The impossible has been done - World of Warcraft undone

If you are one of the millions that play or have played World of Warcraft then you know the game is filled with content. Like all Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMO) there is more than enough to keep anybody busy for years. And that does not include the time to reach the next level up once you get past the first easy 10 levels.

If you are not familiar with these types of games I'll help you out. In an MMO a new player can go from level 1 to level 5 in generally 3 - 5 hours. Reaching level 10 requires another 8 hours of time to be invested in the game. To reach level 15 could take a week more time. To get to level 30 or more than several months of gameplay time. And since the max currently in WoW is 80, well you are looking at perhaps a year or more of hardcore gaming time, and far more than that for a casual gamer.

Obviously that's a huge investment of time. But for all of that gameplay, I have never heard of anyone out of the millions that have played the game, that has done everything the game has to offer. Such is the nature of an MMO. They can become a life of their own.

Of course I need to correct something I have said. I never heard of anyone essentially beating an MMO before today. It seems that a Tiawanese man has in fact done it. He has completed every mission and acheivement the game has to offer. That's 986 seperate items that involve the most difficult and obscure things offered in the game. Like gaining a complete outfitting of all epic gear (very hard to find each piece as they are rare), or eating 50 different kinds of food from across the entire World of Warcraft game world.

To some it may not sound like a big deal. But to gamers it is amazing. To my knowledge this is the first time anyone, EVER, has done everything a game has to offer. I honestly cannot imagine the time it has taken to get all of it done. And out of over millions of people playing the game currently and likely tens of millions that have played the game since 2004, only "little gray" has made this milestone.

Just thinking about it, finishing the unfinishable, completing the incompletable, it makes me wonder what else is possible. Maybe a President that could complete all of their campaign promises? Maybe a Congress that could balance a budget? Maybe a world without nuclear weapons?

Nah, that won't happen unless it's in a game. But then again anything is possible.