A new documentary aptly titled The Raid is underway, and it seeks to provide a glimpse into the lifestyle of raiding in the online game World of Warcraft. We've two excerpts embedded below!
Many people are familiar with the extremely popular game World of Warcraft, but fewer really understand the end-game portion of the world colloquially referred to as 'raiding'.
While WoW has the fairly typical 'leveling' period, in which players go out and complete quests and kill beasties in order to attain the maximum level of the realm, there is also an extreme amount to accomplish after one has hit this maximum. This takes place in what are called 'raids', and must be completed by either 10, 25, or even 40 players working in high coordination with one another to accomplish a shared goal.
Sounds simple to understand? Maybe not for everyone - raiders are typically very driven, and often raids are scheduled to take up much of the evening hours of participants. The new documentary The Raid seeks to understand the personalities behind this obsessive hobby and to shed some light on just what it is to be a World of Warcraft raider.
Two excerpts are included below - one featuring general interviews, and the other focusing primarily upon what it is to be a female World of Warcraft raider in a game that is primarily played by a male population.
Kudos to my own most excellent raiding guild Manifest Chaos for tipping me off to this interesting documentary. Yes - I'm one of these strange raiders myself.
For more information regarding this documentary, including other screenshots and release information, please visit their official website. Check out the excerpts and let us know what you think with a comment below!
My sister is a major WoW fan. She and her boyfriend play online together all the time. They each have their own computers set up side-by-side and it's kind of cute.
In fact she emailed me the other day just to tell me that she had just pre-ordered CATACLYSM, the newest expansion.
She finished off the email with a 'W00t!!'. She's 35. I think she may need help.
But before that I think I'll send her this link.:bigsmile:
I played a bit of WoW, but I soon lost interest once I realised I couldn't get any further by 'solo-ing'.
Being an R.E. Howard fan I also played quite a bit of the AGE OF CONAN MMO. And to be honest I found it far better than WoW in just about every way. Especially in terms of its stunning graphics and music.
But I lost interest in that one as well, once I stalled by solo-ing. I guess I'm just too casual a gamer to ever be a multiplayer guy. That's the kind of anti-social bastard I am.
You can really get maximum level by soloing. I've done it. It's not too hard - actually it was the way I preferred to do it. I tend to play in an OCD type of playing fashion, where I'll often change goals midstream.
Raiding is something else. It's interesting working together with people in a more coordinated fashion. It is a learned skill, I believe - but it really does add a depth to the game that is very fun and more than a bit rewarding.
This all said, I recognize the game itself is a hazard to a certain subcategory of people. Everything is great in moderation.
Just to add fuel to the fire I've heard some interesting stories about marriages being wrecked to hell by this game.
Oh yeah, I've heard of that happening. I had a 'friend of a friend' situation awhile back where apparently some guy's wife left him because he played the game too much.
He then apparently later married a woman he met in the game!
A new documentary aptly titled The Raid is underway, and it seeks to provide a glimpse into the lifestyle of raiding in the online game World of Warcraft. We've two excerpts embedded below!
My sister is a major WoW fan. She and her boyfriend play online together all the time. They each have their own computers set up side-by-side and it's kind of cute.
In fact she emailed me the other day just to tell me that she had just pre-ordered CATACLYSM, the newest expansion.
She finished off the email with a 'W00t!!'. She's 35. I think she may need help.
But before that I think I'll send her this link.:bigsmile: