Muslims Cross The Line
After hundreds of years of completely reasonable actions, Muslims in Somalia have gone too far. An Islamic militia that has taken control of central Somalia killed two people for watching a World Cup soccer match. Television was banned after the Muslims gained control of the area.
Usually the Muslim way is to sit down and have a calm and reasonable discussion about the disagreement. If common ground cannot be found, then Muslims will usually, Agree to disagree. But the actions of this militia caught everyone off guard. A businessman was showing the Germany-Italy match in a hall on satellite TV when a group of soldiers ordered them to stop watching the match. The teenagers defied the orders and the Islamic soldiers opened fire. The businessman and a teenage girl were killed. Sadly, the game was considered one of the best of this World Cup and the dead missed an exciting last minute flurry by Italy to seal the victory.
Awash in confusion from the actions of these Muslims, the world now waits nervously to see if this out of character violence will spread to other parts of the Muslim world.
Paid Character Transfers At Last?
There's been a lot of speculation about paid character transfers coming to World of Warcraft: mainly gossip and conjecture about cost, logistics, and--oddly enough--a lot of chatter about how it's somehow a very stupid decision on Blizzard's part. Last night, in the forums of all places, word spread about a leaked (but not really) internal FAQ document from Vivendi Universal Games Australia. Set to be published this morning, June 22nd, at 8am, the document claims that while the transfers are imminent, they will not be available across all reams. Yet. Blame load balancing issues. I just beg that Deathwing is included!
At a cost of only $25 per transfer, a figure much below other competing MMOs, Blizzard will surely be plating their gold--with gold.
On numerous occasions, I've seen the whimpering of multiple account owner players begging to be given the chance to transfer their characters to the same account, and now, with paid character transfer, you can.
Transfers between accounts are only allowed between accounts where you are the subscriber. To initiate an "account to account" transfer, you will have to answer the 'secret question' for each account, and the last name of each account holder must match.
The transfer process will take approximately 10 days to complete, during which you will not be able to play the character in question.
And to those wondering, no, you cannot transfer from a PvE server to a PvP server. However, for those hating the ganked life in STV, transfers from PvP to PvE are allowed.
No official date has been released.