For those of you who had somehow thought you’d miss the boat, and blizzard suddenly came out with a new sequel to WoW overnight (almost the exact opposite of how Blizzard operates in fact) don’t fret, the following is a spoof from none other than the folks over at “The Onion.”
And a pretty damn good one if you ask us…
The segment features the new WoW “sequel” that allows gamers to control another gamer playing World of Warcraft.
“I move the arrow key forward, which tells the character to move the arrow key forward…which in turn moves the character in the game forward….”
Sure it pokes fun at gamers who admittedly probably play too much WoW, but at the same time it’s not terribly out of the ordinary to think there’s a game developer who’s thinking of developing the same thing.
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Just last week, a popular online dating site began using video games to simulate and determine compatibility between individuals — using games to simulate simulations in this sense might not be too far off.
Scary, huh?
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