WoW the Next "Golf"?

TheGrapeApe writes "1up has an article about the possibility of World of Warcraft becoming the next "Golf": A place where friends, acquaintances, and perhaps even business partners will meet up to "talk shop" and swap stories. Personally, I can't wait until I have my next job interview in the Deadmines. " I demand extra healing and mana pots from all my employees.

Not Gonna Happen!

[ABaumann]

golf is good because it's long walk long walk. It's not like people can make business contacts when people are screaming "OMFG! HEALZ!"

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Hellsing (60 Disc/Holy Priest) on Icecrown

In Related News

[Siberwulf]

Pepsi stock has taken a harsh beating today, after allegations of "Corpse Camping" by the Coke Guild. When approached for comments, Pepsi replied "AFK bio"

Yeah sure

[Anonymous Crowhead]

Gregarious people are surely going to trade face to face time for a game. "Hey, let's go get a beer after we play." "Ok, I'm headed up to my fridge, tell me when you got your beer and we'll have an online toast."

Bleh.

Undead Stratholme (with your Boss)

[the_tsi]

One guildie relates this story:

"My coworkers and I were in a particularly heated meeting recently. Our management team had thrown a ridiculous project our way, and later yelled at us for not completing it to their non-existant specifications. When we met to discuss possible ways to satisfy this lose-lose situation, no one had any plausible ideas. During a break in conversation, I said, 'What we need to do is five-man the Baron'.

At least four people present laughed, including my boss."

I know I saw the TeamSpeak icon on a coworker's laptop the other day, and came very close to asking him what game it was for. Boy, it would be disturbing finding out he was on the same server; especially if he were a member of the other faction...

Uhuh

[Hogwash McFly]

WoW is as much a substitute for a sport as it is for a social life.

Re:Heh...maybe

[IcyNeko]

Sure you can.

LFM for "Figures Exchange". Meetup at 2nd Floor Meeting Room Instance.

And Stock Market?

WTS 3x[STocks of CSCO]. 19.59 OBO!

I used to hang out with an old college buddy...

[CaseM]

via WoW. Until he met a girl and she kept him from hitting 60. What a loser.

Re:Not Gonna Happen!

[Frymaster]

golf is good because it's long walk long walk.

golf is good because you can cheat... or, more importantly, let your boss cheat. it's easy to turn the other way when the vp of sales kicks his titelist back onto the fairway.

in wow, however, such "curtousies" are hard to pull off.

remember, golf was invented so that upper management could feel good at something and so that we could have something to screw up deliberately to stroke their egos.

$subject

[Anonymous Coward]

Is $this the next $that? $publication is running an article that suggests that $this could become the next $that. $this mirrors that because $weak_correlation[0] and $weak_correlation[1]. Futhermore, $fluff_item[0] and $fluff_item[1]. In conclusion, $conclusion[int rand(10)].

u bai...

[daeg]

WTS [Foreign Worker][Foreign Worker][Foreign Worker] 20g OK?

Re:Spin, spin, spin

[bohemian72]

WoW the next Google!

What will WoW/Google do next?
The WoW OS
Google to map WoW

etc.

Can someone explain this...?

[AdamTrace]

From TFA:

"Warcraft is like a really, really well-designed UI for real-time, ad-hoc group collaboration and management of tons of people."

What exactly is he referring to, here? The guild/party window? Guild chat? Are those "really, really well designed"?

Am I missing something?

Re:Not Gonna Happen!

[the phantom]

You got the quote wrong. Golf is not a "long walk long walk;" it is a pleasant walkd through the park, ruined.

Re:new tool for HR

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

it would be the perfect way to determine if a prospective hire is a team player or a lone wolf

Employer: "... by the way do you play MMORPGs?"
Me: "Why yes I do"
Employer: "HELP SECURITY!!!"

But, you get to play golf with these guys...

[Gruneun]

The one that always has a new set of clubs and loves to talk about how great they are.
The one that's late for tee time and spends half the day on the phone, while everyone waits.
The one who pretty much sucks, but tells everyone how they should play the ball.

Oh, wait...

WoW is not Golf

[The-Bus]

If World of Warcraft was like golf, then WoW players would:

• obsess over every single detail of the game
  
• have others complain about wasting money on such a frivolous pasttime
  
• spend endless hours comparing equipment and bemoaning the lack of funds to acquire upgrades...

Wait a second...

Re:No

[Cyclopedian]

Choose a race. Choose a class. Choose a profession. Choose a guild. Choose a fucking big sword, choose rings, cloaks, engineering trinkets and electrical hats. Choose good HP, low SPI, and soulstones. Choose auction house re-selling. Choose a starter inn. Choose your friends. Choose twill and matching vendor trash weapons. Choose a three-piece armor set in a range of colors. Choose gold farming and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that AH bridge watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing n00b talk, stuffing fucking junk mage food into your mouth. Choose leveling away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable inn, nothing more than an blink to the selfish, fucked up alts you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose WoW... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose WoW. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got noggenfogger?

-Cyc

You bet it will...

[Harlow_B_Ashur]

... about the same time Linux rules the desktop.

Re:Heh...maybe

[skoaldipper]

It's not so hard to believe. Afterall, Illuminati high priests regularly meet with the Council on Foreign Relations members in Everquest 2.

Re:$subject

[Eightyford]

Holy mother of Linus, that was the nerdiest post I've ever seen. Congrats.

Imagine.. ..

[Arwing]

LeRoy, you are fired!!!!! but i didn't do anything.. ..

Deadmines?

[bombshelter13]

Anyone in a hiring position at the company should really have enough experience to be doing Molten Core instead.

Re:Undead Stratholme (with your Boss)

[John Hurliman]

What we need to do is five-man the Baron

I'm glad I play WoW and can understand that, otherwise the connotations could have been awful.

Re:Agreed

[I Like Pudding]

Funny, I assumed you were going to tell me you have a level 60 undead rogue on a PVP server the instant you said you were a "suit".

Re:$subject

[Aceticon]

Now i feel bad that i found the bug in his code ...