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NYT on World of Warcraft

Posted by Zonk on from the azeroth-is-getting-crowded dept.

The New York Times (registration required) has a piece on Blizzard's World of Warcraft, discussing the game's popularity and high sales. The article also examines the design processes that go into the game, and the artistic outlook of the WoW live team. From the article: "From around a dark, windowless room, nine young men peered into the unfinished virtual interior of Karazhan, a haunted tower set in a forlorn mountain pass that will open later this year. 'As you can see, the architecture is a little ornate, a little Gothicky,' said Aaron Keller, a 29-year-old designer, gesturing to the 3-D model on the computer screen before him. 'We're thinking about turning these arches into horse heads.'

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  1. WoW, EQ2, DAoC, et al vs. IGE.com -- when? by cwford · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is completely offtopic, but when will WoW and others sue the crap out of IGE.com? IGE is a company who sells virtual equipment and accounts for popular MMORPGS. Isn't that against TOS for most of these games? How long will they stand for it?

  2. Re:Beauty is Truth, Truth; Beauty by MORTAR_COMBAT! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm trying to figure out why my WoW framerate dropped when I "upgraded" from my old-ass GeForce2 32MB card to a GeForce4 128MB card. Any ideas?

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    MORTAR COMBAT!
  3. Re:Did I miss the memo? by MBraynard · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The parent here does make a good point - I really don't know why this had to be modded down.

    From reading /., you get the sense that a majority of people here

    • Hate Bush
    • Do not believe IP should be protected.
    • Think MS should be put out of business.
    • And add Blizzard to the list for their anti-Bnet emulation (OR whatever it was exactly).

    • The question is other than whining about it, what do these people do about it? I'm sure there are some true purist, like the dirty hippy parent here who got unfairly moded down to flamebait. But most of you guys whine and moan on here before logging off to go play WoW on an MS Machine that you paid for with W's tax cut.

      The dirty hippy parent here is bringing this up and rubbing it in your faces - and he gets modded down for it. Where's the justice?

      As an aside, I now metamoderate every day. I don't even read the posts, I just rate all negative mods as unfair and all positive mods as fair. It all takes about 30 seconds. This is based on my belief that there is too much modding down here and not enough modding up.

      So one way or another, I will avenge the dirty hippy parent.