I am very glad another poster gets what I have presented, as something we all here can hope for from a VG design company.
Yes, the VG medium of content can make a difference for our country (and others), if we step up and enter the "?Good Work' directed purpose type of VG content.
I firmly believe lots of folks of all ages have really good ideas on how to practically solve our nation's problems and needs.
We live in an electronic assisted culture, and I doubt we ever will look back to just things like paper voting. The real true is we all vote by how we live and the consumer choices we make.
A number of VG companies have tried to make educational VGs, and fallen flat-on-their-face. <---they were not socially relevant in purpose and content. VGs llke' cooking mama' did not, for example, include a means for game players to communicate with each other nor a way to get into a real classroom learning situation (like lets plan and order what we want for good tasting, but Cal conscious meals tomorrow). Each student could have been measuring their own weight change and the school nurse and nutritionist could have come into the VG to explain concepts.
Most kids love to cook up something they will eat, with parents and others. Such type of games could include real prizes (a cooking success pin AND exchange coupons with local and national brands of clothing, etc.).
Why should not ZNGA, for example, develop a California online play-for-cash ticket ( or a particular educational VG oriented stratch ticket), that adults and can play and win monies for both themselves AND their local school)?
Online paid gambling is going to become a big business in coming years. ZNGA should be making some bold innovative moves, into this arena of revenue. VG playing is going to increasingly merge into 'paid play' for everyone (you will get to chose what type of winning reward you want --- coupons, points, or E-cash).
I am not saying we will all become gambling freaks, but I do hope VGers have the right to cash rewards for winning if they so chose.
There is a Silicon Valley Game Designer and entrepeur, who in a book he wrote recently, proclaimed 'tapping-for-cash' should become a new wave job in the electronic economy. His premise centered around the notion we will never find jobs for very one in the future. Thus, we should create 'tap-for-cash food stamps'. Every time anyone taps on a device . . . they earn cash points, as a real life income job. He felt it was wrong for businesses online to take and sell our subject clicks, and we don't get anything for them (the businesses) selling our tap info. data.
What do you folks think of what I posted?
GLUU is breaking new ground and earning novel revenues . . . why can't ZNGA do some of that too?
