The business of gaming Thinking out of the box – The Economist

The business of gaming Thinking out of the box
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Blizzard Entertainment's “World of Warcraft”, an intricate online fantasy world filled with orcs and dragons, attracts around 9m regular users, each of whom pays a monthly subscription fee of around to play. As with mobile games,

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The Daily Quest: Getting ideas, thinking

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You tell him, Belle. You tell him, and then you go save your crazy father before he blows himself up doing whatever it is he’s doing. Today we’ve got a few posts from around the blogosphere with all kinds of thinking, ideas, and other smart subjects that Gaston doubtless wouldn’t approve of at all.


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The Daily Quest: Thinking inside the box

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Oh, strange and delightful Trogg crate. Your boxy antics from beta and the ability to stick around are sorely missed. I have no idea why, but I wish I could run around Orgrimmar with you on my head — for no real logical, useful reason, but simply for the sheer entertainment factor. Maybe someone at Blizzard will give us a wearable box found by archaeology or something, someday; one can only dream.

Today, we’ve got a collection of posts from around the blogosphere of people thinking outside the box — or perhaps inside the box, because as we found out in the Cataclysm beta, being in the box was actually pretty cool.


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The Daily Quest: Creative thinking

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My guild had a surplus of Fish Feasts after the end of Wrath — and by surplus, I mean each raider was sent around 80 of the suckers to help with leveling to 85, and there were still a ton in the guild bank. Once we hit 85, the feasts were no longer useful; after some creative thinking, our raid leader decided they were the perfect medium for avant-garde artistic expression.

… or maybe he was just really, really bored between pulls.

Regardless, today we’ve got a few posts from around the blogosphere that indulge in a little creative thinking of their own.


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The Daily Quest: Thinking out of the box

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Every time I venture into Deepholm, I mourn the loss of the box. Back in beta, players who picked up a Trogg Crate for the quest Quicksilver Submersion were able to keep the box buff after the quest was turned in. Sure, it only lasted for a little while, but being a box of stabbing death was ultimately really, really cool. I miss the box.

Speaking of boxes, today we’ve got a few posts from around the blogosphere that do a little out-of-the-box thinking:


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World of Warcraft Cataclysm Pt. 2: ‘We’re thinking about what’s next’ – Computerandvideogames.com


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The Daily Quest: Alternative thinking

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The Evil Twin debuff doesn’t really do anything; it’s just there. But I’ve often pondered what exactly an evil twin of my character would do. Would she join the Lich King’s army? Would she trick people into thinking she was a mage with her Wormhole Generator and laugh when they tried to click? Or maybe she’d visit Sheddle Glossgleam in Dalaran, get her shoes nice and shiny, then kill a squirrel and stand on the corpse, waiting to see what poor sucker stops to try and loot the thing.

Oh, wait. She already does that last one.

Regardless, here are some posts from here and there around the blogosphere in regards to different ways of thinking:


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Around Azeroth Beta Edition: Now you’re thinking with portals

Beta tester Polegara of <Chamber of Aspects> (EU-A) was recently wandering around the newly redecorated Orgrimmar when she came upon this ghostly blood elf. The pointy-eared stranger, no doubt an Aperture Laboratories employee, was offering free portals to the inhabitants of the capital city. “Unfortunately, when questioned further, she admitted she would only send me to Nordrassil,” wrote Polegara. “But her strange attire, coupled with a discarded Fusion Core from Uldum that had been deposited there by some untidy adventurer, gave her an otherworldy air. I wondered to what dimensions she might send me if only I could ding enough.”

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