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With reference to citation needed about lag in Ironforge and Orgrimmar
It should be noted that the lag in these cities turned out to be due to the only auction houses in the game at the time being in those cities; this meant that members of each faction that wanted to use the auction house had to use those cities, thereby increasing the load on the servers that controlled those cities. Blizzard did resolve this, mainly by introducing auction houses in all cities, each linked to their faction (neutral auction houses in Winterspring, Booty Bay, Ratchet and Gadgetzan) which eased the burden by allowing players to visit an auction house in a city close to where they were questing, but Ironforge and Orgrimmar will always lag because of so many users go into it. User:Whisperwolf 16:52 20 August 2006 (GMT)
Screenshots
I added one screenshot to the page, perhaps someone could grab a raid one (preferably with the default UI)? If the page side is an issue, we might just remove the portal picture. IMHO, a game screenshot would be more relevant and offer more to the reader. Pasi 12:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
The WoW boxart image, should that be changed to one with better quality? --Chicito21154 18:52, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Reverting Vandalism
Please be careful when reverting vandalism. You can check the history but 'somebody' reverted to a vandalised page. (I am assuming it was an accident) --Paddyffrench 10:18, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
External links
How about a link to a WoW map? Perhaps http://mapwow.com Pushespretn 03:43, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
It's to big. Plain and simple. Havok (T/C/c) 12:24, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Most of the "in" crowd in making money from MMO's, including WoW, is RPGbugs.com. This site has been formed from many other exploit sites. To "exploit" means to exploit the code in the game. You must be weary when looking for game cheating sites as most are made to make money and once you sign in there is nothing to use. You can usualy tell this if the news section of their site uses date stamps or not. RPGBugs.com has professional coders putting out bots (programs which run the game for you while you are away) and other neat things. They are also an insider news source.Why mention this? Many people, and it is growing rapidly, are using these to "bot" accounts to sell online. This is a great way for kids or adults to make extra cash seeing as how these accounts sell for hundreds.
Im pretty sure this is just some scam/gold selling site looking for free advertising on wiki, I highly doubt it is popular or featured in a magazine ( the popular goldbuying site is IGE), so it really shouldnt be in the article , in fact it would be good to get that comment removed completly
Collector's edition
I moved the Collector's Edition to its own section. It hasn't got anything to do with the launch really and it's rather 'heavy' information for that section. I think it works better this way. (Edit: In addition, the pictures of the extra pets looked rather funny so early in the article.) Pasi 16:20, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Layout (again)
Why does realms come before world? Right now it's:
* 1 Launch and sales * 2 System requirements * 3 Realms o 3.1 Normal (PvE) o 3.2 Player vs. player o 3.3 Roleplaying o 3.4 Roleplaying PvP * 4 Characters o 4.1 Races and classes o 4.2 Character types o 4.3 Professions o 4.4 Attributes o 4.5 Items and equipment o 4.6 PvP rankings * 5 The world o 5.1 Geography o 5.2 Instances * 6 Virtual community * 7 Deviance from the MMORPG archetype * 8 Modifications * 9 Expansion pack * 10 World of Warcraft movie * 11 Criticism * 12 See also * 13 References * 14 External links o 14.1 Official websites o 14.2 Useful resourcesI think it should be:
* 1 The world o 5.1 Geography o 5.2 Instances * 2 Launch and sales * 3 Characters o 3.1 Races and classes o 3.2 Character types o 3.3 Professions o 3.4 Attributes o 3.5 Items and equipment o 3.6 PvP rankings * 4 Realms o 4.1 Normal (PvE) o 4.2 Player vs. player o 4.3 Roleplaying o 4.4 Roleplaying PvP * 5 System requirements * 6 Virtual community * 7 Modifications * 8 Expansion pack * 9 World of Warcraft movie * 10 Criticism * 11 Deviance from the MMORPG archetype * 12 See also * 13 References * 14 External links o 14.1 Official websites o 14.2 Useful resourcesThoughts? Havok (T/C/c) 05:49, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
I think the current order makes sense with jus one modification, just move the Realms section into a subset of The World. --Hetar 05:52, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
I think it's fine the way it is. The way it is now sort of "guides" the reader into the game. For example, when a user first starts playing the game, they have to first choose which type of realm they want to play on. They then need to make a character and finally enter the world. I do however think that "World Events" should be moved above "Virtual Community" --Lmundy 11:25, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Serenity Now
I am a sometimes user here on wiki, mainly adding minor details that the original article overlooked. Normally there is a definitive area which these details fit into. Enough rambling and on to the details. In early march on the illidian (PVP) server, a guild hosted an in-game funeral for an IRL death of a guildmate. What's significant is that this memorial was held in a PvP zone (presumably so either faction could participate), was advertised on forums so others could attend, and was raided by grief themed guild. The video from this "raid" became a point of discussion for players debating whether the action kept with the "in game" mentality compared to "real life" respect for the mourning. At this moment YouTube has shown the video 118,298 times, so it is not a tiny blip on the radar. My question is first whether this is significant enough to warrant wiki attention and secondly, where to categorize it. The main page doesn't deal with the player culture enough to include all the relevant details without disrupting the flow of the article. The incident and video don't necessarily seem to be relevant enough to require a full article, but I could not find any sub-articles that were appropriate for the information. So what to do about it? Altimit01 10:06, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Altair 14:59, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
See Also?
What happened to the see also? It looks like it got vandalized out, but the code still seems to be there. I can't quite figure out how to make it correctly appear on the page, can someone with better "wiki skill" stick it back in?
Nevermind, I got it. I think I had a problem with the pages being cached on my pc.
Question about movie
Is it a movie about "World of Warcraft" or about "Warcraft in general". If the last scenario is the case, it shouldn't be on this page I think. Sijo Ripa 11:18, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Credit Numbers
Is there any way to sign up to WoW other than by credit card? I've read about using a prepaid card, but don't you need a credit card to "authenticate" that your a "real person" or something? Jeez, just because I lack a credit number doesn't mean that i'm not a real person. AQjosh 23:50, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
AFAIK you do not need a credit card to play the game, only the code from the box and a payment method. You can use exclusively prepaid cards so far as I know. sekhui 16:20, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Cover art in Infobox
WP:WPCVG guidelines say that images in infoboxes should be game covers not logos of these games. This issue has been raised and warred over at WP:WPFF and led to the conversion from all game logos to cover arts in each article. I would suggest the same be done for World of Warcraft as its part of a descendant project of WPCVG and should conform to their MoS. -- CHANLORD / 15:21, 26 June 2006 (UTC)—
Crew
Should we add a list of the talented people behin WoW? Lead designer, artists, programming and et cetera? Shandris the azylean 16:53, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
I believe we should and we should also add the forum moderators and Community Managers as well to this article Anker99 01:54, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
WoW v.s. Lineage 1
So which of the above MMORPGs are the bestsellers/highest-subscribers of all time? Which one is currently #1? I've read that WoW is around 6 million; while Lineage was, at it's highest, 4 million; but right now, it's only 2.5 million. Is WoW really that much higher in active players than Lineage? But I've also read that even though there is a sequel, and it's very old, LIneage 1 is still #2 in active users, right under WoW. Is any of this true? What about outside of the U.S.?
Reviews
Are there any wikipedia rules on reviews? We seem to keep getting links to reviews of questionable quality. --Polkapunk 18:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
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