Ele is a different story. But as it seems alot of caster will become more mobile (something mage do NOT need) the totem thing may become more of an issue.

Melanie Dawn