Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children

Re:Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive perf... by carlhjerpe on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:45AM (#33355335)

I owe my career to World of Warcraft. Started running my own server in 2008 when the burning crusade was released on my ADSL connection for friends, then I started "scripting" shit in C++ (server software is a good framework (CMaNGOS)), so while it was compiled in it wasn't really like writing C++, never had to think about ownership, threading, lifetimes etc...

Eventually I stared messing about more inside the framework, now I work as an SRE for a streaming service. Never pursued software development as I thought I was too stupid, and now pay would be too shite as a junior dev :)

In a sense Blizzard entertainment just happened to "save my life" (I'm certain I would have a dogshit life without this, many reasons).

I think more games should embrace modding like Blizzard games do/did with maps, workshops (while not being minecraft).

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Re:Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive perf... by nkrisc on Thursday October 27, 2022 @06:45AM (#33355703)

Blizzard doesn’t embrace what you did, running a private WoW server. If they could have, they’d have shut you down. Certainly though it sounds as if your server was simply too small for them to ever notice. They focused their legal efforts against large private servers that sold access.

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Re:Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive perf... by carlhjerpe on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:28AM (#33356021)

Yeah in the WoW case they didn't embrace it, but Warcraft and Overwatch has workshop solutions, that's what I was referring to. (Understand since I didn't mention it that it wasn't obvious, wrote the reply on my phone).

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