Playing WoW pays off

[Don]

http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/3/3831408 ... eely-brown

I think I have seen something similar to this before. The only reason you'd want to hire someone with a WoW background is if you're looking for slave labor. Yes a person who can hold a top guild together might be a good managerial candidate though that'd hardly be a guaranteed thing.

[Julius Seeker]

I think the opposite is typically true. From my experience, employees who are addicted to World of Warcraft seem to have a harder time working overtime than people with family obligations. In addition, they are the ones who run ot the door immediately after work and seem to typically take a lot more time off than anyone else and are far more likely to be fired to due frequently coming to work very overtired.

In theory these players would be good for certain tasks, but only if they don't have addictive personalities which lead them to continue playing these games on weekdays.

[Don]

Well to be fair there are probably like 5 million 'high level WoW players' so if you're just talking about an average WoW player, that's probably not that different from an average guy in general.

But if you're actually trying to hire a guy who plays MMORPG 10 hours a day, I don't see how that can possibly be an advantage.

[Zeus]

I agree. MMORPG addicts are great sheep

[Flip]

Disagree, there is no way a WoW player will devote his time to better his work place like he does his WoW character and guild. They want a easy crap 9-5 job so they can get back to WoW'ing...

[Don]

Why would a WoW addict be as dedicated to your company as he is to the game? Unless your company is a gold farming company it'd seem the playstle of an addict directly conflicts with whatever you want to do. Yes I know what they're trying to say: a guy who is willing to spend 10 or 12 or 15 hours on something without any tangible reward in sight is a great guy to have for slave labor. But there's absolutely no reason to believe a person's willingness to slave away at WoW translates to whatever job he has.

I remember running into a long time EQ player who plays insane hours and he said that all long term hardcore players are either independent wealthy or have long term disability and live on government money. It can't be kids because you'd have grown up and be forced to leave your parent's basement in the timeframe we're talking about (EQ's been around longer than 10 years, WoW celebrated its 8th year anniversary). Incidentally, that guy was disabled. He said he literally has nothing to do but play MMORPGs while collecting government checks.