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I don't think this is going live. The backlash is astounding.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Blizzard ... 6720.shtml
Oh, it's going live all right.
After a rather hostile reaction from the community of players, the studio revealed that it would be continuing to talk to players about the system but that it would nonetheless go ahead with its implementation.
EDIT: In five and a half years in this community I have never seen a show of unanimity like this. NOBODY enthusiastically supports this. There are a few people in the main forum thread (closing in on 2000 pages btw) who are saying things like "qq it's no big deal," but nobody except Bobby Kotick and his henchcritters are out there going "WOOHOO SOCIAL GAMING!11!!" about it. The WoW blogosphere is basically 100% against it. If that thread is to be believed, there have been hundreds, into the thousands, of account cancellations and there will be thousands more if they push further with this (mine included). No class nerf, no story retcon, no sparklepony, nothing has roused the masses like this before. And I fear it may all be for nothing.