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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.