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You’ve spent 2300 hours in World of Warcraft (WoW). Is it more than a game?
Like Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings or Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung, WoW isn’t just escapist fantasy. It’s posing alternatives to the world we actually have today. It raises questions about environmentalism and colonialism; it asks how people are going to be respectful of each other in a world in which there aren’t enough resources.
Tolkien believed that all good people could come together on the same side. This is one…
