20,000 WoW Players Complete Giant Photo Mosiac

John Funk

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20,000 WoW Players Complete Giant Photo Mosiac



Ever wonder what 20,000 WoW fans look like?

Back in December, to celebrate the five-year anniversary of Blizzard announced the Battle Cry Photo Mosaic [http://www.amazon.com/World-Warcraft-Pc/dp/B000067FDW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1278969746&sr=1-3], a project that asked thousands of WoW players to take pictures of themselves holding up emblems to display their faction allegiance - Alliance or Horde. The pictures would then be stitched together to form one awesome photo-mosaic featuring the game's ten faction leaders, five per side.

Well, guess what: It's done, and it's awesome [http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wowanniversary/battlecry/].

The number of people in this image is really impressive, and even more so when you consider the fact that it's but a tiny, tiny fraction of the 11 million that play the game worldwide. Hell, it isn't even as many people as the multitudes that attend BlizzCon. But it's still a really cool picture - both the picture itself and the mosaic - despite Blizzard's obvious and disgusting Horde bias.

It's great when a community comes together for something like this, isn't it?

To see the full, 14400 x 6150 mosaic, go here [http://us.media.blizzard.com//wow/anniversary/_images/ilovesc/wallpapers/source-mosaic-14400x6150.jpg], but don't blame me if it kills your computer.

For the Alliance! (And no, before you ask, I'm not in it. I forgot to send my picture in :()

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microhive

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Saw it earlier today. It is pure awesomeness but how the hell did Blizzard make it?
 

Ghonzor

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Blizzard wins at just about everything...except releasing stuff on time, but meh.
That's pretty freaking awesome though.
 

Roboto

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It's nice aside from the fact that about half of the images have nothing to do with WoW at all. Such as a nice picture of a baby's face in the top right corner, and about a quarter are pictures of peoples' cats..
 

wasalp

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Amnestic said:
That's all kinds of cool.

despite Blizzard's obvious and disgusting Horde bias.
They're just jealous of the Alliance's awesome.
please blizzard obviously has a hard on for the alliance.what with the worgen and goblin(its bs)

also quite nice. its taking a hell of a lot of time to load the full resolution picture...5min so far.
 

AvsJoe

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Whoa, wow! This is incredible! Makes me glad I don't play the game!
 

Gxas

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Amnestic said:
That's all kinds of cool.

despite Blizzard's obvious and disgusting Horde bias.
They're just jealous of the Alliance's awesome.
You know, I pointed that out to my roommate the other day while looking at it. There really are a lot more hordies who sent their pics in over alliance members. Its weird, even the blue parts of the picture are just horde players with a blue tint put on their pics.

Kinda makes me mad seeing as I was hoping that it would be even.
 

BehattedWanderer

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Very well done and all, but it's a bit cheating, no? Shouldn't it be out of like, I dunno, character pics, and not of a bunch of random faces? What I see there is more a mosaic of "The Daily Lives of Gamers, Their Pets, and Their Children", and isn't really specific to WoW except for the insignias and the picture that it forms.
 

Earthbound

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I remember checking the mosaic the other day and seeing it at 96%. I can't believe it's done. It's just incredible. Also, I think the Horde won.
 

John Funk

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Roboto said:
It's nice aside from the fact that about half of the images have nothing to do with WoW at all. Such as a nice picture of a baby's face in the top right corner, and about a quarter are pictures of peoples' cats..
I think as long as it had a horde or alliance symbol in it, it was accepted. So you could submit your dog for the Alliance if you wanted.
 

Fniff

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Wow.

I don't even like WOW, but that is true awesome.

True awesome.
 

Lucifron

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Old mosaic is old. People at EVE Online's forums have been doing this for ages with ingame player portraits.
 

Hippobatman

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Mortagog said:
Old mosaic is old. People at EVE Online's forums have been doing this for ages with ingame player portraits.
Ok.


Anyway, how many hours did that mosaic take to make, I wonder?

Several is my guess.
 

Lim3

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Lucky that exactly 20000 people sent pictures in. If 20001 sent pictures in the mosaic would have been screwed
 

walls of cetepedes

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John Funk said:
So you could submit your dog for the Alliance if you wanted.
Zooming in a bit, it seems someone actually did that :p

This is actually rather impressive.

Musta took a lot of work for that, y'know?