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SOME THOUGHTS

World of Warcraft; sometimes I miss you, sometimes I don’t.  For me, this new expansion is intriguing because I played Warcraft 3 back in the day in which (SPOILER ALERT) the good prince Arthas pulled a Darth Vader and became corrupt.  It was a good, albeit dark story, and even though I wasn’t (and still am not) into Real-Time-Strategy games I played it because Blizzard usually = good games.

World of Warcraft was no exception.  I played the beta as soon as I could get into it and subscribed to the released game for about a year and a half before I quit.  I felt the same way about that MMO that I do about all MMO’s that I’ve ever tried: If I’m going to pay 15 dollars a month to play one game, then I need to put 15 dollars worth of time into playing it.  I levelled a Hunter up to the high 30’s and a Mage up to 17.  I enjoyed the game at a leisurely pace.

When the first expansion hit, I wasn’t really all that interested in signing back up since I hadn’t hit the level cap yet anyway; and the expansion was geared for high-level content.  As I mentioned above, the new expansion is a bit more compelling for me because I love the lore of the World of Warcraft and this one has to do with Arthas (the titular Lich King) from Warcraft 3.  A good story may just win me back for a few months.  Also the report that Blizzard have made it possible to level your low-level characters up faster in order to speed up to the new content of the expansion is fairly tempting…

WHAT PARENTS SHOULD THINK ABOUT

Parents don’t have to worry too much about the content of the World of Warcraft games.  There are high fantasy references to magic, the occult, and the like.  There is always the possibility of meeting fellow players who are nasty or mean or both.  Some players use voice chat through 3rd party programs, but the in-game chat is text based.  The game has lot of fantasy style fighting (think Lord of the Rings).  I would consider the game PG or PG-13 if it were a movie (and it will be a movie one day).  It’s character’s are very cartoon-like.

It costs 15 dollars a month to play (first month is free); and some folks think that it is seriously addictive (like medically addictive – like drugs), although I never really felt that way about it. If you or your kids are already playing WoW, then this article is probably not news to you and you have already bought the new expansion or are planning on it.  If you are not a current player then the cost to get into the game is fairly high…  To buy WoW and Burning Crusade (you can get them both for 40) and Wrath of the Lich King (40) brings you up to 80 bucks for one game – but that one game has a major amount of content that could keep you busy for a long time.

It can be fun for Role Playing Game fans and it is pretty easy to pick up and play.  Apparently they are up to 13 million subscribers for the game now which pretty much destroys the subscriber base of all the MMO games.  At this point I am not sure if you will find me back in Azeroth or not, but the expansion does have me intrigued…