Shared Topic: How WoW Has Changed My Life.
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Blog Azeroth threw out the shared topic: How has WoW changed your life? I think for me, the better topic would be “how have MMO‘s changed my life?” Or even more direct, “how has the Internet changed my life?”. I say this because how WoW has changed my life is derived from the Internet and MMO platform it sits on. And I was involved in those things well before WoW came along. When I bought my first PC in 1998, I found my passion. I remember losing weight the first year after my purchase because I was spending so many hours reading about how to fix problems and exploring what was out on the internet that I would totally forget to eat at night. Most of the people I work with are on a PC every day and most of them say they...
Read MoreFar Side of the World
No this isn’t about Pandaria, just a heads up, though there is a reference to this in WoW. On this fine Saturday morning, a day far too hot to go outside, one of my favorite movies has started: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). The film is directed by Peter Weir and stars Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd (Lord of the Rings) and Max Pirkis (Rome) among others. Yes, I love historical films but I know absolutely nothing about sailing and less about British history during the early 1800s. But the main character, Jack Aubrey is this rough navel officer who has this curious artistic soul. He enjoys playing the violin yet he’s far from being a dandy which is what you usually see in characters of this sort, he is a very complex...
Read MoreThe One Where I Became A Panda
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Last night I finished the Pandaren starting zone and I have to say that I was disappointed to have to go to Stormwind. I really didn’t want to leave, it’s so wonderful! I really am impressed with the artwork, I would find myself at times wanting to do nothing more than soak up the surroundings. The world is both brilliant and sedate if both can exist in the same sentence, a true ying/yang experience. Nothing I can say does justice to the world they have created. You just have to see it. The quests are fun with the usual Blizzard sense of humor and a lot of cool mechanics. Lots of them made me laugh in delight but I did get lost in some of the story so I want to do it all over again. The fact that I do want to experience the zone again so soon says a...
Read MoreBack to the Future: Looking at the expansion “leak” again
I’m sure most of you by now have seen the supposed leaked list of expansion zones. I wasn’t sure when it surfaced but after some googling, I found a set of posts on a ZAM Network starting in 2007 all the way through 2011. The guy who posted stated that he’d been sent the info in 2003 or 2004 from a buddy in the Friends And Family Beta. Later in the thread (August 2009) he admits to faking the list and writing it himself in Fall 2007. I thought it would be fun to take a look at it again as it’s been a while since the thing made it’s way into the open. How close is his 2007 post to what we are seeing in 2012? When he wrote the list, Burning Crusade was already released. So this is spot on and he could have changed some names to make...
Read MoreThe Places of Cataclysm
I was reading one of the Cataclysm Post Mortems and ran across this video. I had forgotten about it, so cool to see it now. I love Metzen’s voice at the beginning. And it makes me look forward to Mists even more! Tell Someone:TwitterFacebookEmail
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