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It was a sunny day. I remember that clearly because it was the last sunny day that I would take notice of for a long while. My world was about to tilt on its axis and I was about to take a leap into the unknown. In short I was about to enter, the World of Warcraft. For those of you who are wondering what on earth I’m talking about, I’m assuming that you picked up the wrong article since the title clearly states this is about the World of Warcraft. If you read the title but thought it was about corporate takeover strategies, I hate disillusion you, but it’s not. It’s all about what is known as an MMORPG. That was the short version. What this stands for is Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. A mouthful of words as you can see which is why it’s been shortened to MMORPG. And this particular MMORPG that I’m talking about is called World of Warcraft, hence the title of the article, nothing to do with corporate takeover strategies as you can see. World of Warcraft, or WoW as it too is abbreviated, is but one of the many such MMORPG’s making its presence known in the world. If you look it up on the internet you’ll find that each of these MMORPG’s has x number of people playing at any given time, night or day the world over, that there are x number of servers dedicated to facilitating this game playing, and that are x number of worlds and characters available for play. That was probably nothing short of confusing to most people, but don’t let that worry you. As you read on, most, if not all of it should become crystal clear. What is World of Warcraft though (besides being a game)? That question is actually slightly difficult to explain if you haven’t played any type of Role Playing Games before. Also to do that question full justice it would take more time and pages than I can spare, in other words if I were to go into all the details about what WoW really is, I would need a separate article entirely. However, not to worry, I know exactly what it is like to be stranded in the World of Warcraft with no clue as to what is happening around me. It took the combined efforts of my little brother and days of researching – when I could tear myself away from the game inspite of the fact that I was still virtually clueless – to get my head around the whole thing that was known as the universe of Warcraft and along with it the World of Warcraft. (I should perhaps mention that there is no game called the universe of Warcraft – not yet anyway. What I was trying to do there was to encapsulate everything that is World of Warcraft into one single line.) Anyway, as I was saying, it took me a few days to come to grips with WoW, but it took me endless hours of game playing time to understand most of the ins and outs of it. I wouldn’t call myself an expert at World of Warcraft, I gave up the game so I’m not entitled to that name, but I do know a fair bit about it, and can still make my way through the various lands in one piece. Muna wa Wanjiru is a Web Administrator and Has Been Researching and Reporting on World of Warcraft for years. For more information on World of Warcraft, visit his site at World of Warcraft
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