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.
Now that I’m wise to this viral marketing game, I’m seeing it everywhere. Like this (now locked) post on the Warcraft forums about WHOLE GUILDS leaving WoW for DDO. (Furl archive — a locked thread is on borrowed time.) He’s either pulling a DDO paycheck or he, and everyone on his imaginary friends list, is high.