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WoW: Accounting

WoW mod for accountants to discuss business and get work done.
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The world of MMOs are extremely captivating and can be a great way to bring people together. Unlike a boring teleconference call in a game you and the other players minds are activated in similar wavelengths in accomplishing your goal together. This unity of mind can be achieved even if you don't speak the same language, I've played many a game with a Japanese player and we've accomplished countless hours of language-less interaction.

So like a kale smoothie, where you take a normally disgusting plant and blend it with tasty bananas and mangos to get rid of that awful green flavor, The same principle would apply for accounting. You wrap a disgusting concept like dry paperwork in an interactive online gaming experience.

You and your "party" of accountants teleconferencing from across the globe would use your "swords" and "magic" of accounting skills and apply them to fight the "enemy" which is the unfinished paperwork. This would be particularly useful for dealing with people from far away places to interact without the language barrier.

In a unique combat system each logistical calculation would be required to "defeat the enemy", thus providing stimulus to finish boring paperwork and resist the temptation to game while at work.

Duck Lagrange, Jun 15 2015

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       Possibly a good idea. What's an MMO?
MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 15 2015
  

       WOW:A is, if you come at it from a different angle, an inevitable part of the continued development of the WOW game dynamic, fantasy bollocks tending closer in all but visuals, to the real world that people are trying to escape.
calum, Jun 15 2015
  

       Not certain how you conceivably map swordplay and magic into spreadsheet manipulation, but kudos to the person who figures it out.
RayfordSteele, Jun 15 2015
  

       I like very much the idea of using the MMO platform to accomplish something besides waste tons of time. It is such a cool idea. I hope that soon the premise of using MMOs to battle imaginary monsters is viewed in the same way as using personal computers to keep track of recipes.
bungston, Jun 15 2015
  

       I dunno, seems open to people trying to game the system.
AusCan531, Jun 16 2015
  

       I agree Bungston. The genuine interconnectivity and mind activation that goes on in an MMO could be used for something more productive than playing a game.
Duck Lagrange, Jun 16 2015
  

       Isn't that what EVE Online is?
jutta, Jun 18 2015
  
      
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