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World of Warcraft News
A week's worth of WoW news to share. Last weekend saw the first anti-Ebaying lawsuit as Blizzard makes good on it's claim. This week they've released a patch for the game, adding in new content and unleashing the Holidays on Azeroth. Blizzard has also put up an intriguing preview of PvP Battlegrounds. From that article: "Lower-level players who wanted to contribute in other ways to the battle could also do so by undertaking PvP-related quests, such as capturing wolves or rams to provide mounts for cavalry charges, claiming a nearby mine and ferrying resources back to the main base to upgrade allied troops, or capturing enemy graveyards to lengthen the run back to the frontlines for revived adversaries."
- You need to buy a retail pack to create a single account.
- A single account can have multiple characters, but you can only have one log on at a time.
- You can install the software on as many PCs as you want (I still use the open beta installer as the base).
So, if you and your wife don't want to play at the same time, one account will let you have separate characters, but those characters will never be able to be on at the same time. If a family has one hardcore player and one casual player, my suggestion is for the casual player to see if they can piggy-back on a friend's account. Two or more lots of WoW subscription in the one household is a little expensive.