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Lol So World of warcraft has really made it into mainstream Media
CPmmo
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Last night I was watching MoonLight on CBS. A new TV show about a Vampire Private Detective. While he is talking to himself about the things he has been able to see thanks to being a Vampire he mentions the internet, (something else), World Of Warcraft, and GPS. (he was about to put a GPS tracking device on a car).
So a CBS nighttime television show (not in anyway aimed at kids) makes mention of World of Warcraft.
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Are you drunken or do you just seek friends?
WoW is, at least til max level, the best MMO-game in the market. No other game beats it in PvE.
However, aside from that, what the hell have you been smoking?
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This has also been done in other TV shows such as Stargate Atlantis.
And WoW is hardly a gmae to be proud of even if it has hooked millions of players. As evidenced by the community ingame quantity doesant mean quality.
"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."
-- Jean Rostand
How is my post in any fashion attacking or Bashing WoW?
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does it really matter? its the biggest MMO out there, yeah its gonna get some publicity.
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Are you familiar with the lowest common denominator and the empirical rule?
Of course wow is mainstream, dude... I do not know if you understand marketing or the fact that most screen writers are geeky ass folk who get stuck in a room for 9-10 hours a day trying to think of funny/exciting/etc stuff.
Which they generally fail at and add a laugh track or cut the scene by many minutes.
In short, they are mostly geeky ass dudes.
Lets face it most geeks play WoW, judging by all the "RATE MY CHARAKTER AND MY FACE N SEE IF WE LOOK TEH SAMEZ" sites that keep popping up.
A rule of thumb. If it has a damn commercial it has made main stream.
So you are a few years late on your theory/thought/spam/post/thinggy majigger.
Indeed , but I hate worthwhile posts.
You and your contributing....Pfft.
Yes but many cases of this instance have been spammed across the culture about wow.
See heres something that sucks in a way but is good in another (for us gamers) wow's mainstream has made us less nerdy (yes people we who play mmorpg's contrary to popular belief are seen just barely above DnD dungeon masters in society).
It's given a sort of neat mystique to making a astral version of yourself to do away with evil/good doers.
Instead of "haha so and so can't get laid because he plays wow", now it's " so and so got laid because he paid some interwhore 5k in game gold".
I mean wow....just wow. Stigma's are being removed this could be a good thing and a bad thing.
We gamers especially us mmo'ers are an elitist bunch, we defend the games we play with our "lives" we take direct insult when a person mocks our game (generally, some of us are still sorta normal) we spend more hours customizing and levelling our characters than we do on our own life.
It's borderline psychotic, but hey...when theres a dollar to be made it will be and you can be damn sure that advertising makes things more normal and cool.
"FIGHT A DRAGON IN THE PITS OF CLICHE" the commercial said. Danny had never been interested in online games before but (Dragon Slayer Masters Lords of Noglieghth) sounded so cool!
He promptly purchased the game and started his life in the world of Noglieghth.
Six months later Danny would be remembered by his 5000 member guild as the type of player who simply never logged off. Danny had died a month earlier from a six day redbull infused Raiding session.
He left behind two survivors who will be auctioning danny's level 999 character for 65,000 dollars on ebay.
Am I the only one that finds himself always liking non-mainstream things? Whether it be music, movies, art, or games, I just tend to gravitate towards what always turns out less popular. It just never bothered me to not have the whole world digging what I dig.
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No everyone likes non-mainstream things. Just some of us don't go "I AM UNDERGROUND HEAR ME ROAR".
In otherwords, alot of us don't care. If I like it then I like it, if I don't then I don't.
It could be the greatest "Widget" ever but I don't like "Widgets" so I am not buying/reading/watching/playing the "Widget".
I'll stick with my "Whosit".
No everyone likes non-mainstream things. Just some of us don't go "I AM UNDERGROUND HEAR ME ROAR".
In otherwords, alot of us don't care. If I like it then I like it, if I don't then I don't.
It could be the greatest "Widget" ever but I don't like "Widgets" so I am not buying/reading/watching/playing the "Widget".
I'll stick with my "Whosit".
I know what you mean. There are some people that try to be different just for the sake of being different.But I'm talking about something else. I've just noticed (I mean at a very early age) that I don't like what other people like. Well, outside of steak. I love me some steak. But entertainment wise and art wise I just have some pretty weird taste. I look at a lot of the "popular" stuff and it just makes me yawn. I don't mean this in a bragging kind of way, but I tend to like to look deeper into things than just what's on the obvious surface. I think complexity is a cool thing. I also like a touch of genius to the point of bordering insanity.
At times I wish I did have normal tastes. I have to really look for the stuff I like. But if I were normal then everything would be convenient to locate and it wouldn't be so hard to find someone to do stuff with.
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