In a post on Reddit, many fans shared experiences with games that taught them important things in life. For example, World of Warcraft can help with accounting and risk management, while Minecraft can help with scientific topics.
How can games support learning? Reddit user Pufferdent5082 shares a post about how he taught himself linear algebra. The math topic helped him create a ring effect for his homemade weapon in Minecraft.
But Minecraft is not only helpful in mathematics, but also in physics and in the coding area. User LeagueofShadows04 writes how Minecraft gave him an understanding of electricity and programming:
I learned a lot about electricity from working with Redstone. Was even an electrician for a couple of years and I got it all super fast thanks to years of handling redstone. So I can confirm. This also got me into programming when I started writing page-filling commands and that’s why I’m in IT now.
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Minecraft has apparently helped the player to his current job in the IT industry. It is therefore possible to work out your own interests with the help of games and thus determine which professional groups suit you best.
Other players prefer to use Minecraft to encourage their creativity by building complex buildings and structures. An example of this is a city on a Minecraft server that 500 players have been building for 11 years:
Minecraft: 500 players have been building a huge city for 11 years – you can even try out the map
WoW helps in economic areas
What other examples do the players give? Minecraft is just one of many games that have taught the gaming community important school topics. World of Warcraft also turns out to be a learning platform where fans have learned commercial areas such as financial modeling and accounting. The best teacher for this is the auction house.
In addition, WoW conveys a sense of risk management. For example, one player considered the ratio of time spent to loot received and experience points in dungeons and quests. This enabled him to use his time more sparingly and make maximum profit from it.
WoW players are currently romping around in the Dragonflight expansion. Patch 10.1 brought the Zaralek Caverns and the new raid Aberrus, the Shadow Crucible. You can see the new content in the following video from MeinMMO:
WoW: Patch 10.1 Embers from Neltharion is live – you can expect that from now on
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Another example given by a user is Cities: Skylines. The players teach themselves how to build a city, which is otherwise the responsibility of architects, engineers, geographers and other professional groups.
Let us know in the comments: Which games have taught you important school topics? Can you even apply some things to your professional life? If you want to see for yourself how much you can learn in World of Warcraft, according to MeinMMO demon Cortyn, now would be a good time: World of Warcraft hasn’t felt so good in years – if you don’t play now, you’re yourself fault