Two-Headed Ogres Added To World Of Warcraft

An anonymous reader writes "It's official: Blizzard Entertainment is proud to announce that two-headed ogres, each head controlled by a different player, are now a playable race in World of Warcraft, their upcoming PC massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Giving two separate players simultaneous control of a single body, this new race introduces a unique cooperative gaming experience never before attempted. Current beta testers should expect to see these innovative new game mechanics added in the coming weeks."

Re:I'm more interested in today's other Blizzard n

[fireduck]

today's press release [blizzard.com] concerning the 0.999~ = 1 debate was also a bit humorous. (although that only really applies to those who frequent the war room)

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[jimmyl930]

It would be awesome if you could request another character to be with and/or have AI control if the other player isn't available.

Intriguing possibilities

[PlatyPaul]

Arguably, this might be just what MMORPGs need... something that enforces sociability and cooperation with a person who they don't get to choose. It's possible that two people creating an ogre character end up with personalities that mesh well, but in any other case the users would be forced to come up with a system of compromises and rules for how things will be done.

One particular book, Forever Peace [scifi.com] by Joe Haldeman proposes the idea that humans which are forced into interacting with each other continuously will ultimately gain an empathy with humanity as a whole that will result in peacefulness and civility.

Yes, the book I mentioned is Sci-Fi, though the idea isn't too far off from reality. At a recent meeting of PUMUG [purdue.org], we had a demo of a recently released group-programming tool that was essentially just a text editor for more than 1 person. Most of the folks at the meeting had the program up and running, so we shared a common text file for editing. The chaos of ~10 people was incredible, though a sense of order was eventually established with the understand that each person got a particular line or set of lines to write on (with no outside interference) and that people would refrain from huge text pastes or deletes. There were the occasional annoyances, but most people that stuck it through were civil about it and managed quite an interesting conversation that entirely distracted from the meeting.

So yes, it is April 1st, but this is one story that I would hope might be real. If it were, I might very well play an ogre myself. Feel free to look for me... the name'll probably be something like Grantor\/\/1zzz3|2D, and I'll be going insane. Cheers.

Re:Still a great idea

[Rallion]

They also announced the Diablo II cow level on April 1. And everybody thought it was so funny, because it was an old joke from the first Diablo. And then it was true. Right out of the box. And then they all got to laugh at everybody else for not believing them.