Goals Quote by Anne-Rae Vasquez

“Since the boom days of World of War-craft and Second Life, there has been a strange, stagnant lull in terms of virtual worlds. I…

— Nick Yee

“Gamers who have grown up being intensely engaged by well-designed virtual environments are hungry for better forms of engagement in their real lives. They’re…

— Jane McGonigal

“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow for societal…

— Nick Yee

“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than…

— Jonathan Gottschall

“He asks, “how hard would it be to go a week without Google? Or, to up the ante, without Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple,…

— Jeremy Rifkin

“The Internet is not so different from a highly interactive videogame with competitors set to be offed.”

— Audacia Ray

“What if we started to live our real lives like gamers, lead our real businesses and communities like game designers, and think about solving…

— Jane McGonigal

“One of the purposes of a game world is simply to entertain in its own right: to offer the player a place to explore…

— Ernest Adams

“What we are finding is that the way we use the virtual world of the Internet—for commerce and for information—is dictated to a large…

— David R. Bell

“Over the next generation or two, ever larger numbers of people, hundreds of millions, will become immersed in virtual worlds and online games. While…

— Jane McGonigal

“It follows that everything we do online will be either a complement to, or a replacement for, what we do in the real world.”

— David R. Bell

“It was a completely pointless ambition, with no practical application whatsoever. But if you sit the average male down in front of anything halfway…

— Neil Strauss