In Dr. Jane McGonigal’s video “Games can make a better world,”
she gives many valid points to why it may be important for us to play more games
online. As she said in the video she wants to be able to make it just as easy
to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games. With
this goal she has made a plan to convince more people to playing bigger and
better games. Throughout her video she states various reasons for her argument.
One of her arguments that really struck my attention was a picture of a gamer
when he was about to accomplish an “epic win.” In the picture it shows a gamer
that is in deep focus and is tackling a major problem. With this picture, she claims
that this face needs to be on more problem solvers all over the world. Dr.
McGonigal believes that gamers are not confident in real life as much as they
are in the gaming world. Within the gaming world it gives gamers a sense of
motivation to something that may seem to actually matter. She uses the example
that in an online game called world of warcraft, it gives people the option to
trust others in a lifesaving mission and so many other people are willing to
help which is not found in reality. In her video she quotes an economist by the
name of Edward Castronova that states that “it makes sense for gamers to spend
time on games because they can achieve so much more then in reality.” The more I
watched Dr. Jane McGonigal’s video I started to agree with what she had studied
for so long. When someone talks about gamers I usually think of people that do
nothing with their life but sit at a computer or in front of a television
playing games. I believe that if we get more people to focus on solving
problems throughout reality as they do in the gaming world we will be able to
become more of a successful economy.
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