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Who Do Warcraft Players Want As President?Comments:82

Posted by samzenpus on Thu Oct 30, 2008 06:18 PM
from the give-the-orcs-a-voice dept.
I'm not sure how many electoral votes Azeroth has, but it could be a key battleground state.
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  • Probably not worth a campaign stop (Score:5, Funny)

    by beef curtains (792692) * on Thursday October 30 2008, @06:19PM (#25576437)

    I'm not sure how many electoral votes Azeroth has, but it could be a key battleground state.

    I think that Azerothian voter turnout will be extremely low.

    My predicted exit poll results:
    - 55% Ignored the voting booths & farmed HKs instead
    - 25% Didn't make it to the voting booths because they were AFK in the starting area
    - 15% Made it to the voting booth, but instead of going in & voting, they jumped onto its roof and spammed /dance over & over
    - 5% Were too busy repeatedly spamming /bg with "every sucks by me" and "just let them win" to even realize there was an election going on

  • Hey, Thrall ain't perfect, but he's a warlord and he'll soon put an end to the war in Crossroads. He's exactly the sort of murderous bastard we need in troubled times like this. And have you seen the floating castle that just showed up outside Thunder Bluff? That's obviously the result of 8 years of failed Alliance rule. You want four more years of that?

  • Easy... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2008, @07:20PM (#25577109)

    LEEROY JENKINS!

    • My vote is for Leeroy because he doesn't get stuck in the gridlock of analysis that paralyzes our leaders. While they are discussing which of their special interests (tanks and healers) will get what earmarks, Leeroy is taking action.

  • Honest question: (Score:3, Insightful)

    by blind biker (1066130) on Thursday October 30 2008, @08:54PM (#25577971) Journal

    Is there a demografic less likely to vote, than WoW players?

    • Everyone knows that the horde is full of left wing nut jobs, DUH! -Level 70 Troll Rogue

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Xiroth (917768)

      For the same reason that more people play Alliance than Horde - because the Horde are the 'bad guys', essentially. Republicans are reasonably accurately portrayed as seeing the world in a fairly black and white fashion - Americans and allies are good, opponents are bad, so help the good guys, smash the bad guys, call it a day and go home happy. Liberals, on the other hand, see things much more in terms of shades of grey - Americans and allies have a history of doing bad things at times, their opponents are

      • Actually it turns out to be becasue alliance has prettier toons.
        This is why they added the pretty blood elf. Actually, Blizzard has a lot of interesting demographics they monitor and check.
        I would love to be able to work with their player data and character data. There is a lot of data to carve up and a lot of suprising trends, from what I hear from me friends that work their.

    • Since the sample and methods look to be crap. I wouldn't put too much stock in the numbers.

      You do pose an interesting question, but I would be suprised if there was a casual relationship between the two.

      Bearded Mustachioed gnomes for Obama!

    • The type of player that plays a game to be the good guy smashing the "bad guys" without a second thought is likely to be the guy who votes for a president who does the same. Other players who see that not all the apparent "bad guys" are actually "bad guys" but rather might be a normal person that is portrayed as a "bad guy" by someone else play horde - and are willing to vote for a person who doesn't just point at shoot at the first thing he doesn't understand.

      • So, which side has the mavericks? (takes a drink).

        Personally, I would write in a third party candidate: Lord Recluse. :)

    • How do you gank someone on your own? You're that guy with 20+ accounts playing your own party on your machines? :D

      • I believe the standard way to do solo gankings is as follows:

        • Spend an ungodly amount of time raiding and playing battlegrounds to get the best gear possible.
        • Enlist the help of your guildmates to further enhance your character.
        • Use any means possible to temporarily boost your character further (once again, guildmates are a great source of magical enhancements).
        • Go somewhere where there are few players from the other faction and that isn't a world PvP "hotspot" (so that they won't be ready to defend themselves
    • You got your ass so far up your as it's actually your head again. Amazing, a doctor of somekind should take a look at you ...
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