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	How Can World Of Warcraft Help Train Your Employees?

JeannieGrrl

1-16-2009 6:48 PM

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JeannieGrrl says:

I agree that the skills learned can help in real world situations but as the author said - they can be culled from just about any RPG. When you take a game like WoW which is so demanding and time consuming - if you can get the players to log out for a few hours - they may even get jobs so they can use their new skills.

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