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Alex Albrecht, prolific pod and vodcaster and previously of Tech TV’s The Screen Savers, has come up with what I think may be the most sublime and brilliant way ever to get folks to support his World of Warctaft gameplay. He’s going to record instance runs!

Well, okay, Project Lore looks to be more than that. But tell me that the first thing through your mind once you read what they have planned isn’t Oh My… why didn’t I think of that? It’s brilliant! I play WoW and folks watch me doing it! They’re clearly aiming for more than that, with instance guides, WoW news, and a glossary as well as the video feeds. The first few videos are of them at level 70 running normal Hellfire Ramparts, which is not really what I was expecting. To be honest, I felt a little bit like they were doing too much with camera angles, loud music and video effects and not letting you see sufficient of the gameplay.

But I know that as we head into Wrath of the Lich King this could have the potential to be very useful for folks running those instances for the first moment. Our own Daniel Whitcomb said that at present, it reminded him of an old EQ commercial.

We’ll see whether it evolves into the one-stop shop for WoW gameplay videos and strategies that it seems to be aiming for. And at any rate, the ability to watch videos of various instance runs, whether executed properly, could be a real boon to new players, giving them context into ideas like tanking, DPS, CC and other dungeon roles that are hard to grasp whether you’ve not seen them in action.

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Original post by Matthew Rossi