World of Warcraft invites you to reveal your characters. Many are participating and bringing some silly details to light.
A lot of time, energy, and love has gone into many characters in World of Warcraft. After all, Blizzard’s MMORPG is a game that some of us have been playing for almost 18 years now. Hence, the developers behind Warcraft thought it was high time to share the story behind your characters with the whole world.
As soon as Blizzard called for this, it quickly became a real success on Twitter. When you tweet your character’s name, Blizzard reveals to you and the whole world what the character has accomplished – and what they keep failing at.
What’s happening on Twitter? Since November 3, 2022, the hashtag “#WarcraftStory” has been trending on Twitter. Even in the German Twitter trends, it temporarily reached number 2 with over 115,000 tweets on this subject.
The reason is that the Twitter account of World of Warcraft has given interested parties the opportunity to enrich their character’s story with a graphic and a short narrative. This information usually includes one or two highlights from the character’s career, such as the number of defeated raid bosses, collected pets, or honorable victories achieved.
However, there are also a few “embarrassing” pieces of information. This includes details like the number of deaths from fall damage or how many potions a character has consumed.
The range of information is quite large, so different info comes to light each time. This attracts many to share their information, whether to boast or to amuse themselves over the embarrassing highs.
How does it work? If you want a representation of your character like this, you just need to send a tweet in the following format:
- Character name
- Realm name
- Region
- #WarcraftStory
- @Warcraft
Subsequently, you usually receive a response from the WoW Twitter account with a personalized story of your character, often with a few seconds delay.
Of course, you can also simply input the names of other players’ characters to learn a few of their darkest secrets…
What can you do if it doesn’t work? Some players report that it doesn’t work for them. Either the character cannot be found or there is an error message. In that case, there are a number of things you should check:
- It only works for characters from modern WoW – it does not work for classic characters.
- Check the spelling. Are all special characters correct, and is the name of the realm and the region you are playing in?
- Has the character been inactive for a while? Then log in briefly and out again.
- Is the character below level 10? Then it cannot be displayed.
- Is your Battle.net account set to “Private”? Then you must enable the function “Share my game data with community developers” on the Battle.net website under “Account Settings” → “Privacy” → “Privacy: Game Data & Profile”.
Have you also collected your “Warcraft Story”? Or would it be better if you didn’t know these details about your characters so well?
