Reason #92 why World of Warcraft is better than real life
Posted on July 21, 2005 @ 11:17 am
What’s great about games like World of Warcraft is that there’s an incentive structure built into literally everything you do. Kill a bad guy, get a reward. Finish a quest, get a reward. Discover a new area, get a reward. Sadly, real life doesn’t measure up. In fact, there’s not much incentive to do anything in real life.
For instance, my wife and I are moving into a new townhouse next weekend. In real life, all we’ll come away with from the experience are a couple of sore backs and the satisfaction of having all of our junk piled in a different place than it was the day before. Big whoop.
If this were World of Warcraft, however, we’d be charged with escorting our precious cargo to New Townhouseshire and probably slaying any undead we encountered along the way. Oh, and the future of the Alliance would of course depend on the cargo’s safe delivery. If we successfully completed the quest, we’d both get like 5,800 experience points and an enchanted broadsword with +7 Agility.
As it stands, I don’t even have a sword in real life — much less an enchanted one.
That’s Reason #92 why World of Warcraft is better than real life.
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I hear that if you move into a tenement, you can get all kinds of weapons, potions too.
… which ties in nicely with a proposal of RPE, or Role-Playing Economics. RPE is a yet-theoretical system of economics in which taxation of the people exists for the sole purpose of funding the government’s role as omnipresent rewarder of deeds.
Dispensation of funds to worthy recipients is a responsibility delegated to several angencies, including the Board of Treacherous Exodii, the Quest Completion Agency, and the Bureau of Slain Pestilence.
All other government programs are sacked in this scenario. Government-sanctioned quests are available at Quest Distribution Offices throughout the nation. If today’s welfare recipient wants to survive in tomorrow’s economy, they can just go retrieve the Golden Arrow of Taman’Ra from Canada themselves.
… Or not.
“..and a enchanted broadsword..”
“..and an enchanted broadsword..”
if only… sigh…