Games: Angel or Devil?

                Gaming has become a “must” activity for the kids and adolescence nowadays, even adults are playing too. There are several types of games, such as action, arcade, mental and strategy, and role-playing. By playing the games, all the gamers receive both positive and negative effects.

            First of all, gamers can easily learn new words when they are playing games, especially words games. This is a great source for them to learn new words to improve their vocabularies, as they try their best to spell new words in order to get to the next level.

            Next, gamers are able to learn how to cooperate with other gamers when they need to be united to win a battle. They need to have the patience and spirit of team work to work with their teammates to get victory from the fights. Moreover, leadership skill is also as crucial as patience and teamwork as the leaders need to lead and provide appropriate instructions to whole of his or her clan or guild at a suitable time.

            However, the negative influences give much bigger impacts to the gamers and affect their real lives. Gambling games can easily be found by the youngsters nowadays to participate into the games. The wining in the games would lead the gamers to gamble in real life. But luck does not belong to anyone forever, eventually the gamers end up borrowing money from money lenders and cannot afford to repay due to the high interest. Some gamers would even commit in crimes in order to gain income, such as stealing money.

            Besides, when gamers are fully addicted to the games they, play they tend to lose their ability to differentiate the virtual world and the real world. They would feel that what happens in games can be implemented in real life and eventually they could commit in crimes as well. There are many cases from all around the world whereby people simply shoot and kill the public using weapons, mainly guns. Gamers would also act more violent brutal than non-gamers. They tend to solve problems using punches rather than by using communication, as they have already get used to the way they solve problems in games.

            When gamers are playing games, they are so into their games until they ignore their families and abandon the quality time. Addicted gamers play from morning till night and they are more likely to loosen their bond with their family members. Rather, they prefer to hide in the virtual world and not seeing anyone real life. As a result, many people die from playing games for days continuously without any rest.

            Games can be good and bad, depending on how we use them. We should play games for knowledge, but not for abusing them.