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And there are also tons of collaborators.
并且游戲世界里有很多的人可以協作。
Everywhere you go, hundreds of thousands of people ready to work with you to achieve your epic mission.
不論你到了哪里，都會有成千上萬的人等著和你合作去完成那些艱巨的任務。
That's not something that we have in real life that easily,this sense that at our fingertips are tons of collaborators.
在現實生活中就沒有這么輕松了，這種在我們指尖間就有成千上萬合作伙伴的感覺在現實生活中就沒有這么簡單了。
And also there is this epic story, this inspiring story of why we're there, and what we're doing.
在游戲中會有美妙的故事情節，而這些情節吸引了我們，并且激勵著我們的所作所為。
And then we get all this positive feedback.
同時，對于我們所做出的任何努力都會有一個積極肯定的回應。
You guys have heard of leveling up and plus-one strength,and plus-one intelligence.
你們肯定聽說過等級提升，伴隨著等級提升力量加一點同時智力加一點。
We don't get that kind of constant feedback in real life.
而我們在現實生活中就沒有這種持續的回饋。
When I get off this stage I'm not going to have plus-one speaking, and plus-one crazy idea,plus-20 crazy idea.
比如說，當我走下這個舞臺的時候，我不會有演說能力加一，瘋狂的創意能力加一更不用說瘋狂的創意能力加20了。
I don't get that feedback in real life.
在現實生活中我沒有得到任何獎勵。
Now, the problem with collaborative online environments like World of Warcraft is that it's so satisfying to be on the verge of an epic win all the time that we decide to spend all our time in these game worlds.
在網絡虛擬環境中，比如《魔獸世界》和別人協作是一件非常愜意的事情，因為我們可以不停得向最終的勝利沖擊，也正是因為如此我們才會一直沉醉于游戲世界中。
It's just better than reality.
因為它比現實更好。
So, so far, collectively all the World of Warcraft gamers have spent 5.93 million years solving the virtual problems of Azeroth.
到目前為止，《魔獸世界》的游戲玩家們已經花費了總數為593萬年的時間去解決艾澤拉斯里面的各種虛擬的問題。
Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
這不是一件壞事。
It might sound like it's a bad thing.
不過聽起來像是一件壞事。
But to put that in context:
我們把這些數字寫下來：
5.93 million years ago was when our earliest primate human ancestors stood up.
593萬年前，我們人類的祖先靈長類開始了直立行走。
That was the first upright primate.
這是第一種直立行走的靈長類動物。
Okay, so when we talk about how much time we're currently investing in playing games, the only way it makes sense to even think about it is to talk about time at the magnitude of human evolution,which is an extraordinary thing.
因此，當我們談論我們在游戲上花費了那么多時間時，唯一讓這件事情合理的理解方式就是：去想一想在人類進化進程中，我們所花費的時間有多少，而且這是一件多么不同尋常的事情！
But it's also apt. Because it turns out that by spending all this time playing games,we're actually changing what we are capable of as human beings.
這樣去想是恰當的，因為你會發現，通過花費大量的時間去玩游戲，我們能改變我們做人的能力。
We are evolving to be a more collaborative and hearty species.
我們正不斷發展成為一個更具有協作精神和更強健的物種。
This is true. I believe this.
這是真的，我深信不疑。
So, consider this really interesting statistic;it was recently published by a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University.
來看一個有趣的調查，這份調查結果是由一位來自卡內基梅隆大學的研究者發布的。
