Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Preparing for offline-ness.

Hey.

So I used to play this game called World of Warcraft.. I quit playing, but checked their database the odd time to see how long it had been since I played, see what old friends were up to etc.. Well last night I logged on an saw that my characters had been active yesterday! REMINDER: I have not logged on in months. Anyways, so I downloaded a trial account of WoW, found out that in fact they were active, and it wasn't just a glitch from the database. So in other words.. someone had hacked my account while I was away from the game. So after wondering how someone hacked into my account considering I have very strong passwords, I spent most of last night awake wondering if the e-mail address associated with that account, and all my personal information that I provided when I signed up for WoW could give them anything on me.. or if I should change my passwords, scrap that e-mail and make a long list to companies changing my e-mail. So I phoned Blizzard (company that created WoW), and explained everything that went on, and who I was, and verified a bunch of stuff, then got the account under my control. I figure I spent around 2500 hours, most likely more playing the game, so If I lend my account to someone to use - fine, but I certainly won't have some fool steal my stuff, and use it for their own gain - they can burn in hell and I'll watch them die slowly for all I care. So I decided to get get the entire account BANNED permanently, so that this can never happen again. Whoever it was that took my account over had my name, address, phone number, and other stuff on me, and thank god I wasnt using a credit card to pay for the game or else they would have scooped that too! So It's 1:10, about 50 minutes until the WoW servers are back on, and I'm excited about finishing this once and for all. I just wanted to leave the game in peace, and log on the wow database the odd time to see how many months I had gone without playing, look at a couple statistics and achievements that I had done during my years of playing... so it comes down that I can't even do that. My account will be banned, then nobody can get into it, and use my stuff, or get access to my personal info. This winter has been rough enough, the last thing I need to worry about is some pedophile in a jail somewhere using my stuff, or some 12 year old hacker stealing my shit. I knew that when I quit WoW a few months ago that I wouldn't come back, I had already set my mental state to accepting that fact, but now that everything will be locked permanently, there's an extra peace of mind. It's said that 40% of players that play that game are addicted, and having a base of over 11.5 million, you can do the math.
Tonight is martial arts, and I'm supposed to do a workout before hand, but seeing as I barely slept last night, I'm not sure how either of these things will turn out. Im about to make some lunch and then attempt a workout. Tonight I'm not sure what I'll do besides going to bed early after class. It's been a long day so far and it's only coming up on 1:30.

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