Get the wrong end of the stick with WoW

[Crispy]

For anyone who reads Gamasutra regularly, this is probably old news. I've had a lot of work on at the moment and it's only today that I've been able to catch up with my news alerts from the Games Industry. I even still have an unopened e-copy of Game Developer sitting in my inbox that I'll see to right after I've finished this thread.

Here's the article: World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things

There's been a lot of talk about 'education in games' over the last couple of months, and I think it's something that the general public are coming round to, that games can have educational value. Hell, many college professors in the 'States are even campaigning for the use of games in the classroom. I mean, there are books written about this stuff, not to mention academic journals.

Anyway, back to that link I posted and why you might want to read it. It's an interesting account of why you should be slightly wary of the lessons World of Warcraft teaches you. Having only had a 5-minute blast on it myself, I think I have a bit more critical distance. (i.e. I'm not so hooked I've taken a vow to kill anyone who says a bad thing about WoW... and then lewt their body!) However, when I found out that a 'Terms of Use' policy had been written for a monster, I got slightly bemused...

 

[CptStern]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=101756

:E

 

[Crispy]

I shouldn't have been so certain nobody else reads Gamasutra. I should have had faith. I should have used the search button.

Ave Maria, gratia plena,
Dominus tecum,
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.

 

[CptStern]

holy shit ..did you just call me stupid in latin?