"put your money on world of warcraft"

Jan 31, 2007

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.

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Andrew Chapman

17 years ago

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.

vaspers the grate

17 years ago

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?

Rob Burke

17 years ago

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 🙂

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