WoW: Cataclysm Improves Social Skills - Scientist Study

There are a plenty of articles and organization talking that computer games are anti-social. However, a Swedish scientist wrote a new thesis shows that in the case of the popular online role playing game World of Warcraft that is far from the truth.

Peter Stenberg, an ethnologist from Umea University in Sweden, spent 250 days online playing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm in order to study the game. As a result, he released a thesis 'The serious game. On World of Warcraft and the Leakage'(Den allvarsamma leken. Om World of Warcraft och läckaget).

World of Warcraft has been called 'the cocaine of the computer games world' by Youth Care Foundation, an organization has been helping young people in Sweden recognize and manage computer gaming addiction for over two decades.

According to Peter Stenberg, there is a ‘leakage’ between the game world and the real world. The social relations and the persona players develop within the game often have an impact on real life.