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WoW is a massively multiplayer role playing game
a night elf priest, pve
a dwarf paladin, pvp
Player culture in World of Warcraft learning
making the game more fun tailoring game style
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Learning to Play

• No teacher, coach, school, tutorial, online help
• Peer-produced resources distributed across
  players and the Internet
• ask anyone a question, even a stranger
• look questions up on the Internet
• (player-produced guides, FAQs, forums, blogs)

Fishin Aint For Wimps This article was written
by Abrams, 60 Dwarf Hunter, member of CoL Guild,
MalGanis PvP Server.
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Learning to Play

• Players instruct others during play
• Zoros use sunder armor to take aggro from us
  cold
• Coldnight i don't have sunder armor
• Zoros u should lol

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A conga line at a guild slumber party using
the follow command
Making the Game More Fun
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Tailoring game style

• Guilds encompass diverse dimensions
• region/country
• family-style play
• very competitive play
• religion
• ethnicity
• We welcome all players as long as they can
  respect our
• standards(i.e., no dirty language/swearing). If
  you wish to
• have fun in a clean gaming environment, contact
  us.
• Church of the Latter Day Saints Guild

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Beyond World of Warcraft

• Learning where peers are important
  Games for
• after school clubs elderly
• libraries reduced mobility
• home schooling corporate team building
• unschooling
• corporate training