Computer Game accused of making players less violent

Another damn study of computer gamers has found that a session in front of World of Warcraft can calm and help people cope with stress, according to this ITNEWS article.

I'm not going to bother expounding on what the article said, you can just click the link above if you want to read it in its entirety, or if you're too lazy to click above, you can click here instead.

Just going to point out a couple of things, for those who are planning to use this new study to counter accussations about videogame-inspired violence.

First, the study used World of Warcraft. An MMORPG. The videogames normally blamed for inspiring violence in stupid kids are usually First Person and Third Person games such as Counterstrike, Grand Theft Auto, Quake, etc. Different games. while not mutually exclusive, and sometimes meet halfway, their target demographic can be very different.

Second and most important thing I'm going to point out, study team leader Jane Barnett from Middlesex University said, and I quote, "There were actually higher levels of relaxation before and after playing the game as opposed to experiencing anger, but this very much depended on personality type."

Way to totally negate the whole thing, jackholes. If a person started murdering nearby living beings after playing World of Warcraft, it's because of his personality type - he or she already had violent tendencies in the first place.

That is actually the argument they should use against people who accuse videogames of inciting violence: It depends on the personality type of the person concerned. I know I play a lot of violent videogames but I have never thought about murdering anyone other than that stupid noisy dude who sat in front of the bus this morning. God I wanted to spit on him and punch his face until it flew out the window!