Starting next month, the South Korean Air Force will begin recruiting professional online Korean gamers (read: pros who has gaming as a job) for development of their war-simulation programs. Just like over here in Singapore, any men over the age of 20 have to serve in the military for 24 to 28 months. This alternate form of military service will allow the country’s pro-gamers to continue honing their fragging skills, which are necessary if they were to continue working as a pro-gamer after the service.
“Generally, professional gamers are very skilled in dealing with computer-related things. We’re sure their capabilities will produce a substantial synergy effect for the military’s online programs”, said First Lieutenant Park Seung-yup of the Defense Ministry’s public affairs office.
What they’ll do in the military is kind of like beta testing and providing feedbacks so the training programs can be improved. If you are a Korean guy, there’s no need to get jealous yet. As at this time, only five were selected for this recruitment.
March 24th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
This must be a cover-up propaganda to use pro-gamers (like me) in Korea to direct their tether-guided missiles during war. These are something like the guided nuke a.k.a. Redeemer in Unreal Tournament series. They can be controlled via a remote computer sporting (probably) an FPS-like interface and controls. The gamer at the controls will be able to guide the missile after it is fired to hit the right target visible on the screen (using a G5 mouse and G15 keyboard maybe!). So, Anti-heat seeking technology will fail, which current fighter planes use to evade heat-seeking missiles.
March 24th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
hrm…so i think its no a pretty good idea…coz wat if the games was hacked??@@…i mean when they control de real stuff and opps…the missle maybe aim back them….gosh…and in game….human dont really die…so who care’s?…just take ur gun and rush to ur enemy…tas all…gg
March 24th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
dEAD The game get hacked???? are you saying that the military top defense programs are games? lol no they aren’t. And btw, any program can get hacked. What they will probably do is convert the missle controller into maybe a mouse or a ps2 or etc controller so that the gamer can use their skills to aim with total precision.
March 25th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
It was only a matter of time before this happened.
It was the standing joke years ago that only children could progam a VCR. Now in these modern times high level skill sets like “expert gamers” and “3!331″ “Rouge Programers,” belong to a younger and younger age group.
First published in 1977, parts of Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game,” now seems to be turning out to be a prophecy of sorts of the near future.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:15 am
I think thats a good way to train for potential wars. So just how realistic and accurate is this game?