Shared Topic: WOW Lobbyists!
July 10, 2009Today will be a break in your regular scheduled huntardery for me to contribute to the Blog Azeroth shared topic (or off-topic, as it were). Did you know that in the US, the hunting and gun enthusiasts have real political clout? They are referred to collectively as the “gun lobby“, and they are politically active. Thus, every election, you will see US politicians holding speeches in hunting lodges, and talking about guns and the people who like them. I ask you this- there are a lot of US gamers, and specifically, a lot of US World of Warcraft players. What would happen if the politicians started to vie for our attention and votes the way they do for the gun lobby?
As tongue in cheek as this is, I predict that when we’re all 20 years older, we’ll still be geeks, and will have accumulated 20 years of political relevance. That’s 20 years for the existing political power centers to continue to fade to irrelevance, and 20 years for us to learn why we should get off our duffs and vote, or get more involved in the democratic process.
Will this mean future presidential hopefulls making appearances in game/virtual worlds? Will it mean that network neutrality gains a higher political profile? Might this gradual but inevitable changing of the guard lead to a president who grew up playing games like WOW? Who knows. I do know that if the average gamer were 50 instead of 30, things would be different.
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Very funny… Just what is needed to lighten a slow moving Friday afternoon.
It is interesting to watch what happens as new generations become leaders and/or politicians. Will there be a former WOW’r as President? Maybe. Obama is part of the crack-berry generation. 15-20 years from now, you never know.
A WOW lobby is intriguing, although I’m not sure what we would lobby for. If reports and predictions are accurate, we may have to lobby for bandwidth. YouTube and other streaming media sites are predicted to absorb more bandwidth than is currently available. Then, we revolt! Of course, WOW players will show up with swords and staffs to a gun fight.
Naw, there’s plenty of bandwidth. What worries me most is that I can’t download the patches because Blizzard’s default setting is to try to get it from all the other players also downloading them, and my ISP essentially blocks that type of traffic.
Does this lobbying interfere with raid time? I don’t want to lose any DKP.
Problem with your thesis, Wow is like 3 million domestic, which is 1% (being generous) Gun owners are something like 25%.