Team MOGS @ Darkmoon Faire Indianapolis

25 Aug 2008 | Category: Fun Stuff

After months of grueling competition in the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game (TCG) tournament, Team MOGS made it to the two-day Darkmoon Faire event in Indianapolis. This is a great acheivement by both Larney and Jon (both in-house Customer Support Agents) and we urge you all to get on to Live Chat to congratulate them!

For the full story, including pics of Larney sporting his MOGS t-shirt at the event, visit the Upperdeck website here.

Download Warhammer Online Beta Client 10x Faster!

10 Aug 2008 | Category: Game News

Mythic have recently started opening up the Warhammer Online Beta to the masses and many anxious gamers, including some of our own staff, have finally got a place! However, a problem we and many other prospective Beta Testers have been experiencing is the amazing slow download option provided by Mythic. The 10Gb file available via Bit Torrent is currently being targetted by thousands and thousands of gamers, with no accessible alternatives available.

Needless to say, many gamers have given up on getting the Beta installed within the next 3 weeks… until now! We are proud to present you a method of downloading the Beta files 10x faster than with the torrent file provided. Here’s how it works…

Three of the first files torrent will bring down (all of which are small files under 2MB) are:

warpatch.exe
patch.myp
patch.cfg

Instruct the torrent to download just these three files.

Create a Warhammer Online folder and drop these three files in there. Double click the warpatch.exe and *fanfare* the client will download directly from Mythic.

We hope this gets you into Warhammer Online much quicker and hopefully EA wont mind too much!

“Blizzard Agent” Threatens MOGS.com

05 Aug 2008 | Category: Fun Stuff

Live Support is our primary method of communicating with existing and prospective customers on the web. Customers get in touch to make enquiries, arrange orders or sometimes just drop in to tell us how great we are!

But on some days something very special happens. When the moon is perfectly aligned with Saturn and the Live Support Agent on-shift wishes really really hard, an un-witting scammer comes to chat, filled with hope and ambition of illegitimately extracting Gold from us. That’s when we like to have some fun…

 

You are now speaking with Dan of Sales

Derek jenson: Greetings, let me introduce myself. I am Derek Jenson, a Blizzard representative, and lawyer specializing in virtual property and virtual contracting. Sites like these are detrimental to our company and we can and will file claims against gold selling sites that do not cease operations. I am here today in order to clarify certain legalities, and hopefully come to an informal negotiation, in order to avoid long, expensive formalities.

Dan: Hi Derek

Derek jenson: Do you understand?

Dan: I…think so

Dan: I mostly just tend to the farm here

Derek jenson: You website breaks section 8 of rules and agreements

Dan: This is my first time away from the sheep, and working customer service.

Dan: What is section 8? I thought that was my housing plan?

Derek jenson: section 8 is in world of warcraft witch you had to agree to

Dan: I am a druid in WOW

Derek jenson: ok

Dan: I like flying my epic mount

Derek jenson: umm…

Dan: Can you tell me if it is true that they will have flying rhinos in the expansion?

Derek jenson: you do know this is a serious crime

Dan: Flying rhinos?

Derek jenson: no

Derek jenson:
selling gold

Dan: My epic mount?

Derek jenson: and my son asked the same thing

Dan: Oh selling gold?

Derek jenson: yes

Dan: About the flying rhinos?

Dan: Does he buy gold?

Derek jenson: yes

Dan: Oh really?

Dan: cool

Dan: He can have an epic flying rhino then

Dan: So now what is section 8?

Derek jenson: i

Dan: I know my landlord takes it

Derek jenson: wait typo

Dan: Its okay my fingers get a little happy too

Dan: What is section 8?

Derek jenson: “You may not purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, or offer to purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, and any such attempt shall be null and void. Blizzard owns, has licensed, or otherwise has rights to all of the content that appears in the Program. You agree that you have no right or title in or to any such content, including the virtual goods or currency appearing or originating in the Game, or any other attributes associated with the Account or stored on the Service. Blizzard does not recognize any virtual property transfers executed outside of the Game or the purported sale, gift or trade in the “real world” of anything related to the Game. Accordingly, you may not sell items for “real” money or otherwise exchange items for value outside of the Game.”

Dan: Are you a creditor looking for me?

Derek jenson: no we decided not to sue

Derek jenson: though i think i should speak to your boss

Dan: I’ll pay the debt! I just need to harvest the wool from my sheep.

Derek jenson: ok

Dan: My shears are broken and my brother cut his thumb off

Dan: the medical bills are awful and now all he has is a stub

Derek jenson: um we dont want money

Dan: What do you want? My apartment?

Dan: My sheep?

Derek jenson: no

Dan: The Milk Bucket?

Derek jenson: no

Dan: I don’t have much else.

Derek jenson: we want to stable our enconmy in wow

Derek jenson:
we want gold becase of contest transfers

Dan: Well, I suppose I could Sell my epic snail

Dan: He’s not fast, but a rare in the game

Dan: We could ride around together if you’d like

Dan: ?

Dan: What can I do to help?

Derek jenson: we will never bother your company again

Dan: I am very interested in a stable

Dan: My horse is sad

Dan: he needs a stable

Dan: Never again?

Derek jenson:
nope

Dan: Is this because of the epic snail or my brothers thumb?

Derek jenson: i will tell you how and how much

Derek jenson: the wow gold

Dan: For my snail or my brother’s thumb?

Dan: OH

Dan: I’m sorry I bumped my head earlier

Derek jenson: The surplus has come to 15, 456 gold

Dan: Popped the trunk of my pick - up truck and it knocked me silly

Dan: Can’t pronounce many of the PH sounds

Dan: Or J’s

Dan: I am having serious J issues.

Derek jenson: yeara(us)alliance-side is suffering

Derek jenson: that amount will save the sever

Dan: They come out in series of JJJJJJJJ

Dan: Which server is suffering?

Derek jenson: yesra

Dan: Oh

Dan: I did hear about that

Derek jenson: our currnecy holder Gravex wishes to be sent the money so he can put it in the market place

Derek jenson: this is a once in a life time deal

Dan: The economy is broken, the people are taking to the streets with pitch forks, clubs, and torches.

Dan: Did they hang any wayward merchants.

Derek jenson: this is very serious

Dan: Wrong time wrong place

Dan: Derek I am very serious

Dan: I am concerned about the merchants.

Dan: I heard there were executions in the streets?

Dan: Mobs of druids and

Dan: Orks

Dan: Very sad times

Derek jenson: look are you going to send the gold or not?

Derek jenson: becase the clam is $278,000

Dan: We could start a morning breakfast program for the children

Derek jenson: in court

Dan: Soup kitchen might help

Dan: I will personally donate the milk I gather from the cows.

Derek jenson: yes or no sir?

Dan: Look do you want my milk?

Dan: I am trying to help

Dan: I have a depressed cow to tend to. I could churn butter

Dan: I make some good butter

Dan: Is this really Derek or a creditor?

Dan: Derek my head hurts

Derek jenson: yes this is derek

Dan: I think my eye is starting to discharge a greenish fluid.

Dan: is that unhealthy?

Dan: Do you have a medical background?

Derek jenson: that is personal

Derek jenson: i tryed to help

Dan: seriously the fluid is pouring out now onto my bagel

Dan: my eye?

Dan: I can’t hardly see

Dan: What is it you want me to do?

Derek jenson: are you going to pay the cash or the gold sir?

Dan: What ?

Dan: What gold?

Dan: What Cash?

Dan: I thought we agreed on milk and butter?

Dan: I could toss in my epic flying cow

Dan: he does gnaw on things a lot.

Dan: Just prop up a salt lick and he will be fine

Dan: Derek, seriously my eye is leaking

Derek jenson: read what i say ok

Derek jenson: 15,456 gold or $278,000

Derek jenson: witcch one sir?

Derek jenson: we will see you in court

Derek jenson: becase im trying to help you

Derek jenson:
are you still there dan?

Dan: I am

Dan: I’m wiping the goo off my bagel

Dan: Perhaps we can meet in person and I can give you the goods

Dan: where do you live?

Dan: Oh wait I have the info coming in from our security system.

Dan: Great

Dan:
IP is detailed

Derek jenson: and?

Dan: this new protection is great

Dan: Will you accept 278,000 in milk and butter?

Derek jenson: are you going to send the gold or the money

Derek jenson: we do not accept milk and butter

Dan: One sec I have to see a bout the cash

Derek jenson: fine

Derek jenson: You also agreed to “You may not purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, or offer to purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, and any such attempt shall be null and void. Blizzard owns, has licensed, or otherwise has rights to all of the content that appears in the Program.”

Dan: What program?

Derek jenson: world of warcraft

Dan: Are you still talking about WOW?

Dan: Oh

Dan: I thought we were working on a deal

Dan: Okay so can you meet me in person

Derek jenson: for wow

Dan: I’ll wear a yellow hat and there will be a monkey with me.

Derek jenson: are you going to give the WoW gold to our yesra(us)alliance-side currency holder Gravex?

Dan: Gravex

Dan: is he a blizzard agent?

Derek jenson: yes a gm

Dan: whats a gm

Derek jenson: Gamemaster

Dan: is that a species of gnome?

Dan: OF

Dan: Oh

Dan: He’s good at the game

Derek jenson: they work for blizzard

Dan: For such a large transaction I would rather just give cash

Derek jenson: he just started

Dan: Can we meet

Dan: Is he in game now?

Derek jenson: no but i can get him to

Dan: Okay

Dan: in front of the mailbox?

Derek jenson: where would you like to meet him?

Derek jenson: stormwind?

Dan: I don’t want to get in trouble…who will feed the monkey?

Dan: Is that where you would like to meet?

Dan: Is that the server that is in trouble?

Derek jenson: i will get him to meet you in front of the mail box in stormwind

Derek jenson: yes

Derek jenson: the gold will save the alliance side sever

Dan: I want to save horde too

Derek jenson: and your site will have immunty from any ban,prison,payment.etc

Dan:
PRISON!

Derek jenson:
horde is doing fine

Dan: that would be no fun

Derek jenson: i know

Dan: Of course with my farming skills I’m sure I could make a mean cheese wheel

Dan: and everyone would be happy

Dan: Can you imagine all those frowns?

Dan: in glee over the cheese

Derek jenson: he is going to meet you now

Dan: we could write a musical and sing and dance around the wheels of cheese

Dan: I would be Mr. popular in no time

Derek jenson: no

Dan: I lok good in stripes too.

Derek jenson: just give him the gold please

Dan: Okay what character server and side

Derek jenson: Gravex ysera alliance

Dan: Okay it will be about an hour

Dan: and you won’t send me to prison right?

Derek jenson: no

Dan: Can you help me get a flying rhino?

Dan: With 3 horns and boots?

Derek jenson:
i will talk to tech guy

Dan: excellent!

Derek jenson: i dont even know if it is real

Dan: Okay Derek and you are sure you would rather not have butter and milk?

Derek jenson: no we are sure

Derek jenson: take care

Dan: Okay I will see you soon

Dan: Our character is sadshoehorn

Dan: let me fix my eye and eat this bagel get my yellow hat and monkey and i’ll be on the way.

Dan: Is there anything else I can do for you?

Dan: Okay

Dan: I’ll be there ASAP

Dan: Thank you for visiting MOGS.com