First of all, this is my 5th time watching this TED video talking about the game World of Warcraft teaches player the sense of saving world (etc.) and everytime I watch I laught out lond. Many of my friends are big fans of WOW; they spend not only money but also huge amount of time on this game. I have to say I am also a member of game kingdom but somtimes I just can’ believe why people will spend like ten thousand dollors on a game in order to get a pet or weapon.

During the video, Jan first stated in her speech that the best way to solve the world’s problem was for gamers to game more and raise their weekly time to 21 billion hours a week. I was like “what the hell are you talking about”. As a gamer, I do agree with some point what she was sayting, I think that most important thing she said in her presentatrion is the fact that the need for world problem solving game is as important as raising the weekly gaming hours. The idea of people immersing themselves for people in online gaming and working in a online environment is a useful starter for solving problem. Personally, I think when people feel they have nothing to lose in their real life, they often go beyond working towards their goal. Their feeling of efficacy is grater and they think they has the ability and right to do anything they want to. As Jane claimed in the video, their strong social fabric, and constant blissful producitivity and centered feeling or “epic meaning” as being the gamer’s strongest characteristic and impressive qualities. But I’m wondering if anyone in our discussion plays online games at all and what they think about this presentation? Is World of Warcraft really such a welcoming and hardworking environment?

My personal answer is No.