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WoW the Next "Golf"?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-i-use-my-employees-as-gold-farmers-then dept.

TheGrapeApe writes "1up has an article about the possibility of World of Warcraft becoming the next "Golf": A place where friends, acquaintances, and perhaps even business partners will meet up to "talk shop" and swap stories. Personally, I can't wait until I have my next job interview in the Deadmines. " I demand extra healing and mana pots from all my employees.

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  1. Uh, no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry.

  2. Nobody asked me, but... by squidguy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...this has to be one of the dumbest and most inane posts I've seen in a long, long time.

  3. Far too involved. by HaloZero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    World of Warcraft is far too involved, compared to the game of golf. In golf, you can sit back, take the game at your pace, your parties pace. You all are doing roughly the same thing, and can find common ground. A warrior and a mage have no common ground, save for, well... literal space sharing. WoW is far too fast-paced in comparison.

    It's also an effing cartoon, for those nubs who haven't yet realised.

    So... No. Not happening.

    *silence...*

    Next question, please.

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  4. This is a Joke Right? by sielwolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Golf is standard issue for the managerial class: folks who being extroverts is a job requirement. For peons/techs/engineers there's still the time honored Afterwork Beer. Getting excited to run off into isolation and talk to people through magical cat-5 ain't the same. It implies a discomfort with being in the proximity of other meat popcicles and people notice that. Most people live out there in the Big Blue Box.

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    1. Re:This is a Joke Right? by bnenning · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Face it. Unless you can play the social game and kiss lots of ass, don't look to cutting a fat paycheck over your extroverted brethren.

      Or more to the evolutionary point, getting the hot chick.

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  5. differences by [cx] · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The biggest difference is golf is actually a sport, and you communicate face to face. WoW is a niche so small it makes lawn bowling look like a national sport.

    As to say its the next way people are going to get together and hang out and schmooze it up is ridiculous, because nobody that is a real businessman wants to be dealing with people in a virtual game. If you cant look someone in the eye, why would you discuss anything serious with them?

    I doubt anyone over the age of 20 even thinks this is an intelligent assumption.

    WoW is the next everquest, not the next golf.

    I'm sure a Diablo MMORPG will drop in 07-08 and we will all be like "Diablo is the next Golf" lolzz

  6. different servers? by h3llfish · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've discovered that various people I run into during the course of my day play WoW, but it's impossible for me to "hang out" with them in a virtual way because they are on different servers. Even if I start a new character on my friend's server, I can't run with him, because I'll be a rank noob while he's got 3 epics already.

    So the analogy isn't perfect, as many other replies have already said. BUT, I could easily see groups of people who work at the same company gaming together on a regular basis. And if one of those folks happened to be your boss, that would be a major advantage you would have over your non-gamer coworkers. So everyone who is spitting up on themselves about how imperfect this analogy is should probably chill out, and go find out what server their boss is on.