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Thottbot was a website originally launched in 2001 as a news aggregator for various online role-playing games.In August 2004, the site was re-written into a searchable database exclusively for the MMORPG World of Warcraft, as well as a plug-in that could be used in the game itself to gather additional data. [2]
The site first started out as a talent calculator for the game. It was in beta from April 4 to June 25, 2006, [7] and the database was released on June 26, 2006. [8] Wowhead functions as a user generated database relying upon players of World of Warcraft themselves, although the information is uploaded automatically through a client-side program.
Pierce founded ZAM, a network of websites oriented around massively multiplayer online role-playing games , such as World of Warcraft, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Rift, EverQuest, etc., in 2003. [17] The ZAM.com network included gaming websites such as ZAM.com, Wowhead, Thottbot, Torhead, and D3DB.
World of Warcraft Cosmic Map, showing Azeroth (bottom right corner) and Outland (top left corner) In a change from the previous Warcraft games produced by Blizzard, World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) where thousands of players can interact with each other. Despite this change, the game draws many ...
After a month or so of large scale protests, Blizzard invited the Nostalrius team to the Blizzard HQ to present the case for Vanilla. An eighty-page "post-mortem" document describing the development of Nostalrius, the problems that happened and some marketing strategies was presented to Blizzard, and after some time, released on the Nostalrius forums.
In 2005, a second edition of the game rules called World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game was released, [5] renamed to tie in with the success of World of Warcraft.In "translating" WoW into a tabletop experience, this project sought to break the limitations of the computer-programmed Azeroth, in ways such as giving players the ability to complete quests with their own imagined methods and to ...
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the third expansion set for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following Wrath of the Lich King. It was officially announced at BlizzCon on August 21, 2009, although dataminers and researchers discovered details before it was announced by Blizzard. [ 2 ]
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is the seventh expansion pack for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following Legion.It was announced at BlizzCon on November 3, 2017.