By Rob Bricken in
Nerdery, Video Games
Thursday, Oct. 16 2008 @ 2:04PM
Impressive? Insane? A valid reason for aliens to eradicate humanity? Maybe all of the above. But this dude plays 36 World of Warcraft accounts, by himself, at the same time...meaning yes, he goes on raids by himself. From the always amazing Geekologie:
A lot have asked me, why create so many? The main reason is to invade Stormwind and Ironforge when they reach top level. I'm sure the Alliance will put up a big fight when that happens. We'll see how it goes.
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It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule. Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft.
When Wrath of the Lich King is released, I plan to be at the store when it opens and will purchase 36 copies of it. With tax, it should be about $1500 for all of them. Then the shaman are on their way to level 80 along with the priest, druid and mage.
The man spends more per year on World of Warcraft than I do on booze, which is incredibly disturbing on about ten different levels. I'm going to give this guy the "Impressive Acts of Nerdery" tag, but only because I don't have an "Impressive Acts of Nerdery Which May Actually Be Signs of a Debilitating Mental Illness" tag. Yet.
31 comments
Comments
Brian Real said:
Freak.
Look I think most of us are somewhat geeky if we come to this site to be entertained, but 36 WOW accounts at once? Come on dude! You are wasting your life away.
There are hobbies and then there are obsessions. And this borders on downright addiction.
This dude is to the world of video games, what serial killers are to society. Too much free time.
This is why Alliance always loses BGs...
Zannypants replied to Minovsky, Gnome Rogue of Chromaggus (aka OnanRulz):
Depends on your server, stop failing.
marlene said:
impressive , just the logistics of trying to move them all at once is impressive.. this is a great challange. It's hard enough to play one charater ..I like to see his family in action..
Changuito Peligroso said:
Family? i don't think he has any time to procreate, thank God
John said:
Jesus. That's more than I spent on my photography equipment last year. o.o
Jack got Jacked said:
all i gots to say is DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN
Zac said:
There are programs that allow you to play more than one account at once, so in essence he is really only playing one. I guess it's still remarkable... his electric bill, not to mention all of that hardware probably add up to a decent amount.
adameros said:
I've never played WoW. Not even once. This guy is just picking up my slack.
Bryan said:
Ridiculous.... There is a huge difference between a hobby and an obsession. People like this idiot could probably do great things if they focused their energy on something worthwhile. Such a waste.
travmonkey said:
This guy has definately not got a girlfriend!
Dan said:
I bet all the accounts have the same password ;)
Arcane said:
Trav, he runs his own girlfriend on account #7.
Stan said:
How do you kill that which has no life?
Eozen said:
Considering this guy hardly sees daylight, wotthehell kinda day job does he hold down to keep up with this?
TravMonkey said:
Arcane,
You mean he has one hand on the joystick and account 7 on an unsavoury website?
neugin said:
With this loarge amount of disposable income, do you know how much more fun you could have had at a strip club,or night club with some club skanks? even a trip to party at the playboy mansion runs a thousand, he could've gone and partied there.....I mean....man....
Uncle Pockets said:
Why on earth would you pay money to have that many accounts? I think after having two it would lose its fun.
Workpost said:
Unbelievable.
Would like to know what (if anything) this person does for work..
RaZZo said:
This guy spends 5X more on his annual "hobby" subscriptions than I spend on groceries in a year....
Ari Burton said:
OK... I have a question which no one has asked yet...
WHAT DOES HE DO FOR A LIVING???
Cleo said:
Hot damn! I can barely keep track of 3 characters, but 36??? Dude that's impressive...
sam2008 said:
Unlike previous games in the Warcraft series, World of Warcraft is a MMORPG, not a real-time strategy game. There are some similarities with previous games in the series, including the use of the same setting of the world of Azeroth as well as following a similar art direction.
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Sam
WOW Gold
Danny said:
People forget the purpose of a MMORPG . IT'S A SOCIAL GAME!!! You play with other people , in teams , you have fun .
I admit , I play EVE , and i was addicted at first , but this guy is extreme .
Blacklion said:
Im a level 71 hunter named Blacklion on the server Gul'dan
yea i know crappy server. but i love it =D
anyways.
what this guy did was amazing. he's living life. Obviously you guys are jelous because he worked his ass off for money and is enjoying it the way HE wants to. so back off.
if i had 36 accounts. id be happy as hell. (but i would probably invite 35 friends over =D)
Mintae said:
WOW.
hahaha 36 accounts. amazing. I used to borrow my mom's and even then i had my character on auto follow... still couldn't keep track of her. I play mintae on Silverhand.
haha
crazy bastard.
Mintae said:
WOW.
hahaha 36 accounts. amazing. I used to borrow my mom's and even then i had my character on auto follow... still couldn't keep track of her. I play mintae on Silverhand.
haha
crazy bastard.
neruaxidz said:
fury warrior: neruaxidz from stormrage US. alliance server.
i see people asking where he works or what he does?
well if he can handle those 36 account he could make his own farming gold company and website for wow and his income will be minimun 800 dollars at day.
plp he didnt wrote this post so nobody here knows the real point of why he is having so many accounts. you want to know? ask him and thats it.
sorry for badspelling, english is my secondary lang.
neruaxidz said:
maybe what u see in the picture is his work station or his office and outside that room he got a lamborgini and 3 playboy so he dont need girlfriend and maybe the house where that room is worth 5 million. who knows? do you?
what about you?
Cheap WoW Gold said:
I think the picture is a work of wonder by photoshop. If you can observe, the monitors are just showing one character w/ the same interface.
tv antenna said:
36? At the same time? Wow, that's some ambition for ya...
Does anyone know if he works full time? Or goes to school? Impressive...
