Breakfast Topic: Do you put WoW on display?

I'm not really hugely vocal about the games I play. I don't really talk about them to my friends outside of work or the game itself. I don't have any tattoos or T-shirts that I wear around in public. The only real concession to my Warcraft obsession is my car, really. I love my car, and I love putting things in my car, whether it's the unobtrusive Harry Potter sticker on the back, the dinosaur on my dash as a subtle nod to Firefly, or the small Horde decal in the back window. I also have a Warcraft license plate frame that looks much nicer than the dealer frame that came with the car.
Most people don't really give the items in my car a second glance, but I always know when there's a Warcraft player behind me at the Starbucks drive-through line -- I'll get a glimpse of an excited driver behind me throwing the horns or expressing their delight with my vehicle in one way or another. Now, I'd never go so far as to order a custom license plate, but I don't mind my unobtrusive decal and plate frame -- it's a subtle way of expressing my delight in the game that I play.
Do you openly display your Warcraft pride? Do you wear T-shirts, have a tattoo, or cover your car with stickers? Do you have a custom license plate or a set of Warcraft jewelry that you wear all the time? Or do you keep quiet about your gaming obsession, content to simply play at home and be happy about it?
While you're pondering that, take a look at this old gallery of custom Warcraft plates. I'll be over here, quietly wondering if there's somewhere I can nab a Skyrim decal for the other side of my car's back window.
Most people don't really give the items in my car a second glance, but I always know when there's a Warcraft player behind me at the Starbucks drive-through line -- I'll get a glimpse of an excited driver behind me throwing the horns or expressing their delight with my vehicle in one way or another. Now, I'd never go so far as to order a custom license plate, but I don't mind my unobtrusive decal and plate frame -- it's a subtle way of expressing my delight in the game that I play.
Do you openly display your Warcraft pride? Do you wear T-shirts, have a tattoo, or cover your car with stickers? Do you have a custom license plate or a set of Warcraft jewelry that you wear all the time? Or do you keep quiet about your gaming obsession, content to simply play at home and be happy about it?
While you're pondering that, take a look at this old gallery of custom Warcraft plates. I'll be over here, quietly wondering if there's somewhere I can nab a Skyrim decal for the other side of my car's back window.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 3)
dleehollandjr Jan 31st 2012 8:42AM
Saw a lisence plate at the gym the other day that read "WTFNUBS". It made me laugh, but i also cried a little inside, as i had just spent the last 20 min getting --ahem-- lectured by a player spouting similar constructive criticism in Arathi Basin.
Ikatsu Jan 31st 2012 8:45AM
I do have an Alliance T-shirt that I wear with pride. Since I live in Brazil and had to import it from US, it's my most expensive shirt, but it's also my favorite. For the Alliance!
Twowolves Jan 31st 2012 8:49AM
Hell yeah. I have the large Horde symbol in my back window, a WoW inspired license plate, and I had a custom license plate frame made, "I'd rather be leveling an alt." To me, this is no different than displaying swag for your favorite sports team.
Aaron Jan 31st 2012 7:21PM
If anything, it makes more sense to identify with a game because you're an active participant. I love my Niners (shame the way they went out), but I can't claim any personal satisfaction from their success.
libfeathers Jan 31st 2012 8:50AM
I made a shaman necklace out of Sculpey that I wear from time to time. And I have a red & grey baseball jersey with a Horde symbol and "For the Horde" on the back.
The most public display would be when I put WoW pix on my desktop at work.
Gendou Jan 31st 2012 8:52AM
"No, of course I don't," I say, sipping my morning coffee from my Orgrimmar mug as I check my schedule on my 2012 World of Warcraft Calendar, picking up my keys with my Horde keychain as I prepare to leave. "Don't be silly."
Trevor Jan 31st 2012 8:56AM
No WoW related stuff for me (yet) but I do rock the Serenity manufacturing plate stickers my wife got me on my car. Along with my Blue Sun shirt and the Serenity keychain from my rear view mirror.
Some day I'll get a nice fat Horde sticker for my car and will put a nice fat Sith sticker right below it.
To be quite honest, at 28 with two kids, wife and a solid paying job, i'm a honeybadger when it comes to people knowing I'm a total nerd.
The True Gamer Jan 31st 2012 9:00AM
My wife made me the Horde crest in stained glass last month. It proudly hangs in the window here next to me in my home office.
shotiechan Jan 31st 2012 9:01AM
I have a Forsaken crest decal on my motorcycle helmet.
DELICIOUS IRONY YES IT PLEASES US.
Oh, and I have a lot of WoW t-shirts.
etherlithium Jan 31st 2012 9:03AM
I started playing shortly before I went to college; I kept it secret for fear of the attached stigma - I thought I would be a social pariah if people knew. Still, I enjoyed the game massively, and the people that looked down on gaming grated with me in all sorts of other ways. Out of the good friends I made, none of them cared that I gamed, and some of them even turned out to play (or spend as much time as I did on WoW on steam games etc). In the end I realised that the kinds of people that instinctively slam WoW (or gaming generally) aren't worth mollifying. Nowadays, if it comes up I'll happily talk about WoW, and haters gonna hate.
datgrl Jan 31st 2012 9:09AM
Got stopped in the airport by TSA when they spotted the Alliance logo on my Jinx polo. I have Horde, too. I want window cling stickers.
lanceg Jan 31st 2012 9:19AM
I took a few WoW screenshots to work one day, put them in a screensaver, the manager saw them, had a fit, brought down the boss, and I was fired for "inappropriate visuals in the workplace'.
This from a supervisor who had a golf themed office. All kinds of golf trinkets and out-right golf gear hanging on walls, etc.
Now I keep my hobby, and personal life, and anything that might cause even the slightest controversy out of the public eye. Thanks america!
Chetti Jan 31st 2012 9:28AM
I don't care who knows I play wow. I'm a girl and I play a game, big deal. That aside, most of my wow stuff hangs out in the area where my computer is. A stuffed gryphon, little healing and mana potion things (when I saw them I had to have em, my first toon an NE druid is/was an alchemist), calendar. I do have a worgen t-shirt, that I wear out in public proudly.
The irony is.. I play mostly horde now. I have been planning to amp up the horde representation a bit. No wow ink yet, though I am thinking about one.
evoxpisces Jan 31st 2012 9:32AM
I don't put it on display per se but I'm not embarassed to talk about it. My friends and coworkers know I play it and I know they don't. To each his own. If someone is going to judge me based on a game I play then they obviously aren't worth my time. Lol I do own some WoW figurines and a WoW calendar though Lol.
chaosdefined Jan 31st 2012 9:34AM
I only advertise something I'm a fan of. I loved the remake of BSG, so I have a BSG belt buckle. Batman is my favourite comic to read, so I have a Batman t-shirt and hoodie.
WoW has been my favourite game for the last 6 years or so. I love the stories, the lore, the comics, everything about the game. So I have WoW t-shirts, hoodies and even a Horde neck pendant.
I'm planning on getting a Frostmourne tattoo as part of my sleave design. Because even though I'm now finding myself becoming slightly bored with playing it, WoW has been an important part of my gaming life for so long. And I like to remember and show, that I will always be a WoW Geek even after I stop playing.
moof Jan 31st 2012 9:41AM
i claimed my main's name as my facebook url. unfortunately, nobody has ever noticed. /foreveralone
dmberreth Jan 31st 2012 9:43AM
I live in an area where there's a Blizzard call center, and I have a few friends that work there. I've been known to drive them to and from work on occasion. There is one employee car in the lot that always makes me grin.
Nissan Rogue, with the license plate DPS LFG.
Fantastic.
Erebos Jan 31st 2012 9:48AM
I love wearing my legendary priest shirt :) I have a horde shirt, too. Surprisingly, no one's ever said anything to me about either...
ravyncat Jan 31st 2012 9:48AM
I think the Horde gets the better deal when it comes to cool logos.
The Alliance Lion is meh to me. So while I play almost exclusively Alliance, I feel no desire to stick a goofy lion somewhere on my car or to wear etc.
But I do smile every time I see someone advertizing their love of Azeroth no matter what the Faction. ^^
Tovin Jan 31st 2012 9:55AM
For the longest time I had my WC3 Thrall figure standing on a shelft at my desk at work. (Took him down when we learned that our floor plan was changing and we'd have even less personal space.) However, my work laptop uses a WoW landscape screenshot as the desktop wallpaper, and I have an image folder of other WoW landscapes that my screensaver cycles through. It's subtle and only other WoW players notice. Once, a guy asked if my screenshot of the sky over Hellfire Penninsula was an image of Jupiter's moons taken from Jupiter...