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Liberal College Professor goes too far: A WoW economics course?

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The Liberal establishment is seeking to jump on the degenerate bandwagon that is video games, by proposing an academic course on the economics of World of Warcraft (WoW), Earth's most popular game.
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Published: 338 days 16 hours ago | News | Gaming | PC
 
 

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tplarkin7 - 338 days 15 hours ago
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1 - Joke?
I can't tell if the article is being sarcastic. But, liberal professors teach far worse things than WoW economics.
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kwicksandz - 338 days 13 hours ago
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Console fanboys and MMO haters aside, there is quite a lot of depth to WoW and its economy. Its a very good model to show the laws of supply and demand cause whenever a new patch comes out buffing/nerfing a profession the prices will change to reflect new levels of demand.

Hell id like to see a course on the effects of inflation of daily quests, and superior gold rewards from regular quests.
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SaiyanFury - 338 days ago
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Yes, they do teach far worse things. The funny thing is the term "liberal" refers to a person who is open to new ideas and open-minded. Modern far lefties will jump down your throat if you happen to be even the least bit conservative and will quickly prejudge you as a "redneck" or "racist" or "homophobic" just because you might have a different viewpoint even if you're none of those descriptors. They just want to discredit you and see you slink from the room.

WoW is a game, nothing more. If this guy wants to make a course to try to pervert the game into something that it's not, then let him be damned.
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FantasyStar - 338 days 14 hours ago
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2 - We can no longer accept these blatant and politically motivated attempts to turn our youth into mindless, video game-playing zombies who constantly vote for Communists like Obama
Wow, I'd love to meet this author so I can smack him one for comparing me to a communist.
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Mike Ox Big - 338 days 14 hours ago
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What! of course it's a joke, how did this get approved?

"Of course these bosses are not malevolent at all. They are fine and upstanding figures who merely wish to spread their righteous values around the world (e.g. WoW’s latest progenitor is the Lich King, who seems to be considered worthy of assault simply because of his unwavering belief in unfettered plagues and the triumph of the Scourge – cynical substitutes for capitalism and democracy respectively)."
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running rampid - 338 days 13 hours ago
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is this a true story or is it fake?
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zagibu - 338 days 9 hours ago
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Advanced course could cover EVE:Online, which actually HAS a completely player-based economy (there are supposed to be no NPC sellers, everything is player-produced, they say).
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