January 31, 2007

“put your money on world of warcraft”

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I never could quite get into Second Life, somehow. All this media atten­tion they’ve been get­ting in the last year or so never quite added up for me.
Finally NYU’s Clay Shirky offers a totally bang-on expla­na­tion why me and count­less others have been fee­ling this way.

3 Responses to ““put your money on world of warcraft””

  1. Andrew Chapman says:
    January 31, 2007 at 11:06 am

    Thanks for this Hugh — very inte­res­ting and I’m with it too. Here’s my take on how SL is in fact like a bad dic­tio­nary, where WoW (not that I play it, I con­fess, but I know many who do!) seems more like a novel.

  2. vaspers the grate says:
    January 31, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    Second Life and all fan­tasy envi­ron­ment per­sona “games” or more ade­qua­tely, “vir­tual delu­sions” kind of suck in my Mind.
    On the show Wife Swap they had a woman who cared more about her “vir­tual family” than anything else, neglec­ting her real family.
    Don’t these Second Lifers know how to smoke pot?

  3. Rob Burke says:
    February 1, 2007 at 8:18 pm

    I am relie­ved. I am an avid gamer, but don’t get the mas­sive online worlds thing — either Warc­raft or Second Life. Or any of the others. I agree, though, that Clay is bang on. Make it as immer­sive as real life and we may be on to something. I con­si­der myself lucky — hun­dreds of hours of my life are at stake here :)