interesting reading about wow

...and other MMORPGs
http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/

surveys and such, statistics... check out

one funny feature is random guildname generator...
and then there's how they came up with it (grammar of guildnames)

for example: 90% of guildnames falls into following categories

Quote :

Description of Guild Name Grammar

< > denotes parts of speech
[ ] denotes optional elements

1. Singletons
- [The] <Noun> / <Adjective>
- e.g., Chaos, Brutality, The Wicked, The Legion

2. Simple Noun Phrase
- [The] <Adjective> <Noun>
- e.g., Eternal Angels, The Swinging Swords

3. Complex Noun Phrase
- [The] <Two Word Adjective> <Noun>
- e.g., Pretty Pink Gnomes, The Blood Knuckle Pirates

4. "Of" / "In" Construction
- [The] <Group Term> of [the] [<Adjective>] <Noun>
- e.g., Brotherhood of Light, The Army of Dark Night, Gathering of Bloody Blade Fools, Brothers in Arms

we are " Complex Noun Phrase" -guild

Nice to see I am in a guild that belongs to a category of which I have no idea what it means, but I me is smart me