World Of Warcraft As A Globalized World Games
Hilde Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg, researchers at the University of Bergen
and has edited an anthology about World of Warcraft comes out on MIT Press in spring 2008.
In the 80 - and 90-century pioneers hoped that the Internet would make us blind to skin color, age and gender. On the internet, it was thought,
cheap wow power leveling,would these differences be erased, and people would be able to communicate freely, without prejudice and without having been put in stall even before they began to talk. We wanted to experience true equality. But is it so easy?
Internet is no longer just about web pages, e-mail and instant messaging, but about a myriad of social arenas in which we interact with people from other parts of the world, such as YouTube , Facebook , Second Life - and video games, Massively Multiplayer Online Games. World of Warcraft is one of the most played and most notorious mass using games in Norway and worldwide, with over nine million players from Europe, America, Asia and Australia. When you log on to World of Warcraft participate in a true global village, and it is quite likely that you will cooperate with an Italian or a Russian who you end up on teams with other Norwegians. Nine million players participating. A golden opportunity for collaboration across nationalities, one would think - when I play nattalv or troll and you play orc or gnome, so it does not matter just what country we come from, right?
The newcomer to the World of Warcraft have to go through a steep learning curve to master the game, but the game leads us through the mission that teaches us about the properties of the character is having, to fight monsters and to buy and sell things for the local currency, gold coins. In addition, the social world is explored. You have to figure out how to form teams with other players and how to join a guild or guilds with other players. Collaboration is central to the World of Warcraft . To overcome opponents in the game requires good planning and thorough team effort: one must not only solve abstract problems in the game,
cheap wow power leveling,but also to maneuver in a social environment.
Several employers have stated that they look at the experience as a guild leader in World of Warcraft as a definite plus. Henning Strauss from Aker Kvaerner Power has stated to the newspaper Sunnhordland that "We can noticed that young people who have played video games and working out strategy and problem solving together, have good leadership and team traits when they start in working life", and abroad, the internet company Yahoo! hired executives including based on their experience as a guild leader in World of Warcraft .
But in a global game like World of Warcraft , where cooperation is necessary and we reviewed many players from other countries, we should expect that we also learned about the culture and to cooperate in a global world. What happens when different cultures meet in a fantasy world with nine million inhabitants?
Now you do not play with all nine million WoW-citizens at once: the game is divided into regions so that the purchaser of the game in Norway is playing with other Europeans and not with the players in the U.S. or China. Within each region there are dozens of separate servers, or "realms": copies of the game which can each accommodate a few thousand players. In Europe, it is possible to play World of Warcraft on servers defined as English, German, Spanish-and French-speaking. Most Norwegian players prefer the English servers, and interact with other Scandinavians, Eastern Europeans, Britons, Italians, Russians and a few players from the Middle East and other places where there still are not dedicated gaming servers.
Not long ago we had a student who insisted on delivering their work in English. When English was excellent, we assumed that the student had lived in an English-speaking countries. "No, but I've played a lot of video games," was the explanation. Language is important in a game like World of Warcraft,
cheap wow power leveling,because cooperation is essential to master the game, and the language is a prerequisite to cooperate. And in multicultural contexts is a common linguistic platform necessary.
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