World of Warcraft : American professor to examine the use of propaganda and the environmental awareness of World of Warcraft

American professor to examine the use of propaganda and the environmental awareness of World of Warcraft
"World of Warcraft" is currently the world's most successful massively multiplayer online role-playing online games, by 11.5 million players worldwide favorite. When you realize how many people the world playing "World of Warcraft", you may think that if those 11.5 million people to change their way of life, become more environmentally friendly, will go a long way to change the planet.

This is also a professor at Stanford University in the United States Byron
Reeves's mind, and he also intends to put this idea a reality. Reeves pointed out that because of the "World of Warcraft" in a lot of activities are conducted in the form of the team, such as Raid or Association, may consider the entire team to measure the power consumption of their performance. If your team's energy use than many other teams, then your team's performance in the Games even more favorably.

This is obviously some far-fetched ideas. For example, measuring how the game's level of power consumption? Reeves Game companies usually recommend the use of billing data and then distributed to the power companies. The professor even though the feasibility of the proposal seems not high, but it is doubt that the influence of Warcraft players have been receiving increasing academic attention