World of Warcraft's Fantastic Fan Clips
Sep 13, 2007
Exactly how big is Blizzard's breakout MMO World of Warcraft? Big enough to warrant its very own Emmy Award-winning episode of South Park. Big enough to be played religiously by real-life Senator Ray Tenorio. With over 9 million elves, orcs, trolls and humans puttering about its umpteen servers every month, it's bigger than some countries and roughly half the size of Texas, the second-largest state in the union. So don't mess with it.
Because just like the residents of the Lone Star state, the dutiful citizens of Azeroth are damn proud of their homestead. So proud, in fact, that they can't help but construct wildly imaginative videos chronicling their online adventures. It's an insanely popular enterprise; a quick scan of Youtube results in a whopping 127,000 clips devoted to WoW. Here are just some of our favorites.
