Maybe you love them. Maybe you loathe them. Maybe youâre taking one right now. Selfies are everywhere, because we are painfully vain creatures. And now, finallyâafter you begged, pleaded, groveled, and probably didnât ask for it at allâtheyâre coming to World of Warcraft.
People have begun discovering an item called the S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera on WoWâs public test realms for patch 6.1. You get it from a rare level 100 garrison mission called Field Photography, which simply involves tossing followers out in the cold for four hours, no special traits required. So basically, itâs cake.
Hereâs how it works, according to WoW Insider:
âThe interface for the camera is really easy to useâsimply click the item to use it, and your camera will automatically turn around to face you. You can swivel the angle to whatever you feel is most pleasing, and press 1 to snap a photo. No need to alt-z the frame out of the picture first, the camera automatically does it for you, snapping the screenshot and putting it in your screenshots folder. As the camera faces your character, theyâll make a host of suitably emotive faces, so you donât have to worry about smiling for the camera.â
And yes, one of those is duckface.
Thereâs also a bonus mission you can find that will reward you with an upgrade kit for the S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera MkII. Itâs got filters!
Itâs all rather silly, of course, but thatâs modern-day Warcraft for you. You donât get the melodramatic swords and sorcery (and CGI) without a mashed potato volcano explosion of pop culture absurdity. I think itâs fun, thoughâfor the most part. I am worried that theyâre gonna integrate this with WoWâs upcoming Twitter functionality, which is also set to debut in patch 6.1. Iâm sure your orcs, gnomes, and cow people are beautiful, but I donât want my Twitter feed to be overrun by a hundred-thousand fantasy cartoon person selfies. Sorry. I donât want to grump all over anyoneâs parade, but⊠yeah, thatâs probably what Iâm gonna end up doing.
Image courtesy of Ubergizmo
