Being not the standard alert that I get for email or a meeting, I looked up to see a fading visual alert on my desktop PC screen. Something about a "gift".
"What on earth..." I began, and hunted for the Battle.net window.
Quickly locating the little gift box icon on the screen, this is what was inside:
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| Whiskey Tango Foxtrot... |
Um, yeah, this is awkward. I mean, do they even know that I'm a blogger, and that I've not done diddly on Retail in ages? Sure, I've hopped on and tooled around Stormwind --or Dalaran 1.0 (I think that's 1.0) or whatever the base of operations in Mists is-- but I've not done a single quest, much less anything more interesting than a few screenshots. They have to know that Classic and TBC Classic are my jam these days.
Since I'm overly cautious, and my line of work is in security, I went ahead and opened a support request to verify that these were legit. I'm pretty sure I'll get a "Yes, they're legitimate, don't worry so much!" as a reply, but this just seemed too much of a coincidence that a few days after I'd done some poking around in Retail I suddenly get this dropped in my lap. Surely there's an automatically generated "gift" that appears like this when certain conditions are triggered.
Now, if only Blizz read my blog and would actually provide me with the info I'd really like to see, about how many accounts actually do various activities in-game....
#Blaugust2022
I got those on my account today as well. I figured they're pushing them out to people who don't have it since we're towards the end of the expansion and it'd be free once the new one hits anyways... I hadn't logged into retail for months that I recall, maybe even a year or more.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's the "well, we might get someone to try it out this way" concept. Kind of like what you might have seen in the Gorak's Guide on Launch Day for Classic.
DeleteOops. I meant the one after the Launch Day, but the Queue of Trials....
DeleteNo wonder (your comment on Last Chapter). It’s no security risk, it’s just Blizzard luring in more players for Shadowlands. Atheren
ReplyDeleteOh, uh, yeah. Oops.
DeleteHmmm.... If I opened up BattleNet on BTH's computer -- he still has it around because every now and then he gets the itch to play a bit of Starcraft II -- would I find this gift pushed to his account?
ReplyDeleteYou just might! (And I take it that we're talking about your other half?)
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