Writer explains the basics of buying World of Warcraft gold with real life currency in: Time-savers or spoilsports? He speculates that he’ll probably get hate email for confessing. A few years ago? Sure, hate email. Now? Meh, almost everyone is doing it or lying about doing it; the only holdouts are the true catassers and they’re supplying it.
News item from January 2006’s The Onion, Call Of Duty 2 Gamer Wonders If War Is Worth Dying 79 Times For. “As World War II entered its sixth grueling week within the video game Call Of Duty 2, battle-hardened soldier-player Martin Avers admitted Tuesday that his commitment to the struggle to free electronic Europe from the virtual Third Reich is wavering.” Don’t we all know that feeling.
New community-based Warcraft server monitor: Where’s My WoW? In short, the site operates by tracking player-reported outtages on the US and European WoW servers, saving you a trip to the Warcraft forums to search for posts like “Laughing Skull down?” “Blackrock wru?” “ne1 else can’t get in Warsong?” The site owner started a forum thread to promote the site and discuss its use.