Since I know most of you would have no idea what I was talking about when I mention rated battlegrounds and all the things that come with it I’ll go into a little background here. Any questions feel free to ask. 🙂
So WOW is a video game I play with literally thousands of other people active and doing things in the game at the same time I am. It is a very social game. One aspect of the game is called battlegrounds. In a battleground you have an objective, such as to capture the flag, or hold a base for a certain length of time. There are 2 types of battlegrounds that you can play, regular, and rated. Regular and rated are the same except that with rated you get a score based on your game. The system then tries to match you up with others who are of a similar score to you. There are 10 people on your team, and 10 people on the other team. All of these people are controlled by real live people also sitting at their computers.
The WOW world is divided into servers because there is something like 13 million people that play this game, and there isn’t a server in the world that could handle all of us on at once. On my server there is around 10,000 people logged in at any one time. On the server are 2 factions, The Alliance, and The Horde. I happen to play on The Horde almost exclusively. Within the Horde there are guilds. Guilds are just basically players who have banded together, and agreed to play together. You get a few bonuses for being in a guild such as a guild bank to store items and a common chat room for the entire guild. My guild currently has around 200 people in it. I am what is called an officer in this guild. An officer is usually someone who is in charge of a certain aspect of the game. In this case I am in charge of rated battlegrounds. I tend to be a co-leader with another guy in my guild who is a really good friend of mine. He also happens to be one of the people i spend the most time in the game with.
So with that explination out of the way, I’ll go into the neat thing that happened this past weekend. Continue reading