Recently John Seely Brown, who for those who do not know is a famous researcher, stated that MMORPG players or more specifically World of Warcraft are better workers than those who do not play this type of games. He went so far as to say that he would prefer to hire a high level player World of Warcraft than a Harvard student.
Reinforcing Your Idea John Brown said that a top-level World of Warcraft player benefits from the fundamental collaboration nature of the game, specifically with respect to guilds and raids. He added that these guilds, which even have hundreds of players, are fed only by the player's passion and not by any external reward or any kind of bonus.
" To realize these MMOs like World of Warcraft, do not think that you have only the game itself but look at the high-level social life of the game". said John Brown " when we look at the social structures, knowledge capacity and capacity building of the structure of these guilds, we see that there is something to pay attention to there. Now, these are not just self-organizing groups. Basically, all high-level guilds have a constitution. The leaders of these guilds have to adjudicate conflicts frequently and be willing to say: Let's judge ourselves"
Another reason that according to John Brown makes WoW players better workers is the fact that players have to create their tools and ways to analyze themselves as well as what is around them. In the corporate world, these tools are given by managers, which does not happen in WoW.
" In World of Warcraft you create your own tools. So this whole idea of thinking how to create methods to measure my own performance for myself and for myself becomes very interesting, "says John Brown." And in fact I often find the mantra in the game: If I'm not learning, I do not it's fun"
In the end John Seely Brown advises employers to hire MMO players because these gamers have accelerated levels of passion and curiosity.
" But this always comes back to the notion of passion, always comes back to the notion of curiosity and always comes back to this notion, which is a phenomenon fueled by interest that releases an exponential learning to a dimension that is almost unimaginable in any other way"He says.
I have been saying for a long time that schools should have Gaming.
[Source]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F4Ae2Lb5VLw
