World of Warcraft

I am not a big-time gamer; mostly, I prefer playing sports (football – of the soccer variety, and tennis) games on the computer. Online role-playing games have not interested me one bit. Second Life held my fascination for a while, but I was looking at it more from an academic perspective than from an entertainment perspective.

When people talk of Second Life, another multiplayer online role-playing game that people talk about is “World of Warcraft”. The Wikipedia entry for World of Warcraft (or WoW) says that the game, the latest edition of which is set in the world of Azeroth, is the world’s most popular massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), hogging more than 60% of the MMOG market, estimated at around 10 million subscribers.

Games are generally time sinks. But World of Warcraft seems like  a massive resource sink as well. It requires 512 MB of RAM (considering Windows Vista needs around 300 GB of RAM to run at acceptable speeds, you need at least 300.5 GB of RAM), and a whopping 6 GB of free hard disk space. However, in case you are looking to save some money on World of Warcraft, you should consider this website – cheap wow accounts.

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