This topic is originally called should we play games? But playing games does have its own benefits, its entertainment, its educational, it allows us to have experience on stuffs that cant be easily found in real life, it helps us learn to socialize, and there are much more benefits.
But what i want to talk about is when we have obtained all the benefits of playing games, should we continue to keep playing games? For example you are a level 80 paladin in WOW, or for example you have completed all quests in elements, or you are already familiar with all the features in your facebook games like farmville and candy crush, most likely, you are continue to play these games, so why would you continue to play these games even though there is no more real benefits in the real world to achieve, why are you still carrying on playing your games for?
Lets look at some possible factors why some people still continue to play games non-stop
1. people play games because they experience emotions that are closely related to the main factors of happiness
2. they are waiting on bus and trains while using convenient smartphones to play smartphone games
3. to socialize on facebook games.
4. helps reduce their stress
5. they got bored
Is it correct to use games to become happy, pass time, socialize, reduce stress, fun?
There is much better alternatives for the above factors.
1. people can find a real hobby and make their life more fulfilling and experience happiness.
2. while waiting on bus and trains, they can use their convenient smartphones to read books to enrich themselves.
3. isn't it better to socialize by calling, sms, facebook message or talking face to face.
4. exercise to reduce stress and improve overall health?
5. find friends and mates to make your life much more interesting than playing games..
Are you the type of people that chooses gaming to pass your life or do you search for more in your life?
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foxrain4 does not only play games, i did create some games without those proper C programming,
and in fact, im gonna to register for a computer science degree that specializes in game design.
Why do i continue to do so, wasting my time to make games that wastes people time?
I was intrigued by someone whom is going to graduate from the game design degree without the computer science,
i was shocked and wondered why would she do that, is it gonna help her get a job? is it her passion?
But when it comes to my moment that i need to get a degree, i too realized i have no interest in engineering, business related, accounting,
and in the end registered the degree i looked down upon, although, i did chose the one with computer science so i could still get a programmer
job if i wanted to.
Why do i despise games so much but am still attached to the realm of gaming and game creations?
I had spent too much time and on the side note, i have spent unnecessary money on gaming, during these years
of gaming, or should i say decade of gaming, i have lost the opportunity to make more friends, to get to know more about my friends,
to flirt with schoolgirls, to study, to improve my health through exercise, to increase my wealth of knowledge, i know i have lost all of my golden time
in the world, but somehow i am still interested in game design
.
Well at least the situation of mine is not as bad as those of my secondary school friends of mine when we started to play games a decade ago addictively without control or any discipline,
they did play DOTA, and now they still play DOTA2, they have flunked their grades and entered private schools to get those poorly recognized degrees,
they are fat and they wait for their maids to bring food to them, they dun have girlfriends, they just sit in the air-con rooms playing DOTA all day.
I am ashamed to say that i was the first one to introduce them to gaming, especially DOTA to my friends, i didn't knew it would have such a big impact on their lives even a decade from then on.
While sitting in the air-con and watching them play DOTA2, they asked me dun i want to play? I said not really, i didn't go back to the air con room anymore, i didn't visit any of my old friends anymore, and they probably too busy playing DOTA that they have forgotten about me.
No gaming is better?
i have friends in polytechnic, and they are those typical students that cares for no gaming, even if they do game, they play games like minecraft multiplayer and socialize,
after a few days, you will not see them play again. they have sergeant and officers ranks in army, they have girlfriends, they have a huge network of friends and they are happy unlike those DOTA
friends of mine complaining everyday.
Of course these could be a cherry picked analysis since the number of real life friends i have is limited to only 100 and below, but i hope it expresses why my hate on playing games impulsively.