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Things have changed with BC

I have a 63 Mage, 60 Druid, 60 priest etc.

Yes you can get tired of doing the same quests but the character classes and races do have different quests and then you can also play for both sides.

Wow is so sucessful because it's not just about levelling through killing or questing. There are also internal games within Azeroth, such as battlegrounds, raids, dungeons as well as trading or even running around trying to duel people. I've been playing for around 2 years and still haven't done much in the PvP area.

However, BC has now released tons of new content to minimise the boredom and you may also migrate your character to another server if you wish (and pay).

As for power-levelling, to a large extent it's self defeating if you haven't played the class before. In all characters you start off with only a few attack skills and as you move towards 70 you learn to use a huge variety of other spells attacks etc. Someone moving suddenly into a level 60 or 70 character will find it quite confusing.

Current exchange rate for gold is about US15c per 1 gold. At this rate it provides income for third-world countries and presumably a lot of fun for the people doing the farming or power levelling.

In the end, you don't make laws you can't enforce and since you may mail gold or articles to any player in-game, it's inevitable that these objects will have some value out of game. My last character to level 60 took around 18 days (that's contimuous time 432 hours) so it's apparent that some people would rather pay than play through all the levels. I have nor real complaints with this, but yes you won't get much respect . We should also keep in mind that this model is used by other MMORPGs where the game is free, but you pay real money for in-game articles and enhancements.

Wow should also be a fertile ground for research. With a functioning economy and over 8 million players it could provide mroe accurate predictions of consumer behaviour than all the current computer models - plus you can actually ask people why they made decisions - probably also a fertile ground for social science as well.

Wow would have to be the best computer game and virtual world available (as it should be considering it's estimated $100 million a month revenue)- it makes Second Life look like abad 60s sitcom

Posted by: TonyMcS   Posted on: 02/06/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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