I sent this out to my guild and friends mailing list for WoW (World of Warcaft for those of you not in the MMORPG loop). They thought it was pretty funny so I decided to post it here.

“There is no cow level.” This is what Blizzard told me last night when I finally got to log into the game. You know, it’s bad enough that the game is crashing every 15 minutes and that it takes decades some times to actually log in and retrieve a character list but that fact that they just flat out lie to us in the game tips is irreprehensable. I know for a fact they are. I saw it last night with my own two eyes (and a tool tip). Let me explain.
When I finally got to retrieve my character list from Kargath and had not been assigned to a different, “less populated” realm, I figured I would run Grand down to Goldshire from Stormwind to turn in a quest I have had on the quest log books for 3 or 4 levels now. Thank goodness I was in Stormwind and not somewhere I could go AFK while waiting for the game to load and find out once the interface came up that some Ogre that got up on the wrong side of the cave had aggro’d on me and decided I would look nice as a trophy for the misses. So off I go and since I am level 30 I figure the heck with the road I’ll just run straight down through the trees. OK actually I avoided the trees but whatever. Any ways, I happen to pass a cow. Yes you heard me a real live (well as live as bits and pixels can be) cow. I remembered the hint as the games loaded. Actually it was sort of hard to forget since the screen was there so long. I believe there were 2 beer runs and a munchie break in the load screen time frame. So I see this cow and well the temptation was just too overwhelming and I moved my cursor to hover over the cow. The realization of that moment hit me like a Glowing Brightwood Staff and Grands faith has been severely shaken. As a matter of fact he is seriously considering becoming a Shaman now! (Froooossssst Shoooock!) I guess you can gather what I am getting at by now. “There is no cow level” is a lie. I saw it. The tool tip confirmed the cold hard facts. Cows are level 5. šŸ™‚