The Funeral of WoW Gold

There are few things more hilariously hopeless than watching someone play a modern video game for the first time: their targeting cursors wobble aimlessly across the screen, unleashing a stream of bullets that manage to hit everything but their target. And amid their cries of frustration and accusations of cheating, they seem to inevitably come to one conclusion: “this game sucks”.
Unfortunately, this phenomenon is bad for the industry, as a bad experience can turn off a fledgling gamer from gaming entirely. And while developers do everything they can to make their games as accessible as possible to novices (or newbies, as they’re often called), nothing can make up for the years of experience many of today’s gamers have under their belts. At least, until now.
Meet GamerTrainer, a new startup that offers in-game tutoring sessions online across a variety of today’s most popular games. For $30 an hour (or less if purchased in bulk), you can have a private lesson with one of the site’s official GamerTrainers, all of whom have years of experience in the games they’re teaching.
At launch supported games include:
• Battlefield: Bad Company™• Call of Duty 4®: Modern Combat™• Guitar Hero® III and Rock Band™• Halo® 2 and 3• Madden NFL 09• Rainbow Six® Vegas 1 and 2• Super Smash Bros.® Brawl• World of Warcraft
GamerTrainer has a great idea, and could easily be a hit if it can get enough exposure - in fact, it is a business model that the industry may want to consider embracing. In the days before the internet, gaming systems offered dedicated phone “hint lines”, which gamers could call whenever they ran into trouble (for only a few dollars a minute). Since then, games have become far more complex - written tips no longer suffice, and the barrier to entry has been raised. It’s in the industry’s best interest to help prospective gamers as much as possible, and private tutorials could easily be very lucrative way to increase a game’s user base.
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BOSTON (Thomson Financial) - The9 Ltd. Friday said rumors that have surfaced regarding the World of Warcraft’s renewal contract are ‘completely unfounded.’
The China-based online game operator is currently in contract negotiations regarding World of Warcraft’s future operation in
China.
The9 (nasdaq: NCTY - news - people ) said it is actively conducting the contract extension negotiations, and will announce to the market once a final decision is made.
Shares closed Thursday at $17.98.
Casey Logan
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SHANGHAI, China, Sept 05, 2008 /Xinhua-PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — In the news release,

NCTY Announces Clarification Against the Rumor, issued earlier today by The9 Limited over Xinhua PRNewswire, we are advised by the company that the sentence “The9 reserves all of the rights to take legal action to those parties that spread the rumors,” has been added to the last paragraph before the boilerplate.
Complete, updated release follows:

The9 Announces Clarification Against the Rumor

NCTY , a leading online game operator in
China, today announces clarification against the rumor regarding the World of Warcraft’ ( Currency : wow gold
) renewal contract.
The9 is currently in contract negotiations regarding world of warcraft’s future operation in China. Recently, there have been rumors that surfaced regarding the contract details. These rumors are completely unfounded. The9 encourages all parties to refrain from believing in and spreading out such rumors. The9 is actively conducting the contract extension negotiations, and will announce to the market once a final decision is made. The9 reserves all of the rights to take legal action to those parties that spread the rumors.
About The9 Limited
The9 Limited is a leading online game operator and developer in China. The9’s business is primarily focused on operating and developing high-quality games for the Chinese online game market. The9 directly or through affiliates operates licensed MMORPGs, consisting of MU(R), Blizzard Entertainment(R)’s World of Warcraft(R), Soul of The Ultimate Nation(TM), Granado Espada, and its first proprietary MMORPG, Joyful Journey West(TM), in mainland China. It has also obtained exclusive licenses to operate additional MMORPGs and advanced casual games in mainland China, including Hellgate: London, Ragnarok Online 2, Emil Chronicle Online, Huxley(TM), FIFA Online 2, Audition 2, Field of Honor, Audition and Atlantica. In addition, The9 is also developing various proprietary games, including Warriors of Fate Online(TM) and Fantastic Melody Online(TM).
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Justin “Moriens” Mullinix takes a quick look at what happened in the MoB G.Family versus fnatic matchup.
As a Shadowplay composition player myself, I was quite interested to see MoB G.Family take the field in the tournament today. Although they fell a bit short, the matches were quite entertaining. The shock value of the composition has somewhat diminished, as many teams have started running this setup for season 4.They had a solid First Round win, to advance them to play Fnatic, which was an interesting matchup. Orz had defeated them at MLG Orlando, a blow against the MoB franchise, and I am sure they were aching for a rematch.The strongest card the Shadowplay composition has is pressure. Its ability to divide damage via dots coupled with the quick burst of Mind Blast+Shadow Word Death + Shadow burn allows for quick target switches during health dips. This multiple angles of damage works as both offense and defense, limiting the globals the druid (or other healer, if there is such a thing anymore) has, to do other things, such as cyclone the shaman. This setup is very fragile in long mana wars if the priest is unable to get off any drinks. The hardest counters are double healer with a sub rogue, and a good double healer hunter.The Warrior/Warlock/Druid composition also utilizes the warlocks ability to spread damage to line up target switching, with interruptions by the druid and warrior. A match-up between these two compositions provides a very entertaining flurry of health bars dropping, quick kills in some situations, and even long endurance battles. These two teams when properly played, can quickly adapt to different play styles.Anyway, enough about Composition. The first match went pretty close to how I’d predict it, with MoB testing Fnatic’s ability to protect their warrior, but Fnatic opted to use an Affliction spec on Glickz which provided MoB with a target switch option, in which their burst potential shined. A quick burst to Glickz with a well timed silence proved fatal. Fnatic would quickly learn from this gamble.Fnatic during the next matches opted to run a soul link build on Glickz. This makes the secondary switch more difficult and gives the Warrior/Warlock/Druid composition a bit more time to counter-pressure either the Unstable Affliction Warlock or the Shadow Priest. Rhaegyn also used incredible LoS with Hafu to counter initial damage from the Shadowplay team. Forcing a Shadowplay team to tunnel vision is the best strategy Fnatic could run for several reasons. The Shadow priest’s limited mana supply can be a problem if the player over commits his mana pool. From my perspective as running Destruction in 5v5, there becomes a point where a player is “Mana commited” to killing the selected target. Careful pillar weaving also can alleviate the druids global cooldowns by allowing them to focus heal. Shadowplay cannot tunnel vision a target down versus a good setup with strong players, as it requires a secondary target to switch or fake switch. This pillar play proved to be enough of a deterrence for Shadowplay because it broke up the quick bursts enough that HoT’s were able to roll.MoB overall looked good, they have tons of practice with the comp, but some of the bursts were not lined up as well as they could be. With the team not actively playing together on live,a lack of practice might have been an influence here. The raw shock value of the composition has also waned, as forum discussions and counter strategies have developed as a result of the clear domination they displayed in the qualifiers.Can Fnatic take this solid win all the way tomorrow?

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