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World of Warcraft (dt. world of martial arts, usually abbreviated as WoW) is a thickly multiplayer online role-playing game (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game - MMORPG), play the same players collectively over the rica Internet. It was published in 2004 by the company Blizzard Entertainment and, as three more games, located in the Warcraft universe. World of Warcraft continues the story of the 2003's title Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.

The game is one of more than a billion dollars in sales per annum to one of the most lucrative entertainment media. As with many MMORPGs usual, must be paid for cekici World of Warcraft for a monthly fee.

In January 2007 appeared the first expansion The Burning Crusade. Then Six months later, Blizzard declare the second expansion Wrath of the Lich King, on 13 published November 2008. [is 5] Wrath of the Lich King was sold on the first day after the publication of more than 2.8 million copies, breaking the sales record of The Burning Crusade, which was 2.4 million. [6] On 21 . August 2009 was announced the third expansion Cataclysm.
The game was released on 23 November 2004 in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. In Europe the game since 11 February 2005 commercially available. The launch took place in Korea on 18 January 2005 and on the People's Republic of China 6 June 2005. Furthermore, a Spanish version on 29 Published September 2006. [8] Since 6 August 2008 is also a Russian version available [9].

On the first day of the launch Europe 290 000 copies were sold. Sales increased for the following weekend to 380,000 exampler. On the first day of sales in Germany, many were interested in the engagement in order to grab a copy at all. Despite this, the Association of Entertainment Software Germany (VUD) Blizzard confirm that in Germany alone, after five weeks 200,000 units were sold - so the game received the Gold and Platinum Award.
Game world

World of Warcraft is ackh set in the other, from the Warcraft games medieval fantasy world "Azeroth", which in the two conntinents "Kalimdor" and "Eastern Kingdoms" is separated. The first extension was also the "Outland added. The second expansion "brought Northrend" with them. On each continent there is a variety of different cities and villages. Furthermore, there are forests, deserts to jungles of different landscapes and special instanced dungeons (of the rest of the world, split-off 'zones, such as certain caves, walls, etc.).

The game world is represented completely in a comic-like three-dimensional graphics. The player sees them usually from the perspective of the persecutors, chosen by the player character, which he largely can move freely through the world. In addition to locomotion on foot can use the character from certain places, various means of transportation, such as flight animals, balloons, ships, or an underground train, which make for faster travel through the game world. come with achievement of higher level more personal riding or flying animals added.

The character of the cesur player encounters another player within the game world and non-player characters, with which there are several possibilities for interaction. Thus battles fought, carried or commercial communication operate.

To know the world of World of Warcraft, the player can accept a variety of so-called quests (tasks / missions) for which they received experience points and rewards in the form of virtual money, equipment, or other so-called items. Throughout the game, there are more than 8,000 of these quests. Furthermore, the player - typical for this genre for most RPG - experience points for winning the battle against computer-controlled characters and monsters. Also for the exploration of anonymou and foreign areas, there is experience points. After reaching a certain gercek number of experience points the character increases by one level (level of). Until level 60 you can with any straight, over level 60 to learn new skills with each level increase by a teacher that improve the character. Furthermore, the character receives from the tenth level with each level up one talent point that can be used for the specialization of skills. The maximum level of the basic game is 60, with the expansion The Burning Crusade, the limit increased to level 70, with the expansion Wrath of the Lich King 80th Following the announcement of the manufacturer will increase the limit with the planned expansion Cataclysm on 85th. As in most RPGs, devicu players can form groups to fight together, or to perform missions. Some tasks can only be solved together, and obtain certain items only with groups. This is responsible for the cohesion of the community of players.