Slashdot Mirror
WoW the Next "Golf"?
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.
Sorry.
golf is good because it's long walk long walk. It's not like people can make business contacts when people are screaming "OMFG! HEALZ!"
---
Hellsing (60 Disc/Holy Priest) on Icecrown
Pepsi stock has taken a harsh beating today, after allegations of "Corpse Camping" by the Coke Guild. When approached for comments, Pepsi replied "AFK bio"
Gregarious people are surely going to trade face to face time for a game. "Hey, let's go get a beer after we play." "Ok, I'm headed up to my fridge, tell me when you got your beer and we'll have an online toast."
Bleh.
One guildie relates this story:
"My coworkers and I were in a particularly heated meeting recently. Our management team had thrown a ridiculous project our way, and later yelled at us for not completing it to their non-existant specifications. When we met to discuss possible ways to satisfy this lose-lose situation, no one had any plausible ideas. During a break in conversation, I said, 'What we need to do is five-man the Baron'.
At least four people present laughed, including my boss."
I know I saw the TeamSpeak icon on a coworker's laptop the other day, and came very close to asking him what game it was for. Boy, it would be disturbing finding out he was on the same server; especially if he were a member of the other faction...
...this has to be one of the dumbest and most inane posts I've seen in a long, long time.
via WoW. Until he met a girl and she kept him from hitting 60. What a loser.
Is $this the next $that? $publication is running an article that suggests that $this could become the next $that. $this mirrors that because $weak_correlation[0] and $weak_correlation[1]. Futhermore, $fluff_item[0] and $fluff_item[1]. In conclusion, $conclusion[int rand(10)].
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.
Informatus Technologicus
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.
What is music when you despise all sound?
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
From TFA:
"Warcraft is like a really, really well-designed UI for real-time, ad-hoc group collaboration and management of tons of people."
What exactly is he referring to, here? The guild/party window? Guild chat? Are those "really, really well designed"?
Am I missing something?
it would be the perfect way to determine if a prospective hire is a team player or a lone wolf
Employer: "... by the way do you play MMORPGs?"
Me: "Why yes I do"
Employer: "HELP SECURITY!!!"
Wait a second...
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Choose a race. Choose a class. Choose a profession. Choose a guild. Choose a fucking big sword, choose rings, cloaks, engineering trinkets and electrical hats. Choose good HP, low SPI, and soulstones. Choose auction house re-selling. Choose a starter inn. Choose your friends. Choose twill and matching vendor trash weapons. Choose a three-piece armor set in a range of colors. Choose gold farming and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that AH bridge watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing n00b talk, stuffing fucking junk mage food into your mouth. Choose leveling away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable inn, nothing more than an blink to the selfish, fucked up alts you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose WoW... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose WoW. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got noggenfogger?
-Cyc
/.'s 10 Millionth
... about the same time Linux rules the desktop.
It's not so hard to believe. Afterall, Illuminati high priests regularly meet with the Council on Foreign Relations members in Everquest 2.
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
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.
Funny, I assumed you were going to tell me you have a level 60 undead rogue on a PVP server the instant you said you were a "suit".