Results tagged “everquest” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

People who play online role playing games have often been accused of taking it all rather too seriously.

After all the famous Everquest is often referred to as Evercrack because of its addictive qualities.

Some of the games require colossal amounts of time - for example some people have been known to go into virtual forests and spend ten hours in a row chopping down trees to build up their strength by minuscule amounts.

Not to mention those who work as 'traders' in the games. They don't complete quests and biff baddies - they make leather armour and sell it to adventurers. For hour after hour after hour, no doubt getting awarm tingly feeling of being part of a community with their 'job' although to all intents and purposes it doesn't exist.

Mind you, it is possible to make money in the real world. Some experts take characters to high levels and then sell them - in some cases for thousands of pounds - a practice which was banned on ebay (in a rare example of them cracking down on a process which makes them money).

Now I've been contacted by Alexander Tigerström, a chap behind a website offering a community for those seriously addicted MMORPG-ers (massively multiplayer online role playing games for the uninitiated).

Avatars United has a strict ban on 'real life' content - meaning no discussing who you really are.

This means that all those 35 stone American men playing as a scantily clad elven woman warrior won't have their secret found out.

Alexander said: "It's has been built 100% by ourselves and basically works as Facebook for online alter egos (avatars) with no content from the physical world."

More reason to stay online and never have any dealings with the outside world then.

Below: In reality a 30 stone sweaty Yank man.