Mastery ought to be for the Benefit of a Collective

Why do males love to play video games? There are many feasible answers, such as:

A legitimate excuse to be away from their wives or girlfriends just for a tad wee bit, say four to eight hours?

To spend time enjoying an ‘adult’ toy.

To have something to discuss as part of the requisite banal conversation at work.

To arrive at a sense of mastery of something.

Whereas all of the four preceding rationales are, at different times feasible, one of the four, the fourth always is true, namely the core motivation for the playing of video games is the desire to master something challenging, the desire to have, legitimately, a feeling of mastery.

The popularity of video games within male populations derives from the sense of mastery that accrues from progress at mastery of the different specific games.

The core rationale for the popularity of video games within populations of males speaks to an important parameter of human beings, namely we all, male or female, or otherwise, have the desire to have a sense of mastery of any one thing.