22nd August 2006

Games- World of Warcraft

I don’t have a lot of time for games, but I do have to admit that I’ve been sucked into World of Warcraft a bit. Compared
to some previous massive-multiplayer games its pretty friendly towards people who only play a few hours a week. Since I started
my friend Chris has lapped me- I was halfway along advancing a character and he
created a new one from scratch and got it to 60 weeks before me.

The game has a current level limit- 60. My goal the past couple of months has been to get to 60 before the new
expansion came out, and sure enough last night I finally hit that goal! The expansion looks pretty cool
although selling an extra $40 box seems very old-school for a game that delivers new bits to me every month over the
internet. I assume they do this for shelf space or something during the holiday season, but it still seems a wacky thing
to do with their existing userbase (who are so far generating some of the biggest annuity revenue of any game ever).

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