Re:yay real world! (Score 1)

Im sorry maybe you forgot to read the title of the game: WORLD of warcraft. According to wikipedia, the word world is defined like this: "In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is "Age of Man." Its primary modern meaning is the planet Earth, especially when capitalized: the World. In this sense, a world map is a map of the surface of the Earth. World can also refer to human population in general or to a distinct group of people."[Wikipedia], in this case those who play WoW; oh and no where in the definition of game (Wikipedia) does it say anything about them never being real. In my own opinion WoW often seems to confront more issues than the real world(which is a good thing). I agree with some of the other posters: if you want to escape to some fantasy place, play a single player game so that no one has to hear you complain about games being too real, though you might want to steer clear of any game not made by disney because most games do try to be somewhat real. Also, fantasy is not in the name of the game; it may be assumed but it was never implied by wizards to mean that "everything that goes on here is fake, all the players reacted to their specific situations based on made up motives and never their own true experience", I would be more convinced that they wanted people to do those things the following statement declares shouldnt happen. Blizzard created a world and that is what it is: living, breathing, electronic, but none the less still real in a sense of the people who play it.