02832cam a2200337 4500 582863119 TxAuBib 20220717120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781613736876 1613736878 B01MXHOTOM Amazon b8490a0e-956d-444f-a77b-1b684eb85ca3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3030916 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Palumbi, Anthony R. Blood Plagues and Endless Raids [Libby eBook] : A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft. Chicago Review Press, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 975kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 975kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>In 2005, the video game <i>World of Warcraft</i> struck the cultural landscape with tidal force. One hundred million people have played <i>WoW</i> in the twelve years since.<br /> But those people did more than play. They worked, they fought, they triumphed, they held entire game servers hostage, they even married each other in real life. They developed new identities, swapping their workaday selves for warriors, mages, assassins, and healers. They built communities and rose to lead them. <i>WoW</i> was the world's first mass virtualization: before Facebook or Twitter, millions of people established online identities and had to reckon with the consequences in their real lives.<br /> <i>Blood Plagues and Endless Raids</i> explores this wild, incredibly complex culture partly through the author's engaging personal story, from absolute neophyte to leader of North America's top Spanish-speaking guild, but also through the stories of other players and the game's developers. It is the definitive account of one of the world's biggest pop culture phenomena.<br /> <i>World of Warcraft</i> is more than ones and zeroes, more than lines of code, and so its history must be more than pushing buttons or slaying dragons. It's the tale of a huge and passionate community of people: the connections they made, the experiences they shared, and the love they held for one another.<br /></p>. Nonfiction. Sociology. Games. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-17 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b8490a0e-956d-444f-a77b-1b684eb85ca3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b8490a0e-956d-444f-a77b-1b684eb85ca3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b8490a0e-956d-444f-a77b-1b684eb85ca3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXTLL