It’s no secret that World of Warcraft can really pull you in and encourage you to keep playing and progressing. It does this by providing constant challenges, rewards and making you feel like you are progressing with every task you accomplish where you can see the ultimate goals you set to be a master at pvp/pve coming closer and closer.
We spend countless hours researching the best ways to make gold, track the auction house to buy and sell in demand items, and come up with strategies to down the toughest bosses and arena teams. I always thought that if I put the same effort into researching the auction house as I did following the stock market I’d be a millionaire by now!
It all makes you think, is there a way to apply the motivation that World of Warcraft gives you and put it towards real life tasks and goals? It seems one social media site is trying to put that to the test.
http://www.chorewars.com/
What is Chore Wars?
You fight monsters, get equipment/gear, treasure and gain levels. Plus it’s Free.
Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for goals and household chores. By getting other people in your house or workplace to sign up to the site, you can assign experience point rewards to individual tasks and chores, and see how quickly each of you levels up.
Experience points are tracked both as weekly high-score charts, and as ongoing character sheets – every time you rack up 200XP of chores, your character gains a “level”, and their class changes to match the type of chores that they’ve been doing.
Uses
While this seems like a fun tool to get your kids to clean their room, I believe that a well developed version of this combined with a social media site like Facebook could really work!
- Get a group of close friends to sign up, ones that care about seeing each other become successful and have always been there to motivate you.
- Assign goals/tasks for each other. If you know your one friend really wants to get to college or do well on an upcoming exam, offer (x) amount of exp points to him/her if they complete (x) amount of hours studying. They should have tasks/goals for you to accomplish to earn exp too.
- At the end of each week/month have a prize up for grabs that the top exp earner gets. A gift card for a restaurant/best buy or a case of beer!
This is definitely a creative way to perform household chores. By utilizing the task and reward system, you can become addicted to having a clean house. Chore Wars could really improve some adult relationships as well teach children to pick up after themselves.