Broken Toys Random Comments About Games and Tractors

1. 

   Aufero
   June 14th, 2007 - 00:10

   I can hardly wait for the WoW forum posts accusing Rob Pardo’s seven year old daughter of being the reason Warlocks are overpowered.
2. 

   Amaranthar
   June 14th, 2007 - 10:23

   I’m not going to make any accusations, but it brings up a subject. Does it hurt a game to go the “is for all players” route? It does for me to an extent, enough to notice. Not because other player’s wants are included, but because my wants are infringed upon in various ways.
3. 

   ajeba
   June 14th, 2007 - 12:24

   WoW has long been regarded as a game that appeals to the LCD in almost every way. Which is one of the reasons why it has done so well. Not saying that it doesn’t appeal to the hard core elite.

   My friends son, who is only 6, has gotten his paladin up to level 60 (It took him a year) all by himself. Anyways, he’ll log on and create a whole story about what he’s doing that day. He’ll strip naked, @ level 60, and pretend he is starting out a new adventurer in Elwynn and progress his little personal story through triumph and deeds; while slowly putting his armor back on zone after zone. Till finally the mobs become tough again. Then he’ll come back a few days later and do it all over, different story. He even got his epic mount with the help of 2 other paladins, a mage and a priest.

   And no, 6 year old level 60 paladins doesn’t heal. He’s ret spec’d. Well, he’ll heal himself.
4. 

   Cosmic Cat
   June 14th, 2007 - 12:59

   Clearly, small children know how to play with toys properly and the rest of us should just stick to chess. “I’m bored of this game. I’ll just use it to make up my own.” Man, when did I forget how to do that?

   I mean. Um. *lurk*
5. 

   Anon
   June 14th, 2007 - 13:13

   Ajeba, that’s an awesome story, gotta say.
6. 

   Skelanth
   June 14th, 2007 - 19:36

   Since we seem to have a story about kids… my 4 year old (will be 5 soon) pvps for me in Alterac Valley. He loots the other team player’s corpses, farms rams, clicks on flags and does the loot hand ins. He can’t read and wonders why the voices yell so much (Drek and Vannder, etc) but for the most part will do 2 or 3 before it gets boring for him. When he sees a red title bar at the top of the screen when a bg finishes he likes to shout out “Horde Wins”.
7. 

   D-0ne
   June 15th, 2007 - 04:50

   My 13 yr-old hates WoW because, “No one plays the game. They all act like every fight is the Super bowl!”.
8. 

   Xanthippe
   June 19th, 2007 - 10:19

   I’ve had a similar experience to Pardo, in watching my now 8 year old daughter play WoW. She collects outfits, she collects pets, she makes toons and gets to about level 8 or 10. She enjoys stripping to her “bathing suit” to swim in the canals. She likes to hang out in Stormwind City, and watch the scene, and make up her own stories about the scene.

   I’ve let her play my main in AV – she has fun for about 10 minutes. Then it’s back to stories. Or just riding my mounts around.

   Her WoW game and mine are very very different.
9. 

   Rick M
   June 19th, 2007 - 11:59

   Xanthippe, my daughter played through her fifth and sixth year in very much the same manner. I found out that each account has a character limit because of my daughter and her alts. Once you hit 50 characters, Blizzard won’t let you create any more

   She and I have had a ton of fun running through Azeroth together, as well as DAOC (Lum, goddamn it, do you know how easy it is for a 3 year-old to dismount you from your horse in the middle of BF nowhere by hitting your space bar? ), SWG and Eve. She enjoyed SWG the best, I think, because of how much you could do with houses.

   I got her a DS Lite for her birthday, and she’s now on to Animal Crossing as her favorite virtual world…if I’m allowed to call it a “virtual world” without sparking all sorts of debates and having the ghosts of MUD Devs Past haunting my posts

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