What is "World of Warcraft"?

Series Summary

The video & computer gaming industry has continued to grow throughout the history of video & computer games themselves. From the first version of pong, to 8-bit systems like Atari, all the way to intense and graphically advanced gaming systems like xbox360 and playstation 2, video games have fostered a major money-making industry and significant job market in the United States and the rest of the world. It is apparent now that video games are here to stay, so why not learn to play one of the most popular games out there: World of Warcraft.

In this free video series, our expert Bill Albin will teach you all about the MMORPG "World of Warcraft". He'll teach you how to pick a realm on a server, how to use and gain money, all about leveling up, damage per second, and crowd control. He'll tell about all the difference factions, races, and professions. Bill will detail the alliance and horde factions, the Draenei, Dwarf, Gnome, Human, Night Elf, Blood Elf, Orc, Tauren, Troll, and Undead Races, and the druid, hunter, mage, paladin, priest, rogue, shaman, warlock, and warrior classes. He'll even tell you about the skinning, leatherworking, first aid, fishing, cooking, mining, herbalism, alchemy, tailoring, enchanting, blacksmithing, engineering, and gem crafting professions before finishing up talk about the user interface, instances, and healers.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Bill and in this clip we're going to talk a little bit about World of Warcraft. How to get started, what it is, specifically the game is a MMO which is a massively multi player online game, it's also an RPG, a role playing game. Basically a player, like myself, takes on the role of a character and goes and interacts with other characters in a fantasy realm with dragons and monsters and trolls and things. If you've seen movies like the Lord of the Rings or Dungeon and Dragons or any of things like that then you're familiar with the genre. It's fantasy, it's swords and sorcery, it's killing monster's and it's a lot of fun and this takes you directly into the adventure yourself so that you can participate in that kind of fantasy world. So you take on the a character like an Elf or a Dwarf or a human and you go out and you meet up with other people who are doing the same thing from their own homes and you get together and you go out and you do adventures and quests and kill monsters. So, this game, one of the interesting things about this game and games like it is that there's really never an end to it. These, these types of games go on forever, it's, there's an organization out there, Blizzard, the company that makes the game is constantly creating new content, new expansions, new patches which give you more quests that you can try and more dungeons that you and your friends can go explore and different realms that you can go out and, and, and see. And it really allows you to, to take on the game to the next level, there's really no way to beat the game. Like in a lot of games for example for some of the consoles and things like that and even computers, it at some point ends, you, you kill the final boss and the game is over and you can re-do it but in the World of Warcraft the game really never ends. You can spend hours and days and months and years and you will never find the, you will never be able to do every single thing."