Thursday, August 19, 2010

The World of Warcraft Phenomenon And Wow Overview

Things about world of warcraft can always attract people's attention, how much do you know about it? Do you have an overview to it?

World of Warcraft Background

To say it correctly, world of warcraft started from 15 years ago. You will be surprised to learn that the first version of Warcraft arrived before the hugely popular Command & Conquer franchise. Blizzard went away after the first success of warcraft release, then a couple of years later, came out again with the warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. This expansion of warcraft expanded the universe, introduced new characters and species and made the game more involved than ever before. Blizzard paid much attention to the multiplayer aspect which finally made Blizzard the top developer of multiplayer games.

Now World of warcraft is famous for its three expansions: Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King and the upcoming expansion Cataclysm.

To begin to play world of warcraft, you have to select whether you are going to play as a member of the Alliance or the Horde. Each species has its own strengths and weaknesses so it's down to you which one you go with. The character that you control is known as your Avatar, which is your representation in the virtual world. The aim is to power level your character to become stronger and reach high levels.

To be different from other games which you play against the computer, world of warcraft supplies you the condition to play online with other real human beings. The game also differs slightly in that it operates a kind of 'pay as you play' scheme so you have to either pay a monthly subscription to keep logging in or buy pre-paid playing time. This business way makes Blizzard much profit than any other game providers.

World of Warcraft innovations

From Blizzard's first research, they tried to make the multiplayer an integral part of the games which eventually proved to be very successful, because now it's officially recognized by the Guinness book of records as the most popular MMORPG ever made and one estimate by mmogchart.com puts their market share at 62% of the entire MMORPG industry.

Players can easily get the idea why it take Blizzard nearly five years to develop world of warcraft. There are a huge range of innovations and features that couldn't be found in other MMORPG's at the time it was launched. To be different from other games, Blizzard made reincarnation swifter and easier for players to get back in the thick of the action. The same concept applies to damage an Avatar suffers in battle, recovery is quicker to help casual gamers compete on nearly the same footing as hardcore gamers.

As the game's fun part, a sense of harvest, build and grow can't be ignored, so in world of warcraft, your Avatar needs to earn gold to buy weapons, eat, sleep and generally survive in the virtual world. You can simply achieve this by completing 'quests' which once completed give you gold or weapons. The pursuit of wow gold (http://www.mmocarts.com ) is one of the great fun when playing it.

With the mode of playing with real human beings, you will find that WoW is literally a virtual community that mirrors much of the real world. You need to earn gold to survive, you need to buy weapons and items with the gold and you need to interact with others to become more successful.

World of warcraft's relation with real world

As a reflection of real world, you also need to earn gold to survive. You can collect items such as copper and sell them at auction house for wow gold. With the gold you get, you can buy new weapons and enable your Avatar to survive in the virtual world.

Since wow gold is a little difficult to farm in the game, and people's desire is always countless, so there is a big need for players to buy wow gold from online sites. Though buying wow gold is against Blizzard's rule, that can't stop many people continue to take part in.

Regarding the popularity of world of warcraft, it attracts the attention of film studio, the Warcraft movie is very much still in the planning stages and given the slow progress many analysts are saying, it probably won't get off the ground. Supposed to be ready by 2009, but now it is unknown who will become famous from it.

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