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In one of my last columns I pointed out 5 Reasons Why World of Warcraft Doesn’t Suck. Patch 3.2 added some great stuff and helped improve playability considerably. Unfortunately, World of Warcraft is a business and so it’s not always about playability. Sometimes it’s all about profit and greed. Yes, greed. Naked, in-your-face, over-the-top, out-of [...]

There’s an old song called Turn! Turn! Turn! by the Byrds that comes from Ecclesiastes in the Bible. The song points out that there is a time and place for everything in life:
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time to be born, a [...]

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for about three years. In that time period, I’ve leveled the following characters:
Alliance:
* 70 Gnome warlock
* 70 Night Elf druid
* 61 Human mage
* 53 Gnome rogue
* 28 Human mage (twink)
* 34 Dwarf hunter
* 32 Dwarf priest
Horde:
* 62 Undead priest
* 13 Tauren druid
* 11 Undead mage
* 27 Troll hunter
I’ve seen [...]