Tag archives for World of Warcraft

  1. 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.

  2. 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…

  3. Sexism in World of Warcraft Clothing Options

    The Border House blog has an interesting look at the way sexual stereotypes are expressed in World of Warcraft gear. What is especially annoying in WoW are items that when equipped by a male toon results in rather bland and nondescript clothing but when equipped by a female toon becomes 1337 Victoria Secret gear (see,…

  4. How I Finally Quit Playing WoW

    I realized the other day that I’d finally quite playing World of Warcraft (though I still haven’t canceled my subscription). Oddly, it wasn’t that I woke up one day and suddenly said “no more WoW” but rather that I just gradually stopped finding reasons to log in and just sort of stopped while I carried…

  5. WoW Add-On Developers Go All John Galt

    Some developers of add-ons for World of Warcraft were so angered by Blizzard’s new policy essentially forbidding the creation of add-ons that are commercial or feature in-game donation buttons that they have pulled their add-ons from public distribution. This includes some very popular add-ons, such as Outfitter, QuestHelper, and Group Calendar. John Stephen, the developer…

  6. Blizzard to Offer Authenticator App on Mobile Devices

    Last year I mentioned Blizzard’s physical token authenticator, which was an effort to crack down on theft of World of Warcraft accounts. I actually ended up ordering one of these, but never actually enabled it because it would be another device I need to keep track of and I’d probably lose it the day after…

  7. Blizzard Bans Commercial Add-Ons

    Blizzard recently updated its UI Add-On Policy for World of Warcraft with the intent of pretty much banning any commercial WoW add-ons. 1) Add-ons must be free of charge. All add-ons must be distributed free of charge. Developers may not create “premium” versions of add-ons with additional for-pay features, charge money to download an add-on,…

  8. David Friedman’s Outline of a World of Warcraft Course

    David Friedman (yes, that David Friedman) posted a course outline for a World of Warcraft-center course in economics with some interesting insights, There is no antitrust law in WoW, which makes it a good place to observe collusive behavior by sellers. My wife, who spends more time in the auction house buying ad selling than…

  9. WoW Character Display Plugin for WordPress

    There are a number of WordPress plugins that are designed to pull character data from the WoWArmory, but WoW Character Display is head-and-shoulders above the rest. The main advantage it has is that it caches the armory data, so after its pulled once it only gets refreshed every X minutes, with the administrator able to…