Runescape

Runescape is a game about MMORPG and 3D characters and things that fly around and pets and skills. There are skills you can train and then rate them against a highscore list and put them up on zybez and that way you can join a community and make a friends and then talk with them on general discussion, questions, RSC, clans, and the off topic section, and then cover it all up with a blanket and quests. There are many quests and some of them involve dragons and crandor isle and varrock and falador and ardougne there are many cities and people and NPCs.

We think that Runescape is a game about skill but it is actually a game about time and MMORPGs. fantasy and SCi-Fi but that is mechscape do you know what i amean? No? It's okay let me tell you a story about a Runescape player called NPC and his newb friends. They moved to varrock and then started up on a quest to go and solve a quest. They went to varrock and found aht eshield of arrav from the king and black arm gang and they found crossbows.

Crossbows are found upstairs and they can be traded to the prank and bolts shop for coins and archery supplies. We don't need to speculate on training skills because all that matters is a bunch of money that you can gain by selling the stupid crossbows to the archery supplies shop.

Some skills are easy to train like mining all you have to do is click and keep clicking on the rock and wait for stuff to appear in the inventory. Sometimes you got to be careful about things loike rock demons because they are higher leveled than you and will take you many strikes.

Other skills like smithing are quite easy asl well. We just walk over to the furnace and we smelt our ores into the fire. Then we get metal bars from which you can make weapons to wield There are requirements for smithing level and combat level to make and acquire weapons. You can't wield a weapon if your skills is not high enough and you can't smith a bar into weapons if your smithing level is too low but you can sell the weapon if you dont or can't wield the weapon.

Combat level matters because there are slills that dictate the combat level which can range to like 135. Defense and Strength can be 99 and this is just a page for you know what.

World of Warcraft - Fans go crazy about Wrath of the Lich King

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technolo...000/7726168.stm


Fans go mad for new Warcraft game
By Jim Reed
Newsbeat technology reporter

World of Warcraft makes more money than the biggest Hollywood blockbusters every single month, has 11 million players and controls two thirds of the online gaming market, so when an expanded version was released, fans turn up in droves to be the first to get their hands on it.

World of Warcraft is more than just a game - it's a whole industry, selling everything from action figures to t-shirts, playing cards and even tickets to its own gaming festival.

Thousands of fans dressed in costume and queued overnight in central London to be the first to get their hands on the latest chapter in the saga, an update called Wrath of the Lich King.

"It's just a big social gaming experience," according to Paul Sams at Blizzard, the American company behind World of Warcraft.

"When we first started this back in the early 2000s, we thought it was going to be quite a niche type of game. We hoped to hit a million subscribers one day," he told Newsbeat.

"It's been far beyond anything we could have imagined. We all want to be heroes, but we can't in our everyday life.

"There were games before World of Warcraft but they were much more hardcore and that was quite intimidating for many people.

"We've worked really hard to try to make a really casual ramping of difficulty. So no matter what kind of thing you are in to, you are able to jump in and experience all of it."
World of Warcraft fans
World of Warcraft fans get into character for the midnight release

The features built into the new expansion pack might not sound like much to non-fans.

Players can access a new frozen continent called Northrend, level strength has been raised from the current max of 70 up to 80, new vehicles and siege engines appear for the first time, an achievement ranking makes it easier to track your progress and gamers can play as a new character called a Death Knight.

But for hardcore World of Warcraft players, these small changes are a huge deal.

"I'm really looking forward to exploring the Northrend area. It's the same graphics engine but they've done a good job of making it look different," 26-year-old gamer Lesley Harrison told Newsbeat.

Lesley has been playing online games together with her husband Mark since they were married six years ago.

"World of Warcraft is very polished and very accessible," she said.

"There were other games out before but they were so unforgiving and quirky. The interfaces were very hard to learn and there was a lot to get past before you could enjoy the game.

"With World of Warcraft you can sit down and on your first day you can get to some exciting content. That's pretty unique."
Lesley and Mark
Lesley and Mark share a love of Warcraft and play together

Lesley and Mark have their computers set up side-by-side in the front room.

Mark told Newsbeat: "It would be really difficult if Lesley didn't play. It takes hours to do some things in World of Warcraft, so it's easy for the other person to get bored if they're not involved."

Lesley added: "We share different duties so if one of us is in the middle of something, the other one will go and make the tea. I don't think that would be appreciated if we didn't play together."

But with the average WoWer spending around 25 hours a week on the game, other couples are not so lucky.

More than 3,000 people have joined an online support group called Warcraft Widows for relatives of addicted gamers.

"My wife started playing in 2007," according to one post. "She plays 12-18 hours a day and ignores all other life.

"She refuses to answer the phone. She refuses to return emails. I am destroyed by a video game and have no idea how to proceed."

That kind of dedication has helped make World of Warcraft one of the biggest money-spinners in gaming history.
World of Warcraft poster
It costs £9 a month subscription to keep playing the game online

Customers must buy the £24.99 disc to begin with and then pay a £9 a month subscription to keep playing online.

With 11 million registered users, it's not hard to see just how much money Blizzard is making every month.

It's also no surprise that rival online titles from Runescape to Lord of the Rings Online and Star Wars Galaxies have been fighting hard for some of that lucrative business.

But with a 60% market share, World of Warcraft already has a huge advantage over its rivals.

"There are a lot of people who want to go and play other games," said Lesley.

"They go but their friends just aren't there. They end up coming back to World of Warcraft even if the other game was perhaps better in their eyes. Friends are 90% of the fun. "

Hollywood has been eyeing the rise of online gaming suspiciously.

If millions of young gamers are spending 25 hours+ a week playing World of Warcraft then chances are they are not out at the multiplex watching the latest action movie.

But in a true case of 'if you can't beat them, join them', rumours are rife that a blockbuster World of Warcraft movie is on the way.

The film is said to be set a year before the events of the game and will focus on an all-new hero figure.

No director has been named so far but the budget has been set at $100m (£67m).

Or less than Blizzard earns from World of Warcraft subscriptions in a single month.

World of Warcraft - The name of the game

The name of the game is World of Warcraft and is played by millions for plat and gold. It is totally unfair when it comes to buying and selling accounts because it happens anyways. We at globalgaminghq respect the World of Warcraft enough to say that it is a good game nonetheless.