J O N A S H E I D E S M I T H

Jonas Heide Smith

Dept. of Digital Aesthetics and Communication,
The IT University of Copenhagen

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Last update
24-08-2004

The FUNdamentals game text-book project
Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Susana Tosca, and yours truly are working on a game text-book (know more)

The distant sound of trumpets

Infrequently updated musings vaguely inspired by my PhD project.

Sunday, January 16, 2005

Another world

OK, I did it. I let myself be logged on to World of Warcraft (EU beta). Just to have a look, purely for research purposes, and with no intention of staying. Taking the form of a purple-haired female gnome I went for a bit of sight-seeing. There's no denying that this world looks extremely stylish and it all feels awfully atmospheric (in a comic book kind of way). Whether or not it's actually fun to play (casually) remains to be seen. But I think I'll continue the wolf-slaying a bit once the actual game opens (late feb). See you there.

posted by Jonas Heide Smith # 16.1.05

Comments:

Ohhh, Blessed is the World of Warcraft - It's changed the standards of MMO's in a really significant way - There is almost no legitimate bitching about classes, tradecraft, levelling and game balance to be had. What made MMO's compelling for many gamers in the past, was unlocking ridiculous power combinations that needed to be "nerfed" then complaining when they were, in fact, "nerfed". I'm sucked in entirely at this point. I've almost given up eating.

# posted by Mike Paget : 17.1.05

Eating? That's so last millenium.
Too bad you're not on the Euro servers, Mike, we could slay some wolves together.

# posted by Jonas Heide Smith : 17.1.05