When I was a child, the most addicting games were played around a table or while lounging on the living room floor. We played board games until our parents made us put everything aside until the next day. We shuffled cards until our fingers and wrists were aching. Nowadays, the most addicting games arent taking place in the same manners. They are being found online. Some people go to work and spend a great amount of their day trying to look busy but secretly playing games on the internet. They physically clock in but are mentally clocked out. Others rush through their day so that they can simply hurry home and plop in front of the computer to engage in their online games. Then there are the individuals who think that the mere thought of playing those so-called addicting games are a complete waste of time.
Facebook and other popular social networking sites have brought some addicting games to life and suddenly individuals who have never had any interest in playing online games are finding themselves addicted. For some reason, the concept of creating our own mafia or designing our own farms are highly addictive. After a few weeks, those addicting games may have become boring and no longer entertaining or they may have become the focus of our lives.
For most people, the most addicting games are the online role-playing games. Ask a serious gamer what MMORPG is and their face will light up instantly. Massively multiplayer online role-playing games have become the most addicting games on the internet. Sure, tons of people are playing online poker or entertaining themselves with fake slot machines. But, role-playing games are taking over the realities of some individuals. The characters that some individuals end up creating become incredibly real to them. These addicting games require that the characters team up with other characters. Some of these gamers will admit that they have formed closer relationships with other online gamers and online characters than they have with real individuals in the real world. It is a lot easier to become a fantasy based character on the internet than it is to interact with people in todays world. Lets face it online, no one cares what you look like. You can hide behind the creation of your own character. You can
pretend to be anything that you want to be. You can build alliances and relationships with people in other countries. There are quite a few real life friendships and relationships that have been forged out of these addicting games. Suddenly, you could be interacting with someone in a foreign country that you probably would never in a million years have ever met.
It does become scary when these gamers get so involved in their addicting games that they find themselves calling in sick for a day or two just so that they can get further ahead in their games. They have things that they need to accomplish in the games that have become more than simply a site that you log onto each day. These addicting games have become their reality and their very means for existence. While there is nothing wrong with being a part of those addicting games, be sure that you take the time to stay in touch with the real world. Of course, the real world may not be nearly as entertaining or fulfilling as the world that exists inside of your computer.
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