World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 7 | Page 63

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started out their character through

against the brick wall that was

PvE, role play or any combination

all their trials and tribulations they

Vaelastrasz in Blackwing Lair back

of the above, it’s why I think it’s

would have a best seller just like

in vanilla WoW, finally defeating

been going for 10 years. Everybody

any other WoW book out there.

him, and some lunatic (a Dwarf

is somebody behind a keyboard.

Paladin by the name of Geoff)

Even if they are some hardcore

stripping off and running around

arena player, in their head, that

also plays, we started together

the room naked. Over teamspeak

little avatar is a complete individual

and still do so, wrote down all

yakkety sax playing, and everyone

that they have created and you are

the things that had happened to

howling with laughter in a release

living out another life through that

us as people, or as characters in

of adrenaline, it was one of those

little collection of pixels. Because

game, or some combination of

golden moments, where all of the

to you it’s more than that, it’s an

both, over the past 10 years… it’s

antagonism that had been caused

alternate self. You hear so many

like the introduction to the film

by defeating this bloody dragon, all

stories of people who play these

“The Princess Bride”. It has fights,

of it was forgotten. I think it’s that,

games and play WoW, or Istaria, or

betrayal, the lot. Which is, I think is

that brings people from PvP and

Neocron, or Defiance or whatever

one of the reason we still play this

PvE into role play. The fact that you

and they have issues at home, and

game, World of Warcraft, after 10

are interacting with other human

then they get a little relief from

years. There’s only one other game

beings, and that like you say, you’re

that for an hour, two hours at a

that the pair of us still play after 10

your own script writer, your own

time and I don’t think that there’s

years and that is another MMO. It’s

director, your own producer, and

any other medium I can think of

that interaction with other people

your own actor. You are making

that can give that lift to people.

whether you are role playing or

your own epic tale of derring do. I

you are not. Whether you are, like

am rambling a bit, but it’s one of

us, former hardcore raiders who

the things I love about WoW and

have very, very, fond memories of

the various different communities

40 people slamming their faces

you get in it. Whether you are PvP,

Woot: Yeah, if I or my wife who

The interview continues
later in this issue.■

By Chris Wootton

The GameOn Magazine