So, someone known as Professor Nardi has managed to get the attention of the people at University of California Irvine to grant him $100,000 so that he could study World of Warcraft. This is what you can study in this modern age, yes, a PC game or the hottest PC game in the world.
According to this Professor Nardi, the reason why she wants to study World of Warcraft is because if this,
"Chinese people play the more challenging form of World of Warcraft almost exclusively. They find the less challenging form of the game ‘boring.’ Here, about 50 percent play the challenging form of the game and there, about 95 percent do."
The truth is, no one really sure why she would want to study that. I mean what is so interesting about studying the subject: World of Warcraft. It is a game and apparently she also wants to find out why the American games have more mods than the Chinese games.
Does it matter, really?
Perhaps she has a problem accepting the fact that the Americans and Chinese are different. Americans tend to be more lazy and therefore mods are there to help them play the game. On the other hand, without mods, the games can be boring especially when you can’t get pass a certain level.
It is frustrating so that is why mods are there and there is no further reasons to be studied. Another fact about the Chinese is that most of the WOW players play from the cyber cafes so it is not allowed to install mods on those PCs.
$100,000 is a lot of money and to be spent on studying a PC game? I think it is better off studying cure for cancer or help those needy people. I just can’t imagine what she would do with the money.