How do you WoW?
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009It seems WoW isn’t immune to the Web 2.5 era of technology. Now, people can know where you are and you can give them the blow-by-blow as you’re raiding.
While I’m not so sure about the idea of location-based services the Twitter client was overdue. After all, there’s already IM integration so why not drop notes into Twitter or Facebook (FaceWoW? WoWBook?)?
The thing is…how relevant useful is this all going to be? Sure, the Twitpic integration is probably the best feature (though you’d think they’d have hidden the Tweetcraft window BEFORE generating the screenshot) but anything else? Outside of staying in contact with people instead of diving into WoW and disappearing for hours, is there a purpose to it? After all, if you’re raiding, you’re more than likely going to be with the main group of people you hang out with while in WoW…in other words, the people who care about the crazy purple item that just dropped.
Still, I guess the game industry and especially the MMOG sub-industry has to keep up with the social side of Web 2.x. I’m still waiting for the NeuroSky thing to go somewhere so I can play without a keyboard…
g afk
