Topic: Warcraft News – Designers reveal their favorite memories as World of Warcraft turns five (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)
But this isn’t another tedious game addiction column; this is a tip of the hat to a game that has brought thousands of hours of reasonably-priced joy to people all over the world and brought Massively Multiplayer Roleplaying Games into mainstream society. To honor the anniversary, Blizzard is featuring a selection of video memories from the designers, developers and project managers who made World of Warcraft possible. The revolutionary thing about World of Warcraft is not the graphics, the mechanics or the world construction, but the way all these things blend together to create a seamless social experience. World of Warcraft gets a lot of credit and takes a lot of heat from its place at the top of the MMORPG mountain, but as the game turns five, I think it’s a good time to remember the human element that makes the game special – hanging out with friends in this virtual space and sharing the experience with family, as parents and children, brothers and sisters and even children and grandparents share the adventure together. read more
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