A Taiwanese man has been named as the first player to 'finish' World of Warcraft.
'Little Gray', as his character's known, is the first to successfully complete all of the MMO's 986 achievements listed in the armory, reports MMO Champion.
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.
We say he's not a man until he tracks down and gets that last achievement legitimately.
That's nothing! Yesterday I finally got around to finishing the internet. It was okay, a little slow in places, but ultimately, nothing to write home about.
That's nothing! Yesterday I finally got around to finishing the internet. It was okay, a little slow in places, but ultimately, nothing to write home about.
That's nothing! Yesterday I finally got around to finishing the internet. It was okay, a little slow in places, but ultimately, nothing to write home about.
Words can't describe just how sad that achievement actually is...but I have to say I'm impressed none-the-less. Can'r exactly describe what he has done as being good, but it's still an amazing achievement. The sadness is how time consuming it must have been, but it can't have been easy either.
The one achievement he needs is coming up soon anyway, he'll have them all by Christmas.
Just looked at his Feats of strength...that is good going. First Druid and Tauren to reach level 80 on his realm is a bit sad (again though, in a way impressive) though the amount of Realm firsts this guy has is very good because some of them are not easy to get.
I get that games are a good passtime and way to enjoy some of your spare time.
But when you see people who play it for almost as many (or more) hours a day as anybody else would go to work for, it just makes me wonder "What's the point? What do you actually get out of it in the end?"
"What's the point? What do you actually get out of it in the end?"
Fun? It's not the sort of life most of us would enjoy though even if it's a shallow sort of fun to have, surely obsessive gamers enjoy what they are doing? Having said that if addictiveness takes over who knows, maybe it isn't fun now.
This achievement would have ended the comments that have appeared on various WoW-related news that the game is incompletable, but with a new patch hopefully only days away he'll have some more achievements to get soon.
"What's the point? What do you actually get out of it in the end?"
Fun? It's not the sort of life most of us would enjoy though even if it's a shallow sort of fun to have, surely obsessive gamers enjoy what they are doing? Having said that if addictiveness takes over who knows, maybe it isn't fun now.
This achievement would have ended the comments that have appeared on various WoW-related news that the game is incompletable, but with a new patch hopefully only days away he'll have some more achievements to get soon.
The only reason I play games is for enjoyment, but these obsessive WoW players don't seem to play for enjoyment, they play to rank up. It doesn't seem like fun to me, and if it's not fun what's really the point?
14.62 quests per day and 5906 quests in total works out at 404 days, although i dont know if that would be gameplay time (9696 hours!) or days he has had the game for. either way, thats a complete and utter waste of his life.
Perhaps its a little unfair to aim our anger/bewilderment at these WoW players. I can understand why the get so 'sucked in' to the whole (pointless - in my opinion) experience.My 12 year old son wanted the game, and I point blank refused. Simply for the fact that I don't want him to turn into one of George Romero's monsters! I think Trey Parker summed the entire WoW community up in his hilarious pi**take (how I howled) about the complete and utter pointlessness of this game. Yes, play it and enjoy it, but for God's sake don't treat the damn thing as a new religion. Its just soul destroying to see a young, pasty faced kid wearing a Slipkont hoodie ranting about how many cow hides he has sold...and everything is just...WOW!
a lot of the achievements can't be accomplished by himself so my grats goes to his guild/friends etc for helping him and boosting with what was necessary
I think Trey Parker summed the entire WoW community up in his hilarious pi**take (how I howled) about the complete and utter pointlessness of this game.
More a parody than a pi**take. I always saw that episode as a bit of a joke about the public perception of Warcraft instead of a pi**take on the actual game itself. It was actually that episode that made me get the game.
Additionally, though you've every right to refuse your son this game, it is contrary to what you said after that "Yes, play it, and enjoy it". It's not the games fault people get addicted, and it's up to the player (or their parents if the player is too young) to limit their time.
Also, i've checkedo ut his guild...a lot of them aren't far off doing what he has done to be honest. Achievement scores in the 9000 and 10000's all around it would appear.
The tone and portrayal of this article shows a distinct lack of understanding about the game and also a trend toward sensationalistic reporting.
Technically, in order to claim that you had 'finished the game' you would have to do all those achievements as every race/class combination.
This is not withstanding the fact that 'achievements' are not the whole point of the game, but instead just one aspect of the game. To be fair and say you have finished the game, you should also obtain every item, every pet and every mount for every class/race combination as well.
The fact is there simply hasn't been enough playable time since the game was released for a single individual to achieve all this and before that amount of time passes the developers release expansions that exponentially increase the time it would take to achieve something like this.
This is why the game is labeled 'unbeatable'.
Inasmuch, I also discredit the claim that a single person achieved all this. I live in Asia and I know how Asian gamers operate. They often meet and play in cyber cafes. They share accounts. It's possible as many as 10-25 people contributed to all those achievements and they are taking turns playing each others accounts (that is why so many in his guild are near the same goal). Technically, this is against Blizzard’s EULA – but since they play from the same IP address or block of IP there isn’t any way to tell.
Finally, the attraction and fun of the game isn't the game play. The main reason people play or get addicted to the game is the social network that they build while playing (guild, friends list, etc). In many cases I have seen people that had a dead-end job and no friends go online and have a rewarding social life with people that they identify with that they may have otherwise never met.
I know people that met each other in online games and ended up getting married.
There are whole guilds that organize real world events to meet up and socialize on a regular basis.
Finally, there are still others that suffer from diseases or disabilities and use games such as this as an escape - a way to get out of their bed and into a the 'real world'.
As the poster above wrote, it's not the game that's addictive. It's a person that allows their self to become addicted and there are many things out there that you could become addicted to that are much worse than a game. (Alcohol, drugs, gambling, to name a few)
Just because it's not for you and you don't want that as your life style, you shouldn't criticize others way of life. We all have problems or challenges to face and we each have to walk our own path and find our own way of dealing with our existence.
In conclusion, Taiwan is a fairly advanced country with a strong economy. They have a good employment rate, clean water and highly educated people. If there was anything you might want to comment about their society, it would be about political unrest.
I bet Pellett has all 986 achievements. on a lighter note: that dude needs a new hobby: who's pay to see the expression on his face when he signs in next and sees a note from Blizzard: "Your account has been deleted due to the use of a glitch".
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