Former Starbucks CIO Stephen Gillet is the most prominent example of someone who attributes part of his career success to the management skills he learned as Guild Master in the MMORPG World of Warcraft.
We'd also point out that MMOs aren't typically the most stable of sectors in the game industry -- outside of Blizzard juggernaut World of Warcraft, few are competitive if at all successful -- and playing one through OnLive would mean paying both for an OnLive subscription and a game subscription.
He disappears again, and then we find him in the uber-popular video game World of Warcraft.
There appears to be a new trend making its way through the MMO ranks in order to boost subscription and compete with the behemoth that is World of Warcraft.
Luckily the death of a character in World of Warcraft is not final so all those killed were soon resurrected.
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Hackers have already unleashed World War III in World of Warcraft, killing the avatars of thousands of innocent gamers.
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So, for instance, in "World of Warcraft, " the coordinates of your character are part of the state that your machine controls.
The company was quick to say that World of Warcraft is still the number one paid MMO in the land, but at just over 8M players, it has fallen steeply from 2010 when it had 12M.
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Activision, forever rolling in cash from yearly Call of Duty billion dollar hauls and World of Warcraft subscriptions, has made CEO Bobby Kotick one of the top paid executives in the US, according to Reuters.
According to statistics from Xfire, World of Warcraft has seen the biggest decrease in players since the launch of Diablo III.
In a game, we may find the fighting tedious, or the storyline dreary, or the never-ending grind to reach higher levels in World of Warcraft just too much trouble, and so we use some sort of cheat to jump ahead in the game's timeline, maybe all the way to the conclusion.
Where World of Warcraft and Mists of Pandaria shine is in the storytelling.
Online gaming like World of Warcraft is suffering its fair share of concerns, particularly in the Far East, where there are fears of widespread addiction and detrimental effects on intensive users' health.
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The document purportedly shows that two more expansions for World of Warcraft are scheduled for release in 2012 and 2013.
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The hack appears to be a mere prank, rather than a truly damaging attack: Death in World of Warcraft is more of a nuisance than a real loss, and characters can be resurrected.
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The study, forthcoming in the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, considers why some massive multiplayer online role-playing games such as World of Warcraft or Star Wars Galaxies, command legions of loyal players while others struggle to gain a following.
Unlike other multiplayer online games like the hugely popular World of Warcraft, which is split into smaller groups, the thousands of EVE players are in it together.
This drew the attention of U.S. companies like Activism Blizzard, which signed an exclusive licensing deal in 2009 for World of Warcraft.
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