MetaFilter posts tagged with wow and worldofwarcraft

Epic Campaign

roger ackroyd — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:02:04 -0800

Meet the Green Candidate. Is Maine ready to elect America's first Orc Assassin Rogue senator?

WoW indeed

unSane — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:33:37 -0800

Steganographic information (account ID, a timestamp and the IP address of the current realm) is secretly embedded in World of Warcraft screen shots. Via Schneier.

How was your day, honey?

empath — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:03:22 -0800

Gamer Mom is a short piece of interactive fiction about a mom who plays games, and her family that doesn't. The source code includes many comments by the author that are worth a read, as well.

WOW Inside Minecraft

hot_monster — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:04:34 -0800

Within Minecraft’s blocky world, he has spent about 100 hours so far on a re-creation of Azeroth, the enormous setting of Blizzard’s massively multiplayer game, World of Warcraft (WoW). His name is Ramses. Here's an interview he did with Games Beat. You can see his forum posts here. And there are pictures. "The original goal was just to recreate Kalimdor, which I’ve since completed. I now plan to re-create the other three continents as well. The surface area of Kalimdor is equal to about 35 square kilometers [13.5 square miles], so attempting the conversion without special software could have taken months or even years."

Wow. Just Wow.

crunchland — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:04:19 -0800

The nerdiest thing you will see today.

WoW Detox

Chocolate Pickle — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:50:20 -0800

WoW Detox -- "WoWdetox is a volunteer-run web site aimed at people with a gaming addiction to World of Warcraft. Here gamers and ex-gamers can share their testimonies freely and anonymously."

Where the battlegrounds meet moral grounds.

tybeet — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:18:36 -0800

World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King expansion involves a quest titled The Art of Persuasion. Richard Bartle, co-author of MUD (and pioneer of MMO gaming), speaks out against this: "Basically, you have to take some kind of cow poke and zap a prisoner until he talks. I'm not at all happy with this. I was expecting for there to be some way to tell the guy who gave you the quest that no, actually I don't want to torture a prisoner, but there didn't seem to be any way to do that..." (via) "...I did zap him, pretty well in disbelief — I thought that surely the quest-giver would step in and stop it at some point? It didn't happen, though. Unless there's some kind of awful consequence further down the line, it would seem that Blizzard's designers are OK with breaking the Geneva convention." "If you do decide to shock people, you need to flag up that you know you're shocking them. This is so they know it's an artistic statement and not that you think the shocking thing isn't shocking. This gives the impression that Blizzard thinks it's OK to torture prisoners, and that torture actually works." What would Jonathan Blow think about this? This has also been taken up at the WoW Forums, with somewhat less literacy.

"It really looked quite a bit like a real disease."

solipsophistocracy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:11:23 -0800

The 2005 outbreak of Corrupted Blood in World of Warcraft may provide epidemiologists with a new platform for studying the spread of disease.

By using these games as an untapped experimental framework, we may be able to gain deeper insight into the incredible complexity of infectious disease epidemiology in social groups.

It comes as no surprise that the "stupid factor" plays a role in susceptibility to viral marketing, but it may also be a factor in the spread of real life germs.

I am Murloc

Bugbread — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:02:07 -0800

I am Murloc. Cool World of Warcraft music video. (Note: Impressed me, but I've never played WoW. Might not impress WoW players, I dunno. Won't change your mind if you already hate WoW. Horrible vocals.)

Check Out My Awesome Moves.

empath — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:53:18 -0800

The History Of Dance -- World of Warcraft style.

The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer

chunking express — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:12:06 -0800

The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer.

Blade Betrayed, Mustache Hunted

grabbingsand — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:58:42 -0800

Freezing Blade, Quiet Moon and Bronze Mustache. A tale from modern China of betrayal, vigilantism and general woe in WoW and Real-Life^TM.

The Internet is for Porn

jonson — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:16:17 -0800

The Internet Is For Porn is a song from the Broadway comedy Avenue Q (an adult version of Sesame Street) that I found myself humming for quite a while after watching this homemade machinima video using World of Warcraft characters. (warning first link goes to a Google Video with audio).

Infectious Behavior

dersins — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:29:36 -0800

"Virtual Virus Sheds Light on Real-Life Behavior." A researcher at Tufts University's Center for the Modelling of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Nina Fefferman, is studying the behavior of World Of Warcraft players during the recent plague that broke out in Ironforge (discussed on Metafilter here.) But Dr. Fefferman is not the first academic to study MMORPGs seriously. Edward Castronova, an economist, arguably pioneered the field with his 2001 paper Virtual Worlds, in which he argues that the economy in Everquest produced a GNP per capita somewhere between that of Russia and Bulgaria. (He has followed up that paper with many more on similar subjects.)

WoW Plague

srboisvert — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:23:52 -0800

Plague in World of Warcraft.