The Effect from Over Playing Computer Games

Living in the 21st century, the percentage of people especially younger

audience doing outdoor activities like playing football in the field or jogging in the

park has been declining over the years with more people interested in playing

computer games. With the vast improvement of technology, video games are

becoming more realistic than ever before compare to the games produced 30 years

ago. Video games industry like Ubisoft knows how to influence their audience with

their products like HD Graphic quality games. Even though video games have some

positive impact to the society, it can also cause addiction to the person which can

bring a bad effect for playing too long.

Beating the game (GoDaddy, July 27, 2012) is one of the causes. Every

player who started playing their games have the desire to beat the game as for self

satisfaction. For them, this has proved that they have reached their ultimate goal.

Even more, today’s game like The Last of Us is one of the best games that has a

wonderful stories. A good story plus great gameplay makes the desire to beat the

game even more and it’s hard to know when to stop playing. Furthermore, a game

like Aion is an Online role-playing games (GoDaddy, July 27 2012) that requires the

internet to play. This is the type of games where players can connect with other

players to play with in vast number. It’s an open world game where players are able

to chat, make friends or (GoDaddy, July 27 2012) in extreme cases, finding a dating

partner. In addition, it also allows them to create their own character avatar

according to their preference. As you levelling up your character from level 1 to max

level, you will have an emotional attachment with your own character as you play it.

Additionally, players sometimes will spend hours in games to get the best items,

gear and even trying to get rank 1 title for their character.

As a consequence, it has brought several of bad effect to the person. It is

understandable that it makes the person to be social isolated (GoDaddy, July 27

2012) as you spend more time playing games rather than socialize with your friends

that you recognise instead of your friends that you met in online games. Hence, you

won’t develop an effective social skill, which will hinder your ability to develop and

maintain healthy relationships with others whether in university or any other places.

Another example, long hours of playing computer games can disrupt your academic

achievement (ENOM, Inc., Oct 16, 2014) as you were preoccupied with video

games instead of studying. Other than that, exhausted from hours of playing

computer games will result in failing to study at your optimum level as you lost the

ability to think clearly. Moreover, you will have higher chances of getting health

problem (ENOM, Inc., Oct 16, 2014) like obesity since you were sitting in front of

your computer the whole day without exercising. In addition, lack of sleep result from

over playing computer games the whole day can cause a serious brain damage. In

addition, you will lost the ability to concentrate on what you were doing and risking

your life and other people’s life if you are driving on the road.

In addition, there’s a chances of losing your eyesight (GoDaddy, July 27,

2012) from over exposure from looking at the computer screen for too long. Hence,

by looking at the computer screen for hours, it can strain your eyes which can

worsen your eye vision forcing you the need to wear glasses. Other than that, you

are risking of hearing loss as well. Long term of using headphones or ear buds can

cause your hearing lost over time (GoDaddy, July 27, 2012). Furthermore, there’s a

risk of aggressive thought, feelings and behaviours build on to the person for playing

hours of violent games. Addicted players can be desensitised to violence from

playing games that features violent contents like swearing, rape, murdering and so

on.

In conclusion, everyone especially children needs to control their game

addiction from over playing computer games. Long term of playing computer games

can lead to lots of health related problems like stroke and heart problem which can

cause death. Hence, it is essential that this issue should be taken seriously by every

parents and the government as well as any related parties to combat and find an

effective solution to this problem.