WoW Gold : FCC Comissioner: World of Warcraft causes college dropouts
FCC Comissioner: World of Warcraft causes college dropouts Inspired by Thrall's birth to confront Gul'dan and ensure a safe world for his son, Durotan traveled to the encampment of his childhood friend Orgrim Doomhammer, now Warchief of the Horde. While he was able to convince Orgrim to help him stand up against Gul'dan, some of Orgrim's guard were spies for Gul'dan. They summoned assassins who trailed Durotan and Draka as they left Orgrim's camp and killed them both.
Oh boy. Deborah Tate is an FCC Commissioner (and will be for another three years at least -- she was appointed for another five year term in 2007), and claimed in a speech about telecom policy and regulation last week that "one of the top reasons for college drop-outs in the U.S. is online gaming addiction -- such as World of Warcraft -- which is played by 11 million individuals worldwide."
Never mind that World of Warcraft, is a game, not an addiction, and never mind that most of those 11 million people play it and are completely healthy socially and financially, and never mind even that any evidence you'd find that World of Warcraft causes dropouts is anecdotal at best. Can you really blame a game for someone making the choice to leave college? We, as you might have guessed, think not.
And there's more: Tate's Wikipedia page says that not only has she spoken out strongly in favor of DRM, and not only has she taken talking points directly from Clear Channel in trying to work on the Sirus/XM merger (a government official speaking the words of a corporation, that's just what we need), but she has also blamed television for childhood obesity. Nice one. One more reason why we are thrilled to see that we may finally get some folks in the FCC who actually know what they're talking about when it comes to online gaming.
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