Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
31.
Gwaendar, “Of Welfare Epics and Loot Envy,” Altitis,
http://altitis.treehug-
gers.info/2007/10/28/of-welfare-epics-and-loot-envy/.
Emphasis and ellipses
in original.
32.
Incarna, “Welfare Epics?,” incarna,
http://incarna.andablog.com/2007/12/
33.
The idea that raiders are the only ones who forgo their personal lives to
attend to
WoW
is in tension with many of the statements defending the ef ort
put into PvP, clearly voiced by Imadris who argues that PvPers “spend their
lives living in battlegrounds or doing arenas.”
34.
Cytheria, “Welfare Epics Take as Much Time as Raid Epics,” World of War-
35.
Ibid.
36.
Sherrard, “The Burning Crusade: What to Do at 70?”
37.
Roha n , “Welfa re Epics ,” Blessi ng of K i ngs ,
ht t p: // blessi ngof k i ngs.blogspot.
com /2007/12 /welfare-epics.html;
Rohan, “Welfare Epics,
Part I I,”
Blessing
39.
Rohan, “Raider Perspective on Rewards.”
40.
Dibbell,
Play Money
, 43.
41.
Elitist Jerks is a high-end raid guild that also hosts a public forum that has
some of the highest quality raid discussion available on the internet and is
subject to extended discussion in chapter eight.
42.
Bazazu, “Status Symbols and Why You Play WoW,” Elitist Jerks,
http://elit-
43.
Tramethekas, “Why Are Welfare Epics Better Than My T6?,” World of War-
craft Forums,
http://12.129.242.24/thread.html?topicId=3271068170
44.
Udie, “Raiding—Fallen Pride, Empty Victories,” World of Warcraft Europe
45.
Sunyatha, “Endgame Raiding and Welfare Epics,” World of Warcraft Europe
46.
Dmitri Williams et al., “From Tree House to Barracks: The Social Life of
Guilds in World of Warcraft,”
Games and Culture
1, no. 4 (2006).
47.
Cytheria, “Welfare Epics Take as Much Time as Raid Epics.”
48.
John Himes, “Season 3 Aspirations,” WoW Insider,
http://wow.joystiq.
49.
Yet Another NE, “Welfare Epics,” Life in Azeroth,
http://anothernightelf.
50.
Bazazu, “Status Symbols and Why You Play WoW.”
51.
Bornakk, “Titles for Boss Killers,” World of Warcraft Forums,
http://forums.
52.
Robin Torres, “Patch 2.3 and You: PvP Edition,” WoW Insider,
http://wow.
53.
Hartman, “In Bed with the Enemy,” 69.
54.
Greg McClanahan, “WoW in Decline and Blizzard in Denial,” Gamasutra,
WoW_in_Decline_and_Blizzard_in_Denial.php.
55.
Daniel Whitcomb, “Drysc Reveals New Arena Season 4 Ratings Require-
ments and Rule,” WoW Insider,
http://wow.joystiq.com/2008/04/22/drysc-
