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World of Warcraft Comes to South Park
lmd writes "The first episode of South Park Season 10 is this Wednesday, October 4, at 10:00 PM Eastern/Pacific Time on Comedy Central. It will be called "Make Love, Not Warcraft". A sneak peek in Quicktime and DivX is available." Flash version of the blurb courtesy of Kotaku.
What zone are they in? It looks kinda like Hillsbrad, near the internment camp, but I don't recognize the structure. Anyone with better WoW geography than me able to post a screenshot of themselves standing in front of that building? Or did Blizzard give them a private server with unique geography? (TBC zone perhaps?)
It is the lowest level of mmorpg: dice-based "combat" game. It lacks any tatical or strategic elements, which you'd think would be emphasized considering the "massively multiplayerness" of the whole thing.
It's very pretty, but it's no more complicated than bridge or cribbage. In fact, that's insulting to bridge and cribbage. It's a bit more akin to a giant, endless game of slapjack.
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I have to agree. I played 30 hours of WoW (level 20 hunter, level 8 Warlock) after reading so much about it. It finally dawned on me that it wasn't going to get any more interesting and that 7 million people really do like playing a game where your time is split between watching your avatar on auto-run and mindlessly pressing the same sequence of buttons hour after hour. It is addictive in that there always appears to be something more exciting round the next corner, but as a game it's terrible.
It looks like you left right before it got good.
The first 20-25 levels are boring as hell, as there's not much to do other than fetch quests and farming. But once you get into instanced dungeons, the game picks up and becomes great fun, although there's certainly still a good deal of grinding to do. The five-man dungeons in WoW are an absolute blast, and there's always something new to see until right around the time you hit the level cap.
The endgame is terrible--40-man raids are horrible in oh-so-many ways--you can't get 40 people together without some degree of bullshit, be it guild drama, inept players, scheduling problems or terrible leadership, and once you do, you're spending dozens of hours a week doing the same thing over and over again for the chance to get a few pieces of virtual armor with higher numbers on them--but I had loads of fun on the journey to level 60.