World Of Warcraft Social Network Launches...For Real
In the beginning there was The Game. You played The Game at home by yourself, or perhaps with a friend or two, or maybe taking turns as a group with a little beer and pizza and general rowdiness, maybe not. Then came The Online Game. You played it alone in the dark, but you were connected to hundreds of other people who were also playing The Online Game alone in the dark. It was fun, but more significantly, it was a habit. A pattern.
And then, from the most twisted minds of Hell’s infernal programming pits, came World of Warcraft, which took hold of that habit and bedeviled it into a pattern so invasive it raped your brain and pillaged your will, leaving you a soulless ruin of a person with rotting teeth and giant spinning hypno-disk eyes.
At least that was my experience.
Well, the WoW tumor has spread once again. Since its MySpace page was such a hit, it seems that some industrious Warcraftsfolk have heeded their evil overmind and constructed the Warcraft Social Network, using the ominous and self-aware tagline, “Warcraft & Social: No longer an Oxymoron.”
Mmm-kay.
In the beginning there was The Game. You played The Game at home by yourself, or perhaps with a friend or two, or maybe taking turns as a group with a little beer and pizza and general rowdiness, maybe not. Then came The Online Game. You played it alone in the dark, but you were connected to hundreds of other people who were also playing The Online Game alone in the dark. It was fun, but more significantly, it was a habit. A pattern.
And then, from the most twisted minds of Hell’s infernal programming pits, came World of Warcraft, which took hold of that habit and bedeviled it into a pattern so invasive it raped your brain and pillaged your will, leaving you a soulless ruin of a person with rotting teeth and giant spinning hypno-disk eyes.
At least that was my experience.
Well, the WoW tumor has spread once again. Since its MySpace page was such a hit, it seems that some industrious Warcraftsfolk have heeded their evil overmind and constructed the Warcraft Social Network, using the ominous and self-aware tagline, “Warcraft & Social: No longer an Oxymoron.”
Mmm-kay.
WSN functions a lot like MySpace, so if you’re already in over your head with the comments and the postings and the cute little web thingies, you might wanna sit this one out. Otherwise, WSN exists to help you share information with your friends and guildies, find and make friends and guildies on your server, connect “on a more personal level by viewing photos of other Warcraft players” (Too. Much. Nerdery. Can’t. Go. On.), and the actually interesting possibility of looking up “the jerk who just ganked you.”
It sounds like quite an endeavor. It sounds extraneous. It sounds weird, and kinda lame. It sounds, in other words, like the perfect idea for my fellow World of Warcraft aficionados. After all, we’ll need services like this once Warcraft subsumes our species whole, splicing our minds into one single distributed entity whose purpose is to grind for XP and farm reputation until the entire planet is clad in Tier 9 gear.
I can’t wait to be a Level 120 Hive Mind.
World of Warcraft social network launches [Playthrough]
Warcraft Social Network [Warcraftsocial.com]
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Posted to Video Games on 9 November 2006
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