While Metroblogging Azeroth is usually the domain of our sister site WoW Insider, I was really excited when i saw this on 3PointD today. The WoW guild We Know uses Second Life as a planning tool for raids. They have made Second Life based maps of the World of Warcraft maps and use markers to annotate their plans.
By using a virtual world to plan play in a MMOG We Know is stepping over a bound for distributed working environments that really can not be done with online tools. While WIKIs and Forums allow people to communicate through text, the embodiment a virtual world provides is much closer to the types of interaction we have in the real world. I see Second Life as a natural way to overcome this boundaries and seeing this type of use helps me solidify that view in my head. The one thing I would like to see is the ability to launch WoW from within Second Life with some natural form of transferring between worlds.
1. WOW has really peaked my interest in general lately. Sadley, I barely have an hour a week to devote to playing any sort of game these days. I can't see paying ten bucks a month for that.
Posted at 5:15PM on Sep 22nd 2006 by Ami_Chyan