In the defense of character limits.

So, as luck and a bad script would have it, I went to Googoo and searched for information concerning whether there was a limit to the number of Monk characters one could have when the new expansion for World Of Warcraft goes live in a couple of days. That led me to this article by Carmelo M. on the Clever Musings site.

The things that people in the World Of Warcraft believe.

World Of Warcraft, even in the face of peaking and declining subscription numbers, has more players than any other online multiplayer game that exists. At one point, the count was said to be eleven million players. Whilst this is hardly a large slice of the total world population, it is a lot compared to prior videogames that have made the news. However, when attempting to start the game for the first time, a lot of players tend to feel lost or confused. The following, therefore, is a guide to how to get along with players who fill the various “roles” in the game.

Role-playing games, World Of Warcraft, and other interesting considerations

I am sure that readers of earlier entries on this journal already know this, but I will repeat it for the benefit of those who came in late. I play the MMORPG known as World Of Warcraft. I play it a lot. When I was a child, I read about things referred to in computer magazines called Multi-User Dungeons, or MUDs. And with some qualifications, MMORPGs are sort of what I imagined when I read those articles.

My name is… and I play WOW *far* too much

They say that when you are doing something so much that it interferes with your other activities in life, the relationship you have with that activity may well be unhealthy. It might even be an addiction. In that spirit, I would like to talk about the videogame known as World Of Warcraft.