Employers Screening WoW Players?

fat_spartan · December 19, 2008, 4:42pm

Employers screening World of Warcraft players? // News

According to a post on the F13 forums, employers are specifically requesting recruitment consultants not to send them World of Warcraft players, reports Eurogamer.net.
The post, spotted by online gaming pioneer Raph Koster and posted on his blog, cites a recruiter working in the online media industry as saying that employers think WOW players are too sleep-deprived and distracted to be effective in the workplace.
“Employers specifically instruct him not to send them World of Warcraft players,” said the poster. “He said there is a belief that WOW players cannot give 100 per cent because their focus is elsewhere, their sleeping patterns are often not great, et cetera.”
There is a counter-theory that playing WOW - specifically, leading an active guild, which can involve some tricky management of people and time - makes for great employment experience, but the recruiter was having none of it.
“I mentioned that some people have written about MMOG leadership experience as a career positive or a way to learn project management skills, and he shook his head. He has been specifically asked to avoid WOW players,” the posted said.

I’ve never played World of Warcraft itself, but I have been involved in online gaming before. Maybe obsessively at times. I can sort of see where the messed up sleep patterns idea comes from. However, even with some late night gaming, I didn’t end up being sleepy all day. Now I find that online gaming, especially the type where you pay to play and where you build up your character requires too much of a time investment for me.

Malik_Zulfi · December 20, 2008, 4:59am

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I have not played online games . . but I have been into late night gaming . . . no matter how late I sleep I always wakeup at the same time and I cant sleep during the day. In my opinion sleeping patterns differes from person to person and it is not subject to gaming or any other activity.

cube · January 18, 2009, 8:14am

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I guess this sleep deprivation thing has to do something with strategy based games in which the players are forced to think about their decisions even after they have finished playing the game for the day. It would be safe to play action based non-strategy games like first person shooters online without any loss of sleep, unless the person keeps on thinking about his falling ratings throughout the night!

S02 · January 18, 2009, 2:47pm

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A lot of people also play at work, sneakily. Another deterrent, I imagine.

fat_spartan · January 19, 2009, 3:25pm

I've never heard of that before.

Adeel25 · January 23, 2009, 9:32am

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www.mmosite.com

Good review site and many free MMORPG games that can be found.

I am an active Wow player Alliance side.

As for employer screening review on wow?

Trust me there are people who join the game as trial, became active subscribers and havent been sleeping properly. Few of them were gone to retarded school just because they started lacking their skool activities and scores because they spend more time playing wow and also not having enough sleep.

Wow, War Hammer online are massively addictive games and open world concept. Which means never ending.

It is the same case with Warcraft Dota all star.

fat_spartan · January 23, 2009, 2:31pm

I know first hand how addictive online gaming can be. They must have encountered a considerable number of WoW players and have a bad impression of them.

Jaanoo · January 23, 2009, 3:49pm

My friend's bro is has payed 4.5 pounds for this game..

fat_spartan · January 23, 2009, 3:53pm

To buy the game? I never looked into the price of the game since I never really considered playing it. That's pretty cheap for a game but they must make much more with the subscription fees than for sales of the game.

Adeel25 · January 23, 2009, 10:40pm

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to buy the game there are 3 parts to it.

The Original Vanilla World Of Warcraft is 19.99$s
World of warcraft Burning crusade is 29.99$s
World of warcraft Wrath of the lichking is 39.99$s

Regardless of what version you'd buy you'll have to pay 20$s Activation fees choose a payment method and for 6months its 11.99$s per month.

fat_spartan · January 26, 2009, 6:04pm

XBox Live comes down to about $5.00 a month if you subscribe for a year and you can play many games on it. For WoW you're paying over twice that much (~ $144 USD) and it's just for one game. That was my reason for comparing the two in an earlier post.

S02 · January 27, 2009, 3:12am

I never got into WoW, but I play another one, and I'm often playing with people who are in and out because they're actually at work.

Also, my SIL and hubby got into an online game that's meant for younger kids -- she was playing constantly at school during free periods!

Adeel25 · January 27, 2009, 12:03pm

What game do you play? Oh wait..is it Runescape?

And Fat Spartan. Trust me it is addictive, once you play the trial version you will realize that it is not just one game but it is one game with many things to do. Ofcourse when I'll get tired of that I'll think of something else.

I am not ganna force anyone but do give a shot to 10 day free trial to see how the game actually is.

Playstation 3 online is free. By the way.

fat_spartan · January 27, 2009, 2:41pm

There are a bunch of those online games like adventure quest or mech quest that you can play online for free. WoW would require an installation to your computer before you can play that online. I doubt there are people who would actually play WoW online from work. I have never tried it myself so I could be wrong.

I don't doubt that it's addictive. I've been somewhat addicted to Phantasy Star Online around 2000-2002 myself, so I understand addiction to an online game. The first version was free but they charged for the second version and onward. The cost to play the version 2 online was only $5 per month USD. I just don't have the free time to play an online game enough to make it worth paying a subscription fee for it. With the time that I currently have for online gaming, XBox Live would not be worth it if it wasn't for being able to get some downloadable games free or for the special gold membership prices.

I know that PS3 online is free, as is the online for Wii, DS and PSP, with the possible exceptions of a game's publisher charging an online fee to play their games online.

S02 · January 27, 2009, 9:11pm

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I play City of Heroes/Villains. There are a lot of WoW players on that too. Like WoW there's an initial installation fee + the monthly charge. It's fairly comparable (just different worlds). On both games, people are playing from work.

fat_spartan · January 27, 2009, 9:31pm

I guess I was wrong. I just assumed that if someone were to install games like that on their work computers, somebody would notice and they'd get in trouble for it.

S02 · January 27, 2009, 9:37pm

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^ I would think so too. I don't know the circumstances obviously, so I suppose people may have personal laptops that they use for work or something. These games don't run well on laptops tho, so I doubt it.

fat_spartan · January 27, 2009, 9:43pm

If the specs of the laptop are adequate, I don't see why there would be a problem to run these types of games.

Malik_Zulfi · January 28, 2009, 4:56am

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Playing at job . . . Starnge . . . How can one spare time for games during work. . .

fat_spartan · January 28, 2009, 3:41pm

It's not about sparing time for games at work. It's playing when one is supposed to be working.