How Warcraft Doesn't Have To Wreck Lives

robustyoungsoul writes "From the same guild leadership as the fellow who started an internet storm with his post about his experience in WoW comes a different point of view: it doesn't have to consume your life." From the article: "I got a Masters degree in policy from one of the most difficult schools in the country while at the same time playing WoW and working a part time job. I would come home from a busy day and think about how to use what I learned to make the guild work better. It was a way for me to practice what I was learning and to discover what was involved with leading people (mostly getting all the blame and no thanks, it seems :P). I've learned the lessons of clear communication, sacrifice, compassion, tough love ... and balance. I plan to use these skills in my professional life. So in short, I play the game because I get something tangible out of it."

Check slashdot tomorrow

[Anonymous Coward]

For a new article, titled World of Warcraft May Consume Your Life, or It Also May Not, You Never Know!

Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

If you don't play Warcraft, it is unlikely to wreck your life.

Quoi?

[BecomingLumberg]

When did life experience become tangible?

I know how Warcraft doesn't have to wreck lives.

[palswim]

When the title on the Warcraft game box says Warcraft: Orcs & Humans.

Lives?

[Anonymous Coward]

Lives need to be nerfed they are overpowered

Excatly how *I* use COD2

[csoto]

After working in IT management, I like to come home and blast several hundred rounds into people. It helps me because I can use what I learn there IRL...

Motto...

[CaseM]

Our unofficial guild motto has always been RL > WOW, friends come first.

Sure, but their motto on "raid day" was "WTF N00B GET UR ASS ON UR MAIN WERE RAIDING!!!11"

Re:Uh huh...

[vjmurphy]

"Nothing like learning about the real world between a hot cooking area and a cold walk-in cooler."

Hmm, seems like you could have tapped a couple of plains and given yourself Glacial Plating when walking by the cooking area.

See, Magic CAN help you in real life.

The easiest way. . .

[AcidLacedPenguiN]

. . . is to play warcraft 3 instead of world of warcraft. Or to buy a stairmaster and see/feel a difference when you level up. Not to mention when you live in a society where grinding on the stairmaster is guaranteed to increase your charisma dramatically.

Re:Balance

[Anonymous Coward]

SWG? It must be nice to have a whole MMORPG to yourself....

Re:Check slashdot tomorrow

[VitrosChemistryAnaly]

For a new article, titled World of Warcraft May Consume Your Life, or It Also May Not, You Never Know!

How very neutral of you!

Zapp Brannigan: "What makes a man turn neutral ... Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"

or

Zapp Brannigan: "I hate these filthy neutrals Kif! With enemies you know where they stand but with neutrals? Who knows! It sickens me."

Re:The easiest way. . .

[rehtonAesoohC]

That's not true... Muscle size does not increase one's charisma. Your statement should have been something along the lines of:

"...where grinding on the stairmaster is guaranteed to dramatically increase your potential for having women approach you if you keep your mouth shut."

Re:Why I won't play WoW

[indifferent children]

I played entirely too much Diablo 2 back in the day (Ok, I'm not that old...).

I played entirely too much Wolfenstein 3D back in the day. That doesn't make me too old, but this does: the only reason that I tried Wolfenstein 3D was because of all of time that I spent playing the original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple ][+.

Go meta!

[Sage Gaspar]

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