Warcraft, whats it all about?

[sovietsong]

I saw an advert with Mr.T, whats it all about!?

[Sheriff Fatman]

It's about watching hours of your life disappear effortlessly.

There's an old thread on it here somewhere if you do a search from around this time last year.

Very addictive game and a lot of fun.

[sovietsong]

Just wondered how it works/whats the idea behind it.  If Mr.T thinks its good...

[Sheriff Fatman]

Sort of a Lord of the Rings type environment.  You choose a race (Human, Elf, Dwarf, etc) for your character and pick a 'side' to be on (good vs evil type thing).

Basically, its then like any other quest based game, only better.  You do quests to make money and progress up the levels.  However, as there's hundreds of other players doing the same thing you can team up with them, trade with them, etc so there's much more interaction than a single player equivalent.

You should be able to find a free trial easily enough (it'll take ages to download though).  Best thing is to give it a spin and see for yourself.

I weened myself off it after about 3 months by not renewing my subscription.  Newmanseye got even more hooked than me I think!

Also, if you do play it, you absolutely MUST watch the South Park Warcraft episode, which was written with the help of the WoW developers.  One of the best episodes of South Park around, and that's high praise from me!

[vegaslover]

Can defo recommend the south park wow episode.
Look up wow funeral on you tube, sick, but funny as.

[Cybertim]

my son is never off this game... he's a level 70 whatever the heck that is.  must admit though it looks like lots of fun

[Acidmouse]

Its one of those games that is a massive time sync. If you have kids or family dont bother.

Just one of my level 70's has 86 days play time on it, go figure

[snoopy1239]

Its one of those games that is a massive time sync. If you have kids or family dont bother.

Just one of my level 70's has 86 days play time on it, go figure

That's the reason I haven't played it. I used to play a play-by-mail quest game (called Quest, funnily enough), so I know I'd easily get hooked on this. Unfortunately, I just can't lose that much time at the moment.

[Gowardo]

I have unfortunately "lost" about 2 years of my life on this... but, to reiterate, it IS indeed a lot of fun.

[snoopy1239]

I have unfortunately "lost" about 2 years of my life on this... but, to reiterate, it IS indeed a lot of fun.

How much time do you have to give the game to play it properly?

[Newmanseye]

This is a fantastic game, but it sucks up time like you would not believe.


I have a level 70 warlock and we "raid" the end game challenges, its 25 - 30 people working together in real time to kill a lot of pixels to score loot and brag about how good ( imba ) you are.

I wish i could give it up, but its too much fun, one nights raiding is 5 - 6 hours non stop.

[Longy]

Is this the game Elky (Betrand Grospeiller first supernova elite on stars) used to play for a living in South Korea. How do you make money from it?

[Robert HM]

Prepare for an large increase in W.O.W. players. Runescape has had some major rule changes leaving many players unhappy and threatening to move.

[Sheriff Fatman]

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=17917.0

Link to the original thread for info.

[Longy]

Is this the game Elky (Betrand Grospeiller first supernova elite on stars) used to play for a living in South Korea. How do you make money from it?

Hmmm it appears not, he used to play starcraft for a living in South Korea. Which appears to be similar but I know nothing about this kind of thing.