subject: The Wonderful Real World Applications Of World Of Warcraft [print this page] Many parents are worried that their kids spend too long sitting in front of their computers playing games. Usually fearing over-use of technology is a well justified concern. Rates of obesity among children are at epidemic proportions as our youth get less exercise every year and become more and more involved in technological pursuits such as online gaming.
Unfortunately this phenomenon is not isolated and most adults are suffering a similar fate. Adults are just as susceptible to the same lack of exercise due to over computer usage. However are there any positive aspects to playing computer games?
Most people who never play games on a computer believe them to be merely an entertainment tool. Some think they can even be dangerous. However there may be cause to think otherwise, at least as far as one very popular computer game goes.
World of Warcraft is the best known video game that has been given a very bad rap. The creators of the game, Blizzard, have come under increasing fire over the years for creating a game that is said to be so addictive it leads to the break-down of marriages and even lives. The fact that some people find the wonderful world of WoW to be so entertaining and enjoyable that they spend most of their day playing it some concerned parents have regulated or even stopped their children from playing it.
It should be noted that very serious cases of Warcraft addiction only happen to people who display addictive personality traits and this type of addictive behaviour is unlikely to occur in you unless you have an addictive personality - in which case you will most probably become addictive to something else anyway! People with addictive personalities tend to become obsessive about mist things they do. There addictive behaviour is rarely confined just to video games and bleeds into many different aspects of their lives.
From the eleven million players who are current subscribed to Blizzard accounts almost all of them play world of warcraft in moderation and just as a fun pastime.
However, there is evidence that shows world of warcraft is no ordinary computer game. Fortune 500 executives and business leaders from across the globe have commenting on warcraft's original way of training employees and managers. In fact many of them play the game themselves because they say it helps to develop real team working skills and teaches people, resource and time management skills in an enjoyable and highly entertaining environment.
Helping young children develop such highly desirable employment and life skills is admirable however in extreme cases warcraft has taught even more important skills than that!
A young boy called Hans Olsen from Norway knows only too well the benefit of playing world of warcraft when it comes to real world skills. Hans found himself in a very dangerous situation when a moose attacked his sister. Although everything happened very fast Hans recalled what he did in similar situations while playing world of warcraft.
In the first attack the moose did what any animal will do and targeted the weaker of the children going for Han's sister.He used a ploy known in WoW as taunting where he deliberately drew the attention of the attacking moose to himself so his sister could get away.
The tactic was success however Hans was now in a situation where the moose was targeting him and he needed to do something fast. Terrified, but remembering how well the tactic works in Azeroth, Hands pretending to be dead and with no more threat being posed to its territory the moose soon lost interest.
