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World of Warcraft Gamespot GOTY 2004

Posted by Zonk on from the for-gnomeregon! dept.

Gamespot's annual awards have drawn to a close, with the Reader's choice awards finishing up tomorrow. Announced on Wednesday, Gamespot's Game of the Year for 2004 is World of Warcraft. Relatedly, there is an interview with the WoW composer at World of Warcraft Guru, and a piece on Wired.com about Virtual Trade and Blizzard's efforts to combat the trend. Finally, Blizzard's annual holiday festivities have resulted in a hilarious holiday mp3 being made available on the official World of Warcraft site.

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  1. I guess price doesn't factor in... by bl4nk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Considering that Half-Life 2 is a one-time fee with huge mod support and the best single-player game in it's genre ever (IMO, of course) while WoW requires a monthly leeching of your wallet and therefore is only accessible to those who can take the hit.

    I know of a few other game reviewers that actually take price in to consideration when rating games.. X-Play does this, for example. It probably wouldn't matter to gamespot if Half-Life 2 was $5.

    Is Gamespot run by SpikeTV?

  2. Re:oh well. by dnoyeb · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    As much as I love Blizzard, for WOW to get game of the year, coming out at the end of the year just smacks of payola.

  3. I didn't realize WARS were such a trade secret. by leftie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Last I saw, thousands of people have fought thousands on battlefields almost continuously since the birth of human consciousness.