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27 unusual facts about World of Warcraft


Andreas Thorstensson

This includes the innovative cross-realm ranking system for World of Warcraft that, while in its prime, was the single most-popular third-party cross-realm ranking system in the world.

Ashen Empires

At that time, a monthly subscription fee was required to play (a business model seen in many MMORPG's, including World of Warcraft and EverQuest).

Bachir Boumaaza

Boumaaza first began creating YouTube videos in 2007, playing the role of an eccentric World of Warcraft player named Athene.

Bill Amend

Amend is also an avid World of Warcraft player, but refuses to reveal his character's name, although he did mention in an interview with Allakhazam (a World of Warcraft fan site) that he played on the server 'Bronzebeard' (Jason is often shown or referred to playing "World of Warquest" in the strip).

Brigitte Burdine

Brigitte Elaine Burdine (August 8, 1962 – December 29, 2010) was an American voice-casting director who worked on several video games including World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.

Buddy system

The video game, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, uses the buddy system procedure for its RBG PvP system to ensure each player is watching out for another player.

Echoes of War

It includes previously unreleased theme music from StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Diablo III, and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.

Gameframe

Games with lots of players like World of Warcraft have tackled this problem by splitting the work among multiple clusters, creating duplicate worlds that don't communicate.

Guillermo Toledo

In 2008 he played in a Spanish commercial for the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft, in a series of commercials that also featured Mr. T, William Shatner, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Verne Troyer.

Jens Pulver

Pulver is an avid PC gamer, who continues to play World of Warcraft.

Joystiq

It is AOL's primary video game blog, with sister blogs dealing with MMORPG gaming in general and the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft in particular.

Loot system

In the most popular MMORPGs, such as EverQuest or World of Warcraft, much of a player's improvement must come from looted items because the amount of experience a player can obtain has a hard limit.

MojoPac

MojoPac supports popular applications such as Firefox and Microsoft Office, and it is also high performance enough to run popular PC Games such as World of Warcraft, Minecraft and Half-Life 2.

Razer Switchblade

Since it runs on Windows 7, multiple games have been already played for demonstration such as Quake, WoW, and Defense of the Ancients.

Red Rocks Community College

An active Student Center provides services and benefits such as discounted sports and movie tickets, campus events and entertainment, student clubs from anime to World of Warcraft, and a recreation program that includes the Red Rocks Rugby team that competes against other colleges as part of the National Small College Rugby Organization.

Respecification

Note: While the phrase respec is used in the World of Warcraft MMO to mean the same thing, the game's creator, Blizzard Entertainment, actually uses the word "specialization," so that to respec is to respecialize.

Soulstone

Soulstone, an item in the World of Warcraft universe that is created by the warlock class, which allows the character whom it is cast upon to bring themselves back to life.

T. L. Taylor

T.L. Taylor is a sociologist who specialises in researching the culture of gaming and online communities, in particular, e-sports and MMOGs such as EverQuest and World of Warcraft.

Thomas Martin, Jr.

During his re-election campaign, the Maine Republican Party criticized Lachowicz for comments she made while playing World of Warcraft.

Workmanship

Gonigal argues that computer games can be a source of ideas for doing this; she says the primary reason for World of Warcraft being so popular is the sense of "blissful productivity" that its players enjoy.

World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King

Arthas: Rise of the Lich King is a novel by Christie Golden, the author of Star Trek and other Warcraft novels.

World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal

World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal is a fantasy novel written by Aaron S. Rosenberg and Christie Golden, and published by Simon & Schuster Pocket Star Books, a division of Viacom.

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

The pandaren - a race of anthropomorphic giant pandas initially created by veteran Blizzard artist Samwise Didier - were introduced to the Warcraft canon in the bonus Horde campaign of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

The Collector's Edition of "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" included an audio CD of the soundtrack including 21 tracks of the orchestrally recorded music, composed by Russell Brower, Derek Duke, Matt Uelmen, and Neal Acree

As such, players who purchased the Collector's Edition of the game would have to send numerous proofs of purchase to Blizzard by postal mail in order to redeem their in-game awards.

World of Warcraft: Tides of Darkness

The novel explores the events of the Second War (which took place during Warcraft II) when the Orcish Horde, led by Warchief Orgrim Doomhammer, returns to Azeroth to destroy the Human nations.

Z Corporation

Recently, ZPrinters have been used to manufacture custom avatars and figurines from video games such as World of Warcraft in full color.


Dean M. Peterson

In 2012, he was elected to the "Triangle Wall of Fame" by the Triangle Fraternity of Architects and Engineers, together with Michael Morhaime, founder of Blizzard Entertainment and developer of World of Warcraft.

Display lag

For instance, in World of Warcraft's PvE, a slight input delay is not as critical compared to PvP, or to other games favoring quick reflexes like Counter-Strike.

Edgeworks Entertainment

Forsaken was a planned machinima series by Edgeworks Entertainment, and would have been the group's first to be made in the World of Warcraft game engine.

Friz Quadrata

Friz Quadrata can be seen in Blizzard Entertainment's 2002 RTS Warcraft III and 2004 MMORPG World of Warcraft to display character names and item information.

Game accessibility

Some of their efforts include: pressuring NCSoft to remove Game Guard from the game Aion and discussing with game developer Blizzard the addition of color blind friendly enhancements to the game World of Warcraft.

Gameplay of Eve Online

Eve Online is different from MMOGs such as World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, and EverQuest II because the player characters do not gain experience points through actions or by completing tasks.

Gaming etiquette

In games involving circumstances where many players need to meet at an agreed-upon time, such as in a raid in World of Warcraft, it's considered bad etiquette to show up late or leave the computer during a game (AFK) without the consent of teammates.

Grand Poobah

In Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, there is a Tauren NPC named Princess Poobah that gives a quest line to rescue her from Jaguero Isle in the Cape of Stranglethorn.

Mega Brands

Mega Brands currently has the rights for making Thomas the Tank Engine, Hello Kitty, the video game franchises Need for Speed, Halo and World of Warcraft, Barbie, Hot Wheels, Skylanders Giants, and starting late 2013, Call of Duty collector sets will be available

Scholomance

The warlocks in Bungie's Myth II: Soulblighter are described as having been trained at a school of magic named the Scholomance, and in Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, the Scholomance is a ruined castle held by the Scourge whose cellars and crypts are now used to train necromancers and create undead monsters.

Shawn Fanning

In December 2006, Fanning developed Rupture, a social networking tool designed to handle the task of publishing gamers' individual profiles to a communal space and facilitating communication between World of Warcraft players.

The Greatest Video Game Music

The Greatest Video Game Music, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, features classical orchestrations of video game themes including those from Super Mario Bros., Call of Duty, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Halo, World of Warcraft, Angry Birds and many more.

Tracy W. Bush

He is known for composing music for the popular games Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, World of Warcraft, StarCraft (all of which he also performed voice acting for), and StarCraft: Brood War, and for sound design on Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.