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[WoW] Figureprints and EBay (dont move)

Gnomeland SecurityGnomeland Security Registered User regular
edited January 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
Wanted to drop an interesting topic into the debate forum which im sure some overly active mod will be tempted to move 3 or 4 times... so please hear me out first :P

With figureprints being mentioned on the front page, i decided to share my lament with everyone here. I recently entered (and lost) the december 21st drawing to purchase a figureprint for my wife. Oh well, i figure i can try again in 3 weeks so its not that big of a deal, right?

Well i thought wrong.

One of my guildies who WON the figureprint drawing ended up selling his figureprint account to another guildie for 50 dollars. WoW! So, someone just paid 50 dollars to get the right to pay another 100 dollars to have his character printed?

This to me, sounds very... ebay?

When i went to check ebay (just to see what the going rate was) i found that there was nothing. Nothing? Yes nothing. Nothing stored under figure prinnt, warcraft figureprint, etc. Upon looking into this further, i discovered that it had become another one of Ebay's BLOCKED items.

Great, why?

What now?

It seems odd first of all that people would sell their *golden ticket* and secondly that ebay refuses to cash in on organizing the fiasco. I figured they allowed murloc pets and other random Warcraft items to be sold, but why block this?

Has anyone ever looked into Ebay's warcraft bad list ? or how Blizzard/friends have so much control over ebay? (i know that one kid selling his leveling guide got blocked thanks to blizzard, but thats about it)

Oh, and character sales were banned too... forgot

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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Figure printing is where that place makes a statue of your character, right?

    Jesus, they cost 100 bucks?

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Link? Description?

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Figure printing is where that place makes a statue of your character, right?

    Jesus, they cost 100 bucks?

    Not only that, the slots are by lottery (unless you're willing to drop $5K on a laptop.)

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited December 2007
    Thinatos wrote: »
    I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Link? Description?

    You get a sculpt of your character in a pose of your choice - the actual face/hairstyle of your character and whatever gear you want on him.

    Echo on
  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    So... what? They give them out by lottery? What sort of lottery? How many picks? Do they give a reason for limiting it so much?

    Information, please.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Echo wrote: »

    You get a sculpt of your character in a pose of your choice - the actual face/hairstyle of your character and whatever gear you want on him.

    Well, only the gear that Blizz says you own according to their Armory website.

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  • Gnomeland SecurityGnomeland Security Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Thinatos wrote: »
    So... what? They give them out by lottery? What sort of lottery? How many picks? Do they give a reason for limiting it so much?

    Information, please.

    there are 3 ways to get *in line*

    1. Buy a special edition dell laptop that comes with a *golden ticket*

    2. Know someone who works at blizzard (just like how i got my blizzcon tickets)

    3. Enter a *random* lottery at www.figureprint.com . You can enter under a *new account* which can be generated with ANY active email address and NOT a world of warcraft account. So, people have entered using like 20 different gmail accounts and improved their chances of winning. Needless to say, these lotto winners just resell their tickets to the highest bidder.

    Personally, i think blizzard/figureprints fumbled the ball on this one

    G G

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Thinatos wrote: »
    So... what? They give them out by lottery? What sort of lottery? How many picks? Do they give a reason for limiting it so much?

    Information, please.

    Okay, they have drawings for the slots to have figurines made, mainly because they have very limited capacity to make the things (they use a 3D fabbing process to create them.) So you have to sign up on their website for a drawing.

    Or, you can buy Dell's $4.5K WoW behemoth lappy, which comes with a "Golden Ticket" - a guaranteed figurine. (And at that price, it damn well BETTER be.)

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I'm surprised they're not just flat selling them.

    I'll bet they will, as soon as they've wringed the suckers for as much money as they can get off the Dell laptops.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited December 2007
    Well, only the gear that Blizz says you own according to their Armory website.

    Then they'd damn better be caching stuff in case I happen to be a male tauren wearing a wedding dress and santa hat while they check it for the sculpt. :P

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Thinatos wrote: »
    I'm surprised they're not just flat selling them.

    I'll bet they will, as soon as they've wringed the suckers for as much money as they can get off the Dell laptops.

    They are. It's just that they're relatively new, so their production is...limited. Hence the lottery for slots to buy one.

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    They are. It's just that they're relatively new, so their production is...limited. Hence the lottery for slots to buy one.
    So... Blizzard is using marketing to milk it for as much money as possible, from the idiots willing to pay obscene amounts for a game.

    It's called "business as usual." I don't see why this is even mildly surprising.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Thinatos wrote: »
    So... Blizzard is using marketing to milk it for as much money as possible, from the idiots willing to pay obscene amounts for a game.

    It's called "business as usual." I don't see why this is even mildly surprising.

    Well, in part. It's also that this is actually pretty new tech, so production is honestly limited.

    Oh, here's a pic of one of the end figurines:

    photo003.jpg

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  • Gnomeland SecurityGnomeland Security Registered User regular
    edited December 2007

    They are. It's just that they're relatively new, so their production is...limited. Hence the lottery for slots to buy one.



    they are using a pressed-paper 3d modeling rapid proto-typer like most manufacturing industries use to mock up parts now for display purposes

    on average (ranging the cheap machines) it takes about 2-4 hours to layer out a model of this size and complexity (this was back when i saw the technology years ago, not sure how advanced it is now)

    Now, add to the fact that i believe reading somewhere that these things are hand painted, and you can see why it takes so much time to get one.

    From the point where you are selected from the lottery, you have a week or so to *lock in* your order (outfit your character, transfer it and pay cash money) then they will complete your model with in 90 days.

    WOW!

    Btw, waiting to see if someone wears their murloc suit and prints it :)

    I KNOW I WOULD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    They're not handpainted - the color is actually placed during the fabbing process so it bakes into the figurine. That said, they have a modeler go over the final figurine model before it's fabbed, to make sure it's all correct.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited January 2008
    Hay, look what today's comic was.

    20071231.jpg

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  • TaximesTaximes Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Anyone dropping $4500 on a Dell Laptop just for a ticket is pretty stupid - for $5000, you can get your own 3D printer and make whatever you want.

    df_printer_proto.jpg

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Echo wrote: »

    Then they'd damn better be caching stuff in case I happen to be a male tauren wearing a wedding dress and santa hat while they check it for the sculpt. :P


    This?
    Kerrww.jpg


    I am too lazy to go look it up somewhere on the WOW fan art site is a Korean scupt of a female paladin in tier 2 that is pretty good

    If I really wanted one of the figures I would make my own since my warlock looks like a clown in her current gear compared to how cool Felheart was
    I might go try it and see how it goes just making the female undead body would be a pain

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  • ArrathArrath Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Brainleech wrote: »


    This?
    Spoiler
    Kerrww.jpg

    I am too lazy to go look it up somewhere on the WOW fan art site is a Korean scupt of a female paladin in tier 2 that is pretty good

    clay5.jpg?

    If you ask me I kinda prefer the cutsey little styleized clay model.

    *Picture grabbed from the MMO forum WoW chat thread.

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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I would love to get a sculpture of my warlock after I got some more tier six... but not for a hundred dollars.

    And than, blizzard has only been 'milking money' since WoW. Before that they created a long string of games of exceptional quaility that have blown the competition out of the water. They were notorious for delaying game released until the product was to their specifications - not churning out games for cash.

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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I probably would have paid $50 for a picture of my feral druid dancing in cat form back when I played. But happily I've now broken that addiction.

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  • Regina FongRegina Fong Allons-y, Alonso Registered User regular
    edited January 2008

    Or, you can buy Dell's $4.5K WoW behemoth lappy, which comes with a "Golden Ticket" - a guaranteed figurine. (And at that price, it damn well BETTER be.)

    Hah hah. I got as far as "Windows Vista" and closed the browser window.

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  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Kalkino wrote: »
    I probably would have paid $50 for a picture of my feral druid dancing in cat form back when I played. But happily I've now broken that addiction.

    ...

    You mean a generic feral druid in cat form? They all use the same model. (Well, one of two models, anyway.)

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited January 2008
    Heh. Cue the character screenshot thread and a guy showing off his druid at every 10 levels.

    It's the same picture.

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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Feral wrote: »

    ...

    You mean a generic feral druid in cat form? They all use the same model. (Well, one of two models, anyway.)

    Yeah i know its generic, but that dancing cat was quite cute, the nelf at least.

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  • ÆthelredÆthelred Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Given that ebay scalpers are bad, doesn't this make Billzzard.. good?

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    jeepguy wrote: »

    Hah hah. I got as far as "Windows Vista" and closed the browser window.

    Welcome to 2008. Every new computer will have Windows Vista on it, and people will eventually learn to cope with it and stop bitching, like they had to when Windows XP came out six years ago.

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  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2008
    Taximes wrote: »
    Anyone dropping $4500 on a Dell Laptop just for a ticket is pretty stupid - for $5000, you can get your own 3D printer and make whatever you want.
    Spoiler
    df_printer_proto.jpg

    Except there is a lot more than an IBM ThinkPad and a $5000 3D printer that doesn't handpaint the damn figures to that laptop.

    jeepguy wrote: »

    Hah hah. I got as far as "Windows Vista" and closed the browser window.

    HAHAHA YOU'RE SO FUNNY. :roll: That's the Microsoft operating system right now on new machines. It's a Dell, what did you expect? They aren't Apple so it's not running Leopard. WoW runs on Vista.

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  • Regina FongRegina Fong Allons-y, Alonso Registered User regular
    edited January 2008

    Except there is a lot more than an IBM ThinkPad and a $5000 3D printer that doesn't handpaint the damn figures to that laptop.


    HAHAHA YOU'RE SO FUNNY. :roll: That's the Microsoft operating system right now on new machines. It's a Dell, what did you expect? They aren't Apple so it's not running Leopard. WoW runs on Vista.


    I'm sorry, but I've played with Vista and it simply blows. The military is not upgrading to it, so all threats that "everything coming out from 2008 on will only run on Vista" are BS. :P

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  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2008
    jeepguy wrote: »
    I'm sorry, but I've played with Vista and it simply blows. The military is not upgrading to it, so all threats that "everything coming out from 2008 on will only run on Vista" are BS. :P

    Thank god we don't measure ourselves by the slow-as-molasses IT adoption of the US military. No one ever said everything coming out from 2008 on blah blah blah rhetoric bullshit was happening. It's just really shallow to see the pre-installed operating system (that you're more than welcome to change once it's in your possession) and go "lolNO".

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  • Regina FongRegina Fong Allons-y, Alonso Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    No one ever said everything coming out from 2008 on blah blah blah rhetoric bullshit was happening.

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  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2008
    jeepguy wrote: »

    Aside from the red with no comment, can you show me where someone said that? I simply said that Vista is the operating system Microsoft is currently offering.

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  • Regina FongRegina Fong Allons-y, Alonso Registered User regular
    edited January 2008

    Aside from the red with no comment, can you show me where someone said that? I simply said that Vista is the operating system Microsoft is currently offering.

    No one said it here. If I had a dime for every time I heard it though...

    But enough thread derailing, I'm done.

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  • big_wallbig_wall Registered User new member
    edited January 2008

    Thank god we don't measure ourselves by the slow-as-molasses IT adoption of the US military. No one ever said everything coming out from 2008 on blah blah blah rhetoric bullshit was happening. It's just really shallow to see the pre-installed operating system (that you're more than welcome to change once it's in your possession) and go "lolNO".

    Also, consider that in my unit at least (and we were the Army's IT headquarters in Germany) we did not upgrade to Windows 2000 until 2004. Upgrading to Win2k3 took a relatively short 2 years.

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    edited January 2008
    Daedalus wrote: »

    Welcome to 2008. Every new computer will have Windows Vista on it, and people will eventually learn to cope with it and stop bitching, like they had to when Windows XP came out six years ago.

    No, not every new computer will have Windows Vista on it. The corporate world is very slow to adopt Vista, and the system builders are agrain free to preinstall XP and maintain their bulk discounts. Vista is a shitty OS for everything but DX10 gaming (and DX10 is itself pretty underwhelming) so your "Welcome to 2008" comment is pretty douchelicious. Vista is the Windows Millenium of the new millenium.

    jeepguy's comment was silly for a different reason: Yes, it would be logical for Dell to give the buyer the option of getting XP or Vista preinstalled. However, that would mean we're expecting a $4500 Warcraft-branded gaming laptop, a white elephant already completely devoid of any logical reason to exist, to offer a logical choice of operating system. That's like asking the Mad Hatter politely for decaf.

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited January 2008
    Yeah, that's how my mage looked after a few hours in Burning Crusade.

    20080102.jpg

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Back when the Dc figures were first shown I thought they could be better. Now with this I am going to try to make my own figure or figures and see if they are any better

    So when I fix some of the current problems and I can go to a hobby shop I shall start

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  • fairweatherfairweather OregonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Echo wrote: »
    Yeah, that's how my mage looked after a few hours in Burning Crusade.

    Same for my warlock. It was amazing to see the jump in how gear looked going from level 60 into BC. I went from having a nice looking set of gear that more or less matched to wearing a weird hat, a bronze / brown shirt, and some hideous purple and green pants if I remember correctly. Around 65+ my gear started to more or less look good again, and now I'm in frozen shadoweave and a mix of blues and epics.

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  • Gnomeland SecurityGnomeland Security Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    its funny

    going through BC, i was one of those people who refused to upgrade my t1/2/3 mix (2 pieces of t1, 3 pieces of t2, 4 pieces of t3) because i just couldnt stand to break the set bonuses

    finally, at level 70, i started making the epic crafted gear and using some of the high end quest blues that made sense... then progressed to kara gear and down the yellow brick road

    i dont think leveling up everyone should be so fast to use the first fagatronic green that is minorly better when set bonuses are involved... it fixes things like this

    btw, my alt (extremely less geared) still used his crap ass level 60 marshal shoulders (old skool pvp ones) til level 70 due to there being no decent alternative

    boo blizzard itemization team!

    as for figureprinting... if i get a hold of a golden ticket or code, im actually kicking myself for wanting to print my gnome warlock up in her t5 warlock gear instead of t6. Dont get me wrong, the t6 looks cooler (4 pieces btw) but the t5 shoulders on a gnome still look amazing

    shrug, oh well

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  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2008
    Damnit people, speak English! WE SPEAK ENGLISH HERE.


    (I don't play WoW so I don't understand the references ;-))

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