What exactly did they expect?

 By dixie

Thursday January 18th • Warcrack Category

First WoW player reaches level 70. 28 hours after release, a French player (with the help of his extremely dedicated guild) reached the game’s new level cap. My favo(u)rite bit of the article is this:

The fact that a player has managed to reach level 70 so fast will not please developers Blizzard, who had hoped to see the Burning Crusade occupy fans for at least a year.

Blizzard isn’t too concerned, I think, as this player must now collect all the attunements required to access the new content. (And the expensive flying mount.) That should keep Gullerbone busy for at least a week…and it’ll be a month before his guild is ready to raid it all.

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4 Comments

  1. kola bear
    18th of January, 2007

    28 hours…that is impressive (no wait that’s not the word I was looking for…sad yes. Sad that’s it)

  2. dixie
    18th of January, 2007

    No sadder than sinking 100 hours into a pair of hand-knit socks, I think. This strikes me as a better waste of time than watching TV (most people’s preferred time sink).

    What really interests me is the planning that went into it. It’s not just a case of someone with 28 hours to kill, it’s someone who carefully considered and implemented a fairly daunting task. There are about 7 million people worldwide killing time on WoW (assuming 1 in 8 accounts is an alt or gold farmer account, an arbitrary and generous estimate). This guy (and about 40 of his friends) put in the effort and planning to achieve a specific, individual goal faster than anyone else — a goal that’s supposed to take up a lot of a person’s time.

    Sure, it would be more profitable (and less “sad”) to put that ingenuity to use in a business setting. But as xaosseed noted, the creation of profit as a worker bee isn’t usually very fulfilling.

  3. uber
    19th of January, 2007

    Well, I figure it was an interesting experiment, like climbing a mountain or something. He did it in collaboration with the guy who made 60 first apparently.

    I’m mainly please it happened in the EU rather than the US :D

  4. Dixie
    19th of January, 2007

    Considering y’all had a 5-8 hour headstart, I’m not surprised it happened in the EU rather than the US. :]

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