For example World of Warcraft (WoW) is one of the most addictive games in the world ! The genre is RPG (role play game) and players live in virtual world and forget about the reality. My friend's fifteen years old brother is WoW player and plays this game about 8 hours each day. When he has no school he does not even leave his room very often. This guy's game character is some kind of celebrity in virtual world, but in real life he is just a shy boy. Everytime he has to leave his room and stop playing this WoW, he becomes anxious. I saw a video of one of these "addicts" and I was surprised how much they are into this game. In this case, mother canceled her son's WoW account and therefore she killed his online character. Here is the video:
As you can see, the kids are outraged ! These are ones of the extreme cases. But it is not just World of Warcraft. People playing action games like Counterstrike become aggressive when they are not good enough and die often. Like these ones. Me myself play some of these games and from my experience, hitting the mouse or keyboard is really often. About 50 % of players do so. It is strange, but playing a game which has purpose of having fun with friends becomes violent.
There is one case of game violence Japan. I had to read it twice because that shocked me. There were two guys playing some online RPG. They had a deal to slay a powerful monster together. That monster dropped a superb weapon and those two kids went crazy. One of the kids picked up the weapon from the monster and killed the other's character. The killed guy went crazy and found his "friend" via IP address. This guy came to other's place and killed him with a baseball bat. this happened just because of the game.
Shocking case of course. However, even if I'm not sure, what do you think about the following: what if video games are some kind of magnit for people who already have elements of violence in themselves? and maybe they find solution in the video games in this way? I mean they put all their aggression in video games. It is not a guarantee of course that after they will not be violent in real life, but still maybe these video games are some kind of "protection" for the others and for themselves too?
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