I have chosen the Blizzard community for my research project, and will be using their own website www.Blizzard.com . The first thing I notice when i visit their site is the banner across the top of the page. This banner has the Blizzard logo in the top left corner, then to the right of the logo are drop down link to almost every page within their website, including the community sites for each or the games they produce. These community sites, to the best of my knowledge, is the main source of communication between gamers, and between gamers and Blizzard employees. The next thing I notice is the colorful and vivid, animated images displayed across the center of the page, they cycle every few seconds also displaying news on each of the games they are working on. The layout of the site is pretty dark, with varying shades of blue for the framing of each part of the website. They also have links for Jobs they are hiring for, and one for a free trials to their most popular game, World of Warcraft. The bottom right corner of the Homepage holds a logo/link for Battle.net. Battle.Net is Blizzard's Online matchmaking gaming site, users log into Battle.Net to find and play with people all around the world. Overall the layout is pretty simple, and each of their linked sites are easily accessible from the homepage.
I am going to narrow my scope down drastically and focus on a game type that became popular with Warcraft 3. It was a custom map called DotA. It stands for Defense of the Ancients, since the map was created, several clones has popped up. The original creator of the map ended up making his own DotA game called "League of Legends" (www.leagueoflegends.com). However i will be using the fan site www.Leaguecraft.com for my research.
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