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Title: Rob Pardo named to the Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World Post by: Trippy on April 30, 2006, 11:49:38 PM Rob Pardo (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187331,00.html), the lead designer on both World of Warcraft and Warcraft III, was named to the Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World (http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/).
Quote Rob Pardo Architect of Virtual Worlds By LEV GROSSMAN Posted Tuesday, Apr. 25, 2006 There's a country of 6 million people that's not on any map. It's called World of Warcraft, and it's a virtual country, a computer-generated fantasy environment that you can access, for a monthly subscription fee, via the Internet. It's also one of the most immersive and successful video games ever created, and it could be the future of electronic entertainment. Rob Pardo, 35, vice president of game design for Blizzard Entertainment (although minor deity would also be an applicable title), led the team that designed World of Warcraft, which involved generating from scratch history, geography, anthropology and ecology of a fully realized fantasy world spread over two continents. The game's 6 million fee-paying players can slay monsters, go on quests and even perform everyday tasks like fishing, cooking and tailoring. If World of Warcraft—aficionados call it just WoW—gets any more popular, it may be up for a seat in the U.N. Pardo didn't invent this kind of game (which enthusiasts refer to as "massively multiplayer"); he merely perfected it. It takes an obsessive mind to make sure there's something interesting going on everywhere in an entire world, all the time, for both newbies and veteran players. If anything, he's almost too good: some players have a tendency to confuse their virtual lives with their real ones. WoW is so addictive that among gamers, it's known by the nickname Warcrack. Title: Re: Rob Pardo named to the Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World Post by: Xanthippe on May 01, 2006, 07:28:49 AM When I first read this, I thought you were talking about this guy:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661094/ Title: Re: Rob Pardo named to the Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World Post by: schild on May 01, 2006, 11:49:06 AM Aficionados call if WoW.
Lawl. I can't think of anything more depressing than Time trying to be either on the "inside" or "clever." Title: Re: Rob Pardo named to the Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World Post by: Yegolev on May 01, 2006, 01:55:21 PM When I first read this, I thought you were talking about this guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661094/ I thought "Don Pardo" too, but the image in my mind was Rob Roddy for some reason. Title: Re: Rob Pardo named to the Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World Post by: Murgos on May 02, 2006, 07:06:14 AM When I first read this, I thought you were talking about this guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661094/ I thought "Don Pardo" too, but the image in my mind was Rob Roddy for some reason. Yeah, I was thinking Rob Roddy too. Strange. Title: Re: Rob Pardo named to the Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World Post by: WindupAtheist on May 03, 2006, 12:33:16 PM Aficionados call if WoW. Lawl. I can't think of anything more depressing than Time trying to be either on the "inside" or "clever." Time invariably sounds like someone's "hip" grandma whenever it tries to talk about anything invented after 1985. Title: Re: Rob Pardo named to the Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World Post by: Azazel on May 05, 2006, 07:12:36 AM "Bart, would you like to play the basketball? You can be Harvey Globetrotter. Watch out for the Shaq Attack!" Title: Re: Rob Pardo named to the Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World Post by: MrHat on May 05, 2006, 08:05:35 AM Rob Pardo definetly had a hand in shaping my world.
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