WoW Customer Support Does Your Math Homework

[Blights]

This is fake, due to the spelling errors within the gm's reply at the end of his message back to the customer. Blizzard doesn't employ people that spell wrong

I got into a conversation with a GM once. Most of them do play WoW, they can't use their GM accounts when they're not at work and for most of the time talking to players, they're restricted to some kind of Macro Sheme, depending on the problem.

When talking to him normally, as he said he had a bit of time to spare, he spammed me the list of Macro's and there were around 50. Pretty strange stuff, most of them involving the problem I needed dealt with, some quite strange ones and the other one being the thing they say to you once they start the chat.

 

[uppitycracker]

I might buy WoW just to get my homework done!
This also reminds me of the austin pizza pic!
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lenw48hF8L1qzpwi0o1_500.gif

i love austins pizza. they generally hire a lot of my friends haha, so this is not surprising by any means.

 

[Canid117]

I love Blizzard.

 

[JordanXlord]

...the hell is this?!? If this is a true story, GM's must have even less of a life than the average WoW player. This is weird.

i play wow...yet i have a awesome life


I have a hot Girlfriend Who also plays

and my best friend jayson just hangs out at my place and plays Black ops on his ps3


so life is good

 

[Leg End]

Getting a WoW subscription.

I'm not even going to play, just getting one because this is just fucking awesome.

Believe me, I'd rather you kept your soul. Having mathematic geniuses at your disposal is cool and all, but not worth blinking and realising you are either chronically overweight or malnourished and the year is 2014...

I have no soul and I fit the former in your description.

It's perfect.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

[quote="karloss01" post="7.262275.9896010
seconded.

if its real i want to know how bored the GM was at the time to actaully work it out.[/quote]

Well, the problem is actually fairly trivial if one has enough training in math. While I have no idea what sort of education requirement Blizzard customer support might have (I wouldn't expect it to be much), if the CS guy who responded had a degree in computer science (as an example), this would be an easier problem to solve than "My account was hacked!!!!!" by a lot.

 

[Mr. Socky]

...the hell is this?!? If this is a true story, GM's must have even less of a life than the average WoW player. This is weird.

i play wow...yet i have a awesome life


I have a hot Girlfriend Who also plays

and my best friend jayson just hangs out at my place and plays Black ops on his ps3


so life is good

Notice I said the average WoW player's life. To be honest, I'm probably one of the worst, despite not playing WoW. I play other MMO's, I run my own game blog, and I'm looking into a degree in Game Developing. Still, it's WoW. Nothing personal, but yeah, I have to make fun of WoW players. It's my rule.

 

[JordanXlord]

...the hell is this?!? If this is a true story, GM's must have even less of a life than the average WoW player. This is weird.

i play wow...yet i have a awesome life


I have a hot Girlfriend Who also plays

and my best friend jayson just hangs out at my place and plays Black ops on his ps3


so life is good

Notice I said the average WoW player's life. To be honest, I'm probably one of the worst, despite not playing WoW. I play other MMO's, I run my own game blog, and I'm looking into a degree in Game Developing. Still, it's WoW. Nothing personal, but yeah, I have to make fun of WoW players. It's my rule.

Wow...Im sorry for being a jerk

I am also looking into Video Game Development

me and my friend are already coming up with ideas (well actualy we have been planing Video Game ideas since we were 13)

 

[JordanXlord]

Getting a WoW subscription.

I'm not even going to play, just getting one because this is just fucking awesome.

Believe me, I'd rather you kept your soul. Having mathematic geniuses at your disposal is cool and all, but not worth blinking and realising you are either chronically overweight or malnourished and the year is 2014...

I have no soul and I fit the former in your description.

It's perfect.

so you would Buy the Greatness of Wow...JUST FOR MATH?!


that's like buying Black ops just for the campaign

 

[Leg End]

Getting a WoW subscription.

I'm not even going to play, just getting one because this is just fucking awesome.

Believe me, I'd rather you kept your soul. Having mathematic geniuses at your disposal is cool and all, but not worth blinking and realising you are either chronically overweight or malnourished and the year is 2014...

I have no soul and I fit the former in your description.

It's perfect.

so you would Buy the Greatness of Wow...JUST FOR MATH?!


that's like buying Black ops just for the campaign

But I did buy it for the campaign... bought the Loli-damn Prestige Edition...

 

[theultimateend]

It's pretty amazing to think the Customer Support team for an MMO such as WoW would have access to the Internet and are trained in the use of Google... will wonders never cease?

Sarcasm aside, I found the exact same answer to that question on Yahoo! Answers [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101214010253AAH1igW] by typing the question into Google, and I don't even understand the question (or the answer).

I don't understand why the person didn't just use Google himself, rather than wait for the WoW GM's to copy and paste his question into Google and get back to him with the copy and pasted answer.

Did the response by the GM have the same typos as well?

 

[KiKiweaky]

haha they have a sense of humour alright you have to hand it to them.

 

[Jamash]

It's pretty amazing to think the Customer Support team for an MMO such as WoW would have access to the Internet and are trained in the use of Google... will wonders never cease?

Sarcasm aside, I found the exact same answer to that question on Yahoo! Answers [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101214010253AAH1igW] by typing the question into Google, and I don't even understand the question (or the answer).

I don't understand why the person didn't just use Google himself, rather than wait for the WoW GM's to copy and paste his question into Google and get back to him with the copy and pasted answer.

Did the response by the GM have the same typos as well?

I can't really tell, it all looks like one massive typo to me.

However, both answers contain the curious word "criticxal" on the last line... is that a typo? I don't know, algebra might as well be in Greek from what I can make of it.

 

[theultimateend]

It's pretty amazing to think the Customer Support team for an MMO such as WoW would have access to the Internet and are trained in the use of Google... will wonders never cease?

Sarcasm aside, I found the exact same answer to that question on Yahoo! Answers [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101214010253AAH1igW] by typing the question into Google, and I don't even understand the question (or the answer).

I don't understand why the person didn't just use Google himself, rather than wait for the WoW GM's to copy and paste his question into Google and get back to him with the copy and pasted answer.

Did the response by the GM have the same typos as well?

I can't really tell, it all looks like one massive typo to me.

However, both answers contain the curious word "criticxal" on the last line... is that a typo? I don't know, algebra might as well be in Greek from what I can make of it.

Ah then that answers that.

Shame.

Either way I thought it was cute.

 

[Mr. Socky]

...the hell is this?!? If this is a true story, GM's must have even less of a life than the average WoW player. This is weird.

i play wow...yet i have a awesome life


I have a hot Girlfriend Who also plays

and my best friend jayson just hangs out at my place and plays Black ops on his ps3


so life is good

Notice I said the average WoW player's life. To be honest, I'm probably one of the worst, despite not playing WoW. I play other MMO's, I run my own game blog, and I'm looking into a degree in Game Developing. Still, it's WoW. Nothing personal, but yeah, I have to make fun of WoW players. It's my rule.

Wow...Im sorry for being a jerk

I am also looking into Video Game Development

me and my friend are already coming up with ideas (well actualy we have been planing Video Game ideas since we were 13)

It's fine. My original post was more than a little... inflammatory. If you don't have the balls to accept an insult in return, you really don't belong on the internet.
The more I learn about game development, the more it blows my mind how insanely complicated it is. Good luck to us all.

 

[Idocreating]

This is fake, due to the spelling errors within the gm's reply at the end of his message back to the customer. Blizzard doesn't employ people that spell wrong

I can assure you, I once had a rather typo-happy GM at an early hour of the morning once.

 

[BarbaricGoose]

Just kill me if I ever have to solve a math problem like that.

That, and the unicorn fighting a bear was hilarious, though.

 

[mew4ever23]

So this is why I can't get a hold of a GM when I have an actual issue. Nice.

 

[Azmael Silverlance]

Yeah ive heard and seen alot of similar stories where GMs had fun conversations with players or answered in funny ways

 

[Rkiver]

Having used to work for Blizzard as a GM before the Burning Crusade release, when it was quiet if we got a funny one like that we always tried to answer it, because 1) It was funny and 2) It was always nice to do something a little funny for a customer.