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I have been a gamer for many years now but I have never played WOW. I have tried MapleStory in the past and enjoyed that but have never found myself in a situation to give WOW a try.

Firstly this may annoy hardcore WOW fans I am coming at this from a source of great ignorance about all things WOW.

Also I would imagine the will be story spoilers as well. That said Free account signed up for and download started.

On the Install screen Looks like we have a green ape, a bison and scantily clad attractively drawn magician OK I’ve been around the internet for a while lets continue.

Licence agreements, Blizzard really do like using brackets for everything. Most of it is standard stuff but what on earth is the “I represent that I am a ‘natural person’” bit? A little strange but whatever Agreement Accepted.

10GB you say this might take a while. Downloading starts and the first thing I see is an UPGRADE NOW message. Now I know you are here to make money on your game but do you think I can try the game first before you encourage me to upgrade.

The ability to play while the download happens is a nice feature. I am presented with the same licensing agreement I just agreed to. So I confirm I am a natural person again and on we go.

The next thing to do is pick a language and a Realm.

Realm style Normal I guess. Don’t think there is much point in PVP when I don’t know what I’m doing and the role playing option seams a little to serious at this early stage.

Ahh the character creation screen, so I now know the green ape was an Orc and the bison was a bull. Looking at the other characters they all look interesting but I go for a Female, Human, Hunter (I liked the look of the pet). Manage to think of a name that didn’t need to have numbers or xXXx around it so looks like we are off to a good start.

And so priassaphire (Prias Saphire) enters the world of WOW.

I am given a quest and go off and kill 6 dogs which look as though they may be related to my pet which is slightly unsettling. There are a lot of people around here but there seams to be plenty of dogs to kill so it doesn’t take long. The targeting method is a little strange to me and I am having trouble understanding why my character sometimes shoots an arrow and sometimes hits the enemy with an axe.

Aha so right clicking on the enemy will use your attacks, that makes sense and how far away you are decides on the crossbow/axe. Next up are a group of spies they go down easily enough.

I then have to learn a new skill and shoot some dummies. I had a little trouble here as I didn’t realise I had to learn the skill from the NPC first but after a bit of clicking and running around I got the gist of it. Dummies defeated I return and claim my prize.

Next up I get sent to kill some elves and then revive some soldiers and return to get another quest. I was beginning to question what I was doing and then saw the quest entry for the “rear is clear” and the 12 year old in me laughed and so I carry on.

After that I go and kill some Orcs and put out some fires return to the quest giver only to be asked to go back to where I just came from and kill their leader. Surely you could have asked me to kill him at the same time I killed his friends.

I run back and kill the leader, first time someone helpfully came over and killed him for, so I waited a few seconds for him to re-spawn and then got the job done.

On my return I am told that some elves are having problems in the forest, I will find out what’s up later.

At this point I decide to call it a night and reflect on my first experiences. I think it is too early to pass judgement. Already I can see where this has influenced other games and it is nice to be playing the “daddy of them all”. However do I think this will grab me and take up all of my spare time? I can’t see it but it is still early days.

Sign me up for that

PSN: DLBDAB

@Grimluck343:

I see your point but I don't agree with that analogy in this case because GB and GS are now owned by the same company so are not competing for viewers any viewers either site gets will be profit for the organisation overall. Now if one of the sites isn't pulling enough viewers to cover the cost of running the site then there may be an issue.

But I don't see this being a problem as GB has a strong and devoted base which I am sure is just going to grow in the future.

@Grimluck343 said:

@yakov456 said:

But it's not really the crew that concerns me, of course they will be the same awesome guys who work their butts off. It's the fact that CBS owns them now and the crew will answer to them. There will be corporate hands all up in this cookie jar.

Bingo. You can paint as rosy a picture as you want but the fact of the matter is that the same corporation that fired Jeff for costing them ad revenue is the same corporation that they're going back to work for now. The novelty of Giant Bomb was that they answered to no one, there was no one at the top trying to influence things. I'm sure at the start everything will be all rainbows and puppy dogs, but what happens two years from now when CBSi looks to start making budget cuts? Do they fire staff? Do they question why they have two websites covering the exact same thing? In the past, none of this mattered because Giant Bomb and Whiskey Media were in control of these decisions. Now the decision goes to the corporate overlord who doesn't care how funny Brad or Vinny are, they're looking at numbers in a spreadsheet and want to cut payroll, therefore they get the ax.

If the duders are happy, then I'm happy for them. I'm sure they all got nice pay raises and as was mentioned above they definitely earned it. But I think it's a little naive to say "nothing's changing! Everything's staying the same, except only better." These guys got burned working for the man before, it's the whole reason this site exists to begin with. It's within the realm of possibility to say that it could happen again.

Fake edit: I sound like a goddamn Occupy Wall Street hippy.

Real edit: typos and such.

Exactly, this is what I've been thinking since the news yesterday. It doesn't make business sense to have two websites owned by one company competing with each other in todays economy. It might not happen for awhile but, one day the CEOs are going to make some budget cuts.

Here in the UK I have never heard of mythbusters so I will have to look into it a bit before I can say what I think

@RoboRobb said:

@msavo said:

I'm still worried about the long term effect this will have on Giant Bomb...

I completely agree - who's to say another group of higher-authorities from CBS don't pull a similar move to the Kane & Lynch fiasco?

It only takes a small group of out-of-touch businessmen for this shit to turn sour real quick.

Yes this could happen but I hope things would have been put in place to minimise the risk of this happening.

Yes change is a scary thing and this could go pear shaped but the people are not changing. Look at the GB team and everything they have said and done over the last few years I trust GB and will continue to do so.

G- I am excited and hope that giantbomb remains as independent as it has always been. Yes I am sure there will be some changes but so long as the core ideals stay the same then it should be a good thing.

OK I know its a cliche but it felt right to say it.

Just want to wish everyone at the Whiskey Media family good luck for the future wherever it takes you. Thanks for everything in the past and I look forward to see what comes in the future.

Keep making the content and I will keep consuming it.