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World of Warcraft
Posted: Jul 30, 2009, 03:15:05
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World of Warcraft
Fantasy, MMORPG
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment
November 23, 2004
English
Multi-player




World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth, two years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous Warcraft release, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2, 2001. The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise.

The first expansion set of the game, The Burning Crusade, was released on January 16, 2007.The second expansion set, Wrath of the Lich King, was released on November 13, 2008.

With more than 11.5 million monthly subscribers, World of Warcraft is currently the world's most-subscribed MMORPG and holds the Guinness World Record for the most popular MMORPG. In April 2008, World of Warcraft was estimated to hold 62 percent of the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) market.



As with other MMORPGs, players control a character avatar within a game world in third person view (with the option of playing in first person), exploring the landscape, fighting various monsters, completing quests, and interacting with NPCs or other players. In common with many other MMORPGs, World of Warcraft requires the player to pay for a subscription, either by buying game cards for a pre-selected amount of playing time, or by using a credit or debit card to pay on a regular basis.

To enter the game, the player must select a realm (or server). Each realm acts as an individual copy of the game world, and falls into one of four rule-set categories. Realms are either Player versus player (PvP), where open combat among players is more common, or Player versus environment (PvE), where the gameplay is more focused on defeating monsters and completing quests; roleplay (RP) variants of both realm types are also available. On a PvP or RP-PvP server a player may create characters belonging to either the Horde or the Alliance factions, but not both. Realms are also categorized by language, with in-game support in the language available. Players can move established characters between realms for a fee. Then the player may either select one of their previously made characters or create a new one.

To create a new character, in keeping with the storyline in the previous games in the Warcraft series, players must choose between the opposing factions of Alliance or Horde. Characters from the opposing factions can perform rudimentary communication and trade, but only members of the same faction can speak, email, group, and share guilds. The player selects the new character's race (species), such as Orcs or Trolls for the Horde or Humans or Dwarves for the Alliance. Players must also select the class for the character, with choices such as mages, warriors and priests available. Some classes are limited to particular races.



  • As characters become more developed, they gain various talents and skills, requiring the player to further define the abilities of that character. Professions such as tailoring, blacksmithing, mining, cooking and first-aid can also be learned by characters. Characters may also form or join guilds, allowing characters in the same guild unified communications, a shared guild name, and possibly identity, guild bank and dues.

    Much of World of Warcraft play involves "questing". These quests, also called "tasks" or "missions", are usually available from non-player characters (NPCs). Quests usually reward the player with experience points, items, and/or in-game money. It is also through quests that much of the game's story is told, both through the quest text and through scripted NPC actions. Quests are linked by a common theme, with the next quest triggered by the completion of the previous, forming a quest chain. Quests commonly involve killing a number of creatures, gathering a certain number of resources, finding a difficult to locate object, speaking to various NPCs, visiting specific locations, interacting with objects in the world, or delivering an item from one place to another.

    While a character can be played on its own, players can also group up with others in order to tackle more challenging content. In this way, character classes are used in specific roles within a group. World of Warcraft uses a "rested bonus" system, increasing the rate that a character can gain experience points after the player has spent time away from the game. When a character dies, it becomes a ghost (or wisp for elf character) at a nearby graveyard. Characters can be resurrected by other characters that have the ability, or can self-resurrect by moving from the graveyard to the place where they died. When a character dies, the items equipped by the character degrade, requiring in-game money and a specialist NPC to repair them. Items that have degraded heavily become unusable until they are repaired. If the location of the character's body is unreachable, they can use a special NPC known as a spirit healer to resurrect at the graveyard. When the spirit healer revives a character, items equipped by the character at that time suffer increased degradation, and the character is significantly weakened for ten minutes. This "Resurrection Sickness" does not occur and item degradation is less severe if the character revives by locating its body.

    World of Warcraft contains a variety of mechanisms for player-versus-player (PvP) play. Some realms allow player-versus-player combat almost anywhere in the game world. In these environments, members of opposing factions can attack each other at almost any time or location. Player-versus-environment (PvE) servers, by contrast, allows a player to choose whether or not to engage in combat against other players. On both server types, there are special areas of the world where free-for-all combat is permitted.Battlegrounds, for example, are similar to dungeons: only a set number of characters can enter a single battleground, but additional copies of the battleground can be made to accommodate additional players. Each battleground has a set objective, such as capturing a flag or defeating an opposing general, that must be completed in order to win the battleground. Competing in battlegrounds rewards the character with tokens and honor points that can be used to buy armour and weapons.




* Windows Vista or Windows XP
* Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP 1500+ 1300 MHz
* 512 MB or more of RAM (1 GB for Vista Users)
* 32 MB 3D video card with Hardware T&L or better
* 15 GB free HD space
* 4× CD-ROM drive
* Broadband Internet connection


* Mac OS X 10.4.11 or newer
* 1600 MHz or higher G5, or Intel Core Duo processor
* 1 GB RAM or higher
* ATI or NVIDIA video card with 64 MB Video RAM or more
* 15 GB free HD space
* 4× CD-ROM drive
* Broadband Internet connection.



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Posted: Aug 4, 2009, 04:40:57
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Just new to it level 18 :S
Posted: Aug 9, 2009, 19:10:55
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nice Game
i play wow lvl14
Posted: Aug 10, 2009, 09:38:40
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This game is so addicting got 3 level 80's after 6 years of playing...
Posted: Aug 15, 2009, 02:44:50
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are these you're characters trance?
Posted: Aug 15, 2009, 02:57:00
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No .
I closed my account year ago , Sometimes i play it with my friend to help him , But i am not a professional ..
Posted: Aug 16, 2009, 07:42:27
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i've seen these chinese ppl play WOW at a net cafe. They play so fast! You cant even seen their hand in one place for a millisecond! The CS Players are just :eek: when they see them play so fast!
Posted: Aug 18, 2009, 16:21:10
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i dont have this game !!

but i love only war games !!

i will see vidoes for it !!
Posted: Aug 28, 2009, 06:07:20
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This Game is Good, but she want time
world of warcraft
Posted: Aug 28, 2009, 16:07:45
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the game is not that good just ok
wow 3
Posted: Sep 2, 2009, 21:10:12
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is it a free game ?
Posted: Sep 3, 2009, 04:07:32
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No, it's not
Nothing free now days
about wow
Posted: Sep 4, 2009, 17:31:27
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after u buy it i think that u always have to renew ur account :mad:
Posted: Sep 5, 2009, 01:45:25
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but i got to say it s awsome its the best game for the techniques ...
Posted: Sep 5, 2009, 01:46:08
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but you can get a free account from a web but u cant develop it :(
Posted: Sep 5, 2009, 02:35:33
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Quote from hakim:
but you can get a free account from a web but u cant develop it :(

The free account is only a trail for 10 days
I have 60 day pre-paid game card ( i won't use my account anymore )
So. if someone want to reactive his account just tell me I'll give him the serial number for FREE.
Posted: Sep 5, 2009, 02:40:37
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good idea:-)
free
Posted: Sep 5, 2009, 16:04:10
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nothing is free nowadays dude
Posted: Sep 5, 2009, 17:59:55
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it's free with Trance . believe me !
Posted: Sep 5, 2009, 23:18:06
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i buy it but i dont buy Card xD

when i see game i say thats noob game But many Pepole Play It i think it is GooD Game I Don't Play It I Play it SooN inshallah
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