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This is a pretty interesting story, and speaks to the oft-cited leadership and goal-pursuing qualities that playing a major MMO can foster. On the other hand,
by david_shaw 11y ago
This is a pretty interesting story, and speaks to the oft-cited leadership and goal-pursuing qualities that playing a major MMO can foster.
On the other hand, like many others, I've also seen brilliant developers seriously stagnate their careers thanks to video game obsessions.
I got a kick out of this tidbit, too:
> In fact, Glassdoor wouldn't even be around if it weren't for StarCraft's older, sister game, World of Warcraft, he tells us.
I think the journalist is either confusing WoW and Starcraft 2, or was talking about the Warcraft vs. Starcraft series in general.
- personjerry 11y agoIn that context, the word "StarCraft" referred to Starcraft 2, because the author had previously been talking about the playing of Starcraft 2.
- Aardwolf 11y agoI agree that this is bad quality. The order of games was: WarCraft I, WarCraft II, StarCraft, WarCraft III, World of WarCraft, (... much later ...), StarCraft II
- jmngomes 11y agoI think the "confusion" stems from the fact that this article is basically at the same level of quality as any other by Business Insider, i.e. void of content and filled with the traditional hype/BS on "how to be a phenomenal founder", "what entrepreneurs do during their 60hr work day", "how to learn to code", "how to build a startup without learning to code", etc...
- thirsteh 11y agoGenerally, there's a good chance that most of these kinds of "Wtf?" logic errors are on the part of the journalist, not the person being interviewed. In the U.S, journalists don't send drafts over for comments, and rarely change published material, so there's little opportunity to get misleading stuff corrected.
- kendallpark 11y agoYeah. That line was like, WTF. I don't think anyone considers WoW the same game as Warcraft. I think the author meant Starcraft 2.
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