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[Didz]

I hear World of Warcraft is the worst. Never played it though. I play games when I have spare time and nothing interesting to do. It's quite reasonable in my opinion.

World of Warcraft is a social life, I think thats the problem.

If you play World of Warcraft you rapidly develop an international circle of friends and given the risks of wandering around the streets a night its much safer to socialise online than in harms way. My eldest son is actually travelling to the Netherlands in a few weeks time to meet some of the Dutch members of our guild, but we also have Danish, German, Hungarian, Irish and Australian members.

Likewise a lot of people who complain about computer games being addictive, when questioned about what they do with all the time they are not wasting by playing them end up admitting to watching TV, drinking down the pub, or posing at the gym. All equally addictive and much less stimulating to the brain and far less useful career wise.

My eldest just got a job with a web development company based mainly on the managerial expereince he gained helping to run an international guild on WoW. Man management, team building, communication skills, project management, team co-ordination and resource management are all essential skills when running a Warcraft guild.