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> [“Any player playing World of Warcraft can reach the highest level if he or she puts enough hours into the game. This game paradigm creates a powerful incentive to bypass the time sink. Instead of castigating the Chinese, we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/any-player-playing-world-of-warcraft-can-reach-the-highest-level-if/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

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## Other authors on World Warcraft

## More by Nick Yee

> [“It’s easier to put warning labels on video games than to address all the very real social, cultural, and psychological factors that lead to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/it-s-easier-to-put-warning-labels-on-video-games-than-to-address-all/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“Where we did find a statistical difference was in character gender. Female characters had a much higher healing ratio compared with male characters. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/where-we-did-find-a-statistical-difference-was-in-character-gender/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/the-being-we-call-god-is-merely-a-pawn-working-for-a-powerful-and/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level up and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/as-male-characters-level-up-and-become-more-powerful-their-bodies/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“Falling in love in an online game is more similar to an office romance than finding someone in an online dating site. The love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/falling-in-love-in-an-online-game-is-more-similar-to-an-office/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“gender-bending among men is often an artifact of the sexualized female avatars, rather than an explicit attempt to explore gender roles.17”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/gender-bending-among-men-is-often-an-artifact-of-the-sexualized/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“Taken to its extreme, the premise of gamification is that any task, no matter how tedious, can be made engaging and motivating.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/taken-to-its-extreme-the-premise-of-gamification-is-that-any-task-no/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [ “As sociologist T. L. Taylor has argued, these attempts to create games specifically for women are “reifying imagined difference\[s\]” between male and female gamers.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/as-sociologist-t-l-taylor-has-argued-these-attempts-to-create-games/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“Even if virtual worlds were tabula rasa, we are encumbered with a great deal of cognitive baggage. Our brains are hardwired with many mental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/even-if-virtual-worlds-were-tabula-rasa-we-are-encumbered-with-a/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow for societal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/edward-castronova-has-argued-that-virtual-worlds-are-the-modern/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“Political theorist Langdon Winner argues that human artifacts embody politics—the things we build can implicitly regulate who does and does not belong.20 The fantasy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/political-theorist-langdon-winner-argues-that-human-artifacts-embody/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“participants exposed to scantily clad female avatars were more likely to believe that women who get raped deserve it because of their perceived promiscuity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/participants-exposed-to-scantily-clad-female-avatars-were-more-likely/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were awarded to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/when-the-first-professional-computer-programmers-were-all-women/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“Studies have consistently shown that women have less free time and that their free time is more likely to be infringed on by gendered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/studies-have-consistently-shown-that-women-have-less-free-time-and/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

> [“Sexism isn’t a conspiracy that men carry out against women; it’s how we as a society treat men and women differently and shape how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/sexism-isn-t-a-conspiracy-that-men-carry-out-against-women-it-s-how/)

[Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/)

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