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Since we’re now bearing down on the holidays with the fury and majesty of an 18 Wheeler, now comes a time to discuss how those special days affect your WoW play. On the one hand, a lot of people have extended time off this time of year, giving them more time to play, while others find their time taken up with family and friends celebrating and thus have less time to play. I live roughly 2000 miles away from anyone I’d celebrate with, but my wife and I live close to my mother in law, meaning that we’ll spend the holidays close to home and save for the specific days themselves will have the same or more time to play, but much of my raiding guild will be traveling and as a result raiding will most likely be suspended from mid December on. This wasn’t as much of an issue for us last year due to Wrath of the Lich King launching in November… the holiday season was taken up by folks leveling… but this year it looks like five mans will be our major WoW excursions until the new year. So what about you? Will you be raiding as usual, taking some time off, running heroics, or even levling alts? How will the holidays change how you play WoW? Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends , Breakfast topics Breakfast Topic: Your Holiday WoW originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink  |  Email this  |  Comments

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Hey guys heres a great article all about Breakfast Topic: When will you quit playing WoW?

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With all this five year anniversary stuff going on, and the new push by Blizzard for subscribers via the TV commercials and special offers , I’ve been thinking about what it would take for me to leave WoW . What would my point be where I quit the game, unsubscribe, and not return to playing it? I think likely it would be a slow death. I’d log in less and less, until I found that I wouldn’t log in for months at a time. At that point I’d probably be sensible and cancel my account — although it took an inordinate amount of time for me to cancel my EQII account where I did more or less the same thing. I’d like to think this is how it’d go at least, I wouldn’t want to quit in a huff over some silly bug or class change. Of course, this is WoW , and I find myself uniquely invested in it. I’ve got characters with hundreds of days worth of /played on them, and I don’t know yet if I could ever stop myself from being able to have immediate access to them. They are a hobby, and investment, just like a detailed model airplane or schooner. Then there’s also what I do here, which gives me a little unique reason not to ever unsubscribe. But alas, it might happen one day. And that’s the topic of today’s breakfast nook discussion. When will you quit playing WoW ? How will you go out? With a bang or a whimper? Filed under: Breakfast topics Breakfast Topic: When will you quit playing WoW? originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink  |  Email this  |  Comments

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Here is a great article all about Breakfast Topic: Catching the perfect Warcraft wave

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If you’ve been around the World of Warcraft community for any length of time you’ve probably found and participated in some of the myriad of different game related communities. If you go to the blog search page and search for Warcraft you’ll see over 8 million related entries. There are also tons of additional podcasts on iTunes other such services. And then there are the forums. Besides the official forums, you have other sites that have created forums. There are forums like MMO Champion , WoW Raid , Elitist Jerks to just name a few. We haven’t even touched the Facebook fan sites or Twitter #wow or #warcraft discussions. But yet, now we have another way to talk about our favorite game. Google has a new collaboration tool out for use (by invitation only at the moment), Google Wave . Right now it’s still in Alpha and is full of bugs and performance issues, but it’s a tool that seems to have a lot of possibilities. For example, if you search for waves by using “with:public Warcraft” you a number of public waves ranging from general wow discussions to server or class specific debates. Personally, I’ve seen it used for Instant Messaging about patch 3.3 , collaborating on documents, and even being used by people to play a role playing game. Basically, it seems like a tool that has a ton of potential. (Please understand that none of us here at WoW.com have any wave invitations to hand out.) So here’s what I’m wondering. What communities do you participate in? Do you participate in the WoW related Twitter, Facebook, blog or podcast community? Which ones? How about Wave? Are you using Google Wave to talk about Warcraft? We’d love to know what communities you’re using and think people need to use also. So grab a cup a coffee and let’s talk about it. Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Fan stuff , Breakfast topics Breakfast Topic: Catching the perfect Warcraft wave originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink  |  Email this  |  Comments

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Today is November 23rd, and that means it’s the fifth anniversary of the release of World of Warcraft . That’s a long time! Especially in the high-risk world of MMOs, where a bad launch can mean your whole game is doomed , or a sudden change in gameplay can make your whole audience rear up on its hind legs at you. Thankfully, Blizzard has made WoW a living, breathing document, a world that constantly changes and evolves to match its players, which is what makes it so accessible. Throughout dozens of patches , tiers upon tiers of raid bosses , waves of dailies, faction grinds and honor grinds , legendaries and greens, WoW has managed to keep growing and growing along with its subscriber count . And of course, you’ve been there, too. Maybe not for the whole five years like some of us, but everyone’s experienced the game in their own way. So what about you? How long have you been with the game? What’s your favorite memory of “growing up” in WoW ? Will you keep playing for another five years? Happy anniversary, everybody. Here’s to five more! Filed under: Breakfast topics Breakfast Topic: Five years originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink  |  Email this  |  Comments

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This was a reader suggestion, and a good one: Zvonimir wants to know how many of us WoW players use a Mac to play the game. Blizzard has steadfastly put out Mac and Windows versions of all their games ever since the original Warcraft , but this is not at all the norm in the industry. There are only a few other major MMOs I can think of that even have official Mac versions ( EVE , Warhammer , City of Heroes , um…anything else?). Sure, we can always run some sort of virtualization (like Crossover Games, which supports WoW on Linux ) or Boot Camp, but that’s just less awesome than running something in your regular OS. Anyway, here’s the question for today: what platform do you usually use to play WoW ? View Poll Please no flaming in the comments. This is not a “which is better, Mac or Windows” poll. Inappropriate comments will be gladly deleted. Filed under: Breakfast topics , Hardware Breakfast Topic: How many of you play on a Mac? originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink  |  Email this  |  Comments

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