iv Enthusiast Gaming Acquires Icy Veins

[Manabaerchen 2]

Maybe bringing a Diablo 2 Section. Back then, when LoD was released i loved it to look up guides, runewords, all uniques etc. Some Section with a database or something like POE Vault, just for all Diablo games. Maybe theres a chance for some other MMOs as well, upcoming MMos like New World or Ashes (if it will be ever released *lol*)

[Damien 1,514]

8 hours ago, Arcling said:

Understandable, so will the Borderlands and Overwatch categories be removed? Since they've been abandoned for so long, it looks like there is no need to keep them around.

We'll remove them from the menu when we make room for Diablo Immortal and Diablo 2 🙂

[Damien 1,514]

10 hours ago, em2000 said:

Not sure if on a related note, but could you separate somehow posts (more precise spoilers) from PTR WoW from regular posts? Hard to follow and somehow skip the "less wanted" info from you, on Facebook at least.

@Stan @Starym Any suggestions there?

[Damien 1,514]

4 hours ago, Manabaerchen said:

Maybe bringing a Diablo 2 Section. Back then, when LoD was released i loved it to look up guides, runewords, all uniques etc. Some Section with a database or something like POE Vault, just for all Diablo games. Maybe theres a chance for some other MMOs as well, upcoming MMos like New World or Ashes (if it will be ever released *lol*)

We will have a Diablo 2 section, that's already in the works 🙂

[rooster 2]

big grats to you founders! have been on this site since day one when u started. 

[Arcling 872]

5 hours ago, Damien said:

We'll remove them from the menu when we make room for Diablo Immortal and Diablo 2 🙂

It means that soon half of Icy Veins will be Diablo! More like Hellfire Veins!

Edited May 11, 2021 by Arcling

[Starym 3,775]

18 hours ago, em2000 said:

Not sure if on a related note, but could you separate somehow posts (more precise spoilers) from PTR WoW from regular posts? Hard to follow and somehow skip the "less wanted" info from you, on Facebook at least.

Other than clearly marking them as spoilers (which we do for the lore/story stuff) I'm not sure what can be done on Facebook specifically, as there's no filter really available. Did you mean the actual "technical" posts as well (like Soul Ash or item level numbers and stuff like that)? If we let something slip through regarding the story without properly adding spoiler warnings that's just a mistake on our (news writers) end. The other thing with facebook is that basically it decides which of our posts to show you and when, it's not a direct feed like twitter.

[Starym 3,775]

5 hours ago, Arcling said:

It means that soon half of Icy Veins will be Diablo! More like Hellfire Veins!

It will if I have anything to do with it! Can't wait for D2 tbh, already have like 5 friends lined up to play who aren't even that big into gaming 😄

[thurk 52]

22 hours ago, Devylknyght said:

They have websites with journalists that include political propaganda in their articles, and then they promote and link to those articles in their Wowhead mainpage news feed. Then they immediately remove comments and warn/ban users for having dissenting opinions.  

Here is such a post still up on the wowhead news feed:

https://www.wowhead.com/news/fanbyte-weekly-news-picks-mortal-kombat-movie-nintendo-direct-apple-subpoenas-321098

And here is article link from that page:

https://www.fanbyte.com/news/heres-everything-you-missed-from-todays-nintendo-direct/

If you want to post junk like that, whatever. But don't then silence your users when they want to comment back about it. 

Gotcha... TBH I can see why they would shut down a political discussion on a gaming site that had links to like 10 articles, one of which was a huge list of gaming stuff but had one tiny not-very-hot political take, it's kind of really digging for relevance.  

But not exactly my definition of "super corrupt" or "agenda driven"....

Edited May 11, 2021 by thurk

[Guest]

so this explains the new look of IV (header missing, all the games of blizzard broken up into their own neat little boxes?)  Sorry, but I like the way it was before. 

[Devylknyght 83]

14 hours ago, thurk said:

Gotcha... TBH I can see why they would shut down a political discussion on a gaming site that had links to like 10 articles, one of which was a huge list of gaming stuff but had one tiny not-very-hot political take, it's kind of really digging for relevance.  

But not exactly my definition of "super corrupt" or "agenda driven"....

I could see your point if it wasn't a link to an article on their own website written by their own employee, and then their own moderators shut down discussion on something THEY wrote and linked to. If they shut down discussion on that, how many other times have they done something  like it? Only they could tell you. Once was enough for me.

I have switched to Icy Veins as my wow news source and place to chat on the forums freely and fairly and so far I am very happy with my choice. 

[Vlad 411]

3 hours ago, roo said:

so this explains the new look of IV (header missing, all the games of blizzard broken up into their own neat little boxes?)  Sorry, but I like the way it was before. 

We haven't changed our design in quite a long time, and certainly not since the acquisition. I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to either... do you mean this?

[Valhalen 1,484]

Congrats Damien and the whole staff. I hope this merge goes great for both sides!

Edited May 13, 2021 by Valhalen

[Damien 1,514]

On 5/12/2021 at 1:29 PM, roo said:

so this explains the new look of IV (header missing, all the games of blizzard broken up into their own neat little boxes?)  Sorry, but I like the way it was before. 

What new look? Nothing has changed.

[Yridaa 490]

21 hours ago, Vlad said:

We haven't changed our design in quite a long time, and certainly not since the acquisition. I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to either... do you mean this?

 

14 minutes ago, Damien said:

What new look? Nothing has changed.

Perhaps he means the mobile version of IV, where it moved to the top right corner (But he might not have seen that).

[Guest]

On 5/12/2021 at 8:32 AM, Vlad said:

We haven't changed our design in quite a long time, and certainly not since the acquisition. I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to either... do you mean this?

Hi Vlad and no.  What I was seeing had no header, that was the concern. I could only go to other parts of the forum, nothing else.  Possible some type of maintenance was going on? Or as Yridda said, somehow I wound up on a mobile version (I don't have a cell phone) while on the computer?  I need to add that I came to IV that day from a message sent to my gmail account on new updates.  

Edited May 15, 2021 by Guest

[Vlad 411]

2 hours ago, roo said:

Hi Vlad and no.  What I was seeing had no header, that was the concern. I could only go to other parts of the forum, nothing else.  Possible some type of maintenance was going on? Or as Yridda said, somehow I wound up on a mobile version (I don't have a cell phone) while on the computer?  I need to add that I came to IV that day from a message sent to my gmail account on new updates.  

There was some maintenance a few days back, maybe you caught us right in the middle of that and that's what contributed to the weird display issue.

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Vlad said:

There was some maintenance a few days back, maybe you caught us right in the middle of that and that's what contributed to the weird display issue.

that is probably it.  For it has been normal since then.  Thanks. 

[em2000 1]

On 5/11/2021 at 9:45 PM, Starym said:

Other than clearly marking them as spoilers (which we do for the lore/story stuff) I'm not sure what can be done on Facebook specifically, as there's no filter really available. Did you mean the actual "technical" posts as well (like Soul Ash or item level numbers and stuff like that)? If we let something slip through regarding the story without properly adding spoiler warnings that's just a mistake on our (news writers) end. The other thing with facebook is that basically it decides which of our posts to show you and when, it's not a direct feed like twitter.

I meant the posts like the new raid (with its end boss) and the new megadungeon. I know most of them promote loot/mechanics, but you give away a bit of lore when you reveal who you'll be facing (and potentially killing).

[Starym 3,775]

8 hours ago, em2000 said:

I meant the posts like the new raid (with its end boss) and the new megadungeon. I know most of them promote loot/mechanics, but you give away a bit of lore when you reveal who you'll be facing (and potentially killing).

Hm, interesting. Generally, we don't consider things that Blizz announce during BlizzCon and other official means as spoilers, but I do see your point (I'm very spoiler-averse myself - unfortunately not for WoW since that would be impossible).

[Guest]

Actually, I am glad to see spoilers, etc, and am not spoiler-adversed.  Blizzard has changed the lore so many times from x-pac to x-pac, books, and even in the middle of the current game, it has become highly confusing.  I find when I do see the story line, it is much easier to figure out things.  Honestly, keep it up IV.  Besides, talking about things, this keeps the game interesting and I would bet I am not the only one out here.   😉

[Bubble181 14]

I completely missed this post, so I'm a bit late, but congrats. Hope IV manages to remain neutral and honest in reporting and informing; I don't know Enthusiast gaming but for you guys I'll give them the benefit of the doubt 🙂