Three thousand six hundred and fifty days. Ten years. That's a long time to be dedicated to anything, and yet if you found yourself spending the majority of the last decade enmeshed in a digital fantasy world, your dedication will be rewarded with a very real item.
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World of Warcraft recently celebrated its tenth anniversary back in November. To further honor the event (think of how many challengers have come and gone, all having failed to dethrone WoW as the king of the MMO), Blizzard is offering the die-hard fans - those who have stuck around for the entire time - a collectible version of the Orc statue found outside of the Blizzard offices.
"These gifts have been sent to the physical address associated with eligible Battle.net accounts. To be eligible for this gift, a player must have created a World of Warcraft account within 60 days of the game launching in the NA or EU regions, and maintained their subscription or game time for all ten years."
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Maintained a subscription. I can't even stick with a hairstyle for a long time, and I don't even have hair! While I would not have been eligible anyways (I started in March of 2005), I've been WoW free for several years now. And though a cool Horde statue is pretty awesome (even though I'm Alliance 4 Life), I can look back upon those ten years and think of the sunrises and sunsets and other real world things I have acquired in that time.
But to all of you, there is a part of me who is envious. Not only because it's Warcraft, but because you have stuck with it all this time. Blizzard shouldn't send a statue to you, they should make a statue OF YOU.
