PROs and CONs of playing video games for individuals and societies

Nowadays, video games have been commonly spread throughout the world and the industry of video games have been growing faster. Some people think video games are a great invention as they help the economy and enrich people's life, while some don't think video games are good things because it brings people illusion and many disadvantages to individuals and societies. However, there are actually many controversies to these issues of influence of video games. In this following passage, pros and cons of playing video games will be both explored.

To begin with, the first pro of playing video games is to learn something. Video games provide many situation which even do not exist in reality for players, so players can experience what they have experience before or get pleasure like great views in games. In the film that we watched in class, American army used shooting games to attract young men to join the army. In some ways, the army is stimulating what they are doing in normal working in the shooting game. On the other hand, people who want to join the army also have the chance to somehow train their ability of shooting or other technique of soldiers through the video games.

One of cons of playing video games is the moral issue. Video games are just a kind of virtual stuffs. Therefore, people put lots of possibilities on the games including their desires, discrimination, attitude for making fun. Like the example given by the film, some shooting games offer players shooting their partners or some characters may be created as representation of a class such as East Asian. It somehow implant players a wrong concept that killing people whatever they want or discrimination of different class. There are many conditions appearing in video games which depends on different backgrounds of creators. Therefore, it has a potential that it may mislead player while they are playing games.

In my point of views, I think that there is no right or wrong answer on video games. Video games can be a kind of art form to involve people's ideas. On the other hand, viewers can learn and achieve the creator's ideas during the games. Therefore, video games can be an effective art form of expressing people's ideas just like what films, poems do. However, nowadays people use video games to earn money rather than making arts. That makes video games become nothing but only commercial products. People even make even it wrong in morality. In my opinion, as many students said, government should do something to improve those condition.