CNBC Power Lunch and Breakfast – Natali Del Conte

CNBC Power Lunch and Breakfast

As promised, my segment from yesterday’s CNBC Power Lunch is here. This piece is about Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG). I’ll admit, I don’t play MMOs but CNBC asked me to come on to explain this for the non-gamer. I hope I did this genre of gamers justice despite the fact that I stumbled over the acronym a little in the beginning and got the name of Curt Schilling’s gaming company wrong. I confused it with my friend’s party promotion company in San Francisco. D’oh! Anyway, I hope you enjoy a little Power Lunch. I’m going to go find myself some power breakfast now.

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  • Hi Natali,

    What a GREAT blog!

    I live in the UK, so missed your ‘Power Lunch’ segment when it went live; thanks for the link! I find it amazing that people can spend so many hours 'playing' in a virtual world - when there are so many possibilities to explore in the REAL world.

    What makes this truly amazing for me, is that the MMORPG players I have spoken to, are intelligent and (despite what the media says) friendly and outgoing too.


    All the very best Natali,

    Jim Connolly
    The Ideas Blog
    http://theideasblog.com
  • Jef in NYC
    Hey, where did all the commenters go?

    I've never played or participated in a "MMORPG", nor would I even know how to pronounce it. But I can understand their purpose and addictiveness. As a former chatroom chatter, spending endless nights watching lines of scrolling text coming from equally anonymous and insomniacal people from around the world, it makes sense to just give them a sword and a persona to go fight the occasional dragon.

    Unfortunately, unlike chat, it's not free. Maybe that's a good thing!
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