The relationship between gaming as play and gaming as work

Gaming has always been apart of the action of play, games are essentially for a person's amusement and pleasure. Interactive games now include the players so they feel a connection to the game itself; players can learn and take pleasure in playing the game. While some players enjoy going through the game at a leisurely pace, many others turn to instrumental gaming which is more of like power play. The player would go through the game as quick as possible trying to finish their own goals and not the games. To achieve this they would use any method possible, sometimes going as far as setting up more than one console to play them all at the same time. As in the case of WoW, some players have more than 2 computers set up with a different account so they can level as soon as possible, pleasure soon turns into work. Corporations trying to test a game would bring players in to test the game before it goes to the public and they would gather as much data about player's reaction to the game, very much like WoW's Lich King beta testing before the game was introduced.