Thanks to YOU the Mob Family grows bigger everyday! I am so humbled that you stopped by and joined the channel. We have been streaming for over a year and as we enter Season 3 of our LIVE stream, we have many new and cool things to share that you have already noticed and some stuff is yet to come. Keep watching and keep winning! More giveaways and more content in season 3 than EVER before! Our supporters make this happen! Thank YOU Fam.

-The Don

I apologize for using the name of one of my favorite movies for the title of this article, but nothing captures my feelings better on the present subject. (Thanks Kevin Costner)

In 2001, I was introduced to First Person Shooter gaming with The UBI game series Ghost Recon. As that was 28 years ago, many of you were still in elementary school. Some perhaps not even born. In those days I was playing perhaps 8 to 10 hours a week for entertainment and the comradery of the modding community I was linked in to at the time. Much has changed in gaming over those near three decades. Today’s games are extremely fast paced and in this author’s opinion, over compensated. I can easily compare the online gaming community to today’s youth sporting events. You know, those games where every player gets an award for participation. In other words, you don’t have to earn it, simply show up. Case in point and the subject of this article, World of Warcraft.

In January of 2005, I began a journey in the online game World of Warcraft. What I quickly discovered was a massive community of people interacting in an incredible realm of gameplay. The closest I had ever been to such an online gathering was Joint Operations in 2004, and they were struggling to insure 100 people didn’t lag in a gaming session. That of course was still an incredible improvement over the 12 players that could play on a Ghost Recon or Raven Shield server. Like I said, much has changed.

Over the course of the next 14 years, I engaged this online world. Sometimes more than I should, sometimes divorcing it for a time, but always returning because of the love I had acquired for the experience. Yes, I said love. I loved the people I gamed with in my guild. I loved the never-ending struggle required to achieve goals that most players were chasing. I loved the fact that there was always something else to do, something else to take my mind off of my lackluster existence. I loved that once I obtained those goals I chased, I was elevated to a position of honor and recognition amongst my peers and rewarded for my effort by Blizzard. I loved that as a Protection Paladin, I was nearly untouchable in Ice Crown Raids. I was a king; nay I was a Demi-god, and I controlled my destiny.  A far cry from real life for this simpleton of a man.

Sometime later I started noticing players at my level that hadn’t the faintest clue how to play their character. Actually, they knew nothing about their race, let alone their abilities. It was shortly after that I discovered you could buy a character close to the max level currently in game play the moment you started playing the game. No effort, no journey, just buy and play. Though I played for several more years off and on, the relationship was never the same. I went on a year hiatus only returning to try the Battle for Azeroth expansion. I have no words for what has happened to the world I loved. In all honesty, I am surprised that it still exists.

There is hope for you, if you have even remotely experienced what I have with regards to this game. There are private servers available and today I entered Dark Zen Gaming’s World of Warcraft server which was recently re-established on this website. It is a little quiet at the moment, but I have played solo for a little more than 2 hours, and I have experienced some of the old feelings I had grown so fond of. So, if you see a level 15 protection paladin running around in Goldshire, be careful not to anger him. Rumor has it he is a Demi-god.

PharoahX

Big thank you to the community! We are so humbled by the support you have shown! We have been listening to the community and will be introducing some cool new products and games. We have many big things planned for this summer, some of which we can announce and some in the works.

We are upgrading our server infrastructure, this will allow more online games and to support our back end shops.

We are taking applications for streaming/content creators (Gaming/CCG)

More info incoming!

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Our goal is to upgrade our server hardware early 2019. We can do this because of YOU, our community! You keep rocking, we’ll keep gaming.

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Welcome to my website. Here I hope to share my love of gaming and good times. I have played many games and I hope to share my thoughts, my videos, and possibly even some cool additions to those games.

I am Systems Administrator by day, and noob pwner by night. Well, I wouldn’t say I pwn noobs as much as get pwned. But I have fun.

I sometimes write addons and scripts for games, ALL PC of course. Although I pick up the sticks sometimes, my gaming is almost exclusively PC.

Pop on, email me your vids, show me what you do. I love watching others get pwned as much as I do!