List Books » Battle for Azeroth: Adventure, Alliance, and Addiction - Insights into the World of Warcraft
Authors: Bill Fawcett
ISBN-13: 9781932100846, ISBN-10: 1932100849
Format: Paperback
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Bill Fawcett is a cofounder of Mayfair Games, a board and role play–gaming company, as well as an award-winning board and computer game designer. He has also edited more than 50 anthologies. He lives in the Chicago area.
** COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED ** Aimed at dedicated fans of the role playing game World of Warcraft, this dynamic collection of essays explores the undying fascination with a game that is a welcome escape from reality for millions of people around the world. Gaming experts, developers, and bestselling sci-fi authors examine the overwhelming success of the game and the underlying motivations for gamers to spend, on average, as much time as they would at a part-time job battling in the world of Azeroth, and address issues ranging from economics and psychology to addiction and game ethics are addressed, as are the outstanding design of the game and the histories of several main characters.
Pt. 1 | The game | |
Elegant game design : fishing for those missing hours | 1 | |
Underworld of Warcraft | 13 | |
World of Warcraft : timesink of the gods | 33 | |
LFG ... and a little more | 61 | |
Reframed relationships : MMORPGs and societies | 81 | |
The economy of World of Warcraft | 97 | |
Ancestors and competitors | 107 | |
Maps and mapping | 123 | |
Should we sell World of Warcraft by prescription only? | 131 | |
Altaholics not so anonymous | 143 | |
I play like a girl : yes, that level 60 night Elf Warrior is mine | 155 | |
Advice to the WoWlorn | 177 | |
Pt. 2 | World of Warcraft classes | |
Paladin | 191 | |
Priest | 203 | |
Shaman | 213 | |
Druid | 225 | |
Rogue | 235 | |
Mage | 247 | |
Warrior | 257 | |
Warlock | 267 | |
Hunter | 277 |