8 Reasons to Play Video Games

Discussion in 'Gaming' started by generalfelino015, Oct 1, 2014.

  1. Actually there is a lot more behind it. Online games especially have proven that gamers are a rescource, with incredible talent and the will to get through stuff. A few really passionate gamer like the ones who write mods for games or the ones who fill all the game wikis and so on, show how communities create values no economist would have believed in couple years ago. Of course all the other gamer are part of it too. Put into perspective the energy we put into gaming makes anything else look weak.

    Jane McGonigal, leading research scientist at the institute for the future, goes so far to say that gamers as a rescource are the key to the future, once we know how to use them in the real world as effective as in games.