Korean Mothers & MMORPGs
April 22nd, 2006
ClanBase link to this gem from the study group for gaming culture in Korea: many Korean mothers are power-levelling their children’s characters so that “their daughters and sons can enjoy respectable status in the virtual world without sacrificing their schooling advancement”.
As you well know, many online games require intensive time-consuming for advancing the level. The power leveling or grinding, “level No-ga-da” in Korean language, is the basic part for lots of games. If you want to be the best in the game, “Ji-Jone(至尊)” in Korean language, you should pour as many hours into game as possible. This nature of online games is also strongly present in games tuned for kids. They do never find enough times both for studying and playing hard.
What is solution for this conflict? Let me do your power leveling, kid!
ClanBase isn’t usually a site that I would read for gaming-related news, but they have surpassed themselves lately with some quality articles. They also bring the news that MTV has partnered with Snoop Dogg’s gaming league.
When I first heard that about this elite xbox gaming league for hip hop stars, I laughed out loud. I can’t understand why so many gamers were so vehemently opposed to the concept, it sounds great to me. “We’re going to take this thing straight over the stratosphere, and the whole world can watch and participate as people like myself - who hate to lose - put it on the line.” Knowing MTV, I’ll probably be watching this for six hours a day between Pimp My Ride and Pimp My Ride UK.
The player line-up for the inaugural season includes personalities from the worlds of hip-hop, sports and entertainment, including Paul Wall, Just Blaze, Twista, David Banner, Krayzie Bone of Grammy winners Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony, MLS Star Cobi Jones, Murs, Kaine of the Ying Yang Twins, NBA Star Jalen Rose, Fredwreck, BReal of Cypress Hill, Eric V. of the Baka Boyz and Method Man.
My money is on the guy from Cypress hill, as it has been reported that he’ll “jack your ass like a looter in a riot”. Snoop mentions that the league will expand in future seasons.
Carmac’s article about the death of Quake echoes my own thoughts from last month that we are flogging a dead horse. He rightly asserts that the whole deathmatch genre is dying out, with Unreal Tournament 2007 likely to be the final offering. Its a shame, but after 10 years, the public has decided that it would rather play Paris Hilton video games.
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