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Raph Koster spied an account of this hiring practice on the f13 forum and, soon, gamers erupted into conjecture.
According to the recruiter in question, his superiors informed him that "'WoW' players cannot give 100-percent because their focus is elsewhere" and "their sleeping patterns are often not great."
Although we'd like to stick up for MMORPG fans, hilariously, the comments -- most of which come from work -- tend to agree with the guy. [From: f13 via Raph Koster via Massively]
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Subscribe to commentsWoW DeathKnight!Jan 6th 2009 8:58AM
You have got to be kidding me. I have been playing WOW for about 7 months now. Its just an escape from reality for an hour or 2. You get to go in, meet people, and just have fun. Yes, there are addicts out there that probably spend way too much time playing, but there are addicts out there that have way worse habits and addictions too.
Brandon - WOW playerJan 13th 2009 8:20PM
WOW! really?
I have played wow since the realse, going on...3 years now. And work has never suffered because of it. I work in IT...and no i don't play wow at work.
Some people i guess have a hard time seaperating virtual reality and reality.
When the game is ruining real life, then it's time to make a change and start getting your priorites in check.
Oh and the nail in the coffin... if you deny me employment because in my free time i play a certian game...isn't that discrimination?
Matt (WoW player)Feb 2nd 2009 6:22PM
This is absurd! What they are not covering is the fact that playing mmorpg's such as WOW promotes teamwork, being goal oriented, among many other desirable qualities. Gamers in general gain better experience in many areas that corporations are looking for. Of course this might not give the impression that many people like, that gamers may in fact be contributing members to society, but in my own experience I have found that these qualities have grown in me since I started playing WoW. Society looks down on gamers there is no way around that, when there is really no difference from someone who puts "Student council President" on a resume to someone who puts "Raiding Guild Master" and in all actuality it is the Guild master who deals with more types of people and probably has better conflict management and people skills. Corporations want people to fit a set mold and if any experience seems "unorthodox" though it might offer more fruit than others it is deemed as wasting time and frowned upon. And of course there are people who take things too far, but people can make anything addictive. It seems that gamers are the only ones that get chastised because of their hobby. And I think that exclusion upon basis of game play is just as bad as exclusion by race or gender.