Comments on: World of Warcraft trains your brain

By: John Wills/J. Francis

John Wills/J. Francis — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:55:27 +0000

I am a writer and author and also an avid player of World Of Warcraft, better known to the over eleven million online players as WoW. While researching for an upcoming article in a series I am doing on senior citizens exercising their brains I came across this post. For those of you that know the game I have played since the days of BC, for those of you that don’t; that’s a long time. Oh; and did I mention that I’m also 68 years old? Which ranks me among some of the oldest players, but not the oldest by any stretch of the imagination. Among other things WoW and mmorpg’s like it keep us thinking, not evil thoughts, just constantly thinking, and that thinking helps to exercise our brains weather young or old exercising our brains is as important as keeping our muscles in shape. So do as I do and the next time someone yells from the next room and I’m playing WoW, asking me what I’m doing. I simply impress them with. “Just exercising my brain.” And if you happen to be an Alliance player you can check us out at – outofmanaonline.com – Our guild is Out Of Mana on the steamwheedle Cartel Server, and My toon is an iLevel 388 hunter named Gourgon, who just happens to be the GM for our guild, as well as the site administrator for our website. So people – NO THE GAME IS NOT EVIL.

By: maul

maul — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:51:48 +0000

I think that computer games have a more detrimental effect on people’s brains than regular video games played on a larger screen. There’s something about playing wow that just completely drains your energy, especially played on a small monitor. The amount of time required to get anything done in blizzard games is also the problem. You can play for 3-4 hours and accomplish zilch, so obviously when you get up to do something else your mind is fried. All your adrenaline is gone and it takes just as long to get it back.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:29:41 +0000

I think it only improves skills indirectly, and not as fast as upfront learning these skills. WoW is a great game, but I don’t learn anything from it.

By: Neal

Neal — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:13:45 +0000

Props where props are due; that was a snarky comeback! There may be hope…

By: Paul Raven

Paul Raven — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:49:22 +0000

Booking my trip to the burns unit as I type.