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Eviance · Sep 14, 2006, 12:44 AM // 00:44

Aww that article was touching, especially the last part!
*sighs* I guess GW might be the only way for my husband and I to be together if he gets his internship in the summer. And yes, better and cheaper than phone calls usually!

Set · Sep 14, 2006, 01:14 AM // 01:14

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Originally Posted by The Admins Bane

Deleting double posts is easy - go edit/then choose the delete option

Gaming gets bad press because bed press sales more then happy stories do..simple fact

Ya, I was trying to figure that out... senior moment I guess.

some guy · Sep 14, 2006, 01:20 AM // 01:20

Here is a story about my mom:

When I was small, my cousin showed me the wonderful world of gaming, yes I played Doom and Quake when I was five.

My mom always shouted at me, "go do your home work", "study now no play". As I grew my curousity for gaming increased, but it did not overtake my life, I get good grades in school, join sports teams. To my surprise my mom changed too, she's gone from anti gaming to pro gaming, she believes gaming is not all bad, it can make you smarter in a way as long as you are not addicted to it.

Set · Sep 14, 2006, 01:40 AM // 01:40

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Originally Posted by Poison Ivy

I'm still trying to get my grandpa to farm in GW for me, it's going pretty good, except he created his own character and is siphoning all my gold for his armor XD

We've had people over 60 playing in our guild... so they're out there.

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Originally Posted by Eviance

My husband and I play GW together and my son (the 6yr old) really wants to play, but since he can't read very well I wont let him yet. As soon as he can read a bit better I am very inclined to buy him his own PC and get GW for him.
However at least once a week we sit down with the PS2 or Gamecube and play something as a family for several hours.

Just thinking, playing games like Guild Wars has helped my typing, reading, and spelling skills. Being the leader of my own guild, the guys love to hound me when I misspell something. Yet another positive thing that comes out of gaming that bad press doesn't recognize. Not to mention the hand and eye coordination envolved.

This is great, I wish I could reply to all of the posts... I just read everyone so far and it puts a smile on my face. I'm glad that people can share the joy, excitment, and benefits of online gaming. It's also really touching to see that people have bonded with family members that have since past, and that they actually apprecaited the gaming time together while it lasted. All I have to say is it takes a special group of people to make the time for eachother like that.

Keep the posts coming!!! Let's show them that gamerz rock, and have family values too!!!

unmatchedfury · Sep 14, 2006, 02:47 AM // 02:47

Neither of my family apreaciates games very much. My mother loves to use computers for work (shes a teacher) but belives games are a waste of time.

one of my brothers has already devoted his life to soccer (we're soccer referees together)

my youngest brother is just like me though, he likes the imagination involved in games and i have to remind him alot of times that it is.. just a game and not to get upset at losing. =/

My father believes firmly that any game that isnt a Airplane/piolot simulation is of the devil and a horrid waste of time not deserving of anything over and hour or so a week.

I got started into games my good o'l starcraft when i was twelve years old or so. I then bought diablo 2 and warcraft 3 and played them quite a bit untill buying guildwars. Guild wars is my first non-Blizzerd game and i have enjoyed the smaller company feel, although i know its not really small, the only thing i miss is the culture and connectivity of blizzard games. lotta official forums and things like that.

the Main reason i like game ( I'm writing the story of my life here it seems) is because of been in love with art and drawing as long as i can remember, playing a game were i can observe other peopels artwork with a (if I do say so myself) practiced eye is most of the fun of playing.

Set · Sep 14, 2006, 01:45 PM // 13:45

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Originally Posted by unmatchedfury

Neither of my family apreaciates games very much. My mother loves to use computers for work (shes a teacher) but belives games are a waste of time.

That's funny, I met a lot of teachers online that play games too. In fact I always see the MATH guild winning HOH. With articles like this describing how bad simple spelling and grammar skills are teachers need to think of different ways to reach today's students:
http://education.independent.co.uk/n...icle340014.ece

Let me start by saying I work in education as well (at a Community College in MI). One of the biggest challenges for teachers now a days is how to reach today's students. They could leverage gaming to relate/teach students in a creative sense. To an extent, as I mentioned above we teach ourselves spelling and grammar skills the more we play online. You can't just type in nonsense and expect not to get flamed by someone. I'm not saying it's right to flame people, but just that I see it happen all the time in the local channels.

Anyway... this is going off on a separate topic in a way. Yes anything in excess is bad, because you shouldn't focus all your energy on one subject. However, people should try to change their paradigm that all gaming is bad, and there's nothing to learn from it. Course there is yet another factor, people have to want to change in order to learn.

Eviance · Sep 14, 2006, 06:45 PM // 18:45

Set I just dont want to come back to my storage being emptied by my son cause he doesn't know better.... My husband was all kinds of upset when he realized that our son (4 at the time) had erased all of his FF10 saves and so many others.... But yeah since the internet my typing speed has improved, but I think my grammar and spelling have gone downhill lol XD ESPECIALLY once I started gaming. My son has a great memory and so for most games he memorizes what daddy did and follows through instead of reading it or the skills. I've let him farm charr once but that was about it. He usually recognizes the cities we are in as well just from memory. Everytime we get the money we go and get a couple of new games to make it more challenging for him. Right now my son has snatched my game Magna Carta -_- It sucks when he gets so far ahead of me that I no longer want to play >_<

Right now he is grounded, cause while I've been sick he's been playing non stop other than when he is wrecking my livingroom and dining room. He was supposed to stop playing for 30mins and pick up the mess... He failed all day to do so, so he's grounded!

The truth itself · Sep 14, 2006, 07:22 PM // 19:22

Guild Wars has Socialistic interface.

And they don't enforce the statement "You are your own lucks crafter", which is a bad translation of a typical Liberal statement.

Set · Sep 15, 2006, 01:05 AM // 01:05

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Originally Posted by Eviance

Set I just dont want to come back to my storage being emptied by my son cause he doesn't know better.... My husband was all kinds of upset when he realized that our son (4 at the time) had erased all of his FF10 saves and so many others.... But yeah since the internet my typing speed has improved, but I think my grammar and spelling have gone downhill lol XD ESPECIALLY once I started gaming. My son has a great memory and so for most games he memorizes what daddy did and follows through instead of reading it or the skills. I've let him farm charr once but that was about it. He usually recognizes the cities we are in as well just from memory. Everytime we get the money we go and get a couple of new games to make it more challenging for him. Right now my son has snatched my game Magna Carta -_- It sucks when he gets so far ahead of me that I no longer want to play >_<

Right now he is grounded, cause while I've been sick he's been playing non stop other than when he is wrecking my livingroom and dining room. He was supposed to stop playing for 30mins and pick up the mess... He failed all day to do so, so he's grounded!

That shouldn't be a problem with sharing accounts.... the User Agreement [section 4 (a)] states that you can't share accounts. http://www.guildwars.com/support/leg...-agreement.php

BTW, how are you suppose to catch up when you're busy cleaning his mess? LOL...

I have two girls and I totally understand what you're saying. I don't know if they would be ready for Guild Wars yet. One is 5 and the other is almost 2.

I just wanted to state that there are things they could learn. For example, I've been wondering all day about that MATH guild. I wonder if they calculate the probablilities of the different builds they come in contact with, or maybe calculate the best way to build and create a PVP character via the skill timing, and cost. Interesting... I guess there's all different ways to look at this stuff.

Malice Black · Sep 15, 2006, 01:45 AM // 01:45

I use to be a chat room fanatic back when i had AOhell, my spelling, grammar and typing speed improved over the years.

BTW, im not sure if MATH are really math teachers..they are fairly good but dont win that much anymore since IWay got nerfed.

Tainek · Sep 15, 2006, 08:10 AM // 08:10

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Originally Posted by lg5000

As for playing with him, due to us sharing one computer, that's not really happening. I'm trying to justify getting a 10yr old his own computer.. but.. he IS only 10

Me My Brother and My Sister all had computers from the age of four, we were all started off on text based adventures (Space Quest 1-6 , Kings quest ect), by the time i was 8 i had the reading age of a 15 year old

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I think computers are good for young children, but they should not be State of the art, and more importently The Child should Set Up the Computer

If the child wants to use the computer , the child will learn (and if i could install windows 95 at 8, your can do the diddle that is windows XP at 10

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Children today are too used to on demand entertainment, this teaches they need to do work before they can enjoy somthing

Kitharin · Sep 15, 2006, 09:13 AM // 09:13

GW is the first online game ive played and i have to say its great for binging people together! I've got my boyfriend playing and recently got my mates who have now all gone to Uni to join in. It's helping keep us in contact - meeting up in the game is kinda like in real life! tonight i shall be gaming with friends who untill a few weeks ago lived down the road from me - now they are in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland. not to mention the meny wonderful and helpful people i have met through the game from arround the world

Its helped my faimily too - my Sister and i no longer want to kill eachother, she plays with her bloke and we have a shared intrest to talk about, wich is really nice.

Computer gaming has really replaced stuff like bordgames and they were a family activity so i dont see why gaming cant be too.

Set · Sep 21, 2006, 02:37 PM // 14:37

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Originally Posted by Kitharin

Its helped my faimily too - my Sister and i no longer want to kill eachother, she plays with her bloke and we have a shared intrest to talk about, wich is really nice.

Ahh... sibling rivalry. We have a brother and sister in our guild, and it's fun to do mock up GVGs so that they can go head to head. They prefer to be on different teams so they can fight each other. It's actually really fun.