Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

You know how the media is always trying to paint us MMO players as nut cases without any lives? Well I happened to run into this link on Digg that was quite hilarious. The facts in the article are so wrong it is an amusing read.

Here are some of the hilarious highlights from the article!

World Of Warcraft, known as WOW, in which more than 50 million people take on the characters of wizards or warriors and join a struggle between humans and orcs in the kingdom of Azeroth.

So Blizzard LOVES to talk about there numbers, and they couldn’t even accurately report the number of people who play WoW?

Having worked his way up to be head of a “guild”, Arklore now leads massive 40-person “raids”, battles which the whole group take part in simultaneously.

This one was hilarious, “worked his way up” to be a guild leader lol. Then talking about 40 person raids? This is a recent article!

He has three characters a druid, a knight and an elf, all powered up to the fabled “level 70″ status, which can take over 30 full days of play, or 720 hours.

I thought this was funny too, the person had a druid, a night, and an elf? lol They must not have listened to the person who was speaking and told them they had a Druid Night Elf And 30 days to get 70? I mean I’m supper slow and didn’t even take a quarter of that!

World Of Warcraft can be a better world, because you don’t get people threatening each other and you can resurrect yourself when you die.

This last one is a quote from one of the people he interviewing as to why he likes WoW over real life. People don’t get threated? Really? That is hilarious, he must not play on a PvP server where it is a dog eat dog world

This is all about some Film Festival movie called Second Skin. I’d like to see it just to see how well/bad they portrayed us. I think the main fault of the article is insisting that you are being anti-social by playing an MMO… This doesn’t make any sense to me as I can be interacting with more people in WoW at times than I would in real life. I have some good friends in WoW, and some of my good local friends play with me. I see no problem with playing an MMO in moderation. Of course if you are skipping work, meals, Pee breaks to play then perhaps you have a problem. Other than that it is just a hobby, something for me that lets me relax and enjoy myself. If you give it any thought it is better than a lot of things I could be doing. It is inexpensive, keeps me at home yet still gives me the release I need after an annoying day at work!

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