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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.
Just wait until the next expansion comes out.
I know someone that finished reading the Internet.
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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See if your shower still works?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
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.
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.
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?)
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.
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
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.
How about a nice game of chess?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
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 . .