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Wowing of World of Warcraft My only audience experience in regard to audiences as producers and subcultures travel back all the way to 13 years ago, when I took my first and only liking to a game, which was named World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released on November 23rd 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe. The first expansion set of the game, The Burning Crusade, was released on January 16, 2007. The second expansion set, Wrath of the Lich King, was released on November 13, 2008. The third expansion set, Cataclysm, was released on December 7, 2010. The fourth expansion set, Mists of Pandaria, was released on …show more content…

The marvels behind this game helped me build up the nerve to ask him to let me give it a try for myself. Keep in mind if you knew the addictive nature behind World of Warcraft it took him a while to start sharing the PC we had to allow me to also to have some play time on his account. Although once I was there is no possible to hide the fact that I was hooked as soon as I gave it a try. In 2009 I finally came to a conclusion, I couldn’t continue playing this game despite the various expansions that were created after the original in 2004. As I decided to stop, I witnessed my brothers continuing on without me. Along with this I started to build up the curiosity of how much popularity this game has brought about, in order to build a demand for these expansions. It then occurred to me that the fans of the game built the continuation of playing. Most commonly we assume that we need to associate the concept of being a fan to a celebrity. After reading through chapter 8: Media fandom and audiences subcultures I was able to come to a new redefining aspect of looking at fans with the help of Jenkins and later scholars when indicating that “… fan audiences are deeply engaged in their favorite media texts. Fans often reinterpret media content and create their own cultural productions in response.” (Sullivan, p. 193). This constantly made me think back to why was I the second

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