This category of games has occupied a truly staggering number of human hours of attention. In 2013, The Washington Post reported, “Humankind Has Now Spent More Time Playing Call of Duty Than It Has Existed on Earth.” You see, “Every year, Call of Duty players collectively log some 475,000 years of gameplay. Add it up, and over the course of their six-year history, Activision’s 21st-century-themed combat simulations have cost us 2.85 million man-years—more than 14 times longer than humanity has existed.”[48] And that was a decade ago!
This category (first-person shooters) of games...
