WoW Moviewatch: Altaholic
by Michael Gray 
Feb 3rd 2010 at 12:00PM
The video for this song is pretty fun, with a heavy mix of machinima techniques and gameplay footage. The lyrics for this piece do a great job fitting the music, without any of the "forced" feeling which many parodies suffer. The vocals sounded a little funny to me, but that sometimes happen when checking out a movie through YouTube. However, EmberIsolte does a pretty good job of nailing Perry's voice technique from the original song.
It's nice to see Draenei surfacing as strong machinima characters. While that's not a direct commentary on movies like this, I think the choice of main character helps separate Altaholic from many of the other WoW parody pieces. Getting some variety in machinima is always a bonus.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Cedrich Feb 3rd 2010 12:08PM
Cute, but I don't think it will measure up to the masterpiece of fuzzy Australian half-singing that is the Neilyo Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1I70yXYofY
Probably only funny if you know who Neilyo is.
Sugarnotch Feb 3rd 2010 12:09PM
After a night of wipes on incredibly simple content due to this very problem, you made my day wow.com.
ISA Feb 3rd 2010 12:11PM
"your main's still in TBC gear." With 6 80s, my original main, a rogue, was last to be leveled. Still wearing S2 gear... :(
Arbitor Feb 3rd 2010 12:32PM
I don't see the problem, S2 gear for rogue ROCKED!!!
Although you might wanna try for some tier 9. ;)
Lornicide Feb 3rd 2010 12:18PM
Another great parody. She has a great voice and the songwriters did great as well.
The only "critique" I'd make is that much of the same video was used over and over. I would have preferred to see it changed up more.
Other than that, awesome job!
Micheal Feb 3rd 2010 3:54PM
indeed, and she's the best voice to recently sing us WoW songs. By far.
vexis58 Feb 6th 2010 8:43PM
Yeah, my biggest problem with this video is how repetitive it was. I mean, the lyrics are repetitive, but that'd be totally okay with me if she had used different clips each time instead of just repeating the same exact video every time.
krazkyle Feb 3rd 2010 12:19PM
OMG that describes me :D
Why should i raid when there are levels to be gained lol
And has anyone else had blizzard tell you to literally stop making new charachters (50 across all realms)?
Vitos Feb 3rd 2010 12:37PM
Maybe.... I then deleted a dozen or more that I didn't play... and filled up my account in less than a month
jimbob Feb 3rd 2010 1:12PM
Meh, i must be a noob altaholic, i only have 23 toons :S
hipponaut Feb 3rd 2010 12:25PM
Woohoo, my 0.5 seconds of fame! Go, Gnomish Nightmare!
Ramco Feb 3rd 2010 12:26PM
After seeing the title, I was hoping for a WoW version of Starsailor's 'Alchoholic'... But no, just another crappy pop song...
Obeyfez Feb 3rd 2010 12:31PM
I like the theme: alt-aholics are "Jack of all trades, master of none".
Certainly true from my perspective as raid leader. If you want to raid, having alts is fine, but you really need to keep up to date about everything regarding your main's class and spec, and I don't know if there's enough time in the day to keep up with all classes and specs for all the toons of an alt-aholic. There is benefit of having alts: leveling can be fun (seriously!), and general knowledge of other classes is great, but in the end I find the best raiders have one (maybe two) mains that they concentrate on and have their best knowledge about.
darian Feb 3rd 2010 1:31PM
There's a limit, or diminishing returns, on performance improvements through focusing on a main. It depends greatly on the individual. Some players can, and do, play one of each class with high proficiency without degrading their main's performance. Others are totally screwed trying to swap back to their Warrior main after playing their Rogue alt.
Ultimately it boils down to what players know and don't know their limits. I would say that more players overextend themselves than don't, but those that have a bunch of alts without doing so are great assets.
Snuzzle Feb 3rd 2010 3:22PM
Actually I think playing a myriad of alts really can strengthen your main's performance (and in the interest of full disclosure, I am an unabashed altaholic -- with 4, nearly 5 80s and about six ot seven 70+).
The reason I believe this is, let's take your average rogue. I'm using a rogue as an example because a rogue is a very pure class -- he can't heal, he can't tank, he can only DPS and only from melee.
Now let's have this rogue roll a tank. The rogue suddenly has a whole new perspective on the game -- that of a tank who has to actually WORK to hold aggro, and how that's done. The rogue, assuming he's competent and actually strives to learn about his new class, now understands how to be a good DPSer a lot more and how to help the tank and not pull aggro from him.
Things like that... switching your role around, seeing things from another role's shoes, can really make you a better all around player, just because of the perspective.Even if he really stinks at his tank, he's still come out of it a better rogue.
Obeyfez Feb 3rd 2010 3:53PM
Just to clarify my comment, I agree having alts is a great way to see other classes, specs and rolls (tank, healer, dps) in the game. Playing those alts will bring knowledge to you as a gamer to play better on your main character. BUT, for that knowledge to really benefit you in a raid, where you and your character need to be at your best, you need to have a main character that you as a player focus on - i.e. keeping up with the latest theorycrafting for the particular class and spec combination of your main character.
When I think of a true "alt-aholic" I think of a person who has a lot of characters in various degrees of leveling (even potentially lots of 80s), but none of those characters are that player's main character, and so all of the alt-aholic's characters are left behind in comparison to players who have a true main character
Using Snuzzle's example, I would guess the main character is the rogue. He/She is using his alts to learn about other rolls in the game to make their rogue the best it can be. And if I had to guess, I would guess the websites and blogs that are most visited by that person pertain to rogues (maybe even sites that specialize in a certain spec: Assassin, Sub or Combat).
My particular issue, from a raid-leader's stand point, involves alt-aholics who just level characters to level characters; they don't consider any one of their characters their main character and don't spend the extra time on any one of their characters to really maximize it's potential, and therefore none of their characters are raid-worthy.
I have friends and guildmates who are like this. They're great for running heroics with, but none of their toons are able to handle a progression raid like ICC. Unfortunately for them, this is why they are left on the bench week after week.
Khremloc Feb 3rd 2010 12:37PM
Uh oh. I can hear autotune. :/ The video could've been better too, the modelviewer scenes lacked the lighting/shadows. The background singing sounded a little off at times too. I'LL STICK TO THE POLKA VERSION: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_TIOfUEudo
Nox Feb 3rd 2010 1:30PM
that just made my day!
Snuzzle Feb 3rd 2010 3:26PM
Where's the autotune? That usually sticks out to me like a sore thumb, but I didn't hear a single inkling of it.
dolox424 Feb 3rd 2010 7:42PM
yup there is definitely autotune in there sadly.
I'm not sure if she used it last time or if it was just more apparent this time that she used it.