I can hear my oldest calling me a “geek” and I can see my youngest shaking his head in belief, but here it goes anyway…
- There’s always another battle to be fought.
- You need to regenerate your mana.
- No matter how many times you heal certain people, they’re going to blame their squishiness on you.
- If you don’t cooperate, you’ll never get the epic gear.
- Sometimes it’s good to slow down and just celebrate.
- Persevere through your mistakes and you will be rewarded.
- Exploration and achievements are critical to maintain long term engagement.
- Be strong about your priorities because other people will insist theirs are best for you.
- If people drop out of your world and then come back, you perpetuate positive feelings by letting them pick up where they left off.
- The strongest friendships are forged in two realms: crisis and imagination.
Thanks for the great post! My daughter who was NEVER a geeky person; recently got into this and a bunch of her friends play this WOW, I don’t know what it is!? But I enjoyed this post!! I had to retweet it! Thanks.
Thanks Tina! It’s the only game that I play, I don’t exactly fit the gamer profile! My youngest sucked me in by asking me to create my own character and try the game. He was quite brilliant because prior to that I kept interrupting him and making him get off the computer mid-raid/instance. After he got me playing, I’d let him finish because I understood his quitting affected many others. I’m not a hard core player, I just do a few things here and there instead of using tv for my downtime. You should try it, it’s a fun activity to do with your daughter!
Quite interesting article/post, as what I have learned from this game is that it breaks up relationships/marraiges when a husband or wife chooses to spend hours on end every day playing these online games and negates their duties to the household.
If that is your experience, I suspect there were problems and poor communication in the marriage before warcraft and the game was used as a tool for aversion.
I would say you are correct, and the “husband” in this case could have spent countless hours learning many of these same life lessons about marriage and perhaps been able to save his marriage had he not preferred to use this online game as a diversion tactic to escape all of his duties as a husband and a father for the last several years of the marriage. These games are fine for teens if they are not played in place of homework and not played for too many hours at a time, but obviously, I, for one, am not a fan.
You’re right, but I was pointing out that you can’t blame a game because the people in the marriage (one or both) aren’t able to effectively communicate. That responsibility lies with the participants. Onlien games are fine for people of every age, and as with all of the good things in life, balance is paramount. We shouldn’t allow it to overtake our responsibilities as adults/wives/husbands/parents but we also shouldn’t have to give up every ounce of fun in our lives. We need fun and playtime to be better in those demanding roles.