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Gamers love to be attached to awe-inspiring missions to human planetary-scale stories.
游戲玩家喜歡依附在那些關乎人類星際故事的威嚴任務里面。
So, just one bit of trivia that helps put that into perspective:
你所做的任何一點點的瑣事都會成為那個最終的美好愿景的一部分。
So, you all know Wikipedia, biggest wiki in the world.
大家都聽說過維基百科，全球最大的Wiki（wiki是一種在網路上開放、可供多人協同創作的超文本系統）。
Second biggest wiki in the world, with nearly 80,000 articles,is the World of Warcraft wiki.
全球第二大的wiki，就是《魔獸世界》wiki，里面大約有8萬篇文章。
Five million people use it every month.
每個月都有500萬人在使用它。
They have compiled more information about World of Warcraft on the Internet than any other topic covered on any other wiki in the world.
里面集合的有關《魔獸世界》的信息比網絡上任何其他主題的信息都要多。
They are building an epic story.
這就創造了一個史詩般的故事。
They are building an epic knowledge resource about the World of Warcraft.
同時也創就了一個關于《魔獸世界》的，如史詩般的巨大的知識資源。
Okay, so these are four superpowers that add up to one thing:
這就是把那四種超能力集中到一件事情上的例子。
Gamers are super-empowered, hopeful individuals.
游戲玩家們就是一個被高度授權、極具希望的群體。
These are people who believe that they are individually capable of changing the world.
他們都認為自己具有改變世界的能力。
And the only problem is that they believe that they are capable of changing virtual worlds and not the real world.
但問題是他們相信自己能改變的世界是虛擬世界，而不是現實世界。
That's the problem that I'm trying to solve.
這正是我所努力去解決的難題。
There's an economist named Edward Castronova.
有一位叫Edward Castronova的經濟學家。
His work is brilliant. He looks at why people are investing so much time and energy and money in online worlds.
他的工作非常卓越。他研究人們花費這么多時間、精力和金錢在網絡游戲里面的原因。
And he says, "We're witnessing what amounts to no less than a mass exodus to virtual worlds and online game environments.
他說：我們正在見證著大批的人沉溺于虛擬世界和網絡游戲當中。
And he's an economist. So, he's rational.
因為他是一位經濟學家，所以他是理性的。
And he says ...
他還說...
Not like me -- I'm a game designer; I'm exuberant.
不像我，我只是一個游戲設計師，我充滿了活力。
But he says that this makes perfect sense,because gamers can achieve more in online worlds than they can in real life.
他還說，玩游戲變得更有意義，因為游戲玩家在虛擬世界里得到了比現實生活中更多的東西。
They can have stronger social relationships in games than they can have in real life;they get better feedback and feel more rewarded in games than they do in real life.
他們在游戲里可以擁有比現實生活中更好的社會關系，玩家也可以獲得比現實生活中更好的回報以及成就感。
So, he says for now it makes perfect sense for gamers to spend more time in virtual worlds than the real world.
因此，他說對于游戲玩家而言，花費更多的時間在虛擬空間中比現實社會里更有意義。
