Negative Impacts of MMORPG games

Money wastages

In order to have a great character that masters in all skills and has a lot of great and cool items, some gamers are willing to spend their money in order to buy all of the stuffs on EBAY, one of the e-business website. There is one article written by Jeremy, a former gamer, who shared his experience while he was addicted by MMOPRG games (Schoemaker, Jeremy, 2008). Buying stuffs from Ebay with quite expensive price has brought him into a debt. He lost his job and has no money to pay the electric bill where one day his electric power was shut off. Not only his online world has been shut off, but his life in the real world that have been neglected by him to play the game, now has been shut off. He is unemployed, and has no money to pay the rent house. He should start his life from beginning again by looking for a job. From this article, we can get a conclusion that gamers who are really addicted by games will lose more things than they ever know.

Lost their capability to interact in real life relationship

Gamers who have been addicted with the games will lose their capabilities in interacting with each others within real world. This is because the time that they spend is more into the games itself rather than the reality. One of the concrete examples that have been found from internet based on one of the parents’ experience about their child is that the parents have a 12 years old son who is into supreme destiny online games (Schoemaker, Jeremy, 2008, under Rom’s comment). His son can spend the whole time playing the games alone and never want to go out to play with other children who are in the same age with him. Besides that, his son always breaks the house rules and he has created a gap to communicate well with his sister. This can happen because the son has lack of proper understanding and differentiation between the game world and the real world he is in. From this experience we can take a conclusion that if the gamers always keep themselves into their own virtual world, at the end they will end up with losing their relatives and friends in their real life.

References:
http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/08/03/i-am-a-recovering-addict-of-mmorpg-games/
http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/07/31/making-money-with-virtual-property/