is gaming a waste of time?

So , I can’t  actually  say  that  the time I spend playing Farmville is productive.  And if  you  play  WoW, I’m  guessing you  might  come  up  with some  rationalizations,  but it is  not  the  most  useful thing you  have ever done with  your  time. However,some on line gamers made ‘an accurate model of the enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.’
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This is where Foldit comes in.

Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a fun-for-purpose video game in which gamers, divided into competing groups, compete to unfold chains of amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — using a set of online tools.

To the astonishment of the scientists, the gamers produced an accurate model of the enzyme in just three weeks.

knowing this information is going to help develop more drugs .
Here is a link to an article.