The Funeral of WoW Gold

What does every video game addict need? A 3-D figure of their favorite game avatar, that’s what.

An avatar in video game talk is a character that stands in for the player. They can be pulled from a selection in the game or created by the user. The avatar can be a fairly normal looking figure in an online world like Second Life, or a fearsome fantastic warrior in World of Warcraft ( Buy wow gold ).

For $129, FigurePrints.com will use a 3-D printing machine to re-create that avatar as an action figure. At first they are concentrating on figures for World of Warcraft. This is an MMORPG, which, as you probably already know, stands for “Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.” FigurePrints is starting with World of Warcraft because the game has more than 11 million players and the avatars always look great. If you go to worldofwarcraft.com you can see many of these avatars displayed in the game’s “Armory.” Awesome.

The finished figure is delivered in full color in a bell jar. The so-called “printing” is done with a machine the size of a photocopier. It squirts layers of plastic in precise amounts to replicate a figure, or any shape, in three dimensions. These solid modeling machines have been in use in industry for a few years but their cost of several hundred thousand dollars each made them too expensive for all but aerospace, auto and defense work. Recently, however, their price has fallen to about $20,000.

These action figures are likely to prove popular with game players, just as they have with players of the board game Dungeons and Dragons. Recent surveys have found that 81 percent of people in the age group 18-29 play video games on a regular basis. Not only is this a lot of people, but it is also the age group most sought by advertisers. This is the group that spends the largest portion of their income on consumer goods. The game playing numbers for all adults are also high, about 50 percent.

Another company entering this personal figure field is Fabjectory.com, which will re-create a three-dimensional figure of your favorite Wii game machine figure, your Second Life avatar or Google SketchUp. These figures did not look as good to us as the ones from FigurePrints.

TWITTER-SQUATTING

Remember cyber-squatters? These were people who years ago registered domain names like CocaCola.com, or Sony. com, and sat on them, hoping that those companies would have to buy the names back from them. They were the hip, fast-moving and aware players. We were not among them. Some of those early domain names were later resold for millions of dollars.

Now we have Twitter-squatters. There are an estimated 5 million users of Twitter.com, a number that is increasing by around a million a month. It turns out that a lot of companies are using Twitter to keep the world updated with frequent 140-character news blasts. The new squatters have already taken up site names like twitter. com/cocacola and there are lots of names still up for grabs.

You can sign up for any Twitter name that isn’t already taken, but you can only have one name per e-mail address. A lot of Internet Service Providers let you have five to 10 e-mail addresses, however. Yahoo.com lets you have an unlimited number of e-mail addresses.

GREEN OR CHROME?

An alert reader wrote to mention that the “Zone Alarm Force-Field,” we wrote about recently looks and acts like the “GreenBorder,” we wrote about a few years ago. Both programs create a protective shield when you browse the Web.

ForceField puts a giant shield around you as you surf the Web, protecting you from bad guys. It costs $50 from ZoneAlarm.com. GreenBorder also used to cost $50 but was taken over by Google Inc. and is now free as part of Google’s new Web browser, Chrome. If you opt to use Chrome, you get a protective browsing shield with it. Google software writers say the shield makes it impossible for anyone to view the credit card numbers you’re typing, read your tax returns, or start running a program without your permission.

Since one costs $50 and the other is free, what’s the difference? We put that very question to the folks at Zone Alarm and they made a couple of good points. Google’s Chrome browser, they pointed out, protects you from known phishing sites - Web sites that look legitimate but are not. ForceField flags these and potential phishing sites that haven’t been identified yet. ForceField also protects plugins, programs like QuickTime, that let you watch movies inside a browser. Chrome developers are still working on that.

We like Chrome for other reasons. For one, it guesses what you’re looking for. Start typing a few letters into its combination address field and search bar and it fills out the rest with the most likely Web address. Click the plus sign to open a new page and you’ll see a collection of thumbnail images representing sites you’ve visited before. You can do stealth browsing if you wish, leaving no trace of where you’ve been.

We recently read a poll at CNET.com showing that more CNET users use Chrome than the browser Opera, which has been around much longer. These are “early adopters,” and they are often the edge of the wedge in finding what later become popular products. You can read more about Chrome at Google.com/ chrome.

OUTDOOR NETWORKS

These days it’s common to find restaurants, libraries and schools with wireless connections to the Internet. But if you want to cover a wide area, like a business district, park or resort, you need signal repeaters.

Meraki Solar claims to have the world’s first solar-powered Wi-Fi repeater. Its purpose is to provide high-speed Internet service for large areas, indoors or out. One of the first users is the area of shops and businesses known as
Harvard Square, adjacent to Harvard University. Several Meraki repeaters were installed on the roofs of local businesses and poles outdoors. The cost was around $10,000 and wireless Internet coverage is provided over 24 acres.

The cost can be much less for any school or business willing to do the installation work. Each unit weighs about 2 pounds and costs $848 to $1,497, depending on size of the solar panel. The bigger the panel is, the greater the range. More information at Meraki. com.

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If the World of Warcraft economy had a slogan to describe it, that slogan would be “gold is king”. As a player, you’re almost constantly finding yourself in a position of spending more and more wow gold. Whether it be on crucial tools like weapons and armor, or on staples like food and water, or on valuable commodities like potions and mounts, building and maintaining a good supply of world of warcraft gold is an ongoing and seemingly never-ending struggle.

Gold is so important in WoW that a gigantic market developed for the sale of in-game WoW Gold for real-world dollars.

So what does the Warcraft economy and the premium on gold mean for the average player? How do you keep your wow gold supply strong? The smart Warcraft player doesn’t just go out and buy gold, they accumulate it for themselves through gold farming. Simply put, wow gold farming is the surest way to accumulate in-game gold, and WoW gold farming — for the successful World of Warcraft player — is the key to power-leveling your character as quickly as you can.

In a moment I’m going to talk about a very important and sometimes overlooked aspect of world of warcraft gold farming, but you should understand that this is not an exhaustive discussion of the subject. For those of you are truly serious about WOW gold farming, I very highly recommend you obtain one of the outstanding WoW gold farming guides available. Two of the absolute best WoW gold farming guides are “Derek’s Gold Mastery Guide by Derek Beachler or “Warcraft Millionaire” by Brad Johnson. These guides make wow gold farming much, much easier, and will be truly indispensable to your success.

One of the major keys to WoW gold farming success is preparation. Too often, novice World of Warcraft gold farmers leap in without thinking and end up finding themselves short on one of the most crucial gold farming requirements: bag space. It sounds simple on the surface, of course. Common sense tells us that a player needs plenty of bag space before he plunges into accumulating massive world of warcraft gold, but there is nothing worse than running out of bag space at the most inopportune time.

If you’ve got 16 bag slots, I highly recommend that you upgrade your bag space to 18 or 20 slot bags. Some players don’t consider adding four slots that significant, but four more bag slots means you have the opportunity to carry an additional 25%. If you’re serious about WoW gold farming, then I think the benefit to being able to carry 25% more at any one time should be obvious.

And when it comes to bag space, remember to keep it uncluttered. You should constantly monitor what’s in your bag and in your bank, and remove anything at all that you don’t need. As a WoW player I know that you like to keep some items around for purely sentimental purposes, but those things are doing nothing more than keeping you from farming as much wow gold as you possibly can.

WoW gold farming is the method of choice for many players. It’s a proven method that can help you throughout the game, but remember to make sure you’re ready before you get started. Upgrade your bag space and keep down the clutter. Those two tips are the first two steps to making your World of Warcraft gold farming a success.

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When I originally learned that Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King would feature a greater emphasis on narrative storytelling, I couldn’t help but have concerns. While its predecessor The Burning Crusade came through with promises of fatter purples, flying mounts, and more, more, more, one of its weaknesses was the impact of the storyline. Meeting a bunch of fellows from Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal in The Burning Crusade was kind of neat, but I never really felt as if I belonged fighting Illidan. It was difficult to see how helping sick children and mending blue space-alien rejects helped liberate a people from Illidan’s tyranny, and despite the fact that my character was supposedly a hero, I didn’t feel all that heroic. In The Burning Crusade, I was a hero without friends or a real cause. Wrath of the Lich King changes all that.

From the beginning, there is a clearly defined goal that the story revolves around: you’re traveling to Northrend to battle the Lich King. Large chunks of the quests address this storyline, in which you’re not merely shuffling through dung looking for quest items but rather undergoing some task that will deny the Lich King allies, or bolster your own faction’s forces.

What’s more, some of these quest-givers aren’t just your run of the mill NPCs. If you paid attention during the original World of Warcraft ( Buy wow gold ) you should know them quite well. They know you, acknowledging your pre-expansion blood, sweat, and tears before asking you to help them again.

Touches like this add to the believability of the plot and the sense that your character is actually a hero. This idea gets ratcheted up with a mid-expansion cut scene that kept me glued to my monitor in spite of the fact that my character remained uninvolved. In the aftermath, the cherry on top of Blizzard’s storytelling sundae is revealed, as NPCs that die in the storyline stay dead from your character’s perspective.

Another serious storytelling event whisks your character off into another event, this time one in which you boldly charge off with NPC heroes for truth, justice, and the Azerothian way. Unfortunately, though this type of one-shot real-time quest seemed like a great avenue for storytelling in Wrath of the Lich King, the event ran on a timer that some other player had tripped just before I arrived. Because of this I flailed around wildly trying to find the NPCs, irrevocably missing part of the storyline.

Though the permanency in this case was annoying, I’m convinced that without it Wrath of the Lich King’s storytelling would go down quicker than Hogger goes down to a level 10 player character. The permanency helps promote the feel that what your character does matters. It definitely beats watching a certain NPC from the original World of Warcraft ( Buy wow gold )die over and over and over. Because of this permanency, Wrath of the Lich King feels less like a never-ending quest for loot, and more like a single-player RPG.

NPC dialogue, cut scenes and real-time storyline events are implemented well enough that they add to rather than detract from the storyline, which is Wrath of the Lich King’s real triumph over its predecessors. It doesn’t have the storytelling depth of a Final Fantasy or Metal Gear Solid title, but it comes closer then most and definitely tops the previous expansion and original game.

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