AE2A writing Hiroyuki Asano

Hiroyuki Asano
AE2 writing
Summary Response

In the article, “The Quest to End Game Addiction,” by Julia Scheeres states that ideas about game addiction; that gamers are interested in games and they cannot quit games. First of all, this author mentioned EQ, which is EverQuest or EverCrack, in which players feel that they slip in to the game. In addition, the author mentioned stories of people who have game addiction. In my opinion, there are a lot of game addicted people in Japan. I think game addiction is very bad.

First of all, game addiction is bad for human relations. When they get jobs, they have to relate to coworkers, but they cannot join them, because it is difficult finding similar interests. They feel lonely and then they would lose jobs.

Second, a lot of game addicted people do not have jobs, so they are parasitic on their parents. Parents cannot control them because they did not control them in their childhood. Parents save their life.

Finally, some game addicted people cannot separate the real world and the game world. In addition there are a lot of violent programs in game programs, so they commit crimes. For example, a game addicted person who can not separate realty from fantasy plays a violent action game. The person does not hesitate to do the violence in reality.

In conclusion, game addiction is not good, because they can not have good relationships with other people, they have trouble with family, and they can not separate real from not real, so they should play games moderately.

Reference
Julia,Scheeres,(2001, dec-05)."The Quest End Game Addiction."
http:www.wired.com/news/holidays/0,1882,48479,00.htm
here.

(11/29/2006 12;45pm)