Take-aways:

• 3 billion hours/week playing online games (21 billion to save the world).
• In games we become best versions of ourselves.
• World of Warcraft (second biggest wiki worldwide; 5 million people playt it every month) is an ideal game world simulating reality.
• WoW-players have collectively spent 5.93 million years solving virtual world problems.
• Unlimited satisfaction from feeling of being on verge of epic-win makes us spend much time playing.
• A youth in a game-culture country spends on average 10.000 hours gaming by 21.
• >500 million gamers spend >1hour a day playing games.
• games give us: urgent optimism + social fabric + blissful productivity + epic-winning = super-empowered hopeful individuals.