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While Mists of Pandaria and (to a larger extent) Warlords of Draenor have both rekindled love for the MMO, it definitely hasn’t had as big of a cultural penetration in the last few years.īut that’s not to say the game is dead-far from it. It seemed poetic to end with World of Warcraft‘s peak. Either way, Cataclysm also marked World of Warcraft‘s peak-shortly after the expansion’s release the game hit its maximum subscriber base of 12 million. Necessary? Probably, but you’ll still find players out there that swear by original World of Warcraft.
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Old quests were scrapped, new quests were added, and those starter zones became very different than their vanilla incarnations. The meta-effects of the expansion saw many of the original zones from 2004 World of Warcraft updated into more modern, streamlined experiences. The plot involved Warcraft II‘s Deathwing the Destroyer returning to Azeroth through an enormous tear in the fabric of the dimension, causing a disaster that reshaped the entire world. Blizzard’s become a machine in that respect over the last decade, with five major expansions and tons of smaller updates.īut the most impressive (and controversial) content refresh by far was 2010’s Cataclysm expansion. Keeping a game fresh for ten years isn’t easy-it requires constant updates and content refreshes. One of the most lasting effects of World of Warcraft isn’t even part of the game-it’s the fact that there’s a company called “Activision Blizzard.” In fact, when Blizzard’s parent company Vivendi merged with Activision in 2008 Blizzard was the only Vivendi subsidiary that survived the buyout intact. There’s also another tauren, Ezra Wheathoof, in Thunder Bluff in Chatterton’s memory. Chatterton even voiced Ahab and created the Merciless Gladiator’s Crossbow of the Phoenix before passing away in 2008. The distraught farmer and his quest were both designed with the help of Ezra Chatterton, who while suffering from brain cancer was able to visit Blizzard’s offices through the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Ahab, a level 62 Tauren, is a farmer who merely wants his dog back. One of the most well-known, however, is Ahab Wheathoof. While the characters in The Guild played a fictional MMO known only as “The Game,” the parallels to World of Warcraft were clear.īlizzard’s particularly good about in-game memorials, with this year’s Robin Williams tributes garnering a lot of attention.
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On the more uplifting side of World of Warcraft TV there was the long-running web series The Guild. The episode was also briefly memorialized in-game, with South Park‘s fictional “Sword of a Thousand Truths” handed out to certain Burning Crusade beta testers. In Season 10, Episode 8 (” Make Love, Not Warcraft“) lampooned the MMO, with Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny getting addicted to the game in order to kill off a high-level griefer.īlizzard actually collaborated on the project, helping the team at South Park create the extensive machinima sequences that were a hallmark of the episode. You knew World of Warcraft had crossed into the mainstream when it cropped up on South Park. Me? I think the fact that we can even have that sort of discussion about a virtual world is pretty incredible. It’s still a controversial event in Internet spaces, with some arguing that Serenity Now never broke “the rules” while others argue that said actions fell outside the realm of human decency. Hearing about a Horde-faction funeral, Alliance guild Serenity Now decided to crash the event and slaughter all the attendees, most of whom weren’t even wearing armor.