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Man "Beats" World of Warcraft
Precision pointed out that a Taiwanese man has been named the first ever person to successfully beat World of Warcraft, getting all 986 achievements, completing 5906 quests and /hugging 11 players. Insert joke here. There are many.
How can you kill that which has no life??
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Something I can tell my kid that won't get a "meh". Cool.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
Wonder how many "people" this man really is
If he doesn't have all the best gear then I wouldn't say he has beaten it yet. But that is quite an achievement what he has done.
Doctors do Massage in Longview WA now, who knew?
Man's level and experience in MMORPG is reversely proportional to level and experience in real life.
Valkyrie is about to die! Wizard needs food -- badly!
To everyone who's about to make a "get a life" joke, may I remind you, you're about to post on a geek news website. While the level of dedications required to achieve this probably does mean this guy doesn't get out often, I'd wager that many of us here aren't all that different and could probably use lives of our own...
I stopped playing.
Can I just be the first to say..."WoW!"
I'm always positive; it's my nature.
Liiiiiitttttllllllleeeee Grrrrreeeeeeyyyyyyy!!! just doesn't have the same ring as LEERROOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEENNNKKKIIIINNNSSS!!!!
Just wait until the next expansion comes out.
What does homosexuality have to do with it?
Probably? This post seems rather defensive of it, to me. I bet it's NoYob.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
I know someone that finished reading the Internet.
RL stands for reaking liches right?
:p Not likely, if he was going for the achievement where you /hug a dead player..
Maybe gay people are invincible? That could explain why people are afraid of them.
I quit WoW several months ago, but I know for a fact there are achievements for "Server First Max Skill XXX" where XXX is some tradeskill. I contend that is impossible for one player to become the server's first max skill leatherworker, blacksmith, alchemist, enchanter, and engineer (plus there's a few more) so there is no possible way he could attain "ALL" the achievements.
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Patch 3.3 comes out Tuesday.
I don't know what kind of crack I was on, but I suspect it was decaf.
See if your shower still works?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
And that's one of many reasons WoW has a huge audience compared to most MUDS and RPGs: they don't punish the player horribly for dying.
I think dying and losing a level would be enough of a setback to drive much of WoW's audience away. You'd end up with considerably more people who can actually play the game at the level cap, but for Blizzard it'd crimp revenues.
It's also the reason why WoW isn't really a proper game: you can't lose. Everything you do is okay and nothing can go wrong. Sure you can be killed, but you just get the chance to try again or try something else without being set back at all.
This makes WoW more of a social platform wrapped in a virtual world than an actual game.
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.
Taiwanese man inspires Christians around the world with his story of how he committed his life to abstinence.
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Ya know, MMOs have life cycles. They get born, they age, they eventually die. Eventually, the company running it will pull the plug. Be it because it's not profitable anymore to keep it running, or be it because they want to "convince" their players to come to their new MMO.
Yes, there's EQ and UO (and Meridian for you Great Old Ones), but face it, they're little more than hollow shadows of what they used to be.
Every MMO in its history met a terminal expansion. No, I don't mean the last one. I mean the one that kills the game. That convinces the players (at least those that still have a life) that it's just not worth it. DAoC managed it with Trials of Atlantis, SWG had its Jump to Lightspeed (aside of other troubles), eventually every maker of MMOs fucks something up and people leave.
I fear the day this happens in WoW. It will happen. Certainly not for the next year or two, and I'm quite sure that two or three expansions will still be in the fold for WoW. But eventually, the game mechanics will break apart (they're creaking already when you look at the wiring under the board).
And I quietly wonder what will happen to the WoW addicts that suddenly lose the last bits of meaning their life has...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Interesting that in your rant to show how much of a non-loser you are, you list playing on Facebook. Think you kinda shot yourself in the foot there buddy.
Losers come oi all forms, and defending on a loser site that you are not a loser... well... welcome brother.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
wow, that sounds oddly parallel to going to work every day. *sigh*
Before that, gay meant happy and care-free. And that hasn't changed in the last 20 years just because douchebags try to use it as a term for a homosexual.
You mean "The only winning move is not to play". Yeah, I'm being an ass.
Grammer Nazis - I mod you "troll" unless you actually add something on-topic. Yes, I know I have mispellings in my sig.
What does homosexuality have to do with it?
Nothing at all. But when Taco said "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." it had nothing to do with being crippled. Oh wait...
Set your phasers on "funky"!
No, they can't be, I see them all the time.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
"...why are we presuming this person is a he?"
Occam's razor?
I'm quite sure that WoW isn't the only thing he's beating regularly.
I don't understand the appeal of doing so many things over and over again.
You've never masturbated, have you?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
What value is gained for reading a book, watching a movie, listening to music or mounting a pretty painting on the wall? It's all entertainment. If he enjoyed doing it, that's all the gain *he* needs. Entertainment is an end unto itself. Fun and beauty ARE utility.
i'd rather do the other things i listed above than play WoW, but in the end, it's all fun and games.
Utilizing the synergization of benchmark e-solutions to pre-workaround action items!
It's sort of pathetic what passes for a lesbian love scene post title these days. What ever happened to Natalie, petrified, hot grits etc... ?
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Me too. (by "real life", you mean posting on Slashdot, right?)
since when there is a goal in real life? you think you won the real life game by having grand-children and a big family? Or by collecting girlfriends? wake up!
the cake is a lie. There is no goal to complete. There is just what the society want you to do.
Well, yeah, but afterwards I have something real to show!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"/played" time (that is, time spent actually logged in)? You would have to ask him; it's not a stat available to the general public, afaik.
Sidereal time?
1) While he has the "Swift Flight Form" Feat of Strength achievement, the datestamp on it is not that of when achievements were first noted. This feat was added April 14 2009, he got it April 23rd. This might not be an accurate measure, though, if the Taiwan servers were updated later than the US ones.
2) He has the "Stone Guard" Feat of Strength achievement, indicating that he was involved in PvP at least as far back as 2006.
Beyond that, hard to tell.
I think a better title for this article would be "World of Warcraft Beats Man".
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
Like American Auto, it's too big to fail. Very few MMOs to date have folded. AC2 and a few smaller ones but EQ is still strolling along. WoW, like EQ isn't a game, it is a setting, a mythology if you would.
WoW 1.0 may some day go offline but WoW 2.0 will be there. Nothing is preventing Verant from taking EQ1, rebuilding the game engine from the ground up and relaunching Everquest to a new generation. That is why certain toys are only advertised heavily every 21-25 years. Introduce it to a new generation. A 'reboot' if you would.
EQ is getting ready for a reboot I think, not a sequel, a reboot. Same for UO.
I consider MMOs not a new gaming addiction but mearly the 21st century version of fraternal societies. Rather then heading out for lodge night, people head out and raid. MMOs have simply filled the social gap that freemasons, knight of columbus, rotary club, etc. filled for 1950s. In short people 'hang out' in MMOs.
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
Well, there is EQ2. I don't know if it can be called a "fail", but it was anything but the huge success it should have been according to the logic you present here. EQ was a different generation of MMOs, and, bluntly, I think its success is owed largely to the fact that it was the first (well, the first that got big enough to attract more than a handful followers). EQ was hard and unforgiving. I doubt that it would attract too many people today.
When you look at EQ through the eyes of someone who has been playing WoW, you'd wonder why you could even possible consider playing it. It's confusing and difficult for someone who is used to a game like WoW where you get used to being led through pretty much any obstacle you might face. It's hard and unforgiving and you might lose your gear. You're highly dependent on the aid of others and you better have a good guild that doesn't mind staging a rescue party for your gear. People used to WoW would probably shake their head and wonder how you could possibly enjoy that.
Maybe some day someone will come along and present us a new kind of MMO where we will be looking at WoW and wonder how we could stomach the time sinks and tedium, the boring repetitiveness, etc.
So I doubt that a relaunch is the key to success. The formula does not work out anymore, it will not attract any players away from their current game.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Have you ever kissed a girl?
I put on my robe and wizard hat..
How about a nice game of chess?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
This I can agree with - not so much for disappearing from your team (which is a legitimate problem in and of itself), but also from an investment standpoint. My WoW characters have a TON of time and energy invested. I know the classes, I know the spells, I have good gear, and I've invested a lot of time in leveling them. Just going to another MMORPG feels like I'm ditching all that effort to start over somewhere else. I haven't even played WoW lately but the only other games I've been able to bring myself to play have been single player games where progression over a long term doesn't matter. Starting another MMORPG would feel like I'm splitting my resources.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
That's a jolly gay response. It makes me feel gay, thanks :)
Married a couple of them.
You're doing it wrong.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .