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What is World of Warcraft?

// **World of Warcraft** // (often abbreviated as WoW) is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game by Blizzard entertainment. As with other MMORPGs, players control a character avatar within a game world in third- or first-person view, exploring the landscape, fighting various monsters, completing quests, and interacting with non-player characters (NPCs) or other players. Also similar to other MMORPGs, World of Warcraft requires the player to pay for a subscription, either by buying prepaid game cards for a selected amount of playing time, or by using a credit or debit card to pay on a regular basis. To enter the game, the player must select a realm—sometimes referred to as a server. Each realm acts as an individual copy of the game world, and falls into one of four categories. Available realms types are:

Normal – a Player Versus Environment (PvE) realm where the gameplay is more focused on defeating monsters and completing quests, and any roleplay is optional, and player-versus-player fights must be consensual.

PvP – an environment where, in addition to defeating monsters and completing quests, open player-versus-player combat is the norm, and a player can be attacked by an opposing faction's player at any time.

RP – a variant of PvE, where players roleplay in-character.

RP-PvP – roleplay-PvP – a variant of PvP, where players are in-character and cross-faction combat is assumed.



Is it appropriate for your child? Since this game is played by so many people at the same time and players can chat with one another, the risks associated with chat-rooms apply here. The game does include a profanity filter, which the player can turn on or off. If the filter is on and someone sends the user a message containing obscene language, the word or words will be replaced by random character symbols. The game’s parental controls allow parents and guardians to control the length of time a child spends playing this game down to 30 minutes per session. Parents can arrange a calendar of acceptable times throughout the week when their children are permitted to play World of Warcraft. As long as parents don’t give their children the password to access this feature, children cannot change the calendar.