Nearly 10 Years and I Still Enjoy World of Warcraft

I am a pretty big gamer and I tend to play a good number of RPGS(role playing games). As such I love to get at least ankle deep in a games story and get me some phat loots and collect a shiny new robe for my character.  I usually go for the magic user characters and from there I typically like to pick either non-human race or the "smart" race or both. So, when that came to pick a character in warcraft I picked a gnome mage. That was almost 10 years at this point and I haven't looked back.

         

Before I started, I had been hearing from friends and family how awesome the game was. For the longest time, I didn't have a computer good enough to run it, even on low settings.Eventually, I got a laptop for school and was able to officially start the game. The big nosed guy above in the weird hat is my main character.  He's the character I started out with back in the good old days of 2008. 

The game has significantly changed since those days it has lost and gained features, I have gained friends(and a girlfriend) and lost them(and her) over the game, and both good and bad expansions to the game have come and gone too. I started playing during the third expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, and the game is now on its sixth expansion, Legion, with no end in sight. Warcraft has a few spin-offs( World of Warcraft being a spin-off itself of the Warcraft RTS(real time strategy) series) Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is the first one and is an online collectible card game based on characters from the Warcraft universe and even some original ones made especially for the game. Heroes of the Storm is more of an indirect spin-off based around all of Blizzard's properties(the company who owns Warcraft). 

The game is a pretty big investment of both time and money. On top of the starter pack(wich includes all of the game minus the latest expansion, you need to buy the latest expansion, and pay for the 15 dollar subscription fee. If you can get to max level and can make enough in-game currency ou will be able to play the game for free, but that can mean a pretty big time investment. This shouldn't scare you, because the game rewards you for to bring friends into the game with free time and in games rewards like vehicles and pets. With the amount of time the game has been out you will not be in need of things to do in game, there are tons of things to collect, quest and story to experience, and mechanics to master so go save the world.... of warcraft.                

   Stay nerdy my beautiful friends.