When you play a Massive game, are you escaping the real world?

what you guys are playing mmorpgs for ?

do you wanna escape the real world or do you just want to try another live style opposite to your real life ?

or you just want to kill the free time cos u dun not how to waste ?LOL

All the above similar questions asked by well-known Virtual Worlds researcher Edward Castronova  in his new book Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun is Chaning Reality.

"What I tried to do in this book is say, 'listen - even if the typical reader doesn't spend any time in virtual worlds, what is going to be the impact on him of people going and doing this?'" And he predicted that everyone will be involved in a virtual environment within ten years - although the level of that involvement will vary.

"A father of two spending 90 hours a week in a virtual world because he doesn't like his wife - I would say that's escapism, and it isn't anything you would say is good. "But if it's a heavy-set girl from a small town who gets victimised just because her body isn't the 'right' kind of body, and she goes online to make friends because she can't get a fair shake in the real world, then I w