For one of my latest assignments, our class is creating an Ezine or online magazine about fantasy and escapism in Hmailton. My part in this was to play an online game and keep a diary...
I'm not going to lie, I had alot of pre conceived ideas about online gaming and the poeple that play, so this was an interesting excersice for me. I chose to play World of Warcraft for five days (short attention span...) I'm gonig to poast all of my diary entries on here and eventually a link to our finished Ezine! Yehaa..
World of Warcraft or ‘WoW’ is the biggest online gaming phenomena the world has ever seen. Launched by Blizzard entertainment in 2004, WoW now boasts 10.9 million international players (40% of them are supposedly clinically addicted…). WoW took five years to create and was universally praised by critics. People have literally died from playing this game because they simply couldn’t stop playing it. Personally, I’ve never been one for gaming. But after reading reviews and articles about WoW, I was officially intrigued to the point of putting on some comfortable pants and spending a week in front of my computer to see what all the fuss was about…
World of Warcraft or ‘WoW’ is the biggest online gaming phenomena the world has ever seen. Launched by Blizzard entertainment in 2004, WoW now boasts 10.9 million international players (40% of them are supposedly clinically addicted…). WoW took five years to create and was universally praised by critics. People have literally died from playing this game because they simply couldn’t stop playing it. Personally, I’ve never been one for gaming. But after reading reviews and articles about WoW, I was officially intrigued to the point of putting on some comfortable pants and spending a week in front of my computer to see what all the fuss was about…
Day One:
World of Warcraft is defiantly a crafty business. You have the pay to play. There is no getting out of it. Luckily I managed to score a free 14 day trial. But if was looking for the full gaming experience, I would need to spend about thirty dollars. In other words I got the crap trial version. It’s not like I can tell the difference anyway!
To start off with you have to register, and then you get to create you avatar which will act as a virtual representation of you in the game.
Being somewhat concerned about my looks, I spent quite some time playing with my avatar until I was satisfied with her appearance. I got to choose her race (elf, gnome, human the list goes on), her hair cut, her skin tone and a whole bunch of other stuff which I knew nothing about,. … After doing a quick online search to find out what race is best I decided I would like to be a night elf. I named my avatar Bitey because she looks like she would bite someone if given the chance.
Iornforge is the night elf world on WoW. Iornforge is a mystical eerie place set amongst snowy mountains and is featured in the picture above.I can already tell this is going to be confusing. I feel myself hesitating as I turn off the computer, I am anxious to see Bitey in action but I must resist addiction!
