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The Battle for Azeroth: Adventure, Alliance, and Addiction in the World of Warcraft (Smart Pop series)

The Battle for Azeroth: Adventure, Alliance, and Addiction in the World of Warcraft (Smart Pop series)
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Aimed at dedicated fans of the role playing game World of Warcraft, this dynamic collection of essays explores the undying fascination with a game that is a welcome escape from reality for millions of people around the world. Gaming experts, developers, and bestselling sci-fi authors examine the overwhelming success of the game and the underlying motivations for gamers to spend, on average, as much time as they would at a part-time job battling in the world of Azeroth, and address issues ranging from economics and psychology to addiction and game ethics are addressed, as are the outstanding design of the game and the histories of several main characters.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #271478 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-07-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 208 pages

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Review
"Read [this book] to find out what these strategy games are all about."  —The Washington Post

About the Author
Bill Fawcett is a cofounder of Mayfair Games, a board and role play–gaming company, as well as an award-winning board and computer game designer. He has also edited more than 50 anthologies. He lives in the Chicago area.

Customer Reviews

Starts out well and finishes strong4
This is a collection of essays on WoW. I found the first 7 essays very informative and enjoyable. The last 5 essays seemed to be more complaints of people who live with WoW players and not so interesting accounts of addictive behavior.

Part 2 of the book gives background and historical examples for each of the classes available to WoW players. This was very interesting provides insight into the way the classes were designed by Blizzard.

The Battle of WoW Addictiton5
This book is very humorous & very serious look at "The World of Warcraft", packed with short articles & essays about nearly every facet of the king of all MMORPG's. Entertaining & informative, I'm happy I took a chance on this book.
As most players of WoW know, this game can really be addicting! If you want to give up other vices, say smoking, you can by playing WoW, you won't have time for a cigarette, or you can loose weight! You won't have time to fix a proper meal!
The contributors to this book address all of this, and other such subjects as the unique economy of "Azeroth", hacking, cheating, & even where our history & legends have been adapted into WoW.
This is a fun book for any WoW player. Enjoy!

Bit of a let down3
Think of this book as more of a collection of random blog posts related around World of Warcraft. There was no real cohesion among the authors. I did really enjoy some of the early chapters, but the end of the book felt like a publisher looking for filler. This information could have been a single series on a website blog somewhere.