Celebrating Christmas in World of Warcraft With the 2011 Feast of Winter’s Veil
World of Warcraft has a winter celebration that affects both Alliance and Horde that involves the winter holidays. The Feast of Winter’s Veil involves a great deal of traditions taken from the Western celebration of the winter holidays and that primarily of Christmas. Such icons appear as the Abominable Greench – the Grinch of Dr. Seuss’s work added to the abominable snowman – Metzen the reindeer who is an echo of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer – and even Greatfather Winter – an analogue to Santa Claus.
The orcs in Orgirmmar set up a Yule tree covered with decorations, holly and mistletoe are handed out to revelers who then can use that to make their mount into a reindeer. Gimmick gifts abound that allow the production of …
Tavelogue Azeroth: The Darkmoon Faire and Patch 4.3 The Hour of Twilight
The Darkmoon Faire had some upgrades come World of Warcraft patch 4.3 and now it has its own island. With the advent of the Hour of Twilight patch, you can now visit the Faire out in their strange recesses–but you can’t fly there–and there’s a great deal of weird things going on.
Get tokens, get shot out of a cannon, have your fortune read.
A lot of things for any anthropologist to get up to.
Travelogue Azeroth: Halloween and Subtextual Narrative
So, someone decided to visit Azeroth and give a little bit of a dialogue about the Halloween event. It’s a little strange in there – but in some ways it could be seen as a proxy for real streets and real events.
Hey, virtual worlds have anthropologists too.
Green Dragon Inn: On the Plight of the Gilneans
Have you seen the things going on in World of Warcraft since Cataclysm came out? It’s been almost 5 months now and we’re wondering how well it’s holding up.
Aside from tearing the very ground asunder, Blizzard introduced two races: goblins and worgen. Kit Dotson over at Green Dragon Inn has been wondering how well the wolfy-side-of-things has been working out for everyone playing the game.
I’ve mentioned before that Cataclysm represented Blizzard’s reintroduction of the narrative into gameplay and the worgen starting zone is no exception. In fact, compared to many others it’s literally inescapable until the entire story is told. Unlike starting as an undead, orc, human, everyone else you must play through an entire narrative before you
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Green Dragon Inn: Are the new Cataclysm instances in World of Warcraft really that difficult?
People who’ve been following Azeroth news may know by now that Ghostcrawler came out to tell people exactly why new instances may seem a bit too difficult. But, are they really?
Kit Dotson over at the Green Dragon Inn decided to tackle the subject,
The current end-game instances are a little bit odd when it comes to normal mode. In fact, two of the instances we leveled through on our way from 80 to 85 get left in our dust: the Throne of Tides and Blackrock Caverns. The odd thing about these is that in all of my characters, I only went into the Caverns once—and weirdly, I haven’t seen either during day-to-day heroics while grinding to gear
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Azeroth Falls: The Shattering Commences
Like many, we voces are now staring at the new loading screen for World of Warcraft as The Shattering—the sundering of the land under Deathwing’s wrath as he tears Azeroth a new one–runs its course over the severs. The opening cinematic plays with a thunderous roar and our favorite black dragon grumbles and complains morbidly in a voice that is pure Metal.
So, what can we say, epic iron-jawed dragon is epic. We’ll be around shortly for more news on how The Shattering has affected the land; however, we suspect at first there will be a great deal of server instability as players pour through the newly opened gates in order to run around to look at what catastrophe hath wrought.
Update: As everyone can see looking
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Azeroth the Electoral College
The presidential race is on, election day looming, and curious minds want to know: if Azeroth were a state, who would the population vote for? Players of World of Warcraft are a diverse bunch, but are largely made up of teens and tweens, with a heavy subset of hardcore gamers in their twenties.
While this movie is a bit of an irreverent look at the concept of polling and makes fun of news man-on-the-street news broadcasts about the election, it provides an amusing lampoon of Azeroth and the World of Warcraft itself.
What race/class do you think McCain would be? Obama? Cast your vote here at Vox ex Machina.
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