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Warcraft has been around for more than a decade now and despite its age, it is still a competitive game played during the annual World Cyber Games (WCG). It has continued to improve and fascinate the fans of Warcraft through its various series and expansion pack. In its newest sequel, World of Warcraft (WoW), the storyline is derived from the story of Warcraft III.

World of Warcraft is perhaps the most successful sequel of the Warcraft series yet, with perhaps more than hundreds of thousands playing on its different servers. It is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) and it is also a Pay-to-Play game. This means that requires players to pay a fee every month in order to gain access to their accounts to play the game.

The game consists of 2 different factions, the Alliance and the Horde, but technically, one character can only be in a single faction. In each faction there are 5 races, namely the Humans, NightElves, Gnomes, Dwarves and Draeneis for the Alliance and the Orcs, Taurens, Undead, Trolls, and Blood Elves for the Horde. Players can choose to play from these 10 different races, each race having its own unique profession skill and ability. In its latest expansion, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, The Draeneis and Blood Elves were introduced to the games and these 2 races join the Alliance and Horde respectively. In addition to that, the races have the choice to choose between 4 to 6 different classes. These include Druids, Hunters, Mages, Paladins, Warlocks, Priests, Rogues, Shamans, Warriors. (i.e. a character can be a Human Priest or a Dwarven Hunter).

Like any other MMORPGs, there are also computer controlled AIs (Artificial Intelligence) which are also known as NPCs (Non-Player Characters). These characters are not controlled by the players and can only interact with the human players in the event of storyline purposes. However, the unique thing in WoW is that the NPCs are not invulnerable, that means that as long as you have the ability to kill it, it is technically possible to attack a city of another faction through killing the NPCs inside.

My experience in playing WoW is that unless you are able to afford the monthly fees required for the game, it is not advisable to start playing because it can be quite addictive, especially those who have already experienced playing the previous Warcraft instalments. No matter how you think you will be able to resist the temptation and not give in to the addict of playing WoW, it is still very difficult to not be addicted to it as studies have shown that over 40% of youths playing WoW are severely addicted to the game. These numbers do not include those who are just slightly addicted.

All in all, World of Warcraft is a very unique MMORPG that works well to one as long as one is able to afford the monthly payments for the game.

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