Gamer Culture, MMORPGs, PC, World of WarCraft
Just 27 hours after the European World of Warcraft servers went online for the expansion, a player by the name of Nymh reached level 80. Levels on average take about 7-10 hours, while his average was 2.7 hours. How did he do it, and more importantly, should we encourage or discourage this type of achievement?
Events, MMORPGs, World of WarCraft
Blizzard listens to us. Believe it or not, they actually have people read through all the forums and all the comments from the beta. Because of all the suggestions and comments, Blizzard has created some epic raids, dungeons and items—great ways for players to experience them all. Here are the latest WotLK details, announced at BlizzCon.
Gamer Culture, MMORPGs, PC, World of WarCraft
When playing the WoW beta and into the fresh release, the game lacked any real endgame content beyond Blackrock Spire. So, I began leveling on a PvP server. I leveled to about twenty and had to stop — I couldn’t afford the booze to medicate myself from the awful game play. I was killed, camped, killed, camped – did I mention I was killed and camped? So, is there a reason to level on PvP server in WoW?
Thursday night: a night of either great excitement, or disappointment. This hinged on if you were lucky enough to find an email from Blizzard lighting up your inbox. For most of us, disappointment, though a number of you lucky dogs out there received this most treasured surprise: an invite to the WotLK beta. We have a quick rundown from the past few nights of what we now know, thanks to squelched alpha voices, and the new beta testers.
Although November may seem like a long way off, those of us waiting for the second WoW expansion do have something to occupy our time. Between a flood of information on GameSpy, the World of Warcraft website and miscellaneous forums, WoW lovers may well find themselves reading up on the expansion up until it comes out–so let’s start now.
World of Warcraft has finally jumped on the idea of introducing an achievement system, and the new tactic has appeared in a recent build of Wrath of the Lich King’s (WotlK) alpha testing. Achievement systems are nothing new in MMOs; the Lord of the Rings Online has had an achievement system for quite some time now.
Given successful MMOs tendency to incorporate unnecessary and occasionally inane features, we must always ask when we see this sort of announcement: is this a good thing? Quite honestly, there’s no harm, but it does appear like this is yet another instance of needing acknowledgment for small victories. Those that have played little league baseball or peewee football know exactly what I am talking about: everyone gets a trophy! So now, Blizzard has introduced its own trophy system, and the list of achievements have raised some eyebrows to say the least.
