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From 3/07/12 - Nearly 6 Million Years of World of Warcraft Healthy for Players' Brains By one analyst's calculation, the 11 million or so registered users of t
by digitalboss 13y ago
From 3/07/12 - Nearly 6 Million Years of World of Warcraft Healthy for Players' Brains
By one analyst's calculation, the 11 million or so registered users of the online role-playing fantasy World of Warcraft collectively have spent as much time playing the game since its introduction in 2004 as humanity spent evolving as a species-about 50 billion hours of game time, which adds up to about 5.9 million years.
http://kotaku.com/5891421/nearly-6-million-years-of-world-of-wacraft-healthy-for-players-brains http://kotaku.com/5891421/nearly-6-million-years-of-world-of...
- npsimons 13y agoHuh. This started ringing some bells, and sure enough, there was a previous HN thread on similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4624090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4624090 TLDR my response: don't be so judgmental.