In Warcraft and Starcraft we were introduced to the map editors. Where players could create their own maps and share them with other players. This allowed players to get more involved in the game they play and love and share their passion. In Starcraft 2, they have revamped the map editor to give players even more ability to create awesome custom maps and Blizzard plans on supporting these maps in a pseudo online store to showcase some of these awesome custom maps. In World of Warcraft the closest to user created content we have are addons. But is it time for users to create their own content in WoW?
Everyone has different stances on different issues in the political spectrum, red states, blues states, pro taxes, anti taxes (ok everyone is against taxes), but you get my point. Well the same thing can be said if you look out onto any social network, people expressing their opinions about Facebook’s privacy policy to Apple’s snafu regarding their iPhone 4 antenna.
Well its no different in World of Warcraft, there are many different issues that people stand firmly usually on one side or the other, some usually break this down to the casual vs. hardcore debate. Honestly though its not that simple, and goes beyond all that.
Lets review the issues…
Last night fan sites were busy data-mining the latest beta build which includes the new talent system. The new talent system is designed around 31 point talents only, basically the same amount of talents as vanilla wow. Also at level 10 you are now forced into choosing a spec, and you stick with it until [...]
Guild Leadership is a daunting task at times. Sure you have officers to back up your decisions and help enforce policies. But after a night of running a raid, dealing with someone complaining, you log off. You leave it all in the game world, well not always. Sometimes that stress can certainly follow you. Maybe [...]
Blizzard recently announced that they are bringing Real ID to the main forums, first to the Starcraft 2 forums, then the Cataclysm forums (once they are out). Older forums would not be touched and would be archived off. However before where Real ID was only in game with friends you knew, now it will widen [...]
The new feature being released by Blizzard today in their latest World of Warcraft patch that is causing the most stir is Real ID. Real ID is a new layer of identify utilizing someone’s email address and name to be shared with other friends to be able to communicate cross faction, server, and eventually cross [...]