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...drawls. “Like Harry Potter.”It’s an apt comparison. Like the ubiquitous bespectacled boy wonder, World of Warcraft (WoW) is a hugely popular “massively multiplayer online role-playing game” (MMORPG) that asks its participants to imagine an alternative reality where the inhabitants aren’t your friends and suite-mates, but rather strangers huddled around computers hundreds of miles away. But while—Facebook groups aside—most “Harry Potter” readers have no illusions of actually attending Hogwarts, Harvard?...
...Padnick says.A BREAK FROM REALITY?But while video games play roles of varying sizes in students’ lives, they tend to not consume them. Kacey C. Abaraoha ’08 currently spends three or four hours each day playing the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) “World of Warcraft.” MMORPGs like this and “EverQuest” allow players to create digital characters that interact with those of other players in a fully functioning virtual world.Players in these games often form coalitions known as “guilds?...
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