GW in the Washington Post

And Kill Monsters

Here is a really cool article from the Washington Post about how families will use MMO's to keep in touch. They specifically note Guild Wars in the very beginning and even include a screenshot (which includes Stefan) of a family that plays it.

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Borrowed from the AB Forums:
http://www.theamazonbasin.com/forums...showtopic=9994

the link for the artical on washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...041902617.html

That article made me all warm inside.

That is a very good article. It is nice to see one that is not blasting gamers for being homacidal maniacs. To bad the "games are good" articles are so out numbered by the "games are teh evil" ones.

I personally play GW about 5 nights a week with my wife once we put our son to bed. There are a lot of people we don't tell about our gaming habits because they think that we are weird. Like for some reason sitting on a couch watching t.v. is so much better then playing a game together.

If that isn't just the sappiest article about computer gaming I've read in a while!
It was a nice read though.

Good article. Nice to read some good gaming news instead of yet another article harping on how GTA will destroy the children.

Also, great press for Anet and Guild Wars!

As opposed to many opinions, gaming is social and can create or tighten bonds. Now ill be off to convince my parents

soon the world shall dress like stefan

and fuzzy.

I wish my family played Guild Wars, discussing GvG over dinner would be awesome.

Wow

Great article... just goes to show a family that plays together stays together.

I play Guild Wars with my girlfriend.

My sister hates it, my father is way too busy, and my mother just doesn't understand it. So my immediate family is pretty much guaranteed not to be joining my Tyrian escapades. My cousins, now, they show promise.

I play to escape from my judgemental, superficial family.

I take comfort in the fact, that the authors of such articles probably just suck at games. Therefore, rather than learning to get better, they just say how evil they are. Unfortunately, since they don't spend their time gaming, they can spend it getting into positions of "authority". So we have to listen to their crap.

Yeah, this stuff does happen.
My hs principal (California)plays WoW with his 3 sons(Arizona, Rhode Island, Nev..

Thank god someone people will listen to said that.

Being somewhat old-fashioned, I'd be horrified to have my mom see some of the things people type ingame, but I can see where GW is perfect for some families. I'm also surprised to see video games represented in a good light.

I guess I agree with the Washington Post... so somewhere in hell, an imp just threw a snowball at one of the pigs flying by.

It's nice to see videogames are getting more legitimacy in todays world. I remember a decade ago when they were associated with anti-social computer geek hacker kids with big glasses. I expect in another decade all anti-social stigma will be gone.