World Of Warcraft History, Part 1

When Blizzard Entertainment started with Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, it was a real-time strategy game. World of Warcraft, a recent incarnation of the game however is not that. But it is so many other things that the original version is not. For starter, it is immensely popular. World of Warcraft is a MMORPG (massively multi-player online role-playing game). If you think that it sound big, read on.

The players of Word of Warcraft choose an avatar, and control them throughout the game in all of game environment, and take them from level one to level 70. Players can battle against other players of enemy group in PvP (player versus player) battlegrounds. The winners are rewarded with money, time, skill, experience etc, which are very valuable commodity in the world of Azeroth. Players can also fight other players from the same group, but that would go unrewarded. Large portion of the game can be played without the help of other players, one can play them alone, whereas there are areas like dungeons where one has to play in collaboration with other players. The group of people joining force can be as big as 40, and one battle can take weeks or even months.

Players of Word of Warcraft are the characters in the game – the avatars in the Azeroth universe. There are ten races of these avatars and nine character classes. The races in their part are devided into two opposition fractions – the Alliance and the Horde. Humans, Night Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes and Draenei currently make up the Alliance, whereas Horde is made up of Orcs, Tauren, Undead (Forsaken), Trolls and Blood Elves. On top of that, there are NPC races including Goblins, Ogres, Murlocs, and Naga. And, Druit, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock and Warrior are the nince available classes.

The players can choose to develop the extra skills of their characters besides fighting. These skills are non-combatant and are known as – you guessed it – professions. These professions are in turn divided into primary skills – related to weapons gathering, creation and enhancement and secondary professions (skills that help to enhance player's experience. Throughout the game of World of Warcraft, players can acquire several different items for their characters in the game. These items include herbs or raw ores or items to be retrieved for quests. They can also get weapons and armor.

In the geography of the game, the virtual world is built around two planets – planet of Azeroth and planet of Outland. Azeroth has two continents – Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. Kalimdor is home to Orcs, Trolls, Blood Elves and Tauren, and also to the Alliance race. Outland was added recently to the game with the release of The Burning Crusade.

The game has 'realms' or server clusters, so that players can choose their own game-play preferences. These many server clusters, smartly named 'realms' are what make it possible for Blizzard to be able to accommodate so many subscribers at once. The four types of realm of the game are Normal (also called PvE or player versus environment, PvP (player versus player), RP (role-playing) and RP-PvP (role-playing PvP).

Characters and Realms in WOW

World of warcraft is really popular among the video game players of different ages. There are many things that gave rise to its popularity. However the most relative thing to be analyzed here that led to the popularity of this game can be considered to be its character types as well as its different realms. These things enthrall the player into a different world of monsters and goblins and give them the chance to play whatever character they wish to do. These character types are basically the catalysts of indulging a player into the game. There are basically two types of characters that can be found in the game. One of them is player characters and another one is non player characters. The world of azeroth contains of the player characters and they contain their specific colored tag. These colors range from blue and green to yellow and red. Non-player characters can only be interacted by the personal computer through artificial intelligence.

There are again three kinds of non-player characters. The friendly ones do not attack the friendly player characters. The hostile ones are those who attack any player character they are not fond of or even come across. Then there are the neutral ones who only attack if they are forced to do so by provocation. The friendly ones have their name written in green, the hostile ones in red and the neutral ones in yellow. There are those non-player characters who actually are protagonists of keeping defense upgraded while others living in big cities can sell or transact the merchandise. Both the personal characters as well as non-player characters work towards moving the story further and making every stage or level as interesting as the prior one.

Along with playing various characters, the players can also develop the skills for their respective characters. These skills are called professions. There are two kinds of professions; primary as well as secondary. Primary professions are those which are adopted to enhance the weapons and armors of the players and the secondary profession can be taken as those to enhance the player's own experience like first aid and fishing. These simple professions give more projection to the characters.


The popularity of world of warcraft is also due to the presence of the various realms that give motion to the whole game playing. These realms are of various kinds as well. There are basically four types of realm from which the players can choose their own set of realm in order to form their own set of world. These four realms are normal realm, player versus player, role playing normal and role playing player versus player realm. These various realms bring forward the different set of categories and provocations that alter the changes in the behavior of the characters.

There is also another way of players being able to indulge in the world of warcraft and that is in a creative way of comic stripes and art work. The community works as well as other ongoing events are also mentioned by the blizzard in order to provide more and more interaction with the players. Also seasonal gifts were also presented by the blizzard entertainment that could be given by the players or the participants to anyone they choose to give.

By bringing forward these special characters as well as features to enhance their game, the blizzard entertainment has provided the world with much awaited video game each time. World of warcraft is indeed a video game made for the lovers of the game worldwide. This way they are given more and more enhanced options to choose from including the kind of characters they wish to become as well as various ongoing features they can be part of. this is the reason why world of warcraft has become so popular all over the world and day after day its popularity is growing into an entire empire of warcraft universe of real fantasy.