Looks more orange than red to me...
Hilarious.
The Health Energy Potion promises gamers up to eight hours of energy, elderberry, ginseng, biotin and folic acid, and as much caffeine as two cans of Red Bull.
–New Health Potion Adds ‘+160 HP’ and Ginseng – Kotaku Australia.
Apparently, you’ve been drinking apple cinnamon Red Bull all these years.
It is like playing a giant game of telephone.
Accurate (The Guardian):
Game designer Raph Koster picked up on a forum thread about recruitment consultants and WoW.
Wrong stuff starts creeping in (Games Campus, which also wins a prize for the headline “How to be jobless in a down economy”):
Raph Koster at Massively picked up on a thread at the f13 forums in which we learn that a recruiter in the online media industry has been told by employers numerous times to straight-up avoid World of Warcraft players as potential hires.
Completely wrong (Softpedia):
Employers Don’t Like World of Warcraft Players
They make bad employeesOnline gaming journalist Raph Koster has posted on his blog a statement he received from a job recruitment consultant accurately showing that even though some people cite the leadership experience gained from establishing a guild in WoW, employers tend to avoid such persons.
Not only did this little story bring down the blog, but it also managed to reach the Times of London, Silicon Valley Insider, etc etc. Yeesh.
Of course, this comment on BoingBoing did crack me up:
Spotted this on the f13 forums:
I met with a recruiter recently (online media industry) and in conversation I happened to mention I’d spent way too much time in the early 2000s playing online games, which I described as “the ones before World of Warcraft” (I went nuts for EQ1, SWG and the start of WoW, but since 2006 I have only put a handful of days into MMOG playing – as opposed to discussing them – I’ve obsessed over bicycles and cycling instead).
He replied that employers specifically instruct him not to send them World of Warcraft players. He said there is a belief that WoW players cannot give 100% because their focus is elsewhere, their sleeping patterns are often not great, etc. 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.
I think the funniest bit is all the MMOG players in the thread agreeing with the recruiter…
We always said that it would happen, that eventually the non-gamers would start to age out of the population, and we would be at a place where games would be more accepted as a mainstream entertainment medium simply because most people would have engaged in gaming. Well, we’re officially there now with the news that over half of American adults are gamers.
More than half of American adults play video games and one in five play just about every day, according to a survey released Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The survey of 2,054 U.S. adults was conducted late last year, with a margin of error of about 2 percent.
People from all walks of life play, though younger adults are far more likely to play than seniors, proof that video games are mainstream entertainment for the generations that grew up with them. In all, 81 percent of respondents between 18 and 29 said they play games, compared with 23 percent of people 65 and older.
–breaking news – national news – world news – azcentral.com.
There are additional interesting stats in there — higher education seems to be correlated with more play, not less; and basically all teens are gamers. There’s also interesting stuff around gamers with kids.
Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted.
So says Keith Bakker the founder and head of Europe’s first and only clinic to treat gaming addicts.
Via TerraNova, where there is further discussion.
