World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft

The world of warcraft is part of the online role playing game genre. It was released in November 2004. The game is free for a short amount of time (up to level 20) and then you need to pay for a subscription for a certain amount of months. Whatever you do in the trial will get carried over through to the full version if you decide to purchase it. The difference between World of Warcraft and a console based game is that World of Warcraft will go on and on and on whereas a console based game has and ending where everything can be complete. The game is made by Blizzard Entertainment. The game is available all over the world and the average amount of people online on World of Warcraft is 10 million. At the moment they are trying to push a new add on for the game Mists of Pandaria.

This is the World of Warcraft front cover.

When games are created a fan website maybe made. One has been made for World of Warcraft. On these websites they might discuss tactics and other problems with many other people who are part of the World of Warcraft community. These can be commented on on the World of Warcraft homepage and under community you can comment, question and provide answers for other members. When players are online on this community they use their own character names. There are many things on the message board allowing people to comment on so their are no specific amounts of comments on their. On this message board it does have links to social networking sites allowing them to spread to word about World of Warcraft. This is known as viral marketing.