Computer game is said to have
negative effects on the person. People say that it causes people to become more
violent. Certain games do involve violence but it does mean that everyone who
plays the game will just grab a gun and start shooting around their
neighborhood. If the person has the right notion and common sense, the person
would be insusceptible to the game.
Computer games were first created
by the companies for entertainment. Surely enough, it became popular throughout
Korea. When others saw that games were good profit makers more people started
producing new games. Variety of games attracted more people to play, and the
game industry prospered.
Most teenagers
have already played computer games before. Most of them first contact computer
games through their friends and some through random internet search. Usually,
teenagers will play about 3 to 5 hours on average, but in extreme cases, they
will play up to 8 hours or even more a day. This is addiction. This is when
computer games lose their true meaning, entertainment.
The sole purpose of computer game
was entertainment, but it is being changed because of people. Because of this,
more people are going against computer games. As a person who enjoyed playing
computer games, I cannot go against computer games. I began to play computer
games when I was young. I started playing when I was a 1st grader,
and computer game was one of the only things I could enjoy. Even at a young
age, I was being tutored for three hours after school, and computer game was
one of the only ways to relieve my stress. Other than computer games, I only
had the television which showed my favorite shows only at a certain time. So
for the rest of the time, I devoted myself to computer games. Through computer
games, I was able to forget about all I had to deal with at least for few
hours. My parents were always away, and I had no one in my house until late at
night when I was already in bed sleeping. I played three hours a day and I felt
joy from playing it. I depended on computer games for entertainment, and it
really served as a good tool for entertainment. Why try to prohibit one from
playing it if one can feel joy from it?
Most online games require
strategies. They have quests that we have to clear, and they help us level up.
Sometimes, these quests do not just involve killing monsters but using our
brain. Although most of the quests are solo quests, some are party quests.
Here, you have to learn how to cooperate to complete the quest within a given
time. Raising a character also involves using our brain. Just leveling up does
not do any good. One must do the stats to raise certain characteristics of the
character to strengthen it, and it needs to be distributed properly according
to the character one wants to grow. Computer games also require financial
management skills. Currencies are also used in almost all computer games, and
one must learn to use it wisely so one can use enough money to invest on the
character as well as to not become bankrupt. Because computer games share so many aspects
with our society, I think that it will actually help a person to prepare for
their social life.
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