Wrath of the Lich King addon
Blizzard are to release a new expansion called Wrath of the Lich King. We have patentily awaited it. Here’s to more gold farming areas!
How to not be seen in WoW
Check this video out! Its about hiding as a rouge.
10 million goldbuyers now playing WoW
Wow, that is a lot of players. Read more about this historic event here.
Local advertising to get new players?
A dedicated reader sent this video. Apparently its a swedish ad for world of warcraft. I havnt seen these around before. Cool. We need more people to fcsk in PvP!
To live in World of Warcraft
Today, the commite of media effection in the swedish ministry released a press release called “to live in world of warcraft” outlining the social implications of playing world of warcraft.
We have choosen to publish a translated summary of this report here at buy wow gold.
The report consists of the usual headlines, pretext, the studys format, the results and a final discussion. The pretext defines what WoW is and who the subjects in the study are. The subjects were handpicked from local swedish upper secondary schools based on their answers on a previous survey to WoW playing students. To assure diversity both people playing PvE and PvP, males and one female was picked. In total nine people were interviewed after the survey for one our. All of them were classified as high consumers of the game.
The results is mostly a discussion of the different aspects of why people play the game, why they quit and how they are being kept to play by blizzard. There is also a part discussing the distinction between real game addiction (in other words, casino, poker, lotto etc). The scientists are fairly in agreement that addiction to world of warcraft cannot be set equal to game addiction since it has totally different prequisites.
In general the problem the players express about the game is that it isnt linear, you cannot take a 15 minute break to go have dinner when mom calls because your guild needs you. The game is designed to take time (grinding, leveling, questing). It doesnt reward high intensity play or skill but rather that you actually put in 3-5 hours per day.
For younger players this becomes a problem when those 4 hours of daily gameplay collides with real life issues such as school, choirs, family and real life friends. Time differences between the players on the same realms also effect how people play. If a important player has a different schedule than the rest of the group the entire group/guild might have to reschedule their activities.
Some lose connections to the same dopamine that is released by drug use and alchohol has been suggested, however the primary reason in WoW isn’t the usual gaming reward with quick kicks. In WoW it can take hours to complete a quest and thus the players dopamine levels wouldnt be as high as in other games with more frequent rewards. Instead, the social interactions is what count. The group, the community, the guild and friends are what makes people play WoW for hours on end.
WoW can be a real menace. Play responsible kids. For the horde!
Buy & sell user-accounts for free
Tired of seeing the same old ads for accounts? Look no further because a good friend of mine has set up his site to become a full-blown auction house for character trading.
Right now there is a Druid for sale at $350. The classifieds system features profile-feedback, buy, sell and trade. What we really like is the cool hover-system that uses info from WoWHead to display relevant infromation about every item a character has.
Buy World of Warcraft Gold
A gold buying update. Many (all?) sellers have trouble delivering gold right now. This is because blizzard has issued a patch that delays all in game gold-transfers up to one hour. It makes it possible for Blizzard to intercept and confiscate gold.
Due to this, many deliveries are delayed and has to be resent. Many many gold buyers are right now complaining because they believe they have been frauded; that isnt neccessarily the case. Every serious company that delivers gold are trying their absolutly maximum to deliver their gold even if its costing them expensive extra gold for every order at this moment.
It is very probable that in the future gold deliveries will be done via some other means. So, if you bought world of warcraft gold in the last week or soo, please dont get all to worked up; it is a temporary problem that will be resolved!
WoWHead.com sold for $1m
The WoW database-site WoWHead was just sold to a company called
ZAM media. Wheter ZAM / Affinity Media really is IGE or its parent company I will let my well-educated readers be the judges. Apparently there is a vow that WoWhead will NOT contain Wow gold advertisments or similar ads. That is a bit confusing, but I guess whoever bought the site wants a firm grip of the market.
Ofcourse Wowhead.com has and have had in the past a very nice alexa ranking and plenty of links. See for yourself at Alexa.
If you are interested, please see the sources. Especially the very interesting link at techsoapbox.com where Amid (a former IGE-employee) rants a bit about this entire business.
Sources: Slashdot.org, Tech Soapbox, News.com