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I used to do quite some graphic design in my free time, I was really progressing, but it kinda stopped when I started WoW. So for me it has more stopped my creativity then it inspired me.

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It has inspired me with my music, since i am a composer. It has given me many ideas for movies as well, which i like to do for fun.

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I've learned a ton about leadership being a GL for 2 years (enough so that being a peon at work is chafing these days). I've also learned a lot about web technologies (for our site) that I might not have bothered otherwise.

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For me (and I suspect many others), WoW has been a great escape from the drudgery of normal work/life. When nothing is going well at work, I can come home, bang out a few quests, and go to bed feeling that at least something was accomplished, even if they are purely imaginary deeds.

I would be curious as to how other people treat their Toons. My Main acts like I do in real life, especially with regard to gold (I'm a miser). Others in my Guild with less gold, also don't save in the real world either.

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The trolls and their lore have inspired me to do more research on African culture, hoodoo, and voodoo. That's about it.

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I have met many wonderful people, but most important i met my husband 4 years ago through WoW.

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Wait, WOW was supposed to inspire me? So far it's just stolen whatever vestige of a life I had before it came out.

But that's ok, my life sucked anyhow.

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I've added WoW characters to my art repertoire since beginning to play.

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I'm starting to write a story, involving a revolution, now that I have a medium I can film it with.

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I can't say I've honestly been inspired by the game. I Enjoy the game, Made some good friends.

OOH I know it inspired me to give a crap about blogs, because of the tasty info about new versions of the game.

*taps the ol veins on the wrist* oh gods, yaaaaah tell me about the Hunter camouflage ability again...it..it keeps me goin....it makes the darkness not hurt so much *twitches and collapses.*

*the coroners report would later tell of his passing due to a needle full of Way too good of wow insider news*

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It's inspired me to write. I've built up a story around my three "mains".

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Nope, didn't inspire anything in me. For me its just a game nothing more. I don't dwell too deep in games. I play 'em to relax not to write thesis about it or theorycraft the heck out of it (like elitistjerk).

To each his/her own!

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When I started playing I could dunk, I was working on a stained glass portfolio, and was really getting into painting.

Now I have 4 70s, don't play basketball and my art supplies are in the garage, though my kids get them out sometimes. So, no.

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I have been slowly creating a fantasy world filled with stories for the last few years. I use Tolkein as a model and guide for how to do this but I use Warcraft and a few other RPG games to experiment and see for myself what kind of stories work and what kind of atmosphere I like to create.

I don't use the stories from these games. I emulate the feel and atmosphere I feel best suits any given story in my own fantasy world.

So yes Warcraft has inspired me. Numerous times in fact.

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Inspiration?

It's more of the case that people use wow as an escape from real life. It's sad but from my experience, the more hard core the player the more un-accomplished they are in real life.

It's really sad but I'm one of those people.

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