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do people in your guild know that you are Vaneras?

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Also, I wonder, do you ever reply on these forums as your normal nonblue-character?

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What I would like to know from a job point of view is whether being a GM allows you time to attend raids which usually take place at 8pm or so GT. I know that there are 3 shifts and wondered if someone applynig for a position would be able to maintain current raiding times.

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OMG TYPOS

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Vaneras, as you admitted being a wow player yourself, i was wondering the following:

Perhaps you are a hunter (avatar picture). How do you deal with the ranged shot bug? Wouldn't you stand on your chair and yell in the GM hall: "Will somebody please fiiixxx this stupid bug?!11!oneleven".

And how do you feel, when you see the Auction House flooded with high lvl items that were farmed by people that abuse wow.

How do you respond to these scenario's. I can only imagine....

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Hmmm... very noble, Veranas...

But I can clearly remmeber some "mishaps" with US CM's playing on certain servers. Caydiem was in the first all-Druid Onyxia try for instance - and admitted to have so in blue.

And then there was the err... Kali Compton episode :P that was cute.

I suppose it becomes too hard to hold secrecy once every so often...

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Make errors do you mean? :P

Anyway, something i've always wondered /blush. Have you ever been posting on your non-blue, and gave them a blue response? Realized 5 minutes later, logged into the blue and quickly deleted the post? :P

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When you get ganked do you wish you could use .kill? :P I think to be honest, it's only natural for gm's, cm's, devs etc to play the game in a normal way - but did they use omgwtfhax to level? ;)

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So some GMs do not like to raid? Can you inform us what they do instead of raiding?

Maybe I can get a few tips on what to do with any of my level 60s, since I also don't have the time to raid. ;)

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PvP?
RP Events?
Tradeskill stuff?
Socialise with people on the server?
PuGs?

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Vaneras - do you discuss any of the ingame problems you've encountered while playing with your non Blizz account with the devs/techy people?

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A question, really...

If they catch you playing WoW while at work, would they punish you? ;p

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A serious question: If you know about all these issues, why aren't they being fixed? I mean, there are bugs that have existed since the game itself started that still have yet to be fixed.

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You say you forward all these issues to the developers and you claim you are indeed in touch with the players and you know about all the stuff we experience on a day to day basis, yet you still nerf great potions like Spirit of Zanza and even make it unique (!!!) and still do very odd stuff which makes no sense other than trying piss players off: Forcing players to regrind rank 14 for new weapons, requiring stupid materials for Tier 3 items (as if the effort and preparation required to beat the encounters wasn't enough), forcing people to grind stupid factions for months and later nerfing the grind (Zul'Gurup).

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If you are indeed trying to make this game as FUN as possible, why are you constantly proving the opposite every single patch?

Maybe you indeed don't share the same idea of fun as the players do? Maybe you don't understand the preparation and effort some of your raid encounters require?

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Don't you guys feel very far from the US sometimes? I mean, on a forwarding infos point of view.

(I believe all the improvement stuff is done at Blizzard US and you 99% of the time deal with technical problems and GM, am I wrong?)

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ehehe i like a lot this topic but sadly only vaneras is answering us...i think the other blues are being nerds in work and pvp/raid xDD

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btw vaneras any of the GM/CM have tried to do hardcore pvp also if they work there and have only a few time? let's say some rank 14 gm or maybe a rank 11 cm ?XD

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and still another little question: what's the thing that you like most with your non blue character?

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How do you deal with people that have a problem with you in /w (if any since you seem a nice relaxed guy :)). Also, who's the best at pvp in the Blizz building and with what class? :P

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duh :)

Isn't it bad to play when you know too much about WoW? I mean, doesn't it feel like the gaming experience is spoiled for you, because you "know too much"?

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I was just wondering if you are playing with some other Blizzard employees? Or has this question been asked already?

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And you've also worked with WoW for a very long time... Have you ever thought like "f... this game, I'm so sick of this"?

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And have you ever explored the game, for example going to Mount Hyjal, top of the Ironforge, etc?

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XD still no info on pvp from vaneras...do you like better pvp,pve,what? give us more info =P

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Can you do your job as CM meanwhile playing WoW?

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What exactly does a CM job require from you, I mean, is it just posting some times in the forum, and else just C/Ping stuff from the devs?

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Vaneras: i'd imagine ur playing on a realm thats pretty old (correct me if im wrong)
how do u react to the extreme lagg that sometimes accours .. ~3k MS random D/Cs sprees ...
ever gone like "this freakin sux, need fixing ASAP slackers!" ? =)

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Vaneras is a CM right? Not a GM so he doesnt use the console in his job, he reads the forums, am i correct?
I see alot of people thinking that Vaneras is a GM and has acces to a GM Toon.

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Is it true the GMs gets free cola? :O

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So vaneras your 28 atm ?

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Vaneras, isn't it very rewarding to see so many people like a game that the company you work for made, and even you being a CM? :)

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Isn't it scary to think about the fact that WoW 'will' die at some time, and then there will be no community = No job for you? What will you do then? Get a job in another Blizzard MMORPG? (If they've made one at that time that is :P )

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Not even during lunch break? :O

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what happens when ur guild want to go raiding and ur working?

"Guild Master: <Vaneras aka> we doing MC tonight
<Vaneras aka>: I got work today, soz
Guild Master: O'rly? didn't you know to join a real raiding guild you have to quit ur job to make time? whats ur job anywayz?
<Vaneras aka>: omg ur on to me!!11eleventyone! *deletes character*

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Free cola,,, but if I, when I become *dreaming* a mighty shiny GM I need dr Pepper in my veins :D

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haha, btw, my guild is having a laugh about you trying to get me to quit the game - I won't hear the end of that one :)

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Vaneras, have you ever met or talked with Michael Morhaime or any others of the upper-men? :) If yes,m how are they like? "How dare you talk to me, slave!?" or friendly? :P

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Meeting**

Suprised to see you make that mistake :P

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Vaneras: i'd imagine ur playing on a realm thats pretty old (correct me if im wrong)
how do u react to the extreme lagg that sometimes accours .. ~3k MS random D/Cs sprees ...
ever gone like "this freakin sux, need fixing ASAP slackers!" ? =)

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hey van, if you lose to a certain class in pvp alot of times dont you ever think like 'damnit we gotta nerf that class' and what happens when you do?

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typo =o

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So Vaneras, what do your guild think you work as? They've probably asked at some point, and you can't tell them you're a CM, but even if you did, they wouldn't believe you.

So what job does your guild think you have? :)

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This post is not on topic, I apologise

I know you are not a developer, please know I am not your average forum fanboy, I was referring to you = blizzard.

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But when you see 3 threads on EU and US forums, all with 30 pages of people going "What are you doing, this makes no sense!", does that not make you think "Ok guys, this change might not be so good, we might have to reconsider it or find another solution"

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I realise you might not be able to answer that, since you are not part of those meetings, but when you let these kind of threads pass by unanswered, it makes people very disillusioned about the state of the game. Everyone is screaming "Look at this Blizzard, just look at it and reconsider" and you just ignore it (or at least give the perception of ignoring it, by not answering).

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Example: You nerf Spirit of Zanza, why?... why? Give us a reason, tell us what was wrong with it. You never argue the changes you make, you just make them.

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Materials for Tier 3? Who came up with that? I pay around 60g every day for wiping on C'Thun already, and I will pay more than that for learning Naxx, and now I have to PAY an extra total of 400g+ for the reward of my efforts aswell? WHY? On top of that you nerfed the money dropped from bosses aswell, I make more money doing a full MC run, than I do on a AQ40 run, without any deaths. Logic flawed?

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Do these arguments or comments escape you?

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That's taking the easy way out of a tough question :)

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I love the game; don't get me wrong, I've invested tons of time and effort in to it, but some of the things you do make me consider why I bother to play.

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Anyway, I'm just ranting here, I realise you are not in a position to answer these questions, but what other choice do I have to be heard? "Please redirect these questions to the suggestion forum where they will be on page 4 in 2 hours between the ‘omg nerf shamans' posts?". I'm stuck on the EU forums, far away from anyone in Blizzard who can make a difference (Tigole, Slouken, etc.).

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My goal is not giving you a hard time, I apologise if you perceived it that way.

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Hyg dig :)

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Vaneras is probably on his way home from the Blizzard building in Paris, relaxing or eating, so I wouldn't expect him to answer right now, it is after all 7:25 PM. =)

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So vaneras is there any class you really hated to play and why?

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Say Vaneras.. Where does "Vaneras" origin from?

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Something you have been using for quite a while on other forums as well, before you became a Blizzard employee or anything like that?

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This post is not on topic, I apologise

I know you are not a developer, please know I am not your average forum fanboy, I was referring to you = blizzard.

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But when you see 3 threads on EU and US forums, all with 30 pages of people going "What are you doing, this makes no sense!", does that not make you think "Ok guys, this change might not be so good, we might have to reconsider it or find another solution"

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I realise you might not be able to answer that, since you are not part of those meetings, but when you let these kind of threads pass by unanswered, it makes people very disillusioned about the state of the game. Everyone is screaming "Look at this Blizzard, just look at it and reconsider" and you just ignore it (or at least give the perception of ignoring it, by not answering).

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Example: You nerf Spirit of Zanza, why?... why? Give us a reason, tell us what was wrong with it. You never argue the changes you make, you just make them.

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Materials for Tier 3? Who came up with that? I pay around 60g every day for wiping on C'Thun already, and I will pay more than that for learning Naxx, and now I have to PAY an extra total of 400g+ for the reward of my efforts aswell? WHY? On top of that you nerfed the money dropped from bosses aswell, I make more money doing a full MC run, than I do on a AQ40 run, without any deaths. Logic flawed?

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Do these arguments or comments escape you?

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That's taking the easy way out of a tough question :)

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I love the game; don't get me wrong, I've invested tons of time and effort in to it, but some of the things you do make me consider why I bother to play.

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Anyway, I'm just ranting here, I realise you are not in a position to answer these questions, but what other choice do I have to be heard? "Please redirect these questions to the suggestion forum where they will be on page 4 in 2 hours between the ‘omg nerf shamans' posts?". I'm stuck on the EU forums, far away from anyone in Blizzard who can make a difference (Tigole, Slouken, etc.).

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My goal is not giving you a hard time, I apologise if you perceived it that way.

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Hyg dig :)

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Vaneras.. What's your boar called? I'm very, very curious now ;)

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Vaneras, may I ask why you picked a Dwarf Hunter as your avatar?

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Was it your first character or were you forced to by Thundgot? *grin*

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Vaneras i want to ask you have you ever answered anything in forums as Vaneras to a person you know in game?

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A bit offtopic; but i really want to know where the blizzard building in paris is located, and how it looks, do you got any pictures of that by any chance? :)

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And one that plays on a server you have a character on? :-)

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Oh and thanks for the great support towards Roleplaying

You're invited to the Grumpy Trout next Sunday.

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Why don't you use any other smilies except for ":-)"?

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What I am curious about is that if a GM does his 11th run on a boss but still haven't had their item drop... Could they then alter the coding to get their beloved item?

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Are they allowed to get a charatcher with full tier 2 epic gear or is that strictly forbidden?

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If they have a girlfriend/boyfriend who plays WOW are they allowed to add tiny hearts around her on valentines day?

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Must be hard to be a GM since there are so many fun things they can do but perhaps aren't allowed to do.

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I kinda look at them like Neo in Matrix but in Azeroth.

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But shouldnt you be like I dont know chilling, playing getting some Dinner?

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And to Vaneras:

Hey Vaneras :P undskyld mit spam, kunne ikke lade vær :D

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can yu plz answer my question too? or shud i look for answers in a different forum?

page 10 :)

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But is this really a solution? Once you beat an encounter and the boss is dead, you have the item needed for your set part, what is left is some expensive materials anyone can buy in the Auction House, how is that slowing down people getting Tier 3? how is that doing anything but adding a cost to an already hard earned item?

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and by trying to fix this, however hard it would be, you would gain a happier community.
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."
-Carl Sagan

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Not at all, I am merely looking for answers to my questions, and while many of the answers sounded like the default replies you get from GMs, I thank you for your time and your effort and hope you enjoy your stay in Azeroth.

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What are you making? =P Something Danish, French or different? =D

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P.S.: Er det ikke lidt sent at spise klokken 10 minutter i elleve? =P

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Vaneras! While you're around, can you sticky this?
http://forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-off-topic-en&t=225928&p=1&tmp=1#post225928

Since the old one is broken and you're the spam..."manager" in some kind of way :p

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Is it as frustrating for you as it is for players when you can't answer the direct, recent questions?

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vaneras you are browsing the forums alot for your work, dont you ever get tired of locking topics and from people who just flame blizzard/CM's ?

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and if you see this guy idling in IF with full AQ/bwl gear, isnt it tempting to make a account and just stuff it with epic gear, and have fun dueling outside IF ?

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Fantastic to get an active discussion on WoW and one of the CM's.. thanks for spending the time doing this..

Now this is something thats been rattling ym cage for a long time.. Would you be able to pass the idea up a bit, or give feedback..

There are people out there who don't have time for run after run, I've got over 40 days /played on my toon. The reason I hevrn't levelled is I had to spend a LOT of time on my laptop when my gaming system commited suicide, meaning I was out for the count in going into BG's and such..

But, back on topic.. We have the option saying how many HK's and DK's we have. Why not a "Scroll of honor" saying what big mobs we've sucessfully downed, and how many times?..

Also, the instances where people do them so many times and don't get their drops.. I know it's down to the "Luck of the draw" and such.. but wouldn't it be better to have a more specific idea whats dropping from bosses BEFORE you commit to a 4 hour run, to find you get nothing but a bit of gold and some Vendorcrap..

I know certain bosses drop certain bits of gear.. but it seems that someone might get 3 runs and have the same item drop every time.. would there be a way to make the loot more "intelligent" on major boss encounters?

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Glad to have someone to actually talk with too.. Just out of curiousity too.. you say you played every class? Have you played them all to 60? or have you abandoned some halfway as they just don't appeal to you?

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Just out of pure curiosity. what kind of keyboards do you guys have at Blizzard? Those fancy "ergonomic" keyboards? or plain old Dell keyboards? (presuming Blizzard has Dell PC's)

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How do you, or GM's, submit suggestions to the Developers? Are there forms to work out or do you fold paper airplanes and chuck them out the window?

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Have you ever ticketed to a GM on your normal account, just to get an extremely unsatisfying response? (Example: I reported a bug with the Thunderfury proc a couple of days ago and the GM insisted that I should post in the suggestions forum, and that CM's would post there as well. I couldn't convince him I was filing a bug report and not a suggestion) How do you respond then? I've had a lengthy talk with a GM once and he said that he cannot reveal his GM-ness in a ticket, nor that he gets priority in the queue.

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And lastly, a remark. I saw you answered a couple of questions regarding the Zanza-nerf with "I'm not a developer so I can't really answer the why question". You gotta understand that "the omg blue response!!" is as close as we players can get to Blizzard officials. That's why we tend to regard CM/GM's as the ones with power and influence, and directly ask you for game changes. Also, changes are often made with the "I'm not sure at this time why we made the change but it's gotta be good for something", such as the Defense nerf (-33% anyone?) or the recent Mind Control Cap nerf (out of combat only). However the reason is never explained in hindsight, when more information is available. As such, players get the impression that you are indeed, nerfing fun. If you could get a dev's reasoning on why it had to happen, such as a game breaking possibility with the old MC cap, then I'm sure we'd all be more satisfied.

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Just a few questions for when you wake up:

Don't you agree that "8D" has to be one of the cooler emoticons? Beats :-) i think.

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And i've been to denmark once. Do you like "guf"?
I don't at least. Been asking a lot of guildies this aswell, i can't understand how it can be found tasteful.

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Also i met thundgot at TG.. Do you think your hunter would beat his mage in a duel?

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Hmm you'r quite active latly so ill go ahead and ask do you remember me from dreamhack this year we talked quite a lot :)

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And if you could sticky the new rarecrafts of magtheridon

http://forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-magtheridon-en&t=26546&p=1&tmp=1#post26546

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Remake the rogue class conserns and this might change:

http://vanerasyouarenot.youaremyfriend.com/

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Oh my god! =P
But Vaneras, have you ever did something wrong you shouldn't do in WoW?

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Do you remember what the other two were? I would like to know which names you ditched, just out of curiousity :) (If you don't use them in-game, ofc)

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Nice to see you being just as addicted as any of us :D

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OMG TYPO

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Well since everyone is shooting questions and getting answered, I want to ask Vaneras something as well.

Did you enjoy playing 1-60 more than 60+ or the other way around. This is a question that I have debated with many friends and most of them say 60+ is better because the "real" game starts there. I, however, think the game basicly ends at 60. Or at least the fun part. After that there is no more "ding" "gratz!111one", your gear improves with one item per month and you farm the same zones/instanses all day. More like a job eh?

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Dont you find a bit of the "magic" is lost as a regular player when you know all the internal workings of the game?

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I used to GM on a MUD and I certainly found it spoiled alot of the fun of being a normal player. I was able to do live-quests for players (switching into NPCs etc), which ensured I could still have fun - but the regular player part was never the same.

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Excellent thread. When you're done here, prune it archive it and send copies to US and China. =)
Anyhow, to the questions:

How much activity and general knowledge of the game is required for a CS position at Blizzard; what can be expected from the average GM/CM? Would the requirements for a developer be similar?
I'm kinda curious about this since I'm aiming for a career in game development but facing the dilemma between loving extensive games and requiring to attain extensive first-hand knowledge of such games to design them. When I eventually get full-time employment I imagine it would be very difficult to devote the needed playing time for MMOs in particular. I guess many of us have had conversations where we basically had to educate GMs on parts of the game, though their intentions and behavior were good, and I'd really not want to end up in such a position.

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Do you assign GMs different areas of responsibility? Obviously they can't master every aspect of the game and some have impressive knowledge of the intricacies of raiding while others appear to never have set foot in MC.

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Are any of the current Blizzard employees managing to lead big guilds on the side?

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To what extent do Blizzard employees use UI modifications? Do you have a policy on this?
They are pretty much a part of the game but I imagine it could be counterproductive in situations. I've occasionally found myself offering incorrect advice because I've taken some AddOns for granted and forgotten the defaults, nor even gotten a proper impression of how the default UI has developed over time.

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Could you give an update on how things are looking for the GRP? We haven't heard much since the plans were announced 3 months ago.

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Is there any chance you could give slightly better notice before releasing new patches?
How long notice do you expect (completely non-comitting guess AKA not at all a promise ;)) we'll have before the massive 1.11 goes live?
It can be hell for guild administrations to suddenly find that a patch will be coming out the next morning at reset. I imagine it must be even worse for the American guilds.

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Since you know pretty much about the background of WoW and also it's game mechanics... i wonder if you could really enjoy end game raiding at it's best.

For example, your guild starts doing BWL, i think you could easily tell them all the leet tacs and get them anywhere in virtually no time at all, ofcourse it still depends on the skill of your guild wether you progress quickly or not, but you COULD bring in some very critical information that could speed things up very radically.

Just wondering though... i guess that once your guild commences a new encounter you stay quiet and listen to their story's, whilst knowing what will happen with the tacs they have just come up with? :P I'm not saying you are helping your guild by giving them background information, but it must be frustrating sometimes that you know your guild will fail whilst you COULD do something about it... for example, (i'm do not know where your guild is in raiding progress ofc.) doing nefarian, and telling them how to manage stage 1 and stuff...

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Vaneras are you being payed extra for answering our questions? I can't think of another reason for the sudden change :). Two weeks ago the threads which had blizz reply were less than your replies in this thread alone. Furthermore the replies we were getting until now were mostly a copy-pasted c*ap or a link to a sticky thread.

You really deserve a raise :-)

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I want to ask a question too!

You say that you have several other characters (well don't we all :P), do you ever get tired of doing the same quests over and over? I've levelled a mage and a priest to sixty and now when I level my warrior I find it kinda boring to do the same quests again. Have you had the same feeling?

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Great post, would there be any chance of one like this appearing on a more regluar basis ?

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Something like once a month yourself, Aeus or Thundy open a general questions thread for 2 or 3 days to answer questions in this way. You could rotate so that this month you've done it so next month one of the others could do it.

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btw. Are there any other MMORPG's you would play at home or do you feel some sort of loyalty to Blizz and play only WoW. Persona;;y I'm gutted that the Dune one got cancelled, but bett for Blizz as they get my cash instead :-)

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What was your first impression when entering the Blizzard building and get to talk with people?

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What did you start talking about?

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How close were my guesses Van?

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Oh Vaneras you want Thunderfury on your hunter? :)

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Vaneras, do you as proud dwarf player agree with a fellow inhabitant of the great city of Ironforge, that we should break off our alliance with the treacherous night elf race?

History has already proven that they don't like to help us! The only reason they helped out us smaller races, was because one of us was foolish enough to help them out once, so the night elves felt obligated to aid us while the horde was driving us back into the once proud kingdom of Lordearon!

All they do nowadays is hop around like bunny's, use their pointy ears to sting us, pat gnomes, sit on dwarves.. We need to free ourselves from this surpression!

Every dwarf and gnome should know by now what kind of faulty creatures the night elves are.. Everytime i meet one a feeling grows stronger in my heart.. They were corrupted by the Burning Legion to annoy us! I will do everything i can to show their dark scheme's to the world, so we can rid them from Azeroth for the rest of our times.

So Vaneras, what do you say. Let's pick up our arms and slay them all! If only it were possible :( for some reason i am not allowed to attack them and take revenge for the daily annoyances :(

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so thundy doesnt like to post on the forums? because i find he is rather in-active compaired to you.

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Well now that we know you don't mind answering these questions, there's been this one question which has always been bothering me;


Was Chuck Norris in any way whatsoever involved with the design of High Overlord Saurfang?

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Do you remember what the other two were? I would like to know which names you ditched, just out of curiousity :) (If you don't use them in-game, ofc)

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Nice to see you being just as addicted as any of us :D

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Vaneras, apologies if this has been answered before, but how long do you hope to be working at Blizzard for? And if you were given the opportunity to, would you work on any other Blizzard games or stay with WoW?

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Also, do you do anything other than CM'ing for Blizzard? Like getting the beer when it's all gone :O

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This is probably my one time opportunity to actually get a blue response, so here goes:

As you probably do not know, it is my personal quest to get named non-combat pets and/or mounts (the pet thing is most important to me).

I would love to actually be able to name my pet (and perhaps mount). How are we supposed to bond with a pet if the player next to you has the same one? I have the luck of having the Collectors Edition, so there aren't many people with a zergling, but still I would love to name it... why can hunters name their combat pets but we cant name our non-combat pets? :(

Can you tell me if this has ever been sent through to the developers (and if not, would you please do so? :P)?

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Forgive me if this was already asked and answered, but what do the other CMs (i.e. Thundgot and Aeus) do whenever it's just yourself keeping order on the forums? I was under the general belief that it was at least one of you taking turns or working the same shifts throughout the day. So what do the Forsaken and Goblin do when they're not around here, if you don't mind/are not endangered by answering?

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Great thread, you shouldnt spoil us with too much replies tho cos when something bad happens and there is silence everyone will go "wtf u spammed that 'Life as a gamer' thread but dont care about <not really important issue>!!" ;)

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A question then, what do you think about the PTRs revealing content? I mean people are already progressing through Naxx with PUGs. You might argue that its a PTR, its there for testing, but I think that some content should remain hidden. Spoilers suck!
Dont they have testers of their own over there at blizzard?

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Thanks for reading

EDIT: Oh, and who do you think will win the WC? ;)

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First of all: THX 100 TIMES for doing this Vaneras, this is improving the relation between blizzard and players... trust me. I never thought that some day a Blizzard Representant would come to the forums answering all the stuff. I'm only sorry that this type of action took more than a year to come, but THX FOR THIS any way, im really happy!!

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I have 2 qwestions:
A) Do u think that the game is well balanced between aliance and horde?(i know this is a ruff qwestion... if u don't want to answer it just say: "no comments")

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B) Is there something that you really really would like to see in game and that is not implemented yet? If yes, tell me just 1 or 2 things. (like fighting while mounted or something ike that)

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Sorry for my bad english, but english is not my main spoken language (portuguese btw).

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drink more coffee/coke... you're beginning to slack ;)

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Yeah lets hope they do indeed :)

To either Thundy Aeues or Vaneras : How many chicks do Cm's get per week? :)

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Respect to you Vaneras for taking the time to answer questions that people have. It's nice to see.

Been thinking hard on a question that'd be interesting enough to get a good reply. I couldn't think of one, so I would like to ask if there's ever been a time when someone at the office has been excited over something they've seen or heard that a guild has accomplished in game?

Like really excited, screaming something along the lines of "OMG! Dudes and dudettes! look at this!! OMG!" :)

I'm bored...

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Not sure if this is a place to ask such a question... but do you use any of game database resource, such as Thottbot or Allakhazam? Or do you try to solve everything by yourself? How do you feel about these web-sites?

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Hey, we danes are good at english, but some slips are bound to occur ;)

tyrkfjel!

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What's this? A blue reply on almost every question? How... peculiar! *cough* Enough snide comments out of me ;), what I would like to know is: what moment in the game made you go "F*ck yes!" or "HAH! IN YOUR FACE!"

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Based on something I heard I just have to ask:

Is it normal for GM's/CM's to watch "europe firsts?" By that I mean, watching a guild take down a boss for the first time in Europe?

If this is true, do you watch it on bigscreen during breaks or what?


Keep it up!

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I must say is that one thing I wish more then a new instance, new races, new legendaries is more feedback from blue on important issues. I know you said that you would like it to and you have to make sure what you say is 100% correct. Even so, issues like class downfalls or things we think need a look at would be nice if we had at least some feedback from time to time to at most know what the devs are working on majoritally (if thats such a word). As you can understand as a player, although you got a head start on us, that not knowing if an issue has even been looked at is frustrating. Even if you say "I'll forward this on to the dev's" to the most constructive posts. If you do that 1x a day I'd prefer that then that'd make me happy.

At least we won't feel ignored :-)

EDIT: less exageration :-)

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Wooh.. Yeah, thanks. =) Watching Poker: European Poker Tour right now. The supreme Gus Hansen (Who btw. is a Dane =) ) is owning them. =D

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You?

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zomg stop going offtopic 8D

but seriously, do you have an inkling if new servers will be coming anytime soon.

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Heh =D Vaneras, where in Denmark are you from? Sjælland, Fyn, Jylland eller et andet sted? =) Hvis Sjælland og ikke i KBH, så bare sig hvad for et amt. =P

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Vaneras, why don't GMs ever come and meet me

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What issues do they come ingame to solve?

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one last question :), do you have anything to comment about the children in the goldshire building? the demonic ones :)

peace out :)

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my computer has malfunctioned havent been able to play wow for a week now :(

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anyway i have a question for you, however if you dont find time to answer its no problem ^_^

lets say, playing on your dwarf hunter you stumble upon a badly geared character called xinjao who answers you in chinese and rarely leaves the grinding spot, you know he is known as a "farmer".

would you ever contact a GM in person at work to notify him that such a person is working on the server and try to get him banned?

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btw really good job with answering all these posts, and ofc its really cool your danish too!

damn troede du var fra københavn! :p

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Seriously, Vaneras, can you say few words in French ?
Est-ce que ta petite copine est française? answer me, pleaaaaaaase !

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Vaneras what happens if someone /spits on your corpse?


*Vaneras has gained Enrage*

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Carlsberg ou Tuborg? =D

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Any chance of a way to invite our friends to try the game before buying it?
(such as with the US "Recruit a Friend"-program though not neccessarily with a reward)

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Will Thundgot undergo a name-change with the release of BC?
Will he force an increase in the amount of possible digits in character names when the number of races exceed that amount?

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And thanks a lot for answering the other questions.

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Always nice when the community and Blizzard communicates, gives the players more faith.

Anyway, i've got a question for you;

What do you feel when you see things like "this/that CM is a damn c*ckblock" and so on, like if i'd say "Vaneras is such a *hole as CM" in /say and you would see it ? Would you pretend it diden't happend or did curiosity kill the monkey ?

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I came up with another question tho, *if* you would get tired on the game, would you quit your current work at Blizzard ?

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Oh, and a last thing, as a guy on the US forums said in a thread, it's wrong taste on the pie in the warlock forums, could you check it out ? (perhaps less flamebaited rabahrber ?)

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EDIT: Another question, as i've read somewhere that WoW is a 5 year project, what do you see yourself doing in roughly 4 years from now ?

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Van, another question hope ya dont mind :)

but, as im sure you know of, www.warcraftmovies.com

do you watch/like some movies on there?

do you prefer to watch pve/pvp? or do you just log into your account@work and watch all you want there?

ty
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Quite an interesting read this has been :)

I do have 1 question (no not a new realm question shock horror).

When you PvP against someone and they happen to beat you do you sometimes go "argh I wish they didn't have that bloody imba skill!"

Note - The skill is probably not imba, just felt like at that moment in time :)

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But is this really a solution? Once you beat an encounter and the boss is dead, you have the item needed for your set part, what is left is some expensive materials anyone can buy in the Auction House, how is that slowing down people getting Tier 3? how is that doing anything but adding a cost to an already hard earned item?

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and by trying to fix this, however hard it would be, you would gain a happier community.
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."
-Carl Sagan

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Not at all, I am merely looking for answers to my questions, and while many of the answers sounded like the default replies you get from GMs, I thank you for your time and your effort and hope you enjoy your stay in Azeroth.

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What are you making? =P Something Danish, French or different? =D

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P.S.: Er det ikke lidt sent at spise klokken 10 minutter i elleve? =P

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Vaneras! While you're around, can you sticky this?
http://forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-off-topic-en&t=225928&p=1&tmp=1#post225928

Since the old one is broken and you're the spam..."manager" in some kind of way :p

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Is it as frustrating for you as it is for players when you can't answer the direct, recent questions?

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vaneras you are browsing the forums alot for your work, dont you ever get tired of locking topics and from people who just flame blizzard/CM's ?

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and if you see this guy idling in IF with full AQ/bwl gear, isnt it tempting to make a account and just stuff it with epic gear, and have fun dueling outside IF ?

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Fantastic to get an active discussion on WoW and one of the CM's.. thanks for spending the time doing this..

Now this is something thats been rattling ym cage for a long time.. Would you be able to pass the idea up a bit, or give feedback..

There are people out there who don't have time for run after run, I've got over 40 days /played on my toon. The reason I hevrn't levelled is I had to spend a LOT of time on my laptop when my gaming system commited suicide, meaning I was out for the count in going into BG's and such..

But, back on topic.. We have the option saying how many HK's and DK's we have. Why not a "Scroll of honor" saying what big mobs we've sucessfully downed, and how many times?..

Also, the instances where people do them so many times and don't get their drops.. I know it's down to the "Luck of the draw" and such.. but wouldn't it be better to have a more specific idea whats dropping from bosses BEFORE you commit to a 4 hour run, to find you get nothing but a bit of gold and some Vendorcrap..

I know certain bosses drop certain bits of gear.. but it seems that someone might get 3 runs and have the same item drop every time.. would there be a way to make the loot more "intelligent" on major boss encounters?

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Glad to have someone to actually talk with too.. Just out of curiousity too.. you say you played every class? Have you played them all to 60? or have you abandoned some halfway as they just don't appeal to you?

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Just out of pure curiosity. what kind of keyboards do you guys have at Blizzard? Those fancy "ergonomic" keyboards? or plain old Dell keyboards? (presuming Blizzard has Dell PC's)

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How do you, or GM's, submit suggestions to the Developers? Are there forms to work out or do you fold paper airplanes and chuck them out the window?

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Have you ever ticketed to a GM on your normal account, just to get an extremely unsatisfying response? (Example: I reported a bug with the Thunderfury proc a couple of days ago and the GM insisted that I should post in the suggestions forum, and that CM's would post there as well. I couldn't convince him I was filing a bug report and not a suggestion) How do you respond then? I've had a lengthy talk with a GM once and he said that he cannot reveal his GM-ness in a ticket, nor that he gets priority in the queue.

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And lastly, a remark. I saw you answered a couple of questions regarding the Zanza-nerf with "I'm not a developer so I can't really answer the why question". You gotta understand that "the omg blue response!!" is as close as we players can get to Blizzard officials. That's why we tend to regard CM/GM's as the ones with power and influence, and directly ask you for game changes. Also, changes are often made with the "I'm not sure at this time why we made the change but it's gotta be good for something", such as the Defense nerf (-33% anyone?) or the recent Mind Control Cap nerf (out of combat only). However the reason is never explained in hindsight, when more information is available. As such, players get the impression that you are indeed, nerfing fun. If you could get a dev's reasoning on why it had to happen, such as a game breaking possibility with the old MC cap, then I'm sure we'd all be more satisfied.

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Just a few questions for when you wake up:

Don't you agree that "8D" has to be one of the cooler emoticons? Beats :-) i think.

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And i've been to denmark once. Do you like "guf"?
I don't at least. Been asking a lot of guildies this aswell, i can't understand how it can be found tasteful.

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Also i met thundgot at TG.. Do you think your hunter would beat his mage in a duel?

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Hmm you'r quite active latly so ill go ahead and ask do you remember me from dreamhack this year we talked quite a lot :)

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And if you could sticky the new rarecrafts of magtheridon

http://forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-magtheridon-en&t=26546&p=1&tmp=1#post26546

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Remake the rogue class conserns and this might change:

http://vanerasyouarenot.youaremyfriend.com/

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Oh my god! =P
But Vaneras, have you ever did something wrong you shouldn't do in WoW?

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Do you remember what the other two were? I would like to know which names you ditched, just out of curiousity :) (If you don't use them in-game, ofc)

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Nice to see you being just as addicted as any of us :D

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OMG TYPO

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Well since everyone is shooting questions and getting answered, I want to ask Vaneras something as well.

Did you enjoy playing 1-60 more than 60+ or the other way around. This is a question that I have debated with many friends and most of them say 60+ is better because the "real" game starts there. I, however, think the game basicly ends at 60. Or at least the fun part. After that there is no more "ding" "gratz!111one", your gear improves with one item per month and you farm the same zones/instanses all day. More like a job eh?

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Dont you find a bit of the "magic" is lost as a regular player when you know all the internal workings of the game?

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I used to GM on a MUD and I certainly found it spoiled alot of the fun of being a normal player. I was able to do live-quests for players (switching into NPCs etc), which ensured I could still have fun - but the regular player part was never the same.

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Excellent thread. When you're done here, prune it archive it and send copies to US and China. =)
Anyhow, to the questions:

How much activity and general knowledge of the game is required for a CS position at Blizzard; what can be expected from the average GM/CM? Would the requirements for a developer be similar?
I'm kinda curious about this since I'm aiming for a career in game development but facing the dilemma between loving extensive games and requiring to attain extensive first-hand knowledge of such games to design them. When I eventually get full-time employment I imagine it would be very difficult to devote the needed playing time for MMOs in particular. I guess many of us have had conversations where we basically had to educate GMs on parts of the game, though their intentions and behavior were good, and I'd really not want to end up in such a position.

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Do you assign GMs different areas of responsibility? Obviously they can't master every aspect of the game and some have impressive knowledge of the intricacies of raiding while others appear to never have set foot in MC.

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Are any of the current Blizzard employees managing to lead big guilds on the side?

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To what extent do Blizzard employees use UI modifications? Do you have a policy on this?
They are pretty much a part of the game but I imagine it could be counterproductive in situations. I've occasionally found myself offering incorrect advice because I've taken some AddOns for granted and forgotten the defaults, nor even gotten a proper impression of how the default UI has developed over time.

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Could you give an update on how things are looking for the GRP? We haven't heard much since the plans were announced 3 months ago.

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Is there any chance you could give slightly better notice before releasing new patches?
How long notice do you expect (completely non-comitting guess AKA not at all a promise ;)) we'll have before the massive 1.11 goes live?
It can be hell for guild administrations to suddenly find that a patch will be coming out the next morning at reset. I imagine it must be even worse for the American guilds.

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Since you know pretty much about the background of WoW and also it's game mechanics... i wonder if you could really enjoy end game raiding at it's best.

For example, your guild starts doing BWL, i think you could easily tell them all the leet tacs and get them anywhere in virtually no time at all, ofcourse it still depends on the skill of your guild wether you progress quickly or not, but you COULD bring in some very critical information that could speed things up very radically.

Just wondering though... i guess that once your guild commences a new encounter you stay quiet and listen to their story's, whilst knowing what will happen with the tacs they have just come up with? :P I'm not saying you are helping your guild by giving them background information, but it must be frustrating sometimes that you know your guild will fail whilst you COULD do something about it... for example, (i'm do not know where your guild is in raiding progress ofc.) doing nefarian, and telling them how to manage stage 1 and stuff...

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Vaneras are you being payed extra for answering our questions? I can't think of another reason for the sudden change :). Two weeks ago the threads which had blizz reply were less than your replies in this thread alone. Furthermore the replies we were getting until now were mostly a copy-pasted c*ap or a link to a sticky thread.

You really deserve a raise :-)

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I want to ask a question too!

You say that you have several other characters (well don't we all :P), do you ever get tired of doing the same quests over and over? I've levelled a mage and a priest to sixty and now when I level my warrior I find it kinda boring to do the same quests again. Have you had the same feeling?

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Great post, would there be any chance of one like this appearing on a more regluar basis ?

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Something like once a month yourself, Aeus or Thundy open a general questions thread for 2 or 3 days to answer questions in this way. You could rotate so that this month you've done it so next month one of the others could do it.

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btw. Are there any other MMORPG's you would play at home or do you feel some sort of loyalty to Blizz and play only WoW. Persona;;y I'm gutted that the Dune one got cancelled, but bett for Blizz as they get my cash instead :-)

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What was your first impression when entering the Blizzard building and get to talk with people?

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What did you start talking about?

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How close were my guesses Van?

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Oh Vaneras you want Thunderfury on your hunter? :)

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Vaneras, do you as proud dwarf player agree with a fellow inhabitant of the great city of Ironforge, that we should break off our alliance with the treacherous night elf race?

History has already proven that they don't like to help us! The only reason they helped out us smaller races, was because one of us was foolish enough to help them out once, so the night elves felt obligated to aid us while the horde was driving us back into the once proud kingdom of Lordearon!

All they do nowadays is hop around like bunny's, use their pointy ears to sting us, pat gnomes, sit on dwarves.. We need to free ourselves from this surpression!

Every dwarf and gnome should know by now what kind of faulty creatures the night elves are.. Everytime i meet one a feeling grows stronger in my heart.. They were corrupted by the Burning Legion to annoy us! I will do everything i can to show their dark scheme's to the world, so we can rid them from Azeroth for the rest of our times.

So Vaneras, what do you say. Let's pick up our arms and slay them all! If only it were possible :( for some reason i am not allowed to attack them and take revenge for the daily annoyances :(

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so thundy doesnt like to post on the forums? because i find he is rather in-active compaired to you.

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Well now that we know you don't mind answering these questions, there's been this one question which has always been bothering me;


Was Chuck Norris in any way whatsoever involved with the design of High Overlord Saurfang?

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Vaneras, apologies if this has been answered before, but how long do you hope to be working at Blizzard for? And if you were given the opportunity to, would you work on any other Blizzard games or stay with WoW?

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Also, do you do anything other than CM'ing for Blizzard? Like getting the beer when it's all gone :O

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This is probably my one time opportunity to actually get a blue response, so here goes:

As you probably do not know, it is my personal quest to get named non-combat pets and/or mounts (the pet thing is most important to me).

I would love to actually be able to name my pet (and perhaps mount). How are we supposed to bond with a pet if the player next to you has the same one? I have the luck of having the Collectors Edition, so there aren't many people with a zergling, but still I would love to name it... why can hunters name their combat pets but we cant name our non-combat pets? :(

Can you tell me if this has ever been sent through to the developers (and if not, would you please do so? :P)?

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Forgive me if this was already asked and answered, but what do the other CMs (i.e. Thundgot and Aeus) do whenever it's just yourself keeping order on the forums? I was under the general belief that it was at least one of you taking turns or working the same shifts throughout the day. So what do the Forsaken and Goblin do when they're not around here, if you don't mind/are not endangered by answering?

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Great thread, you shouldnt spoil us with too much replies tho cos when something bad happens and there is silence everyone will go "wtf u spammed that 'Life as a gamer' thread but dont care about <not really important issue>!!" ;)

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A question then, what do you think about the PTRs revealing content? I mean people are already progressing through Naxx with PUGs. You might argue that its a PTR, its there for testing, but I think that some content should remain hidden. Spoilers suck!
Dont they have testers of their own over there at blizzard?

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Thanks for reading

EDIT: Oh, and who do you think will win the WC? ;)

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First of all: THX 100 TIMES for doing this Vaneras, this is improving the relation between blizzard and players... trust me. I never thought that some day a Blizzard Representant would come to the forums answering all the stuff. I'm only sorry that this type of action took more than a year to come, but THX FOR THIS any way, im really happy!!

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I have 2 qwestions:
A) Do u think that the game is well balanced between aliance and horde?(i know this is a ruff qwestion... if u don't want to answer it just say: "no comments")

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B) Is there something that you really really would like to see in game and that is not implemented yet? If yes, tell me just 1 or 2 things. (like fighting while mounted or something ike that)

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Sorry for my bad english, but english is not my main spoken language (portuguese btw).

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drink more coffee/coke... you're beginning to slack ;)

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Yeah lets hope they do indeed :)

To either Thundy Aeues or Vaneras : How many chicks do Cm's get per week? :)

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Respect to you Vaneras for taking the time to answer questions that people have. It's nice to see.

Been thinking hard on a question that'd be interesting enough to get a good reply. I couldn't think of one, so I would like to ask if there's ever been a time when someone at the office has been excited over something they've seen or heard that a guild has accomplished in game?

Like really excited, screaming something along the lines of "OMG! Dudes and dudettes! look at this!! OMG!" :)

I'm bored...

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Not sure if this is a place to ask such a question... but do you use any of game database resource, such as Thottbot or Allakhazam? Or do you try to solve everything by yourself? How do you feel about these web-sites?

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Hey, we danes are good at english, but some slips are bound to occur ;)

tyrkfjel!

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What's this? A blue reply on almost every question? How... peculiar! *cough* Enough snide comments out of me ;), what I would like to know is: what moment in the game made you go "F*ck yes!" or "HAH! IN YOUR FACE!"

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Based on something I heard I just have to ask:

Is it normal for GM's/CM's to watch "europe firsts?" By that I mean, watching a guild take down a boss for the first time in Europe?

If this is true, do you watch it on bigscreen during breaks or what?


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I must say is that one thing I wish more then a new instance, new races, new legendaries is more feedback from blue on important issues. I know you said that you would like it to and you have to make sure what you say is 100% correct. Even so, issues like class downfalls or things we think need a look at would be nice if we had at least some feedback from time to time to at most know what the devs are working on majoritally (if thats such a word). As you can understand as a player, although you got a head start on us, that not knowing if an issue has even been looked at is frustrating. Even if you say "I'll forward this on to the dev's" to the most constructive posts. If you do that 1x a day I'd prefer that then that'd make me happy.

At least we won't feel ignored :-)

EDIT: less exageration :-)

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Wooh.. Yeah, thanks. =) Watching Poker: European Poker Tour right now. The supreme Gus Hansen (Who btw. is a Dane =) ) is owning them. =D

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You?

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zomg stop going offtopic 8D

but seriously, do you have an inkling if new servers will be coming anytime soon.

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Heh =D Vaneras, where in Denmark are you from? Sjælland, Fyn, Jylland eller et andet sted? =) Hvis Sjælland og ikke i KBH, så bare sig hvad for et amt. =P

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Vaneras, why don't GMs ever come and meet me

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What issues do they come ingame to solve?

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one last question :), do you have anything to comment about the children in the goldshire building? the demonic ones :)

peace out :)

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my computer has malfunctioned havent been able to play wow for a week now :(

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anyway i have a question for you, however if you dont find time to answer its no problem ^_^

lets say, playing on your dwarf hunter you stumble upon a badly geared character called xinjao who answers you in chinese and rarely leaves the grinding spot, you know he is known as a "farmer".

would you ever contact a GM in person at work to notify him that such a person is working on the server and try to get him banned?

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btw really good job with answering all these posts, and ofc its really cool your danish too!

damn troede du var fra københavn! :p

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Seriously, Vaneras, can you say few words in French ?
Est-ce que ta petite copine est française? answer me, pleaaaaaaase !

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Vaneras what happens if someone /spits on your corpse?


*Vaneras has gained Enrage*

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Carlsberg ou Tuborg? =D

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Any chance of a way to invite our friends to try the game before buying it?
(such as with the US "Recruit a Friend"-program though not neccessarily with a reward)

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Will Thundgot undergo a name-change with the release of BC?
Will he force an increase in the amount of possible digits in character names when the number of races exceed that amount?

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And thanks a lot for answering the other questions.

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Always nice when the community and Blizzard communicates, gives the players more faith.

Anyway, i've got a question for you;

What do you feel when you see things like "this/that CM is a damn c*ckblock" and so on, like if i'd say "Vaneras is such a *hole as CM" in /say and you would see it ? Would you pretend it diden't happend or did curiosity kill the monkey ?

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I came up with another question tho, *if* you would get tired on the game, would you quit your current work at Blizzard ?

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Oh, and a last thing, as a guy on the US forums said in a thread, it's wrong taste on the pie in the warlock forums, could you check it out ? (perhaps less flamebaited rabahrber ?)

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EDIT: Another question, as i've read somewhere that WoW is a 5 year project, what do you see yourself doing in roughly 4 years from now ?

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Van, another question hope ya dont mind :)

but, as im sure you know of, www.warcraftmovies.com

do you watch/like some movies on there?

do you prefer to watch pve/pvp? or do you just log into your account@work and watch all you want there?

ty
Sodam

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Quite an interesting read this has been :)

I do have 1 question (no not a new realm question shock horror).

When you PvP against someone and they happen to beat you do you sometimes go "argh I wish they didn't have that bloody imba skill!"

Note - The skill is probably not imba, just felt like at that moment in time :)

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Hello Vaneras.

I came from EQ2, a decent game but one that didn't really wet my 'appetite'.

What done it for you?

What done it for me I hear you ask, I stealthed as a rogue at level 14 all the way through Stonetalon thinking I was invisible to all those high levels (LOL), the excitement, the anticpication, thats what gripped me and that's what made me love WoW.

What was your defining moment ingame which made WoW stand out from the other decent MMO's out there?

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One thing I really need to ask you Vaneras is that what kind of music you listen? =)

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I was just wondering if there was any news on open character transfers?

I have a 60 Warrior that I would like to bring to over to my main characters server :)

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As do the dwarves, ie a head to put yer pint on when there are no tables free at the inn, a beard to mop yer chin with when there are no napkins available and best of all a friend who looks like his father mated with a goat :) gives you hours of endless humour and jokes :)

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Vaneras, I would just like to thank you for all the questions you've answered in this thread about just about anything. You've answered ALOT of my personal questions about working at Blizzard Europe.

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You see, I've applied for a GM position and I'm actually flying down on Wednesday for a live interview about the position (I'm writing from an alt on a friends account, for several (some obvious) reasons).

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I had some (natural) fears about all of this, but if anything you've given me a very positive image and now I hope I get the job more than ever (I fluctulate alot between utter dread of (possibly) moving and extreme joy and excitement)

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I would just like to ask you what you thought about relocating, what was the hardest parts with the actual relocation in your opinion? Not counting leaving friends/family (in Denmark).

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I'm from Sweden, myself, and have worked in Denmark, btw. ;)

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My worst dread as of now is getting lost in Paris and actually miss the appointment. :-)

<3
Sort Guld in my heart. ;)

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Let it be known that Vaneras is infact a CM(Community Manager) who makes the forum a nicer place to be in, he's not a GM who sorts out in-game problems.

I'm sure it's been answered before, but... Vaneras, are you a PVE person(raider) or a PVP person?

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Hello! Nice thread you got going here. I have a question for you mr."blue"! Can we expect the server to server fee based transfer system to go live this summer as promised?

-sincerely Jarlath

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I think he stated in that interview that he has a girlfriend.

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How often do you feel unable to post useful information because it isn't 100% certain yet and a great mighty storm of whining could be expected if it would be changed?

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If I recall correctly, it was you who issued the "blue challenge" to the US OT'ers. As I understand it, things turned rather messy there. How did Coreiel react? =)

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Why don't EU blues have nicks such as Feathers, whelp, Facetree etc. ? I guess they're community-made though so that's a bit curious.

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I've heard rumors that Naxx would be on a 2 weeks reset timer but haven't seen any blue posts confirming it. Is that so?

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The quest chain for AQ Gates is one of the most epic experiences I've had in my WoW career. However, it's way out of scale for players wanting to complete it these days, since they don't have a full guild determined to do it to open AQ.
Is there any chance that the requirements (particularly the elementium cost and the green drake farming) will be lowered to a level that makes it possible for them to complete the questline?

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What's a "psychotronic muzzledorf"? We've adopted this term as title for one of our Dwarves but Narain Soothfancy refuses to elaborate. =(

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Once again, really nice to see one of the "blues" being chatty here :)

And just outta boredom and ofc some curiousity I too shall ask a question ^^

What zone in WoW do you feel is the most beautiful?

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Brilliant thread, Vaneras, thanks for all the responses!

There is one issue that is nagging my mind, and I wonder whether you could ease my mind on it, or if not, forward my concern:

Is the limit of 10 characters per realm per account (and the limit of 50 characters in total per account) going to be relaxed any time soon, maybe for the expansion?

I am one of those players who like to play many different characters (I don't consider myself to have a 'main'), and I have reached the 10 characters per realm limit on both the realm where my horde chars live (arathor) and the realm where my alliance characters live (stormrage). I would like not to have to delete characters to experience the starting areas of the new races...

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I have been thinking about this for a while, and I hope I can get an answer in this thread.

I wondered if Blizzard expected the players to progress this fast trough the game. When the game was released, the players cleared MC/Onyxia pretty soonish, then they released BWL, wich was also cleared pretty soon! Did Blizzard expect to see so much and fast progress in the game? Or are we slower then you expected?

Hope I get an answer,

Argos.

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Here's a question for you Vaneras: Do you ever get bored at work? If so, what do you do? (plz don't say play wow, you'll push me deeper into depression... :P)

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And a re-post of my original question: Does Blizzard give his employees extra time off to be able to fly back home and visit friends and family?

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So, Vaneras, any idea why so many danish players just have to put "dk" in their names, or in their guilds?

Enlighten us plx! :)

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http://www.ondmis.dk/billeder/rodekasse/exam.jpg

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Do you Vaneras have insight in all the other project Blizzard has? They for sure have not yet revealed game titles, diablo 3 (?) and so on. Or are you tied just to the WOW universe at blizzard. You should be able to talk to some ppl working on those project but do you actually now what other projects blizzard is up to right now?

Not about to get that the project information out of you. I'm just curius. I heard when warcraft 3 was in the middle end of the development blizzard said that everyone there, including the janitors, had homework playing the game =)

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Vaneras a question (doh)

Are you going to Dreamhack this summer? :)

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Vaneras, do you enjoy your guild?

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Alot of profanity usually sprouts in guilds as a way of joking, what are your views on this?

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Ok ok i'm going to ask a question because i can xD.

Vaneras,

Have you ever been onto the warlock forums and said "OMFGZZZ NERF TEH DEATHCOILZ LOLZZ!!!11!!!!!ONeleleven"

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Just wanted to say Hello! to the Danish Blizzard representative.

One more thing though. Do you know Thundgot and Aeus in real life? And if you do, do you call them by their nick or by their first name? :-)

Because sometimes when I meet people online first and then later get to meet them in person, I call them by their nick, because the first name of a person is usually the one I associate with them.

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y00 have n00b gear you still wear level 28 shoulders :S (look at ur image)

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Hi Vaneras,

now that i can catch your attention in this topic tho, can you tell me about a queue issue and plans to fix it for my realm? its spinebreaker, it seems that migrations on this realms are totally useless, the last one to mazrigos i think few ppl migrated and there is the same queue's as always. Yes, the problem is that the majority of this server is spanish and we arent likely to split, any solution into it? :S

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thanks in advance, and sorry for my english :-)

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Hi Vaneras,

now that i can catch your attention in this topic tho, can you tell me about a queue issue and plans to fix it for my realm? its spinebreaker, it seems that migrations on this realms are totally useless, the last one to mazrigos i think few ppl migrated and there is the same queue's as always. Yes, the problem is that the majority of this server is spanish and we arent likely to split, any solution into it? :S

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thanks in advance, and sorry for my english :-)

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