I believe Jane Mcgonigal opinion is correct; Gaming can make a better world. As Jane mentions, “ the total we need at 21 billion hours game play every week”. Why we choose play games? Personally, I think the main purpose for gaming is for fun and relaxes. After watched the presentation, I realized games could enhance people’s abilities. For example, LOL is a popular game, and players have to cooperate with team members. So in some ways, games enhance team spirit and communication skills. Moreover, when you win the games, you may feel more confidence.
Yes, i agree with you that you mentioned that games are good for our team cooperation and helping us to release our daily intense work and in some other ways, it can help you to exploit our IQ ability. for instance, when you play game with other players, you have to learn how to cooperate with other players and how to communicate with others. in this way, it not only help you enhancing you team cooperation ability but also help you enhancing your communication ability and your instant response ability which is very important for you study and daily life. for me, i like playing CSOL which is the hottest online shooting game. but, i think that you miss a factor which is harmful for us. you know that it is easy for some person to be addicted by games and this will lead them to become no interest on other thing without games. this is dangerous, because it can turn a excellent student into a bad student. so, i think that games are good but we need to play them in control.
I agree that in some ways gaming can make the world a better place. In order to get 21 billion hours of game play I think that the game play needs to be evenly distributed throughout the population. It is true that make games give you important life skills such as teamwork and cooperation, but I believe people can go over board with video games. If all someone is doing is playing video games then they are not able to use their time in the real world and actually apply the teamwork and other skills they are losing through video games. If people get too distracted with video games then it may harm them more than help them.