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9 Reasons Why Blogging Is Just Like Playing World Of Warcraft

Started by Dennis Bjørn Petersen · 10 months ago

I’ve had this post in my head for quite some time. I’m not sure if it will work, but I have to get it out of my head. I tried stabbing my brain with Q-tips, but it doesn’t help anymore.
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  • Mrs. Micah

    1 year ago

    Sounds about right. I haven't played MMORPGs, but I'm fairly familiar with the culture from hanging out with guys that did. I'd like to see someone do a sociological assessment of both. It could make for a fun project.
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  • Dennis Bjørn Petersen

    1 year ago

    Mrs. Micah: Yeah, that would be interesting.
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  • Dan

    1 year ago

    Good points, but... the same could be said about a lot of fields... film for instance, or music, or cooking. All these fields have influential "Celebs" and groups or networks that average joe public can't just walk in and join....

    People who are good at something will collect followers. They will also be invited to join in with other people who are good at that thing.
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  • Adam

    1 year ago

    Ok,

    From a hardcore WoW player, since beta's POV then your saying;

    Blogging takes too much time,

    Screws up your relationships,

    Totally Addicted to it,

    Your constantly getting nurf by some retards who make a game and have no grasp about it, or whats best for certain classes,

    Constantly in competition,

    Do a shitload of hardwork to get something, which is then damn near given away for free elsewhere,

    Have china gold farmers messaging you all the time (i suppose that could be related to spam blog posts) :)

    "The celebs are often also among the wealthiest people on the server." - Not generally speaking, its usually the retarded 12yo's who spam random crap - Or me the one that backhands them when they start, Or its the people who are actually good at the game, or just have imba armor. Since no one on wow knows how much gold you have, then you cannot really put that down.


    "They are often among the first to reach the highest level, complete difficult quests and try out new things." Really only the guilds are the celebs, the players within mean nothing too much, most guilds have noobs, even the best, however if your in a good guild - you would perhaps get more respect than whats due (unless your me).

    I really cant see how you can class the two like that.. How long have you played wow for? Because its completely different!

    Oh and most women hate wow, or computer games :) Get me a women who will play wow - good game ;)
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  • Dennis Bjørn Petersen

    1 year ago

    Dan: Very true indeed. You can replace the word "blogging" with "cooking" in the post and it will have almost the same meaning.

    Adam: Thank you very much for your input. Do you use twitter? You'll notice a lot of people saying: "So tired, but I have to finish this blog post" Take a look at Michael Arrington from TechCrunch. You don't get to look like that from going early to bed ;) (No disrespect to Arrington if you read this)

    You've just help me prove my point. You are in constant competition when blogging. Every one wants to be the first one to break the news about the MSFT/Yahoo deal or the new Mac gadget.

    I bet a lot of bloggers are getting all kinds of emails from fans who wants this and that. Call it nurf.

    I know of several relationships in the blogosphere, that has been destroyed because of blogging.

    Gold farmers are all those "blogs" that steal your content in order to earn a few Adsense money.

    I've never played WoW to be honest, but the title wouldn't be as catchy if I wrote Everquest 2. Everybody knows WoW ;)
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