Why do we play?

Michael Mar From Capsule Computers wrote :

Now before you just look at the title and think “Oh, here comes some philosophical existential bullcrap” I think it’s worth stopping to think about the most basic of reasons why it is we play video games. The industry still constantly in a spotlight of negativity in the wider media for inspiring violence, breeding social ineptitude, encouraging children not to eat their vegetables and blah blah blah.