It’s Christmas Time!

During my ongoing literature review I often discover interesting facts about things I’ve never thought about. Sometimes I can connect these facts with my own observations: The result is mostly a completely new idea why things are as they are. Maybe these ideas are new to you, too. Therefore I’ll share my new science based knowledge with you!

This week: This time, I present an example how Christmas also impacts the virtual world of computer games. Merry Christmas everyone!

Only a few days are left until we celebrate Christmas and hopefully enjoy a wonderful time with our families. Almost everything around us is decorated and prepared for Christmas. This event is one of the most desired events in the year and has a lot of tradition. However, not only our real life is affected by the Christmas time: computer games also try to celebrate Christmas with their players.

One big example is the MMORPG World of Warcraft (WoW): every year a special Christmas event, the Feast of the Winter Veil, takes place in Azeroth. During the time of this event, players can solve special Christmas quests like cooking Gingerbread Cookies for Greatfather Winter, the Santa Clause of Azeroth. Additionally, several special cooking recipes are only available during this time. Players even find some presents on Christmas day under the Christmas trees in one of the capitals of each fraction.
The cities of Azeroth are decorated with coloful lights and Christmas trees and some of the instance bosses wear Red Winter Hats. Finally, players can even tailor a complete Winter Veil outfit.

Feast of the Winter Veil

Celebrating Christmas in a computer game adds some additional flair, but it’s not the same like celebrating and experiencing Christmas in the real world, eating all the delicious food, being together with your family and enjoying this wonderful magic time of the year. Although I try to convince you all the time with my articles, that computer games have a lot of positive impacts on our real life, but this time I like to emphasize that computer games can’t create the joy of the real world Christmas decoration and magic flair. Especially, if you’re walking through the decorated streets after sunset and by cold temperatures.

In this case, I wish you all a very Merry (non-virtual) Christmas!

Merry christmas