Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Role Playing Games Smallish Post
We look at athletes who have spent thousands of hours perfecting their art and pay them millions of dollars. We share a national and societal pride in these men and women who have developed and fine-tuned their skills to a professional level. I believe that excelling in an MMORPG should be viewed as an equivalent achievement. Not everyone is born with the height to excel in basketball, or the potential weight to excel in sumo-wrestling, and not everyone is born with the cognitive ability to master a MMORPG. However, as a society, we often ridicule these "gamer" professionals while we are willing to pay great sums of money to watch their Michael Jordan counterparts play different "games". I believe that society as a whole has trouble understanding the reality required to master the virtual world. If a line for excessive gaming must be drawn, we may need to remember that sports are simply games as well. When is too much MMO gaming? When is too much basketball?
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The world does put too much money into athletes. I think that both gamers and athletes spend too much time playing sports or games.
ReplyDeleteI think the difference lies in whether people want to watch your particular game, and I don't think many people would want to watch other people play MMOs. Then again, I personally don't see the appeal of watching professional sports either, so I might not be one to judge.
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