Video Game Addiction: Harmful And Helpful

Video Game Addiction

By: Mitchell Staedt

Video game addiction is both helpful and hurtful in many ways. One way video game addictions are beneficial is it drives the gaming economy to support new technology advancements which provides the U.S with a stable market of electronic goods that keep improving. On the other side video games are created to be very addictive and take up most of people 's time and money, some people nowadays dedicate their entire lives to the games they play. An example of this is a 17-year-old boy died after reportedly playing an online computer game for 22 days straight. The young man had broken his leg and was bored at home, using video games to pass the time. This young man died since he didn’t move for a long

Games now have graphics that look almost real to the users and the users can basically do anything they want in these games. Companies Such as Blizzard, Microsoft and Sega making up to $1.7 billion USD yearly gross, these companies have realized some of the most addictive games in the world, owning about 60% off all game market. All of these companies own buy out other companies to stomp out competition in a marketplace, the company known as Blizzard owns the MMORPG market by buying out smaller companies who are designing other games and adding what the game was going to be made for to their already existing game. The owners of these companies who are getting bought out are fine with this because selling their game to a profitable company like Blizzard would give them plenty of profit and increase their stock

We don’t assume something that takes us away from boredom can be that bad, to some it may be just something to pass the time but for others with more addictive tendencies can lose lots of time and money on a simple video game. There have been cases where people who get into a “Freemium” game spend thousands of dollars to get ahead of people in some meaningless objective which does nothing more then make the game harder to quit. There is speculation that freemium gaming is one giant scam, that targets the addicted with meaningless objectives and goals and flash text on the screen to make the player feel special. I strongly believe that all games are targeted at addicts to make them enjoy the experience longer and spend more money with the