Followup to My Recent WoW Post
I'm not gonna lie, I'm still going through a bit of World of WarCraft withdrawal. But rather than fork over money for another month, I've spent my breaks looking up YouTube vids showcasing various aspects in WoW.
From a social standpoint, I'm rather intrigued by the game's effects on pop culture and vice versa. Found this video a couple of days ago that seems to support how huge and intertwined the game really is:
The fact that subscribers equal twice the population of NYC is quite a figure. The first time I ever played, I always assumed WoW was geared towards a set niche of gamers. And I'm not talking about some sort of male-to-female ratio; I'm alluding more to the computer geek audience vs the rest of society. Who actually plays them is equally mind boggling. I'm impressed at how saturated the game has become.
While on my search, I also came across a boat load of videos focusing on in-game dancing. In the game, when you type in the command "/dance" your avatar would bust a move to a set style. I knew some dances were based off of something, like Michael Jackson, or the Macarena, but considering I've only made four characters out of the numerous race/gender selections, I've never actually seen the other dances. Upon further research, I came across this page listing down every single dance and it's origin.
And if you need a visual example, the video below is good one, in that the WoW characters shown are paired up with source footage. Having been bombarded with Alizee' (the brunette singing in French) music from Moe, I was quite amused when I found out one of her dances actually made it into the game (in fact, I showed him this, and his head damn near exploded in laughter). There's other videos with a complete roster rundown, but Warner Music Group seems to have disabled most of their audio.
Overall, it's a good form of edutainment.
From a social standpoint, I'm rather intrigued by the game's effects on pop culture and vice versa. Found this video a couple of days ago that seems to support how huge and intertwined the game really is:
Click to viewThe fact that subscribers equal twice the population of NYC is quite a figure. The first time I ever played, I always assumed WoW was geared towards a set niche of gamers. And I'm not talking about some sort of male-to-female ratio; I'm alluding more to the computer geek audience vs the rest of society. Who actually plays them is equally mind boggling. I'm impressed at how saturated the game has become.
While on my search, I also came across a boat load of videos focusing on in-game dancing. In the game, when you type in the command "/dance" your avatar would bust a move to a set style. I knew some dances were based off of something, like Michael Jackson, or the Macarena, but considering I've only made four characters out of the numerous race/gender selections, I've never actually seen the other dances. Upon further research, I came across this page listing down every single dance and it's origin.
And if you need a visual example, the video below is good one, in that the WoW characters shown are paired up with source footage. Having been bombarded with Alizee' (the brunette singing in French) music from Moe, I was quite amused when I found out one of her dances actually made it into the game (in fact, I showed him this, and his head damn near exploded in laughter). There's other videos with a complete roster rundown, but Warner Music Group seems to have disabled most of their audio.
Overall, it's a good form of edutainment.