Tulare-area mother is an avid online game player
When Kathryne Martins isn’t working or parenting, she is killing monsters — in the game “World of Warcraft.”
When three of her kids were at her mother’s house the weekend of Thanksgiving, Martins and her husband, Fernando, played the game all day and night.
Martins not only plays World of Warcraft ( Buy wow gold ) for entertainment, but to alleviate stress by chatting and making new friends around the world.
“Everybody else goes to karaoke for all-nighters. [My husband and I] play ‘World of Warcraft,’ ” Martins said.
The Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3 and XBox 360 aren’t on her agenda.
For her it’s all about “WOW,” as gamers call it, on the PC.
Eight years ago, Martins, 37, got started on the multiplayer online game “Everquest,” which is similar to “WOW.”
“Later on, we kind of got bored with it because you couldn’t [play] solo. You had to go as a group,” she said.
Then “WOW” came out and Martins was hooked.
She was in a line of hundreds of people outside GameStop Nov. 12 to pick up the expansion for the game at its midnight release.
“We got there are 11:30 and there was already at least 100 people in front of us,” she said.
“The line moved real quickly,” she said. “I can’t believe how many gamers there are in
Tulare playing the game.”
Addictive game
The game is addicting, she said.
“Once you get started, you can’t stop,” she said. “The time flies by so quickly.”
She is at level 75 on the game. Her husband is at level 76. The highest a gamer can get is 80, she said. Martins said she is still learning the game even after four years of playing it.
People across the globe play “WOW.” She is friends online with many different types of people.
“I play with a guy in his 80s from Malaysia,” she said. “I am mostly a chatter. I love playing with my friends.”
Martins’ “guild,” or player group, has 53 people from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Florida, California, Malaysia, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
“If you are having a bad day [online] friends can cheer you up,” she said.
Her children have also gotten involved in the game.
“For being 7-years-old, [Tiani Martins] plays better than Mom,” she said.
Each of her children — Tiani, Kymber, 9, and Cassandra, 16, — has a computer to play the game, she said.
She does have a requirement for her children to play the game: they must keep up their grades.
“My daughter learned to spell and read from this game,” she said. “It’s a thinking game. I think it’s pretty educational.”
They have around a 3.05 grade-point average, she said.
Even though there is killing in the game, there is no blood and gore, she said.
Kymber said she thinks it’s cool that her mother is into the game.
“I like [the game] a lot,” she said.
And although her kids enjoy the game, the majority of her time on the game is spent on the weekends or at night when the kids are asleep, Martins said.
Martins doesn’t spend nearly as much time as others, she said.
“I am amazed at how time consuming it is,” she said. “I am barely level 74 and [many people I know] are at 80 and that’s what you call a no lifer, when you are at [level] 80 three days after the expansion.”
Those people have had to at least sit in front of the computer for three days straight with no sleep, she added.
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When three of her kids were at her mother’s house the weekend of Thanksgiving, Martins and her husband, Fernando, played the game all day and night.
Martins not only plays World of Warcraft ( Buy wow gold ) for entertainment, but to alleviate stress by chatting and making new friends around the world.
“Everybody else goes to karaoke for all-nighters. [My husband and I] play ‘World of Warcraft,’ ” Martins said.
The Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3 and XBox 360 aren’t on her agenda.
For her it’s all about “WOW,” as gamers call it, on the PC.
Eight years ago, Martins, 37, got started on the multiplayer online game “Everquest,” which is similar to “WOW.”
“Later on, we kind of got bored with it because you couldn’t [play] solo. You had to go as a group,” she said.
Then “WOW” came out and Martins was hooked.
She was in a line of hundreds of people outside GameStop Nov. 12 to pick up the expansion for the game at its midnight release.
“We got there are 11:30 and there was already at least 100 people in front of us,” she said.
“The line moved real quickly,” she said. “I can’t believe how many gamers there are in
Tulare playing the game.”
Addictive game
The game is addicting, she said.
“Once you get started, you can’t stop,” she said. “The time flies by so quickly.”
She is at level 75 on the game. Her husband is at level 76. The highest a gamer can get is 80, she said. Martins said she is still learning the game even after four years of playing it.
People across the globe play “WOW.” She is friends online with many different types of people.
“I play with a guy in his 80s from Malaysia,” she said. “I am mostly a chatter. I love playing with my friends.”
Martins’ “guild,” or player group, has 53 people from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Florida, California, Malaysia, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
“If you are having a bad day [online] friends can cheer you up,” she said.
Her children have also gotten involved in the game.
“For being 7-years-old, [Tiani Martins] plays better than Mom,” she said.
Each of her children — Tiani, Kymber, 9, and Cassandra, 16, — has a computer to play the game, she said.
She does have a requirement for her children to play the game: they must keep up their grades.
“My daughter learned to spell and read from this game,” she said. “It’s a thinking game. I think it’s pretty educational.”
They have around a 3.05 grade-point average, she said.
Even though there is killing in the game, there is no blood and gore, she said.
Kymber said she thinks it’s cool that her mother is into the game.
“I like [the game] a lot,” she said.
And although her kids enjoy the game, the majority of her time on the game is spent on the weekends or at night when the kids are asleep, Martins said.
Martins doesn’t spend nearly as much time as others, she said.
“I am amazed at how time consuming it is,” she said. “I am barely level 74 and [many people I know] are at 80 and that’s what you call a no lifer, when you are at [level] 80 three days after the expansion.”
Those people have had to at least sit in front of the computer for three days straight with no sleep, she added.
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