World of Warcraft Lore Nerd Wins Blizzcon

[Altar]

Gentlemen...
We are dealing with someone here who... HAS ABSOLUTELY NO LIFE!

How do you kill that, which has no life?! (Ok Im certain that's completely wrong but...)

But anyways, er well considering the large amount of lore the warcraft series has... You can't really blame them for not being able to remember the details about every single character... but again... er yay?!

 

[Cid Silverwing]

He could have spent his time on much more productive things. I will leave the examples to your imaginations.

 

[Shinotama]

Hahaha Epic!! I have a mate that is exactly like this guy lol

 

[Godhead]

I'm surprised the Devs didn't just say "He was killed by Gnomes" or something to cover their asses. Like how Games Workshop just washed over the removal of an entire race from 40K, and eventually just said "The Tyranids ate them all".

I miss Squats

Wait, we didn't eat them all. DAMNIT

OT: Congrats kid,even though I don't find the fact that you know lore to a larger extent than the devs you were in a red shirt. Which now makes me love you. *hugs Star Trek Action Figure*

 

[Charley]

He beat the WoW devs, and secured his own lonely, tragic, virginal death many years from now.

Ten points.

 

[Valiance]

its hilarious to see people who know games better than the actual developers

This happens with Blizzard a lot, actually.

A lot of their most hardcore fanbase has an uproar every time that they patch the game, because they fix things that aren't broken, or break things that are fixed, or whatever, in their opinion.

I know that teamliquid and other such competitive areas had already been creating and using third-party programs to give starcraft functionality it needed (first-person replays, auto-saving replays, apm analyzers, etc.) before Blizzard patched it and made all of the third-party programs unusable. I'm sure that the players would have appreciated the patch if it patched in the added functionality, but it just basically patched in "making your third-party programs not work anymore."

When developers don't care about their problems, the userbase ends up fixing it. When developers end up not caring about their 'lore', the userbase does.

I think Blizz should have a couple of their most die-hard 'nerds' as story-continuity specialists or something.

Is this suprising at all?
Blizzard haven't kept a check on their lore since TBC.
Which is what I have been telling people over and over but they've only brushed it off as "It's their lore, they can do whatever they want".

I TOLD YOU ALL!

Um... I might be the only one thinking this, but who cares? There making money off of this, they dont need to really keep up with every little bit of there lore, becasue there making a butt load of cash as we speek.

Well, they aren't getting my money for f**king over the lore so.

Also, amen brother. Warcraft 2 was fine. Warcraft 3 was getting iffy, but still believable... "OH YEAH HEY GUYS HERE'S THIS OTHER CONTINENT THAT NO ONE KNEW ABOUT EVER. OH BTW PURPLE ELVES AND SKELETONS." I could take that.

But when they added space gypsies and basically everything in Outland (netherstorm? tempest keep? i mean it's cool but continuity error much?) I was surprised at how little they cared. When they killed off Illidan, Kael, Vashj, I couldn't stop laughing, and gave up with caring about the lore at all.

Then basically all of Wrath of the Lich King was a giant continuity error, from Deathknights to Dalaran...

 

[Fledge]

This young fan's voice is just precious

thats an interesting way of putting it

A VERY interesting way of putting it.

 

[robinkom]

I know next to nothing about Warcraft in the WoW setting. I stopped caring after Warcraft II.

I'm not one to knock a fellow a nerd on a game's lore so I won't. Good job, Red Shirt Guy. In my opinion, I think it's more interesting to know the lore about obscure or older games, ones that just may be intriguing enough to expose to uninitiated people.

Besides, it's no different than knowing a book or film chronology.

 

[ZodiacBraves]

Some people will ridicule him, but just think of this...

Somewhere out in the multi-verse is a bunch of nerds taking account of the human story, us in our universe. The things we do, the things we value; they know of this and catalogue it in comics, films and books. Some of them even have conventions where dorky alien kids point out continuity errors in our universe.

9/11 troofer-ism: all the result of a few continuity errors since corrected. The fake moon landings, simply the result of an ill-advised retrospective nerf to space-travel. I mean if it wasn't for some geek pointing out that nothing mystical or magical ever actually happens for real in our universe(in their universe all religions are true and so is magic: atheists and natural philosophers are crazy fundamentalists and cranks), then the world will actually end in 2012.

Lucky for us, there is a geek somewhere making sure our universe is consistent. We owe it to other universes like the Warcraft one to do the same.

Probably the best explanation for the fake moon landings I have ever heard.

I think this is the excuse I will use for why I am such a lore nerd myself.

 

[Fusionxl]

Congratulations kid. You are never gonna even kiss a girl.

I have to disagree, once he grows older and gets a job he will climb the career ladder three steps at a time, marry a good looking woman who realized her lost teenage beauty isn't going to come back and compensates with expensive shiny accessories, and eventually run a company, make some little ones and throughout his middle years get more strawberry shortcake than all the macho jocks did in high school when he was getting A grades and playing WoW.

One should not underestimate nerds

 

[Skweebl]

Day of the Dragon is one of the few WoW books I've actually read. I remember being excited to see Falstad when I first went to Aerie Peak, as well as Rhonin in Dalaran. Good times...

Yeah I read the War of the Ancients series and was excited seeing Krausus, Rhonin and Alexstraza (especially in dragon form) in-game.

Chris. I get it, its a big game.

But you made the damn game. You need to give a shit about your character. then again, I got the feeling you stopped caring about story and lore when you put all your most interesting and plot heavy characters on the chopping block

Illidan, Arthas...where does it end man?!

If you think about it, all of the villains we're fighting and killing in World of Warcraft are mostly from Warcraft 3 (and the stories surrounding it, like the War of the Ancients books). I suspect WoW is just wrapping up all the loose ends from WC3. When WC4 comes out, there will likely be a whole new host of interesting, evil baddies causing terror in Azeroth.

 

[Littlee300]

If you think about it, all of the villains we're fighting and killing in World of Warcraft are mostly from Warcraft 3 (and the stories surrounding it, like the War of the Ancients books). I suspect WoW is just wrapping up all the loose ends from WC3. When WC4 comes out, there will likely be a whole new host of interesting, evil baddies causing terror in Azeroth.

Thats a nice thought. Oh 2014, you can't come fast enough.

 

[Nouw]

Well... That's... Erhm... Pretty sad

Yes it is. Although that guy needs to be doing something a bit more productive (at the least), good for him for catching a developer's mistake.

 

[RivFader86]

its hilarious to see people who know games better than the actual developers

Considering how some people obsess over such things...i am not surprised ;P

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

My personal hero...

 

[paragon1]

I'm pretty sure that the only person who wins Blizzcon is Bobby Kotick.

Aww man, I just made myself sad.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

No, that guy doesn't WIN Blizzcon! why didn't he just send a fucking email? why'd he have to go and embarrass the people who essentially construct what, i'm going to guess is 70% of his entire existence? i know i'm reading too much into this, and i know he had no mal-intentions, but still.

 

[RobCoxxy]

its hilarious to see people who know games better than the actual developers

Is it equally hilarious to see people who know games better than real life?

"Sure, he knows his WoW questgivers, but has he ever touched a boob?"

 

[tetron]

Epic win is epic.

I hope to someday be as nerdy as he is.