After seeing the presentation by Jane McGonigal, I found my views about online games and gamers change totally. I am convinced that “gamers are a human resource that we can use to do real-world work, that games are a powerful platform for change”(McGonigal,TED). First, I am shocked that McGonigal thinks that the time of playing games is not enough since online game is good for human beings, especially using the attitudes in virtual world to solve real-world problems. Later, I noticed that we can be more capable in games than in the reality, and our cooperation ability become much stronger in the games. According to the speaker, people can get continuous positive feedback during the game which will make us chase the “epic win” of the task. We can be more relaxed in the virtual world than in the reality, but I am still unsure whether will we construct real-world ability of solving problems or not in the games. Will online games be helpful to solve problems and will the difference between game and reality make people more want to escape from the real world?
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It is so glad to see your questioning the video about how can games affect and improve one’s ability and help people to solve reallife problems. In my opinion, if online games can be helpful people solving problems or increase the possibility on them escaping from the real world is really depend on their attitude on games. As for me, when I faced something that made me unhappy, I’d like to use games to release the bad emotion.