In a pleasing reversal of the usual “EverQuest destroyed my marriage” story, the BBC has highlighted stories where World of Warcraft has brought families close together.
Covering relationships which led “as I’m sure you can imagine cybersex”, students leaving home and a father working on business far away, it paints a picture of Warcraft as a way of staying in touch with friends and family.
I’m all in favour of seeing games in a positive light. It definitely beats “Death by PlayStation”, but it doesn’t seem as if games have been fully accepted as normal part of our everyday lives either.
Surely, when games are part of our lives, these stories won’t exist. In the same way that no-one would write a story headlined “Relationships are being struck up in modern meeting places known as “bars””.
What do you think? Should this kind of story really be news?
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