I'm not here to say that games make you more likely to kill or violent. I am here to say that I think that if a hardcore FPS player was thrown into combat for what ever reason, they would be much more ready to handle it.
Here is why I see it this way. A few years ago I went for a staff paintball outing. We had 24 people show up. So that made 4 teams of 6 players. The 4 captains that picked teams were the management and formans. The youngest forman was a gamer so when it came time for picks he selected the people that gamed. Mostly COD/BF players. We actually played on 8 totally different courses on a professional course.(not out in the woods), and 6 out of 8 of them we had no one die/get hit at all, and the other 2 we lost one guy. Needless to say, it was a total massacre. Now I know that there is a huge difference between paintball and real life, but the tactics we used were bought over from the games we play. I was the strategic player in my clan(called out orders) and whatever I told them to do they did it. That day went exactly the same as if we were in a game.
So what does everyone think? If there was a draft right now, do you think that gamers could or would be targeted first?
Here is why I see it this way. A few years ago I went for a staff paintball outing. We had 24 people show up. So that made 4 teams of 6 players. The 4 captains that picked teams were the management and formans. The youngest forman was a gamer so when it came time for picks he selected the people that gamed. Mostly COD/BF players. We actually played on 8 totally different courses on a professional course.(not out in the woods), and 6 out of 8 of them we had no one die/get hit at all, and the other 2 we lost one guy. Needless to say, it was a total massacre. Now I know that there is a huge difference between paintball and real life, but the tactics we used were bought over from the games we play. I was the strategic player in my clan(called out orders) and whatever I told them to do they did it. That day went exactly the same as if we were in a game.
So what does everyone think? If there was a draft right now, do you think that gamers could or would be targeted first?