1.
WORLD OF
WARCRAFT
LEISURE PROJECT
ANH VAN NGUYEN
REC 3202- 2 WINTER 2013

2.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT
• First version of world of Warcraft named Warcraft were introduced
in 1994.
• World of Warcraft is the four version of Warcraft universe.
• In 2007, this is a popular massively multiplayer online playing game
(Corneliussen, Hilde, and Jill Walker Rettberg, 1)
• Players play twenty four hours a week in 2006.

3.
BENEFITS OF VIDEO GAMES?
• Hours of Intense Play Change the Adult Brain
• Better Multitasking
• Better Decision-Making
• Creativity
• Enhance vision at night.

4.
WHY ARE TRADITIONAL MEN PREDOMINANT IN
VIDEO GAMES?
• Men play it because:
-Interesting storyline.
-Provide speed, violence, and sport which are activities
associated with men’s preference.
-Explore fantasy
-Communicate with other players like a real society.

5.
WHY ARE NOT TRADITIONAL WOMEN?
• “Girls do not really like computer game”.
• In the 1980 and early 1990, early computer games were dominated
by male heroes and passive female victims. (Jenkins 1998; Salen and
Zimmerman 2004, 524)
• Girls like character-centered plots, issues of friendship, and social
relationships’’, romance, role play, or strategy game (Cassell and
Jenkin 1998, 10).

6.
WHY DO WOMEN PLAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT?
• Create a storyline which is more appropriate for both men and
women.
• Emphasize the importance of making women become visible in the
“history”.
• Gender is not a subject of fantasy.
• There are some activities associated with femininity like cooking,
tailoring, or healing.

7.
• Research found that the
percentage of women playing
game is still a small number
more than men.
• Female participants played on
average 7.5 hours more than
males per week in 2007 and
11.4 hours more per week in 2011

8.
WHY NOT ME?
• Lack of interest, prefer more feminine game.
• Waste of time.
• Lack of skills.
• Waste of money.

9.
MY ACTIVITY
This is my character named Veleria which is a girl

10.
MY ACTIVITY
Killing the objects which is required.

11.
MY ACTIVITY
• HOW TO DO THE QUESTS.

12.
MY ACTIVITY
My character when it is level 5

13.
MY ACTIVITY
My character upgrades to level 10

14.
MY ACTIVITY
• Feeling Frustrated whenever I have to do the difficult tasks.
• Feeling Bored since the game is just repeated.
• Being tired because I have to use multiple keys and both hands.
• There are some interesting actions which I have never seen it
before.
• Can communicate with the other players.
• Have the same hobby with my boyfriend.

15.
WORKS CITED
• Cassel, Justine, and Henry Jenkins. “Chess for girls: feminism and computer
game." In Ed. Justine, Cassel, and Hengry Jenkins. Barbie to Mortal Kombat,
2-45. Cambridge, Ma: Mit Press, 1998. Print.
• Jenkins, Henry. “Complete Freedom of Movement: Video Games As Gendered
Play Space.” Henry and Justine Cassell. From Barbie to Mortal Kombat:
Gender and Computer Games. Cambridge, Ma: Mit Press.
• Cuddy, Luke, and John Nordlinger. World of Warcraft and Philosophy. New
York: Open Court, 2009. Print.
• Corneliussen, Hilde, and Jill Walker Rettberg. Digital Culture, Play,
and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader. Cambridge: MIT, 2008. Print.
• Hotz, Robert Lee. "when Gaming Is Good for You." online.wsj.com. Dow
Jones & Company, 13 Mar. 2012. Web. 28 Feb.
2013.<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020345860457726327394
3183932.html>.
• www.wow-europe.com/en/info/history.