Video player not working?0:000:000:00SettingsQualityAutoAudioSpeed1×CaptionsOffWorld Of World Of WarcraftDula TVFunny videos since 2008Thumbs up0Thumbs down0 Share1.5K views Sep 2008The Onion reports on a new expansion pack that simulates playing World of Warcraft. Show transcript0:06Video game players celebrated this week as a hotly anticipated sequel to the popular online video game World of Warcraft hit the shelves.0:14Onion News Network Tech Trends has the story.0:17World of Warcraft. It has 9 million players worldwide, many who say they spend hundreds of hours playing the game every week.0:24Here at the Blizzard Entertainment offices, creators say they couldn't be any more excited about the new expansion pack, World of World of Warcraft.0:31Jonathan Parrish is the vice president of Blizzard Entertainment.0:34World of World of Warcraft allows Warcraft gamers to do what they like to do more than anything else in life, which is play World of Warcraft.0:41Blizzard programmer Chris Boldman demonstrated how the game works.0:44So here I'm playing as a character named Greg, who's playing World of Warcraft as a level 3 gnome rogue.0:50So, uh, I'm gonna press my up arrow key, and that's gonna make him press his up arrow key, which is gonna make the character on his screen kind of move forward across the screen.1:01What this game is gonna do is put you in the shoes of someone imagining they're in the shoes of a, an elf, a dwarf, a mage, a troll.1:08The fan response has been great. The game sold over 100,000 copies its first day of release.1:13My avatar is the biggest World of Warcraft fan in the whole world of World of Warcraft world.1:18The game promises to bring a level of realism to video gaming never before seen.1:23Here, I'm going to press Alt Shift 7, and that's going to make, uh, my character, uh, start scrolling through the terms of use agreement and the end user license agreement.1:34And it's fun to just play a character who's getting lost in this whole other sort of fantasy world.1:38The graphics are amazing, uh, they're revolutionary. I mean, when you, when you're staring at the computer screen, you actually believe that you're in a dimly lit basement staring at a computer screen.1:46With each keystroke, you're just like, oh my God, that sounds exactly like the keystrokes that I know from my own personal experience of hitting keys.1:54Based on the game's big success, Blizzard Entertainment is already looking ahead to their next release planned for fall of 2009.2:01Fans love World of World of Warcraft, and we know they're going to want their characters to be able to play the game as well, so we've already started work on World of World of Warcraft,2:09the World of Warcraft realm.2:10For the Onion News Network, I'm Jeff Tate.2:12When we come back, an Atlanta man mauled by a pit bull puppy describes the adorable attack.2:21For this game, you can customize your own avatar. So my avatar, I, uh, made him, he's like 20 something years old.2:29He works at a, a video game company. He's, uh, really good at puzzles.2:34Your character can do anything that a real human playing the World of Warcraft could do, so there's almost like no limits.2:42The worst thing that can happen in the game is that your avatar's internet connection goes down, then you have to make your avatar get on the phone with your internet service provider.
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