Warcraft Experience

Now if this headline doesn’t grab your attention I don’t know what will. Take a peek to see one person’s perspective, written up in InformationWeek, on online gaming.

Online games like World of Warcraft and Second Life are absolute dictatorships, where the whim of the companies controlling them is law. Cory Doctorow wonders if it’s possible to create a game that’s a democracy, where your in-world property is really yours. Read on…

Now this is something that never even occurred to me and I’m fairly suspicious of any way Peds can get to our kids. I feel sorry for the parents out there that are so far behind the times even this little bit of warning won’t get thru. Just goes to show how diligent we have to be and how f’ed up the #)$#(@#)@(#)$# nasty assh*les are.

Better check what guilds your kids join in the World of Warcraft. Abhorrent Taboo on the Ravenholdt server observes in the behavior of ERP (Erotic Role Play) and screen shots how admittance of the leader about he feels about minors. So far, no Blizzard Employee has made any comment about it. Do you feel safe having your child playing in this guild?

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Holy Moly! WoW is becoming mainstream to the point of entering the world of professional online sports, with Quake 4, Counter Strike & Guitar Hero.

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Out there in RL a WoW player has been able to lose weight while playing his favorite game.

Playing World of Warcraft can cause you to lose weight without having to move from your computer, a gamer has claimed.

According to Joystiq, one of its readers, Greg, managed to lose 41lbs – nearly 3 stones – from his 274-pound frame in just three months.

Of course it was not just playing the game. Greg strapped his keyboard onto the display of his exercise bike and installed a side table to operate his mouse.

He hung his 46-inch Samsung LCD to hold his attention, using WoW from his XPS Gen 2 laptop to stop him getting bored while he biked.

Dubbing his method ‘warbiking’ Greg was able to do 100 hours of cardio biking which would have meant him dropping dead of boredom if he had not had his favourite game beside him.

Of course real biking never seems to have occurred to him because that would meant going outside, a place which is only a fable to most WoW players, despite having better graphics.

Read the article here.

WoWVault is now offering the 90 Beta keys up for several random drawings! (You’ll see it was first mentioned earlier this week if you browse down) Read below for further info and the link to sign up:

Here we go folks… We are excited to bring you a series of sweepstakes drawings that could land your butt in the The Burning Crusade Closed Beta. We were originally going to run some form of “contest” like every other site has done, or will do. But I felt that was too limiting for the very large, and diverse, WoW community. I wanted something that will give everyone an equal chance at winning. So, we have a standard random drawing sweepstakes set up for the community to do just that. Just fill out the form and hit submit — that’s it! We will most likely pull 10 names every few days and announce them to keep this thing going for at least 2 weeks (with 90 chances to win this round!).

Enter Now!

There are a few ground rules that MUST be met in order to participate:

• Must possess a valid retail World of Warcraft account and in good standing as of October 8, 2006.
• The Email address submitted must match with the one used with your World of Warcraft Account.

Everyone loves to win stuff and to celebrate the second anniversary of WoW, Blizzard will be running a series of competition sweepstakes.

To celebrate the second anniversary of the launch of World of Warcraft and to show our appreciation to our community, we will be awarding prizes over the next five weeks! Your support, enthusiasm and dedication have made us the #1 MMORPG in the world and we couldn’t have done it without you!

During the week of October 30th, we’ll be awarding 2 lucky winners per day a $100.00 Jinx Gift Certificate.

WarCry has 100 beta keys for the Burning Crusade and will be giving them out soon. So keep an eye out here or on their site for more information.

Nooooooo!

IRVINE, Calif. — Blizzard Entertainment® today announced that the release date for World of Warcraft®: The Burning Crusadeâ„¢, the highly anticipated expansion for World of Warcraft, will be in January 2007. By adding a few extra weeks to the development cycle beyond its original target date, Blizzard will be able to extend the closed beta test and further refine the new content that will ship with the game.

“We appreciate the enthusiasm surrounding World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, and we’re excited about putting the finishing touches on all of the new content,” said Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “We feel confident that the extra time spent polishing the game will result in the high-quality experience that our players expect and deserve.”

Blizzard began the closed-beta phase of testing on World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade earlier this month. The January 2007 release window will allow extra time for current beta testers to participate in the final stages of development and continue providing valuable feedback.

Further information on specific worldwide release dates, pricing, and other details will be announced in the near future.