Comment Real life Bosses respawn before you get your loot (Score 1) 88
People play MMOs to tackle non-real-world problems where X hours of hard work according to precise set of rules R gives you precisely defined outcome O, with loot from [L1, L2, L3, ...]. They play precisely to escape from the fact the same effort in the real world gets you one from [nada, less than nada, peanuts, laughed at].
There is space for the use of MMOs to train people and it's not new, but most of the time it's set up by people who think that gamers need to be patronised.
"Got Game" is an interesting read around this subject too.