Does Extensive World of Warcraft Make You dUmBer?

[General Vezax]

If anything, the act of playing WoW only makes you smarter. You follow directions, memorize formulas, and actively think about armor setups and what you are going to do. Raid leaders and Guild masters work to lead a group of people, etc

[Deleted]

It depends who you play with and what you do/talk about when you're playing

[Chadwixx]

Not sure but i know it makes you really bad at action type games.

[Callace]

You perhaps.

Just call me stupid to my face next time, rephrasing it as a response to the question doesn't make your comment any more clever, but it does make you as much of a troll as you are a flamer.

[blizzardcashshop]

gaming improves hand-eye coordination

[Callace]

Not sure but i know it makes you really bad at action type games.

I've actually noticed I'm better at action type games after doing serious raiding. I think the hardest content in WoW is actually more challenging than most games.

---------- Post added 2011-03-08 at 09:51 PM ----------

gaming improves hand-eye coordination

Most def, does that indirectly improve intelligence though? I'm not sure.

[Zorgen]

Playing a game will not cause brain damage/memory loss, staring at a computer monitor for hours on end will cause eye damage how ever.

[Mixon]

look at wow now and wow in the past, we must be getting dumber for the game to have to be this much easier.

[Arrowstormen]

you can be creative and smart in WoW if you wanna, like, dont read up tacs, try to figure them out through wipes and such, and then stop up and think "hmm, what went wrong, and how do we prevent it?". that kind of thinking makes you smart.
advanced PvP can also demand brain, for tacs, coordination and such.
Soloing can, if you go for the extreme kind, also demand alot, like the rogue who did Patchwerk on 25man, he used alot of time on planning it.
really, you only get dumber by playing WoW if you dont do something that demands some little brain.

---------- Post added 2011-03-08 at 10:58 PM ----------

look at wow now and wow in the past, we must be getting dumber for the game to have to be this much easier.

lololol.
old times was cake, the bosses had really easy tacs, like, some of them had two mechanics you should watch out for. Karazhan was amazingly easy, compared to now.

[BoomChickn]

I would say no, at least directly. If you would fill the time with other mental exercises, yes. But it definitely does things for your vocabulary, several times I have won a scrabble game (lolscrabble) from a word I learned in wow. Not to mention theorycraft can be pretty good for your mind.

[Callace]

look at wow now and wow in the past, we must be getting dumber for the game to have to be this much easier.

You might be confusing challenge with grind.

[Zeppelin535]

my eyesight is terrible now.

^ This. But, in terms of intellect, I picked the first option. I enjoy the theorycrafting, number crunching side of the game a great deal. Also, the strategic aspect of end game content must be intellectually stimulating in some way. It is certiantly far more stimulating than watching TV, which is a passive experience. Studies have also shown video gamers have generally improved hand-eye coordination and are more apt at recognizing a particular object in a field of numerous objects.

[Pocketzest]

i say
wUT?