I agree about the WoW thing lol; sounds like she got started in online gaming because of WoW... and that's the be all end all for her. Well to be fair, WoW was one of the best done games, and probably helped quite a bit in getting females to play video games (and thus undo their 'games are bad' bias).
There's really 2 schools of research on this from what I've seen. One is 'games are ruining society' that is usually funded by old people who don't understand games. The second is what this woman presents. While I agree we do have a culture of people that sit around playing games, you can't just demonize them. It's no different than any other form of relaxation imo. Whether or not it saves the world, I don't know. But between globalization and online gaming, we probably won't see any more real wars.
I agree about the WoW thing lol; sounds like she got started in online gaming because of WoW... and that's the be all end all for her. Well to be fair, WoW was one of the best done games, and probably helped quite a bit in getting females to play video games (and thus undo their 'games are bad' bias).
There's really 2 schools of research on this from what I've seen. One is 'games are ruining society' that is usually funded by old people who don't understand games. The second is what this woman presents. While I agree we do have a culture of people that sit around playing games, you can't just demonize them. It's no different than any other form of relaxation imo. Whether or not it saves the world, I don't know. But between globalization and online gaming, we probably won't see any more real wars.
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