Blizzard warns Hearthstone players over fake Fireside Gatherings

Blizzard warns Hearthstone players over fake Fireside Gatherings

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http://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-warns-hearthstone-players-over-fake-fireside-gatherings/

Nemsy Necrofizzle, as Tim explained earlier this month, is a new Warlock-class Hearthstone skin that Blizzard is offering exclusively to participants of Fireside Gatherings, the fan meet-up events that bring players together for some face-to-face card-throwing. It's a really fun idea, and of course it's gone terribly wrong. Disgruntled players have taken to Reddit to complain about fake events that leave them without the skin, sometimes after traveling long distances, and at least one guy claims he ended up in actual physical danger.   

The problem, as you can see here, is that "creating your very own Fireside Gathering is as easy as filling in a handful of form fields and clicking a couple of buttons." The only restriction is that you must have won at least three games in Hearthstone in Casual, Ranked, or Arena, not exactly a Herculean task for someone who wants to stir up trouble. Non-established taverns (that is, taverns without a custom portrait) cannot offer the skin, but that's not a point that's made clearly on the Fireside Gathering page—it was actually a redditor who clarified it last week it with this image. 

Blizzard warns Hearthstone players over fake Fireside Gatherings

Oct 26, 2017, 9:17pm UTC
http://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-warns-hearthstone-players-over-fake-fireside-gatherings/ >Nemsy Necrofizzle, as Tim explained earlier this month, is a new Warlock-class Hearthstone skin that Blizzard is offering exclusively to participants of Fireside Gatherings, the fan meet-up events that bring players together for some face-to-face card-throwing. It's a really fun idea, and of course it's gone terribly wrong. Disgruntled players have taken to Reddit to complain about fake events that leave them without the skin, sometimes after traveling long distances, and at least one guy claims he ended up in actual physical danger.    >The problem, as you can see here, is that "creating your very own Fireside Gathering is as easy as filling in a handful of form fields and clicking a couple of buttons." The only restriction is that you must have won at least three games in Hearthstone in Casual, Ranked, or Arena, not exactly a Herculean task for someone who wants to stir up trouble. Non-established taverns (that is, taverns without a custom portrait) cannot offer the skin, but that's not a point that's made clearly on the Fireside Gathering page—it was actually a redditor who clarified it last week it with this image.