The Lord of the Rings Online

The Secret World Once you complete the Wreck of Polaris dungeon and come out victorious after facing the Ur-Draug you will collect a powerful reward known as The Whispering Demon Ring! At this point you will have experienced the first of the many dungeons in The Secret World. Progress, explore, trade, group, quest and battle in PvP - it is all included in your purchase! • No classes, no levels - total freedom of play - The Secret World has no classes or levels. It gives you complete freedom to be whoever you want to be and play however you want to play. • Real locations throughout the world - The Secret World allows you to adventure through your own, modern -day world. • Join a secret society and fight for your side - Join one of three secret societies - the Illuminati, the Dragon or the Templars - and fight together or against other players for the power to control the world.

Raph Koster's Blog - Ten Years of World of Warcraft The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. Ten years of World of Warcraft. Well. WoW has always been a contradiction of sorts: not the pioneer, but the one that solidified the pattern. Don’t get me wrong; that’s not a knock on it. After a decade and a half of refinements that didn’t do the trick, Blizzard came along and did what it does best: cut to the essence, capture the core fun elements in a game system, and make them accessible and appealing to the broadest possible market. These days, so many more people have passed through the gates of Azeroth than ever played its antecedents that many don’t even know the deep wellspring sources from which it came. Dikus are one of many branches off the MUD family tree, and one of the most popular. Dikus provided core inspiration to many of the earliest MMOs.