Wednesday Wind-Up

This week's Wind-Up....

WoW: It's just a game...

What I say? No, it's not just a game.

When you pay US$15 each month in order to play this game, it means a lot more than something you don't have to pay for.
When you spend hours, days, months, years just trying to level and build your characters up, they mean more to you than some Sim that's easily replicated.
When you build or join a guild, make friends (or enemies) and learn to live in Azeroth, it means more than some uninteresting landscape.
When the lore surrounds and encompasses you, getting you caught up in the fever, it means more then some world where you're just...there. (I'm looking at you Runescape)
When you RP your character, build their qualities and faults, strengths and weaknesses, family bonds and ties of friendship, they are often more real, more easily understood  then that stranger down the street.

Yes, WoW is a game. But it's not JUST a game! It's a way of life.

Later days.

Wednesday Wind-Up

I'm going to try to start something that (hopefully) will continue for as long as this blog is up.

Each Wednesday, I plan to post the Weekly Wind-up, meaning that I'm going to share my opinion on a controversial WoW-related subject, and I'm hoping that at least one person will share their opinion, agree with me, disagree with me, or shed a different light on the issue.

This week?

Should Trade Chat be used ONLY for trading/buying/selling?

As opposed to the remake of Barrens Chat that it currently is. =/

I believe that it is good for advertising things, such as buying/selling/trading, guilds (even though they have their own channel), raids (again, their own channel).

It should NOT be about your mother, Chuck Norris, [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker], [Krol Blade], or what you got up to last night.

People shouldn't be making sexual, racist, sexist, or offensive remarks on such a public channel. If you want to let everyone know that the Alliance is going down, so sign up for a [For The Horde!] raid on SW, that's fine. But if you're saying that women/black people/etc are inferior and can suck your @#$%, that's crossing the line.

But that's just my opinion. Looking forward to hearing yours.
Until then,
Later days.