Online games? I’m too busy with all this porn

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

If you’ve seen the Emmy Award-winning South Park episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft”, you’ll have a pretty good idea how the mainstream media predominantly portrays online gamers.

From 21-hour daily sessions hunting boars just to level up; through acne, obesity and a descent into the use of “noob” and “pwned” in everyday, impenetrable conversation; to Cartman relieving himself at his PC into a bedpan held by his mother, it plays on pretty much every preconceived idea of online gamers. And it’s very, very funny.

Of course, this stereotype doesn’t quite hold up when you look at the sheer size of the subscriber base of games like World of Warcraft. (more…)