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World of Warcraft - shortened WoW, but it may eventually be pronounced woooooow, as the game has been a success in the tens of billions class! It goes really well for the company Blizzard Entertainment, is behind the worldwide computer gaming success. Kforum have investigated the matter and come here with thirteen explanations of why World of Warcraft works.

A few weeks ago rounded World of Warcraft eight million players worldwide, and strongly suggests that the number of players is still growing. If we expect little turnover, there comes a figure up to at least do not fit on my calculator. It's been a lot of money in the computer games industry, which has long since overtaken Hollywood in circulation. Blizzard Entertainment has broken all limits of what had been expected. Here are 13 suggestions on what they made the right choice:

1. Something for all player types

A classical theory of games research is about player types. According games researcher Richard Bartle, there are four of them: 1) Achiever, 2) explorer, 3) killer and 4) Socializer. Achiveren act on the game and trying to meet game requirements. Explorer love to travel and look around. Kill cleaner is most interested in killing other players, and Socialize is there to hang out. Blizzard has created space for all types of players in World of Warcraft: There is both opportunity to play within the game environment and have fun with it. There are plenty of areas to explore. On PvP - servers (player vs. player) can beat other players down. And there are plenty of opportunities to be social.

2. Large and diverse audience

World of Warcraft is a MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game), and this type of game has long been surrounded by prejudice, "It'sa game nerds." But the audience is much larger than the classic nerd with Coke and headphones. Blizzard has been very ordinary people with career and family to play with. Moreover, women are getting started, which has helped to create success. Nick Yee, an American Ph.D., has made a study of 40,000 players and found the following result:

•     Average Player is 26-28 and spend more than 24 hours a week to play.
• Most are between 19 and 32 years.
• Only one quarter are teenagers.
• 50% have full-time job.
• One third are married.
• One-fifth are children.
•     Most play with someone they already know.
•     Women are really made and represents over 30%.

By appealing to different segments Blizzard has managed to pull off this genre of young men and out to a larger group of adults. Moreover, women become a part of culture and the game, which is not really succeed before others.

3. 2 games in 1

The predecessor of MMORPGs, EverQuest, was also a great success with several hundred thousand players, but the game was extremely time consuming. It was the most hard-core gamers, and you supposed to keep and spend a lot of time to participate. Blizzard has kept the hard-core gamers in particular to make separate lanes at the end of the game (raids), which requires up to eight hours of gaming. But they have also gotten into the more general interest, who just want to play 2-3 hours at a time. By making two games in one, they have retained the incarnate players who also are the first movers, but also has been the much larger group of gamers with the medium, the second movers. So what Blizzard has done right is that they both have the segment that uses a lot of time to play, and the segment with a little more "fun" and spend less time.

4. User Driven Innovation

Blizzard has probably the world's most committed and productive audience. It is completely wild, what is being produced by film, fan art and all possible sites where players help each other and share their experiences. In the films involved more than a thousand players, several hundred movies and everything will be clipped together and put up. One of the instructors, Martin Falch, lives in Aarhus, and his latest film, Tales of the Past II has been downloaded more than 140,000 times. It puts the movie in the Danish top ten of the most watched films in 2006 and director as one of its most successful.

So the game is surrounded by a large user-driven activity and function largely as a platform for the giant and hyperactive online communities.

The Blizzard has obviously turned to their advantage, and you can see how they have changed the game and the trailers for the game after the aesthetics of the players' own productions. So World of Warcraft is partly a result of user-driven innovation, and it plays for me to see a crucial role in their success. The virtual settings, runners, cameramen, actors and directors have created some great stories and a common frame of reference or horizon of understanding of the players. And World of Warcraft is thereby become a part of their world and community.

5. User Driven Marketing

Long before the game came out, had the viral marketing manured soil, "rumor sites" had been twitching for months, and Blizzard had been dropped near to market the product. But economic success has made it possible to market the product on many fronts and at large scale, and now we can see banners on hotmail and other big sites in addition to large newspaper advertisements, etc. As marketing terms, it has been an easy matter for Blizzard, the users are already in release and even more on the way served as evangelists for the product. Users have created the powerful processor, and the company could simply add up.

6. The experience of flow

The gameplay in WoW involves a high degree of repetition of the same activity. But why bother people spend so much time to do the same thing over and over again? The American psychologist with the impressive name of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [tjik-'sent-mi-shark-in] has developed a theory about a very delight full mode, which can be experienced when performing an activity over and over again. The condition is called flow. To experience flow to the activities they perform, consist of a dialectical relationship between challenge and skill. There must be clear objectives for the activity and feedback as reward. And then the challenge imply that one must check a particular situation. If these conditions are met, you can experience that merges with its activity, even consciousness disappears and you lose sight of time. Csikszentmihalyis theory is formidable to explain why people bother to perform the same task again and again during the more than twenty days it takes to play the 70 levels.

Csikszentmihalyi defines flow as "the condition where people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to have meaning. This experience is in itself so full enjoyment that people will search activity, although it involves high costs, just to do it. "

The experience of flow is not unique to World of Warcraft, it is an experience related to computer games in general. But the game seems to be organized very focused for this effect, for all Csikszentmihalyis conditions for the flow are satisfied. So Blizzard has created a whole world with guaranteed experience of flow, and helps to get the players to return.

7. Blizzard has got the anarchic user culture

According to Bo Kampmann Walther have companies like Apple and Blizzard managed to make money on a group of users who have not wanted to pull money out of pocket. According to Walther Kampmann is eight kroner for a song in iTunes, it was in the pockets, and a hundred kroner for a cool gaming experience also no large outlay when you consider how much you get for your money. "The borderline between criminal piracy, which is by nature free, and so that it perfectly legal to pay the symbolic hand-ears for a great experience, both in terms of music and games, becomes blurred. And it is really the big scoop that you get hold of all the comprehensive and user anarchic culture ... ", says Bo Walter Kampmann said in an interview on DR's excellent theme page (link at bottom of page). So by adjusting the price down to a token amount, Blizzard has managed to get the whole pirate culture to life.

8. It is difficult to join from

It is very easy to get started with the game. Enrollment will function smoothly and there is plenty of support for one thing and another. But if the players have had enough of running around in the virtual world, it is not like that to get out. To opt out you must call Blizzard and explain (in English), 1) that you want out and 2) why they stop playing. By putting the customer in personal contact with the company terminated, it becomes harder for players to get their act together to sign off. So Blizzard has made sure that players will continue to pay by putting a person at the other end of the tube.

9. Integrated criticism

World of Warcraft and Blizzard have also been subject to criticism. The company behind the cartoon series South Park for instance. produced the "Make Love Not Warcraft", where they make fun of the game, players and the company. Stan, Cartman, Kyle and Kenny must save the World of Warcraft by beating a seemingly invincible nerd death. Blizzard therefore raises to the boys and give them a USB key with a special sword that can turn nerd death and save the game and the company. Section is an apt parody and a critique singing, and you will certainly not want to start playing World of Warcraft to see it.

But Blizzard has integrated the criticism by making it possible to get the sword mentioned in the expansion The Burning Crusade. Thus, players can laugh at the section and the game - inside the game - and the producers have thus punctured the criticism. To relate to the ironic criticism has Blizzard on the best postmodern manner disarmed criticism, and integrated a potential negative publicity.

10. The stories teach you the rules

There is currently an academic battle in research between narratologer (tell theorists) and Lodges Ludo (game theorists). They argue respectively that computer games are narratives and computer games have rules. World of Warcraft is both, and Blizzard has designed it so that the stories will teach you the rules. Thereby played a playful or entertaining approach to learning the rules of the game, and it seems like a smart model.

11. Staff - team building not needed

Since the IT bubble burst and the uncertainties presented itself in the IT business, decreased exposure among employees. They thought no longer on the outlook for gold and green forests. But the computer games industry survived this gap because their programmers, writers and designers were so concerned and committed to what they were doing. Attempts in the IT industry to share employee shares out to get them to take an interest. It need not be in the game industry, the employees went up in it anyway. Blizzard has not only been good at creating user involvement, but also employee involvement and empathy that otherwise is difficult in the IT industry, where jobs are many and great challenges.

12. Established fanbase

Are selected for World of Warcraft was the strategy, but many of the elements have been reused, so Blizzard has created recognition for their previous clients and links between the game and its predecessors. Thus, Blizzard has spent the fanbase, which was linked to the previous games, which proved to be sensible. They were loyal to the established fans, and it was to give the game a warm welcome among the existing players.

13. Known universe

World of Warcraft is based on some stories, characters and a fantasy universe that most people are familiar with already. Mythology was created J.R.R. Tolkien, and it was reflected in particular "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", but also a whole series of writings about the individual cultures, languages and history. Blizzard has not bought Tolkien's mythology, but they have copied his mythical skeleton and the now stereotyped races as elves and trolls. With Peter Jackson's film adaptation of Tolkien's books were generally known universe, and it has helped Blizzard to create even greater familiarity with the universe. So they grabbed some familiar stories developed around them and thereby caused a recognition joy and security.

There are several good reasons why Blizzard has had success with World of Warcraft than I can mention here. But I believe that success is due to a fortunate and velkalkuleret together running a lot of factors. Many will make Blizzard feat, but time will tell if this is possible. Evidence suggests that they are going to surpass himself before others do. For the next few years will play in the Star Wars way - World of Starcraft. It is indeed still a rumor, and there are lots of, because Blizzard knows full well how to create awareness and expectations of the audience. Namely by letting the rumors whiz. So I'll stop before I come to serve as evangelist for a product not yet available. Or does it ... 

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Since a few weeks, masses of newbie’s touch down in Red Light Center.
It’s very rare now that any of these new users rely on a guide. Most of them heard through the grapevine about RLC and risk a free fall in an unknown environment.

Yesterday when I arrived in the transport room and stay there for a little while, to check my mail and friends list, I was pm’d twice and got one friend request, all out of the blue.

I took the time to explain to these newcomers how to proceed in Red Light Center to gain a kind of popularity.

At least with 2 of them I had the impression that my words sound snobbish and I guessed they were not going to follow my advice.

I have to say that in the approach of this Utherverse site, there are not much written guidelines to a proper conduct in Red Light Center.

What attitude are we going to show to newbie’s?
It’s important, as the first contact of a new user will gave him or her, a first impression of the site.

Ignore newbie’s ? Not really the solution. Remember your own situation, how helpless you felt the first couple of hours, certainly for those who didn’t had any 3D chat room experience before. How will they learn if you don’t reply? Of course there are people who will never learn. (That’s why I always check their arrival date on the site.)

Rebuff them ? Mmm, perhaps you will regret that later and it’s not a good thing for your reputation.

Take your time to explain a basic code of conduct ? That very generous of you, if you have to time to spend. But don’t expect too much, some of the newbie’s don’t have a clue what it’s all about, and never forget that we come out of different environment and education, so the response will be different in every case. It’s anyway an ungrateful task and you don’t have always the time to do it.

Troublemakers of any kind As long as 3D chat rooms exist, they will be there. If rudeness is the main word from the beginning you need to be firm in you reply and if necessary follow the RLC standard procedures in such cases (Stay calm, don’t enter in their game of roughness, try to bring them to a better behavior, keep the argument in pm, and if needed call for a protector, etc.). You cant’ ignore such cases as they will lead to a constant harassment of other users, as long as they didn’t realize that RLC is not the place for such a behavior.

Lines such as “Wana fuck?” or “Any girls wants a good fuck ?” I suppose you heard them a lot. If it’s said in general chat, the silence that follows will teach the nincompoop that he or she is reduced to solitary pleasures. If it’s in pm and it becomes harasment, jumping to general chat is sometimes a way out before starting the standard RLC procedures.

But coming back to the more “civilized users” perhaps it’s useful to have a little ready made text in your archives that you can copy into a message to the newbie, who pm’d you.

I give here a little example, which I made for my own use. You can adapt to your own point of view, but it’s a quick way to give newcomers some thoughts about the situation.

Code of conduct for the newcomer

• Before getting into the chat room take the time to make a comprehensive profile of yourself. (most of the routines read that first before accepting any pm or invitation)
•     Put a default picture on your profile, even if it is not yours, it will help other users to remind you.
•     Always ask before pm’ing somebody.
•     Don’t use CAPS it means shouting and considered as rude if it’s not needed (exept general announcements)
•     If you have an argue with somebody, keep it in pm. No need to involve everybody in your personal issues.
• Take “no” for a “NO”, insisting means harasment and can get you in trouble (there are Red Light Center  standard proceedings to remedy to such behavior)
• For the public places: Try to use the language of the dim in general chat. Red Light Center rules are strict about that. Complains from a Protector or a Staff member can get you in trouble.
•     When you enter a private venue, please respect the internal rules. (try to inform first if they are additional restrictions)
• Don’t be a party pooper, if nobody is responding to your “jokes”, back off, you make yourself ridiculous.
• If you feel a fatale attraction to an other user, think of the real world. It’s not because you are in a virtual world that you can say anything you want. It could end in a virtual slap in your face.
• If you are involved in pm’s, don’t forget now and then to check the general chat. That will avoid the impression that you don’t want to talk to a good friend, who was just stopping by to say hello.
• If you send a friend request from your profile, please add a little greeting note to it. Some long time users will not accept friend requests out of the blue, as they were the cause of a lot of problems in the past (Hacking profile pages, etc.)

It’s a general list you can send to anybody who has a deviant behavior. It’s discreet, there is nothing personal, you don’t make a fuss and the concerned person will easily understand. (Well in most cases…)

Of course that’s my personal list. If anybody has other ideas, please feel free to message me. I will publish any suggestion in a blog.

Love you all

I arrived to this strange place due to an email spam message in my address box one day long ago. Actually since May 2006, the place called RLC has bedeviled me, irritated me in immensely different ways and given me more laughs and carnal pleasure than a person should have. It was lonely at first but of course if you laugh with someone and are friendly enough to stick with someone you like, they have a way of either ignoring you or laughing with you.
What I like: incredible array of people from different lifestyles and countries. I feel like I am on a journey of a travel country as the people come from all over the world

The intoxicating wealth of pictures people put into their profiles, whether real or fake it’s quite overwhelming to think how public people can be with private images.

The social interaction of friends seen on a daily basis and catching up with their lives. Good and bad.

The admiration of people that can literally make me laugh out loud at the computer with their sense of humor.

The true spirit of friends willing to help you in times when you are blue or undergoing some major RL events.

The variety of RLC and Vancouver to explore settings and secret places to find. And as I hear some day Virtual Las Vegas here.

The sexual thrill of finding out about myself that was always so conservative in the Real World. Sub , Domme , BDSM were words I never heard before this place.

Interacting with privacy yet so being so close to some here. Who would have thought I have a date watching certain tv shows real life while chatting to each other via RLC eating popcorn?

And lastly , my natural sexual nature able to be satisfied to a reliable degree from the wonderful ability of certain friends here to communicate directly to my libido.

What I don’t like:

Spiteful people from broken relationships causing unnecessary hurt feelings.

Twenty dollars for a pre beta with too many boots.

Lack of manners, just because it’s an adult site, Im always amazed at the bluntness of some people.

Drinking too much and doing RLC,, Ive seen people lose a lot of friends by saying things they never would have said normally.
There probably is more, but the good outnumbers the bad.

Clothing and Texturing: there are some good programs written for easy categorizing. Frans Closet is good. But remember if its custom, others won’t see your clothing unless they download too.

Good themes make some people stand out here-my hat is off to those like, Night Girl, Rorrim and Batmancumeth.

I am cataloging some variations of myinfo.ini file alterations, but to find a detailed instruction guide per line item is difficult here.

Kissing and hugging- would someone please make it last longer next update?

Multiple PMs and multitasking: we all do it, if someone asks you why you are not talking to them,, please just be honest.. we all know a few minutes of no response means the other has been distracted.

Glitches and server access- love to utilize them as much as possible for fun without getting into trouble.

Cams and voice skype- don’t like them and thinks it takes away from the privacy that some women need to keep the stalkers away.

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Yup, that’s right. There are 2 categories in which RLC surpasses SL:

PORN PICS and BLOGGING

1)    PORN: If there’s a place in SL where you can post X-Rated photos, I haven’t found it yet. Of course, we all had our fave web porn sites before RLC came along, and they are still ‘functional’, to be sure.
I’m continually fascinated by the fact that so many people (especially female!) get a kick out of posting lewd photos of themselves in cyberspace, for ANYONE to look at, from the horndog who lives down the street to your white-collar co-workers, and even your boss. Is it a show of defiance that women ARE equal in today’s world, in bed as in all other places? And do women masturbate while gazing at pics of their own bodies? ‘Self-Porn’ probably is a modern form of self-expression, I guess, like tattoos, or body bling. I welcome your thoughts on this, ladies. Guys, on the other hand, usually post dick shots separate from face shots. Maybe it’s just a lack of imagination, or perhaps they just realize that a full length body shot shows how insignificant their little pecker really is, in the grand context of things! Ha ha.

But I wonder if the glut of porn pics in RLC has any direct correlation to the amount of vulgarity present in so many of the meetings and confrontations there? In SL, when you meet someone, their sexual proclivites are not as easily evident, except for the physical appearance and dress of their avatars *chuckle*. Yes, Virignia, you CAN act out your ‘Big Boob Fantasy’ in SL *wicked grin*. But there are so many NON-sexual places to meet people in SL, that you’re never sure if the person you just met is looking for more than friendship. Of course there are tons more sex clubs, locker rooms and dungeons also, where the preliminary discussions can be decidedly more perfunctory lol!

2)    BLOGGING:   The good news is that there ARE places for blogging in SL. The bad news is that almost nobody reads them *frown*. They generally get about 50,000 people on-line at any given time (versus 1,200 or maybe 2,000 in RLC), yet I posted a blog on SLbuzz (one sight among many where you can ‘blog’), and I received only 40 hits in a week. My Gawd, you can get that many comments, let alone hits, per week on your blogs in RLC! And I know it was a ‘decent’ blog, ‘cause it was one that I published 6 months ago in RLC lol!

Part of the problem is that there is no one place, like the ‘social profiles’ webspot of RLC, to post things. SL is so gigantic that many, many correlative websites have sprung up around it. Heck, some are used just to sell clothes and toys for use in SL! And part of the problem is that so many RLC blogs are concerned with PROBLEMS encountered in RLC, while there is little ‘need’ for such blogs in SL. Another reason is that with the server problems in RLC you have a lot more time on your hands *heh heh*.

And what do I really think? It’s the SIZE of the worlds, luv! In RLC, you are posting for your friends, who (at least in your own mind) make up a fair percentage of the total population; while in SL, it seems more like you are trying to publish the New York Times, instead of a small-town weekly newspaper ‘gossip’ column *chuckle*. Now you CAN send a notice to all your friends in SL, or all the members of a particular club or social group (or even several of them), BUT – you are restricted to 500 words or less *big, big frown*. For crying out loud, that’s not enough time to even say “Hello”, let alone elicit some humor (humour, across The Pond) and/or some pathos. Why, I would’ve been cut off two paragraphs before this…..and some of you are probably wishing I was *big grin, lmao* At least NOW you know why so many of us SLers still return to RLC on a frequent basis – to the websight, at least, if not the cyberworld itself – we need our daily ‘fix’!

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No matter what level your character is on, you can get to Dalaran and enjoy the portals from there to all the major cities for free. No need to ask a mage for a portal.

You just has to die.

So get naked, and take your char to Stormwind, if you are alliance, or Undercity, if you are horde, and take the boat/zeppelin to Northrend.

From there, move towards Crystal Vice (alliance) and die there at the latest or Zul'Drak (horde).

Move towards Crystalsong, where your ghost/whisp will become airborn, and you can fly towards Dalaran.

Since you are not allowed to fly over Dalaran, get as hight as possible, at the same height as the heighest tower in Dalaran. Keep pushing the arrow button, when you get dropped, so you'll land inside Dalaran.

Go to the graveyard, and log off.

Log back in, and now you can ressurrect at that graveyard, and you're in Dalaran.

Remember to go to the inn and make it your hearth.

You can get more details, pictures and even videoes of this trip, and it should be free as well, if you use the Trialpay button at http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Road-To-Dalaran .

 

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World of Warcraft Trading Card Game - Onyxia's Lair
By Mads Vangsoe

One of the things that have made World of Warcraft so incredibly popular are the very challenging and often well designed raid instances. This extension to Upper Deck Entertainment card game in the digital equivalent of the Warcraft universe, is trying to convert one of the most famous encounters in the original game, to a different gaming experience on the corporate board room. Here the players are fighting together against the common enemy.

I called hollow
For those who have never set foot in Onyxias "hollow Wyrmburg", or if the memory effect is hengemt in more or less alkoholinducerede mists, we start out with a brief summary of the meeting with one of Azeroth famous dragons. Onyxias Lair was until Burning Crusade expansion hit the streets in early 2007 is unique in its design. There was no endless caves and corridors filled with all kinds of evil to be defeated while the same raid group moved from the boss fight to boss fight. This was Onyxias hollow, and she did not tag with others - ok apart from various subjects to draw, but those we return to. It was straight and hard, but quite a long battle with three different relative phases. Let me at once clear that the developers have made a virtue out of that frame the mood of the digital version, and it denies them back. Have you struggled against Onyxia at home on your PC, you will probably be gripped by the elements that are reflected in the deck and will undoubtedly ne telling anecdotes from your online adventures during the game.

A brand among heroes
As mentioned breaking this extension of the traditional way to play World of Warcraft TCG on. Where you usually play one against one, several to several or even all against all, all heroes here together to defeat Onyxia. This has several implications. First and foremost, it means that one player must assume the role of Onyxia, represented by three-hero cards and also have a lot of unique cards, even an entirely new card type. There is only an ultimate requirement for the composition of the group, namely that all heroes must belong to the same side in the conflict - that is either a pure horde, or a straight alliance group, but the road to success depends on many factors. The rules included with the game, had three to five players to be a suitable group. Now is signed may not be a genius in the game and the same can be said about the people I've played with this extension, but we all had good track of the rules (which, incidentally, does not differ substantially from the basic rules) and with a group five persons, we had repeatedly problems hiding. I suspect that our - anything but toptunede decks - has had a major impact, but nonetheless can, depending on the level, arguably more than five heroes in the group without being encountered are too easy. I can not imagine how a hero group of only three players should be able to survive the trip to Wyrmburg, unless in large-scale coordinate its decks themselves.

Onyxia takes off!
But let us look at the battle against Onyxia. As the online game is the struggle of three phases, each represented by a Onyxia card. Once a phase is defeated, the Onyxia card gets replaced in a row. When the phase 3 Onyxia is defeated, the players have won. As long as all the heroes are from the same fraction, there is no further restrictions on what cards can be included in the players' decks, and a player's turn is progressing exactly as in normal game. Onyxia function in turn significantly different on several points. Instead of simply pulling a single card each round, the Onyxia-player maps corresponding to the stage in the fight, which means that there are more and more pressure on the players the longer the fight products. The biggest difference is that there is an entirely new phase, called the event phase. Each spin-Onyxia player draws a card from the deck pre constructed event and perform what the text says. For the most part, it is something beneficial for Onyxia, such as new dragon spawn or more cards, but it can occasionally be somewhat beneficial for the heroes. When the event card text is complete, the card changes to Onyxias resource row, and may be used to play Onyxia abilities. Most abilities can be played in all battle phases, but each can only be played in specific phases. The famous deep breath ability is one example, this must be played in phase two when Onyxia is in the air. As with any hero cards, each Onyxia card also has a special ability that requires turning on the card, and can therefore only be used once. These are a form of built-hours in the battle, since they depend on the number of cards in Onyxias resource series and thus corresponds to the number of rounds played has lasted. These special abilities are extremely strong, ranging from being able to eliminate a player directly in phase one, to eradicate the entire group in the third stage, if the player achieves Onyxia-30 resources.

Onyxia's Lair is a different way to play World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, and is certainly a welcome diversion. It is perfect for evenings of friendship layers, where the desire to play ultra-competitive is not there. Although the uncertainty in the events that occur in the fight - and when - adds variation from raid to raid, this extension probably just as long as a traditional extension to the main game. As in the desktop version it becomes tedious fighting the same enemy over and over again, so this extension is of the kind you take off the shelf when the right situation is here and then enjoy in full.

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World of Warcraft Trading Card Game - Onyxia's Lair
By Mads Vangsoe

One of the things that have made World of Warcraft so incredibly popular are the very challenging and often well designed raid instances. This extension to Upper Deck Entertainment card game in the digital equivalent of the Warcraft universe, is trying to convert one of the most famous encounters in the original game, to a different gaming experience on the corporate board room. Here the players are fighting together against the common enemy.

I called hollow
For those who have never set foot in Onyxias "hollow Wyrmburg", or if the memory effect is hengemt in more or less alkoholinducerede mists, we start out with a brief summary of the meeting with one of Azeroth famous dragons. Onyxias Lair was until Burning Crusade expansion hit the streets in early 2007 is unique in its design. There was no endless caves and corridors filled with all kinds of evil to be defeated while the same raid group moved from the boss fight to boss fight. This was Onyxias hollow, and she did not tag with others - ok apart from various subjects to draw, but those we return to. It was straight and hard, but quite a long battle with three different relative phases. Let me at once clear that the developers have made a virtue out of that frame the mood of the digital version, and it denies them back. Have you struggled against Onyxia at home on your PC, you will probably be gripped by the elements that are reflected in the deck and will undoubtedly ne telling anecdotes from your online adventures during the game.

A brand among heroes
As mentioned breaking this extension of the traditional way to play World of Warcraft TCG on. Where you usually play one against one, several to several or even all against all, all heroes here together to defeat Onyxia. This has several implications. First and foremost, it means that one player must assume the role of Onyxia, represented by three-hero cards and also have a lot of unique cards, even an entirely new card type. There is only an ultimate requirement for the composition of the group, namely that all heroes must belong to the same side in the conflict - that is either a pure horde, or a straight alliance group, but the road to success depends on many factors. The rules included with the game, had three to five players to be a suitable group. Now is signed may not be a genius in the game and the same can be said about the people I've played with this extension, but we all had good track of the rules (which, incidentally, does not differ substantially from the basic rules) and with a group five persons, we had repeatedly problems hiding. I suspect that our - anything but toptunede decks - has had a major impact, but nonetheless can, depending on the level, arguably more than five heroes in the group without being encountered are too easy. I can not imagine how a hero group of only three players should be able to survive the trip to Wyrmburg, unless in large-scale coordinate its decks themselves.

Onyxia takes off!
But let us look at the battle against Onyxia. As the online game is the struggle of three phases, each represented by a Onyxia card. Once a phase is defeated, the Onyxia card gets replaced in a row. When the phase 3 Onyxia is defeated, the players have won. As long as all the heroes are from the same fraction, there is no further restrictions on what cards can be included in the players' decks, and a player's turn is progressing exactly as in normal game. Onyxia function in turn significantly different on several points. Instead of simply pulling a single card each round, the Onyxia-player maps corresponding to the stage in the fight, which means that there are more and more pressure on the players the longer the fight products. The biggest difference is that there is an entirely new phase, called the event phase. Each spin-Onyxia player draws a card from the deck pre constructed event and perform what the text says. For the most part, it is something beneficial for Onyxia, such as new dragon spawn or more cards, but it can occasionally be somewhat beneficial for the heroes. When the event card text is complete, the card changes to Onyxias resource row, and may be used to play Onyxia abilities. Most abilities can be played in all battle phases, but each can only be played in specific phases. The famous deep breath ability is one example, this must be played in phase two when Onyxia is in the air. As with any hero cards, each Onyxia card also has a special ability that requires turning on the card, and can therefore only be used once. These are a form of built-hours in the battle, since they depend on the number of cards in Onyxias resource series and thus corresponds to the number of rounds played has lasted. These special abilities are extremely strong, ranging from being able to eliminate a player directly in phase one, to eradicate the entire group in the third stage, if the player achieves Onyxia-30 resources.

Onyxia's Lair is a different way to play World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, and is certainly a welcome diversion. It is perfect for evenings of friendship layers, where the desire to play ultra-competitive is not there. Although the uncertainty in the events that occur in the fight - and when - adds variation from raid to raid, this extension probably just as long as a traditional extension to the main game. As in the desktop version it becomes tedious fighting the same enemy over and over again, so this extension is of the kind you take off the shelf when the right situation is here and then enjoy in full.

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Age of Conan the Board Game
By Mads Vangsoe

 

A short time ago Fantasy Flight Games announced that their long-awaited Age of Conan-board games are now available and should be heading towards the stores at the time of writing. The gane has been announced for a good while, and should really be published last year, but that was it not to go.

 

Now it should be good enough and the long wait for us Age of Conan-geeks is over. The usual superior style by Fantasy Flight Games are played seem to be hyper-stylish produced, including a larger quantity of plastic shapes (over 168 paragraphs!) in the usual superb design and quality.

 

The basic mechanisms of gameplay was taken from another of Fantasy Flights board game hits, Tolkien-board game War of the Rings War of the Ring. however - It have been modified somewhat. According to Fantasy Flight Games' game designer's blog, where you have been able to follow the game's development, the game mechanics designed to capture the essence of Robert E. Howard stories and give the feeling of Conan universe, while it should include both strategy and adventure.

 

If we are to believe the (very excited) sneak-peak reviews online, and keep the actually plugs, and the rules should design a really good cocktail, so there is reason to be enthusiastic. I for one am glad as small children at Christmas Eve and can not wait to get their hands on a version of the Age of Conan  the board game.

 

Age of Conan has been created by game designers Francesco Nepitello, Marco Maggi and Roberto Di meglio, and the Italian firm Nexus Games in partnership with Fantasy Flight Games, as the Italians are clearly becoming more than just pizza makers.

 

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