Meaning of WoWer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of WoWer.
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2. A player of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

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Examples

“Well, I have to say I was a reluctant WoWer, but I have been into gaming since I was young, before college.”

“Yup, World of Warcraft has been an amazing success: a massively multiplayer game that is easy to learn, addictive, and requires months of overuse to master to reach the highest levels to then join guilds to cruise around in packs with other like-minded WoWers.”

“These guilds and friendships form across age, class, and gender divides, and yet, in the context of the game, all share a collective identity as WoWers.”

“The inability to affect the game world in any significant way is of course, unavoidable, if [Darkmaster] Gandling could be truly destroyed, then it would have already been done so by one of the professional WOW'''ers that spend more time in Azeroth than in the real world.”

“Dating Web site created to help WOWers connect […] Enter World of Datecraft, a Web site meant to facilitate real-life meetings between players of the world’s most popular online fantasy, also called WOWers.”

“Dr Maressa Orzack, a clinical psychologist who studies games addiction, argues that up to 40 per cent of the 6 million US WOWers are addicted to the game, but she presents little evidence to support this claim. The Chinese government is bringing in legislation to prevent the 20 million Chinese ‘WOWers’ from playing the game for too long because of the ‘social and economic damage’ caused by such addiction.”

“Even one of the esteemed teachers of Oyster River High School has become a WOWer. Trevor Garman, a second year English teacher at ORHS plays WOW about 1-2 hours a day. "My favorite part is going through the instances with my buddies," Garman says. He also claims to have been a WOWer for four years, and even says he has fallen into minor moments of 'addiction' with the game in his long tenor as a WOWer.”

“Our MMO expert Ed [Zitron] has angered loyal WOW'''ers as he didn’t think Wrath of the Lich King was ‘all that’, as they say in the States.”

“It goes without saying that starting to date is a lot like leading a raid in Upper Blackrock Spire in World of Warcraft. Okay, if you’re not a WOWer, I suppose it goes with saying.”

“[Duncan] Jones probably really is the WOWer he claims to be, but the material [Warcraft] just doesn’t seem like a good fit for him as a filmmaker.”

““I was a WOWer [World of Warcraft player] and use a Cherry keyboard, but if Cherry China will not say sorry to us, I will find another keyboard for my new MacBook Pro,” a Chinese Twitter user named Ziying wrote.”

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