Planning WoW Raids in Second Life
World of Warcraft guild We Know has garnered some repute for being run by venture capitalist Joi Ito, who says he listens to the guild’s TeamSpeak channel even while cooking dinner or driving his car. We Know’s latest innovation is to use the virtual world of Second Life to plan their end-game raids on World of Warcraft instances, the tough dungeons that can only be conquered by intense planning and lockstep cooperation. In Ito’s Kula sim, the guild has set up maps of several WoW instances (taken from WoW screenshots), and annotates them using SL objects. [Via Metroblogging Azeroth.] Ito spoke at SD Forum about the fact that his guild uses SL as a place to review in-game video footage of their raids, much as a football team would review game videos. Now SL is being used as a place to prepare specific strategies, in what amounts to a nice virtual world mashup. How much cooler would this be, though, if We Know was putting the instance maps into something like angrybeth Shortbread’s communal writeboard or one of the other collaborative annotation tools that are available in Second Life? And even cooler than that if the maps were made interactive. Just watch out for Overlord Wyrmthalak.
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Makers of Office 2.0 tools should notice patterns like this and run (not walk) to make a deal with LL to put collaborative office suites into Second Life.
Well, Joi Ito is special, so he does this as a kind of very specialized thing and gets attention to it. When I watch real kids who play both WoW and SL, I don’t see this behaviour. That is, they really mix all these things all together — Skype, X-box live, YMs, WoW, SL, they have them all going, and they sit in circles with their laptops grabbing wireless where they can and drift in and out of all these places but I don’t see them necessarily hunker down inside SL to plan a WoW raid even when Wow is down because they have SL things to do in SL that are also demanding. That’s my observation. Also, Walker, again, go and work Angrybeth’s Whiteboard before blogging quite this breathlessly about it. It’s great, but it doesn’t make your toast in the morning.
What I wonder is whether the Smartboard, once it has Second Life put up on it, will be able to do really neat things.
How crappy is his guild that they are planning out strats for WoW in SL? LOL. BWL takes like 3-4 hours they are spending more time planning than it takes in the instances. I really hope they are having trouble in Naxx or something and are using this for those strats, other than that, LOL. L2Play Noobs.
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i like the idea very much of WoW being in SL..,
of thing’s included could be the skin copy’s/shape & items..
im a major gamer that use to play BF2,BFV,Sims etc… but ive hunkered in SL mostley cuase i enjoy building without no exeperiance required except practice..
but truely best idea would be to reframe the outlook of how people play SL and give them something new to enjoy.. but could charge the game sim for rent entry
or a game pass for about 2-3 hours would be good idea.
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SL is always growing to new technoligy.
Why shouldn’t we improve to what the game can do?
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