WoWer
English
Etymology
From WoW + -er.
Noun
WoWer (plural WoWers)
- A player of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.
- 2011, Andy Kessler, Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs, Portfolio / Penguin, →ISBN:
- Yup, World of Warcraft has been an amazing success: a massively multiplayer game that is easy to learn, addictive, and requires months of overuse to master to reach the highest levels to then join guilds to cruise around in packs with other like-minded WoWers.
- 2017, “Warcraft”, in Robert Mejia, Jaime Banks, and Aubrie Adams, editors, 100 Greatest Video Game Franchises, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 197:
- WoW players were caricaturized in South Park’s episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft,” and characters in the TV series The Big Bang Theory are depicted as avid WoWers.
- 2017, Anthony R. Palumbi, “The Storytellers”, in Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:
- Though a small chunk of chapter 6 lays out the important distinctions between PvE and PvP environments, veteran WoWers will have noticed I have barely touched upon another major category of realm server.
- 2020, Marcella Szablewicz, “Carving Out a Spiritual Homeland”, in Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to Esports Athletes (East Asian Popular Culture), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 121:
- These guilds and friendships form across age, class, and gender divides, and yet, in the context of the game, all share a collective identity as WoWers.
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Synonyms
- Warcrafter
- World of Warcrafter