Online Playing -The Ethics of Digital Games

Discussion:
According to the film, what are some pros and cons of playing videogames for individuals and societies?
Pros of playing videogames for individuals and society

• People especially young people who play videogames can have entertainment. They can enjoy the games to express the emotion and action on the games. For example, in the Sims, we can create a new character to represent myself.
• The youth may love the video games because they think the games are realism like 3D images. Like Counter-Strike -Schleiner, we can free to killing the people on the games.
• Young people enjoy it because we can't do it in the real life.Videogames seems the real society and life. For example, In Counter-Strike -Schleiner is a game about war. we can learn and train to use the guns.

Cons of playing videogames for individuals and society

• “Personally I would like to see computer games move towards fantasy, away from military fantasy which pretends to ‘realistic’ … “Japanese games for children and adults are engaged in this undertaking, filled with curious animal Pokemon creatures, Robo-cats, transformers, Anime people, monsters, demons and fairies, of all genders. I identify more with these characters than with counter-terrorist or terrorist soldiers and they are what I want to be my reality. Reality is up for grabs. The real needs to be remade by us” (Copyleft 03.02.02 Anne-Marie Schleiner)
• it seems that videogames aim at realism. Many teenager may addit to the game and follow the game character situation. For example, in Counter-Strike -Schleiner, the character uses the guns to killing people. Some young people may want to do this in the reality and become more violence.