Flashing Lights...a WoW story

World of Warcraft. The name struck a cord with me back in 2004 when the mmo genre was pretty much an unknown to the media and gaming industry. The hardest of the hardcore gamer can tell you that there was Ultima Online which was the precursor to Everquest which was the precursor to World of Warcraft made by Blizzard. Blizzard known for their widely succsefful and popular RTS titles Warcraft seemed to want to push the genre of MMO to new hights of popularity. With Warcraft 3's popularty dwindling it just seemed right for the publisher to make something better then Everquest or Final Fantasy XI (Which i was playing at the time) Now WoW has made the MMO (massivly multiplayer online) game a house hold name. Everyone knows someone who knows someone who has played an MMO in some way shape or form. It seemed to have opened the flood gates to other companies jocking for possition to make the next World of Warcraft killer. What is the appeal of World of Warcraft? To me anyways it's a neverending quest for power. Something i think deep down all people want. With that said mmo's in general are like that now. Just a bunch of bragging rights and Flashing lights. For a person that recently got hacked i cant say if ill ever play the game again....who knows i might but until then who knows...all those hours gone to waste? nope!



till next time
-Tony-