Meaning of Warcrafter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A player of the Warcraft franchise of video games.
2. A player of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

Examples

“Within a few weeks of its release, avid Warcrafters had uploaded dozens of home-brew scenarios, filling up the file areas of online services and bulletin boards. […] Warcraft II may be the current king of the scenario editing hill, but the battle is far from over.”

“734 Maps for Warcraft II, from newcomer Cybertooth Technology, offers exactly—wild guess here—734 new maps for map-starved Warcrafters, including hundreds designed specifically for multiplayer battle.”

““Abandon all hope of a real life, all ye who enter here.” There’s no warning label like that on the “Warcraft III” box, but there should be. […] So I took a crash course at the elbow of a veteran Warcrafter, who offered his expertise to get me started in the latest incarnation of the game.”

“Choose from the classic Warcraft races and character types for your avatar, and then join thousands of other Warcrafters to investigate dungeons, huge cities, snowy mountains, magical forests and scorching deserts.”

“To players, this equates to smooth, stable and secure Internet-based gameplay with thousands of other Warcrafters, simultaneously, in that communal orgy of ogre-slaying way of MMORPGs. World of Warcraft is undergoing extensive beta testing with retail launch scheduled for October.”

“Not liking the thought of jail, some of the biggest private servers disbanded. Toxic Wow, Ani Wow, Wowfusion, Wowscape: all gone. This, many Warcrafters believed, was the beginning of the end.”

“If you've played World of Warcraft you'll know it's not the most restrained social arena (particularly if you're trying to annihilate Kaz'rogal in the Battle for Mount Hyjal) and the prospect of online altercations spilling over into the real world scared many people. […] Some respondents during the ensuing 2,000-page discussion on this topic dared to suggest that privacy wasn't really an issue, but they were forced to eat their words when a Blizzard employee, after revealing his real name in defence of the system, suddenly found his phone number, address, details of his parents, siblings and spouse, and even pictures of his childhood home posted online by Warcrafters trying to make a point.”

“Thankfully Blizzard have realised that this expansion is likely to draw in some Warcrafters who left the cause years ago, and also a fair load of newbies.”

“As "Warcraft: The Beginning" hits theatres, Warcrafters here at CNET and GameSpot -- alongside the film's director, Duncan Jones -- share some of their favourite memories of the game.”

“Warcrafters can join guilds and engage in epic battles to overcome various challenges.”

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