Bought Wow

kdd · 31 Mar 2006 at 20:05

Hi,

I've been getting a bit dissolusioned lately with cs and bf2 etc so in a moment of spontaneous madness in hmv i bought World of Warcraft. Just installing now! I've never played an rpg before let alone a multiplayer one so anyone give me some hints what i'm in for? Just about to read the manual.

kdd · 31 Mar 2006 at 22:28

ra5a-libre said:
everyone rolls a rogue and everyone is always a night elf

Heheh, well i started on a role playing server, as a rogue night elf lol. I thought role playing might be a nice sedate intro. At level 3 now and completed a quest w00t!

kdd · 1 Apr 2006 at 21:55

Haly said:
Partially right
I quit between August last year till about 2 weeks ago
Then writing about it in my dissertation made me miss it and I had slightly more money so I resubbed

What subject would allow you to write about wow in your dissertation??!!

kdd · 1 Apr 2006 at 22:16

Haly said:
Media Studies......that's its only redeeming feature in 3 years of the blasted course though
Slight plug but http://www.halycopter.com/?page_id=8 explains the actual dissertation title if you care.

Ah right interesting, i'd say being unable to distinguish between reality and fiction was somewhere along the lines of madness lol. I was very interested in the works of Foucault when i was at uni, his work on identity is pretty detailed and rewarding. i wrote some stuff about the history of madness and containment of madness, history of lunatic asylums etc. Which is one of the subjects he was pretty heavily concerned with. Playing bf2 for the last 8 months or so reminded me of it tbh

But seriously i guess perhaps for most online identities are realisations of parts of us which may lay unknown or latent and can only be realised in the relative freedom of a digital world. How this would affect or interact with our 'real' lives is something certainly worthy of consideration.

kdd · 2 Apr 2006 at 19:56

I made level 10 this morning, should be able to move on a bit now does anyone think?