World of Warcraft Mountain Dew coming soon
by Alex Ziebart 
Mar 17th 2009 at 7:00PM
Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to bring you the single greatest news WoW Insider has ever covered in the history of Warcraft. Behold! World of Warcraft Mountain Dew!Okay, okay, so it's not that amazing, but it's still pretty awesome. Soda (pop, whatever) is one of my few vices, and I have this strange fascination with trying out all of the new and exciting flavors that soda companies put out over the summer months. Do you remember 7Upside Down that 7UP tried a few years ago? dnL? No? I do. It was delicious. This? World of Warcraft Game Fuel? It, too, will be delicious, just like the Halo Game Fuel that came before it.
Release dates or availability hasn't been shared yet, the official World of Warcraft website states they'll announce that sort of thing at a later date, but they do have the flavors listed! There will be two of them, one for the Horde and one for the Alliance. The Horde's Game Fuel will come in Citrus Cherry, and the Alliance's Fuel will be Wild Fruit flavored. The Horde's version sounds a little too Code Red to me, so I think I'll give the Wild Fruit a whirl first.
Truly, we live in a great age.
Edit: I am a fool. A foolish fool. The foolishest! I just looked it up, and the Citrus Cherry flavor isn't Code Red at all. It's the same flavor as the Halo Game Fuel. For the Horde!
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Sean Mar 17th 2009 7:08PM
Is that going to be the same flavor as the Halo Game Fuel?
Jay Mar 20th 2009 8:58PM
The red will be apparently. I prefer something that looks more like an actual health potion and mana potion though.
www.manapotions.com Anyone?
peagle Mar 17th 2009 7:11PM
Woah, on that bottle label; that's a man, baby!
luckycharmscereallawl Mar 17th 2009 10:38PM
nuttin' wrong with a little tranny action, amirite?
SaintStryfe Mar 17th 2009 7:11PM
Once again unfair to the Alliance, everyone knows Red Sodas sell more. OMGWTFBBQ!
Seriously, nice marketing. Fun product. I hate Mountain Dew, so I'll probably just get a bottle to put on my shelf, next to my Simpsons Buzz RC Cola, but still, cool.
SBKT Mar 17th 2009 7:51PM
Wrong again.
Unfair to gamers.
Why must media think we deserve to be slobs? D:
Khrono Mar 17th 2009 9:22PM
How about Vitamin Water WoW gamer fuel? Or maybe water with the WoW on the label? I mean they really want us to drink that crap, and not all gamers enjoy soda!
Amaxe Mar 17th 2009 10:25PM
Shouldn't it be Red Bull?
Keyra Mar 17th 2009 10:28PM
@Amaxe - this actually has more caffeine in it than the Scarlet Tauren :-)
John Mar 17th 2009 11:25PM
I wouldn't mind a WoW Vitamin water.
MunkyJoe Mar 18th 2009 1:15PM
@ Amaxe
Not Red Bull, but Crimson Steer:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27553
Stephen May 12th 2009 2:03PM
@skeeran
"Muphry's" Law.. I totally laughed out loud.
Dah Mar 17th 2009 7:12PM
As a comm major college student familiar with all the misleading and sneaky rhetorical methods of advertisers, I probably should furrow my brown and say something about how this is nothing more than a different sticker on a rehashed bottle of soda. Even if it is a new flavor, I should probably still be skeptical and say something about how we can't tell the superiority of product simply by a new marketing campaign.
.......but at the same time, I do like stuff more when it comes in a shiny package. As long as the shiny package is done in reason and doesn't cause world wide destruction, then hell, it makes me happy and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Aesthetic does make a difference and damned if I'm not going to enjoy it.
Life's too short to get bent out of shape over marketing.
jfofla Mar 17th 2009 7:54PM
Dear College Student,
I think you should furrow your "brow" not your "brown"
Maybe log out from the game now and then for "higher learning"?
elvendude Mar 17th 2009 8:36PM
@jfofla
Dude, lighten up. Unless you can categorically prove that you have never, ever made a typo in your life.
Also, Dah did say comm major, not English major specializing in copy editing.
I mean, really, do you have to point out a single typo in an otherwise well-thought out and poignant post?
skreeran Mar 17th 2009 9:05PM
Dear Jfofla,
I think you should put a period after "brown."
And please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_Law.
MazokuRanma Mar 17th 2009 9:50PM
Why would he log out for higher learning? I got mine camping in Dalaran... ^^
Keyra Mar 17th 2009 10:39PM
Dear Jfofla, HolyHolly, or whomever you are today,
One should first check one's own punctuation and grammar prior to criticizing another's spelling, else you fail to adequately "pwn", to wit: comma and period usage, auxiliary verb usage, the inclusion of pronouns and the correct usage of prepositions.
"I think you should furrow your "brow" [comma] not your "brown"[period]
Maybe [you should] log out ["of" instead of "from"] the game now and then for [your] "higher learning"?
Dah Mar 17th 2009 11:18PM
Jfolfa: Unless I'm getting graded, I could care less about checking what I type for errors. =P
Plan Mar 18th 2009 1:47AM
I think he was annoyed at Dah's "as a comm major" opening, and to be honest, I was too. A six-year-old could tell it's the same disgusting soda packaged in a new bottle. You don't need to take comm classes for that.
I was a comm major too, at a school that now costs a ridiculous $40,000 a year to attend, and I didn't learn sh!t. The vast majority of the time, those programs are taught by career generalists who don't have a grasp on the real world, which is why they make their living in academia. I'll never forget my first internship, when I realized how much my professors didn't teach me.
Eventually you'll learn on the job, but I don't think those of us with comm degrees should pretend to have special insight about anything.