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Hey backers, just wanted to let you all know it's a known issue that you may be seeing ads on the ad-free version of the site. We've been working to improve the site's caching system as we've run into some trouble with it lately, and when we hit a high-load period, it starts serving the site's default state -- which is the version with ads on it. And when it starts doing that, it tends to stick. None of that was the proper technical language because I'm not the tech guy, I don't actually know t...

Last week on Blizzard Watch #10

Almost forgot to share this one with you!

Last week on Blizzard Watch #9

March 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

g-cube Archives | Blizzard Watch

Hey! Just wanted to pop in and make sure you guys don't miss the giveaways we have going on our site right now for G-CUBE peripherals. There's two up right now with a third one coming. This tag will take you to them: http://blizzardwatch.com/tag/g-cube/ We don't have any extras from those giveaways to give directly to our patrons, but in the very near future, we're going to give a Battle.net gift directly to one of you...

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Hey, all! We're aware there's ads popping up on the ad-free supporter version of the site and we're looking into it.

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Enjoy another week of Blizzard Watch! And don't forget to check the site for details of the new show we're starting on Twitch this week Thursday at 2 p.m. Central.

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Hey gang, The Queue should be showing up correctly in RSS now.

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How 'bout that PAX East news, eh?

Blizzard Watch: Episode 5

Everyone who's been waiting for episode #5 of the podcast, it just went live! http://blizzardwatch.com/2015/03/09/blizzard-watch-episode-5/

Last week on Blizzard Watch #4

It's a new month and we're still truckin' on!

February 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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/salute

Patreon benefit update!

Our first month is going strong, and we're thrilled that you've been with us through our transition. Today we have two benefits we're happy to share with you. Benefit #1: Full Text RSS Feed The Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BlizzardWatchFullText Earlier this week we had to turn off the full text feed -- other sites were already scraping our content and it's not fair to our writers to let them do ...

Last week on Blizzard Watch #2

Here's another recap of a week's worth of Blizzard Watch content! Class columns have begun to appear in force and there are yet more on the way.

Your questions for The Queue

Hey backers: do you have any questions for The Queue this week? I'll pull questions both from here and from the posts on-site throughout the week. This comes with the disclaimer that we'll still be sticking to questions we can actually answer; if we simply don't know, or it doesn't fit what we're looking for, please don't be offended if we skip over it!

Last week on Blizzard Watch

We didn't waste any time getting up and running and it's all thanks to you! If you haven't had your eyeballs glued to Blizzard Watch for the past week, here's a recap of our coverage so far.

On advertisements

Continuing with Blizzard Watch's policy of being as transparent about its business as possible, we want to take a minute tonight and let you know we'll begin implementing ads on our site very soon. We want this site to succeed long term. Community fundraising will be the cornerstone of Blizzard Watch, and our success will be based off your generosity. But at the same time we need to be realistic about padding ourselves against future economic trouble and lost interest in Blizzard's games. In ou...

Hey everyone! Many of you have sent me messages here on Patreon and I wanted to let you know I'll get to them as soon as I can. We've been busy bees getting Blizzard Watch up and running and I've fallen way, way behind on messages/email/etc. I haven't forgotten about any of you!

Blizzard Watch site progress update

Hey all! If you haven't seen it on the site, we've just shared an update on our site progress. http://blizzardwatch.com/2015/02/06/blizzard-watch-site-progress-update/

Hey backers: we'd like to link to Blizzard Watch content in the "Creations" portion of this page, because that's what it's there for. How would you prefer to see that done? Should we share individual articles of note? Should we do a weekly thing where we link all of the major posts? Something else?

Patreon funding update round 2

Hey, everyone! Thank you all for your support so far. I've put an update on Blizzard Watch related to future milestones. That is: we don't intend to have any hard goals from here on. Why? Read the post! http://blizzardwatch.com/2015/02/04/patreon-funding-update-round-2/

Funding update!

We've posted a funding update on Blizzard Watch and tackled one of your frequently asked questions about the Patreon platform. Thank you so much for all of the support you've shown us so far. We couldn't do this without you.

@applecidermage tweeted us this phoenix this evening. We're making awesome progress, everyone! We've been live for less than six hours and we're rapidly approaching our first milestone.