Video Games Changing the Workplace

kwolf22 writes "Last night, Marketplace aired the story: The New Video Frontier (audio available). From the show description : 'Host David Brown talks to author Mitchell Wade (Got Game: How the Gamer Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever) about the video game industry and how first person shooter games will change workplace dynamics for the next generation of employees.' Mr. Wade brings up some interesting points about how persistance in gaming translates to persistance on the job."

Bosh!

[Gothic_Walrus]

FPS games aren't related to the workplace any more than Tetris, hockey, tiddlywinks, or llamas are.

I mean, how often do you have to save the world from your boss, who just happens to be a hellspawned demon who lurks below the building within flunky-filled caverns and throws fireballs around for fun?

Re:Bosh!

[AuMatar]

Well, the boss as a hellspawned demon part sounds about right.

Re:Bosh!

[arcanumas]

You work in our company too?
In our company's basement there is a door that is labeled "Boss only".
Though we are not allowed to go in, we occationally hear swooshing sounds and hellish screams as though they came from imps and cacodemons (as if such creatures existed).

Some times my boss walks around with some large Blue , Yellow and Red cards. I have even seen him turn around and getting his yellow card before opening a yellow door. I don't know why.

Once he even asked if i knew where his BFG9000 was. WTF is a BFG9000? Boss must be crazy.
However, the worst thing is when he asked my when re-enforments from Earth were coming. Where does he think he is? Mars? haha.

I have no doubt the boss is crazy. I mean, who keeps a machine chainsaw in his office?

Re:Bosh!

[Celorfin Jr'ent]

I mean, who keeps a machine chainsaw in his office?

What? You don't do that? Huh...

Re:Bosh!

[Yer Mom]

I have no doubt the boss is crazy. I mean, who keeps a machine chainsaw in his office?

The sysadmin, given half a chance.

Re:Bosh!

[webagogue]

Two words - "Going Postal." Take from it what you will.

Re:Bosh!

[b0r0din]

FPS games aren't related to the workplace any more than Tetris, hockey, tiddlywinks, or llamas are.

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Already changed my workplace

[Pan T. Hose]

Video games have already changed my workplace--I had to change my workplace after I was cought playing video games during work time. But more seriously, I have been using game theory [wikipedia.org] while organising the cubicle space, which worker should be a neighbour of which worker, et cetera, for quite some time now with some success, and I have observed that prisoner's dilemma [wikipedia.org] could be called "cubicle worker dilemma" just as well, for it proves surprisingly effective when applied to this kind of environment where peop

first person shooter / workplace dynamics

[EnronHaliburton2004]

first person shooter games will change workplace dynamics

You mean like people running around the office shooting anything that moves? Or when Management runs around and fires anyone who complains?

Sounds like Baaaad workplace dynamics... I'd uninstall it if I were you.

How to use automatic weapons?

[sideshow]

I didn't read the fucking article, but I not sure how the two mix.

Richard Chesler : [Reading a piece of paper] "The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club?"
Narrator : [Voice-over] I'm half asleep again; I must've left the original in the copy machine.
Richard Chesler : "The second rule of Fight Club" - is this yours?
Narrator : Huh?
Richard Chesler : Pretend you're me, make a managerial decision: you find this, what would you do?
Narrator : [pauses] Well, I gotta tell you: I'd be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that... is dangerous.
[Gets up from the chair]
Narrator : [Talking slowly] And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.
Narrator : [Voice-over] Tyler's words coming out of my mouth.
[Snatches the piece of paper from boss' hands]
Narrator : [Voice-over] And I used to be such a nice guy.
Narrator : Or maybe you shouldn't bring me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up.
[Phone rings]
Narrator : [Into phone] Compliance and Liability... ?
Marla Singer : My tit's gonna rot off.
Narrator : [to boss] Would you excuse me? I need to take this.

Gamers enjoy talking to other gamers!

[Numeric]

Today, I was in a meeting and one of the project managers decided to stop by. This was a technical meeting (the PM doesn't have any techincal background) but he wanted to see if we needed anything. Towards the end of the meeting, he was talking about he was a geek and he spent most of his evenings playing World of Warcraft Beta and I told him that I belong to the Beta program as well. We talked "offline" and we are going to try and arrange to play together sometime.

This will give me some extra time to talk to him and just get to know him better. He is the client and I am his contractor. I believe this will help the project since we both will have spent time together outside cubicle land and we don't always have to talk business.

Re:Gamers enjoy talking to other gamers!

[TyfStar]

Okay, yes, Gamers enjoy talking to other gamers. But here's the problem: Gamers are becoming too specialized. Understand my office: 12 men over age 40. and me, 25, female. We all like video games. I did Doom2 a little. They all bought Halo2. I have only stopped playing City of Heroes to pick up WoW. The only guy that's closer to me is playing GTA.. the new one. It's no longer "oh, you play games too?" It's "Okay, do you play games like me?" Too bad, too. I was so close....

Re:Gamers enjoy talking to other gamers!

[Kehvarl]

Let me get this striaght, you're female, you game, you post on slashdot, and you don't get modded up? Did we undergo some sort of cultural revolution while I was actually working?

pretending

[Psmylie]

See, video games translate directly into my work life. I just pretend that my job is really an MMORPG. I make believe that I'm level grinding, and that every dull, stupid little task I finish is just a little bit more xp. Every once in a while, I pretend I level up (ding! level 29 Desk Jockey!). I'll reward myself with a few items out of the supply cabinet

If I'm really lucky, I can get through the entire day before I remember how pathetic this is.

Re:pretending

[bckrispi]

I don't know why, but somehow that struck me as one of the most profound things I've read in a long time. :) I wish I had mod points for ya!

Halo 2 is checking

[Fiz Ocelot]

From the site:

Anyone bothered to check the halo2 .xbe ? 0x0041158C, "XboxHardwareInfo" 0x00411594, "XboxKrnlVersion" 0x00411770, "HalDiskSerialNumber" 0x00411774, "HalDiskModelNumber" etc

That's it, just package this checking code into the most popular xbox live game and that's it...I think they should have at least given some kind of warning though.

Someone should take a cue from Halo

[centauri]

And make work computers a lot more attractive.

Re:Someone should take a cue from Halo

[centauri]

Tricky business. How do you know you're not too much of an idiot to realize how much of an idiot you are?

They forgot to mention

[wrinkledshirt]

They forgot to mention that video games, particularly the good ones, are changing the workplace by causing many people to not actually show up.