ARG Designer Believes Online Gaming Can Save the World

[boholikeu]

If it's "impossible", there is no solution, so what's the strategy for that?

And game exploits are cheating, just like inside trading. Well, bloody, heck, it is like the real world.

Basically the devs over-tune a boss fight so that it shouldn't be possible given the player's damage levels/health pools. Despite this, the top guilds in the game still manage to defeat the bosses through inventive strategies or "creative" uses of the game mechanics.

Exploits are sometimes analogous to insider trading (in that they give an individual an unfair advantage), but sometimes they are just really creative solutions to a problem that the dev didn't intend to be viable. They're considered "cheating" in video games because they make a previously difficult challenge into a trivial one, but in real life that's generally a good thing. In fact, we even have another word for "exploits" in the real world: breakthroughs.

 

[ShadowKirby]

My god you guys are jaded. Aren't you able to believe or hope for change anymore? Obliviously nothing is gonna change if all you do is sit on your ass in front of a computer bitching about someone being optimistic about the power of humanity and all that energy that is used toward a pretty involving medium.

Like a great man once wrote shortly before passing away: "The worst thing someone can do is not care about what's around him".

 

[Sylocat]

Wow, a lot of people either completely missed the point or didn't actually watch the video.

 

[ResiEvalJohn]

who wants to do stuff online when you can go outside and impact the world? Oh yeah, everybody, lol

 

[ResiEvalJohn]

I disagree because I think people who spend that much on online games would never do anything in the real world anyway, or have motivation to walk away from their computer screen.

I disagree with you sir, i believe that people who post useless **** on forums are just as bad

If your neglecting the important parts of your life why does it matter how you do it?

It seems to me that online gaming gets a bad rep, mostly from; immature, bad mannered, selfish, impatient....kids. Even if they're not children, acting that way online (where we are mostly ageless) is a shame.

Forget the specific benifits of gaming. Thats a grey area. This is about the opertunities it offers. (i know it's just people sat in front of their systems playing games but thats not much different to anyone reading or posting here)
The "Real world" rarely gives us the opportunity to communicate on such a broad scale or to affect any kind of change in the systems which control us.
If online....activities....help people to come together and give them the belief that they can make big changes in their world then Jane McGonigal is onto something.

That's a mighty opinion you have there sir, but I still have to disagree, not because I fit into any of the catagories you described, but because people don't act the way they act online in real life. Online, we can accomplish anything from completing a WOW quest to dispatching terrorists together. In real life, oh yea, we have responsibilities and stuff. Gamers become shy, egotistical, completely opposite of how they act online because now you're actually talking face to face.

Also because people are lazy and nothing they do by clicking buttons online will ever translate into an authentic real world scenario.

Horray for contrasting opinions and pointless forum arguements!

 

[Lonan]

Keep dreaming lady. Sure it might teach people to cooperate more and better but to keep all those consoles and PC's turned on you will need a lot of energy. And playing at the levels she proposes, we would burn up all our oil and gas much much faster. imagine 10 times the people, doing 10 times as much gaming combined with that as well. Starting an energy war for resources as a result. The internet alone allready uses 5-9% of all power worldwide these days.source [http://uclue.com/index.php?xq=724] so much for world peace!

Barely any electricity comes from oil and gas.