Jane McGonigal Quotes

We feel the game industry is changing in some major ways. 'Fortnite' is a harbinger of things to come. It's a massive number of people all playing together, interacting together, not just playing but socializing.

I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

One of the reasons the games business has become more popular and more broadly appealing is that it's gone from this very solitary experience to this very social experience.

The social element has really transformed the gaming experience.

Nintendo has paid a great deal of attention to the dynamic of people playing video games together in the same room.

Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.

Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.

Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.

The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

It's not as if I've never been awkward myself. I'm a big gamer, so I've had access to that type of personality. I used to go to these LAN parties; that was before high-speed Internet. The only way you could get lag-free gaming was to haul these huge computers to people's houses.

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

Indeed, the spread of 'virtual' communities on the Internet speaks to a deep hunger to reach out to others.

I believe in the opportunities for social gaming. It's overlapping with mobile gaming and lots of video gaming, but it's still different. It's all getting more blurry as hardcore games and console games talk about being social.

Games have become a social phenomenon.

Yo, it's helped me so much. I've connected with so many people that I've never imagined that I would ever know personally. I'm team Internet, for sure.

The video game business is primarily a male-oriented business. And I have three girls. And you see the things that are important to them in their game experiences are the social interaction. They love the ability to chat with their friends. They love the ability to have some connection online with other people.

I like forming connections with people who follow me on social media because they make me feel like everything is worth it.

Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.

I'm a computer freak. I'm on the Internet every night. Sometimes I play dungeons and dragons with 15-year-old boys who think I'm a 15-year-old boy with a weird vocabulary.

The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.