How does WoW affect your relationship?
Many people all over the world report on changed social rules, new ideals and problems uprising from the usage of MMORPGs. A comic approch to this can be found at Frozen Hippo (video clip).
Gamasutra talks about the wrongdoings WoW does learning people that time equals skill. Which does make sense in WoW, but hardly applies outside the game world where skill isn’t always something you aquire but rather “have”. WoW Insider discuss the family values that springs from playing the game togheter as a family. Both positive and negative effects can ofcourse be seen. Would you like to play with your mother?
Something I’m sure you all have experienced is the loneliness you get in a game even if there are thousands of others there. Being online can be social, but is it really as social as some say it is? We have previously posted about the responsibilities Blizzard has for making sure minorities can keep their rights. There has recently been a fuzz about the way ingame operators has been threating gay people. Boing boing takes this into mention. “Don’t tell anyone you’re queer“.