Blizzard's World of Warcraft is the biggest MMORPG ever. So big, in fact, that everyone and his
mother is playing it… literally.
It used to be that a boy could play his favorite game all night and mean old Mom would be none the wiser about it.
But when WoW's so popular that Mom's playing too, Junior runs the risk of getting busted. In the thread linked below, little boy Brion makes a rather innocent-sounding forum post at 3:30 AM. Trouble is, his mother notices because she reads that same forum. She responds:
"Pardon me for hijacking the thread, here.. But, Brion - if you don't want your mother to know you were up and on the computer at 3:29 in the morning - DON'T post on a forum that she reads. Busted. Grounded."
Sure, she could have just told him he was grounded when she saw him in the morning, but where's the fun in that? Mommies feel the need to dish out occasional pwnage too. It's so much more 2005 to run your family virtually anyway.
"Son, go fetch me a switch… from Burning Woods."



















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This is significant. Families in the future will all be playing MMOGs together and what they do in games together may relate to the family hierarchy in ways that surprise us.
We're a blog, we can go interesting places. This may not interest you, but it interests others.
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if it's crap to you, why waste your time posting a negative comment? i see that all the time (no, not from you), and i'm just curious...
I like the varied posts on here, but there are always more than a few i skip over cause i'm not interested in them. just like there are reviews or previews i skip on IGN or gamespot.
this is a blog about videogames. that was a story about videogames. seems logical to me.
keep up the good work, joystiq, and i'll keep silently skipping the stuff that doesn't interest me.
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Sure the story is interesting, by why not tell your readers that you are going to see more of this in the future, where its not just going to be little johnny playing computer games but his mom and dad too.
Sorry if I offended anyone, Joystiq is great.
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That was his mom and she is just that fun. I know the family well :)
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THAT, my friends, is good parenting (and it makes for good news, too).
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=79c8840c34670edfa603fed22ccf5b38&threadid=1107178&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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I guess I would own my son if he did that, but the problem is that I would be up with him playing games like WoW at well past 3am......
I cant wait for him to play games.... (only a bit over a year old)
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Keep the negative comments to yourself. Articles like this are why I come to Joystiq. Gamespot? Wow. I assumed all people didn't like weeding through 5 dozen ads to get their gaming info. Perhaps I was wrong.
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John-Since you have so many good ideas on how to make it better you should give it a shot on your own. Knowing everything like you do it's sure to be a hit! If readers can't grab a theme that's not in the title then maybe the article isn't for them anyhow. Not every thing should need to be spelled out.
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I play with my kids all the time. I've never had to ground a kid in-game but I'd do it in a heartbeat if I had to. We do have a running gag where the looser at Halo2 has to use a profile named GrenadeMagnet with purple armor the next day, though. And that hint of the scent of scorched ego wafting past you means that today I'm not the one who has to wear it. ;)
Gaming families are going to become more and more the norm as gaming matures. And there's going to be some interesting adjustments made in games and in the gaming community.
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Is a SS if any body doubts it. The post is still active also here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-realm-cenarioncircle&T=145812&P=1
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One thing though, WoW is no where near as popular as Linneage 1 and 2, and possibly ragnarok.
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