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Man 'finishes' World of Warcraft
Wednesday 2-Dec-2009 10:46 AM Taiwanese player completes all achievements - scary unsocial numbers inside

A Taiwanese man has been named as the first player to 'finish' World of Warcraft.

'Little Gray', as his character's known, is the first to successfully complete all of the MMO's 986 achievements listed in the armory, reports MMO Champion.

To reach the milestone the Taiwanese power-player killed 390,895 creatures, accumulated 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completed 5,906 quests (that's 14.62 quests per day, apparently), raided 405 dungeons and hugged 11 players.

The achievement hasn't arrived without some controversy though; WoW-heads point out that technically he's still missing one illusive, event-tied achievement (called "BB King"), but he's managed to dodge it via a glitch awarding one extra, false achievement point.

We say he's not a man until he tracks down and gets that last achievement legitimately.

Counterpunch wrote:I was finished with it before I played it.

Counterpunch wrote:I was finished with it before I played it.

DecepticonKing86 wrote:This reminds me of the South Park episode where that guy plays WoW all day long and the kids went out to try to destroy him. I guess you can say the guy from Taiwan got his money's worth from the game.

Grahf wrote:OK, I've had this thought in the back of my head since I first saw this topic. How can you actually finish a game like WOW? I stopped playing shortly after the first expansion was released, but aren't these games designed to keep going?

Grahf wrote:OK, I've had this thought in the back of my head since I first saw this topic. How can you actually finish a game like WOW? I stopped playing shortly after the first expansion was released, but aren't these games designed to keep going?

Shadowman wrote:

Grahf wrote:OK, I've had this thought in the back of my head since I first saw this topic. How can you actually finish a game like WOW? I stopped playing shortly after the first expansion was released, but aren't these games designed to keep going?

In a way. He simply completed an exceptionally long list of achievements. I wouldn't consider it finished until he's played every race as every class and used every weapon, fought every monster, and had duels with every race/class combination. There's also every raid and quest, and beating every mob boss. Also world events, and minor or accidental ones like the Corrupted Blood Outbreak, or Lord Kazzak being kited into Stormwind (Look those up if you haven't already, they're both very interesting stories) And exploring every inch of the available map. Until you've literally "done" everything, I don't consider it beaten. And even then, you'd have to repeat it with every expansion.

Nightbird2.0 wrote:my bestfriends 45 year old dad plays WoW so much that im sure hes close to this too. once we called him for a ride home, miles and miles away from home mind you, and all he said was "walk, im in the middle of a quest." then hung up the phone.

Rodimus Prime wrote:"Like a Virgin..." -Madonna

Predaprince wrote:

Shadowman wrote:

Grahf wrote:OK, I've had this thought in the back of my head since I first saw this topic. How can you actually finish a game like WOW? I stopped playing shortly after the first expansion was released, but aren't these games designed to keep going?

In a way. He simply completed an exceptionally long list of achievements. I wouldn't consider it finished until he's played every race as every class and used every weapon, fought every monster, and had duels with every race/class combination. There's also every raid and quest, and beating every mob boss. Also world events, and minor or accidental ones like the Corrupted Blood Outbreak, or Lord Kazzak being kited into Stormwind (Look those up if you haven't already, they're both very interesting stories) And exploring every inch of the available map. Until you've literally "done" everything, I don't consider it beaten. And even then, you'd have to repeat it with every expansion.

Agreed. I don't play WoW, but I do play City of Heroes and there is no defeating these games because you will always have multiple types of characters to play as and an enormous list of things to do. Besides, it would kinda suck if you could beat these games because that isn't the point behind them. They are not designed to defeat everything, but rather have fun. If this guy were to beat the entire WoW game, what would he do then? His life would be even more empty like if Captain Ahab had killed Moby Dick and survived to go into retirement.

Counterpunch wrote:

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