In my opinion, online games are better than the real world in the following 2 points:
1, hard work can be successful!
In reality, do you think you can succeed if you work hard? The MMO environment is a place where you can succeed if you work hard. When students, or people who are new to the society receive frustration and failure in reality, they find that the temptation to work hard to succeed in the online world is great.
2. Addictive Mechanisms
The mechanism of online gaming is that it turns long-lasting rewards into short-lasting, visible rewards. For example: a student, to continuously adhere to the 6 + 3 + 3 total 12 years of schooling process, do not relax to insist on efforts to finally get a big return in the college entrance examination. This makes it difficult for many people to persist.
The experience value setting of the online game, and the quest setting, leads to, in the process of getting stronger, the experience value in the game, the money in the game is really visible form in the increase,
To change the example, if you go to work in the process of working, there is a counter represents your income, as long as you work, the number on it increases, you stop working the counter also stops, and you start it starts again, it would be addictive.