Tag archives for World of Warcraft

Edward Castronova on the Rise of RMTs in MMOs

Edward Castronova has a peculiar post on what he sees as the end of resistance to real-money trades in MMOs. Castronova sites a study finding that people who want to role-play within MMOs are a decidedly small minority, and then concludes from this that RMTs are inevitable since, apparently, the only argument against RMTs was…

Briefly Banned By Blizzard

So on February 3, 2010, I checked my email on my way to work to find this lovely message, From: WoWAccountAdmin@blizzard.com To: brian@carnell.com Subject: World of Warcraft — Account Closure Notification — Exploitative Activity Found English speaking customers: Please refer to the start of this mail Para los clientes españoles: Por favor vayan hasta el…

World of Warcraft Papercraft

The Unofficial World of Warcraft Papercraft has plenty of amazing papercraft projects from the world of Azeroth. Each papercraft has a downloadable PDF so you can give it a try, and ranging from the extremely simple to the mind-boggling “how did they do that” like this Illidian Stormrage, That is some awesome nerdcraft right there.

World of Warcraft Collectible Coin Set

DC Unlimited is producing World of Warcraft Collectible Coin Sets — one each for the Alliance and Horde — that should hit in June 2010 for about $70. The Alliance one is depicted below. Each set will feature a gold, silver and copper plated coin in a display box with a metal plaque featuring the…