Man beats WoW
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Well, sort of. All the achievement points. Not all the achievements. He cheated on one. Which is somehow fitting.
To reach the milestone the Taiwanese power-player killed 390,895 creatures, accumulated 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completed 5,906 quests (that’s 14.62 quests per day, apparently), raided 405 dungeons and hugged 11 players.
The achievement hasn’t arrived without some controversy though; WoW-heads point out that technically he’s still missing one illusive, event-tied achievement (called “BB King”), but he’s managed to dodge it via a glitch awarding one extra, false achievement point.
— News: Man ‘finishes’ World of Warcraft – ComputerAndVideoGames.com.
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If WoW has any sense in their development team, they will acknowledge the feat and create a Meta Achievement named after his character in some way. They’ve immortalized Leroy Jenkins with an achievement; they should do the same for this guy. There’s a patch dropping. I’d plan with the guy when he’s going to get that last achievement during the holiday event coming up for Christmas and make it a media event. Announce and release the achievement named after him and give the guy his 10 minutes of fame.
If he’s “normal” looking and not a pasty faced teen, put him in commercials right next to Ozzy. There’s so many things they could do with this to generate buzz and spin beyond the simple coverage he is getting in the blogosphere. We’ll see how Blizzard uses it.
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Agreed. The [Dude’s Name] Achievement Achievement Achievement, with the description text of “A winner is you.”
I thought we had a guy already on a European server a couple months back who did all the achievements. In reading one of the wire stories about this I gathered that he one-upped the first guy by completing all the achievements AND all the quests in the game.
Heh, does that mean the game’s completed and will end?! 🙂
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My mistake. I dug out the story from a link I had saved away and found that the guy on the European server, Zoltan, was merely the first guy to pass the 10K achievement point barrier. He’s still 5 achievements shy of perfection.
What a testament to the indomitable power of the human spirit to beat stuff.
WoW apparently needs to offer achievement badges for landing a manned mission on Mars or eradicating cancer.
I’m inspired! I’m going to go out there and fight fight fight fight! And then I’m going to fight some more! And then I’m going to hug 11 players.
I “won” WoW when I discovered how to climb up near-vertical slopes by jumping at very specific angles and climbed to the top of Ironforge mountain.
Each to their own.