Azeroth, the online environment for the World of Warcraft series, is more than just a virtual gaming world. In fact World of Warcraft is much more than just a Pc game. I am not talking about the fact that it is a MMORPG (Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game), nor am I referring to the fact that it is one of the fastest selling games of all time, nor even that it is the biggest online game created with a consistent 11,000,000 active subscribers.
Even though these details do make world of warcraft special they are not the most important reasons for believing world of warcraft to be much more important than a mere computer game. This online gaming environment has been proven to be capable of teaching players skills and developing abilities in them that can be, and are automatically, transferred into the real world of work and play.
The truth is that World of Warcraft (WoW) grabs a players attention for all the usual reasons associated with a computer game. However, before long those same players are learning very real and usable skills that can be deployed at work, in social situations and a multitude of life situations.Think of the opposite of all those stories about how the negative effects of television violence and violent video games are "programming" people to be violent in the real world. Well, when it comes to World of Warcraft the opposite is happening and positive, desirable skills and abilities are "programmed in" and then used in the real world!
Playing the game at the start does not set it apart from any other fantasy game. As with all similar type of fantasy games you have to perform some simple steps while you play world of warcraft at lower character levels. These low levels keep world of warcraft very similar to other games in the same genre.
However, as you progress further up the levels the Warcraft world becomes much more complex and challenging.
The questing and training that a player must go through are mentally stimulating. When you play the game at higher levels you will definitely have to mentally engage yourself in the game play.
In WoW it is not just the questing that requires mental effort. When you become involved in combatable situations it not just continually hitting a button - you must think about what you are doing and how you plan to do it! When a player is engaged in high mental activities within world of warcraft that require the development of specialised managerial, organizational, time and people skills they find that these skills are automatically available to them in their real ordinary lives.
When you reach a stage where you want to take on a higher rank within your guild, and perhaps even reach the level of guild leader, you will need to have developed some very sophisticated managerial skills. These can be learned wither within the game or by paying for a top-class college education!
In fact, John Seely Brown, former director of Xerox PARC, says that World of Warcraft is the ideal place for entrepreneurs to hone their skills while many other experts claim that the managerial skills, crowd sourcing and other effective guild member abilities learned in the online world of warcraft are genuine leadership skills can only be replicated by expensive managerial tuition!
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