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Online games can promote inappropriate behaviors in children and young people if they include violent content that ignores age ratings. Many free-to-play games use "freemium" models that encourage real-money spending on in-game items through systems like gambling. This has led to stories of people spending excessive amounts or even ending their lives due to losses in online games. While some educational games may not have these issues, the online gaming industry overall needs reforms to avoid toxic behaviors and addiction among vulnerable groups.

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Online games can promote inappropriate behaviors in children and young people if they include violent content that ignores age ratings. Many free-to-play games use "freemium" models that encourage real-money spending on in-game items through systems like gambling. This has led to stories of people spending excessive amounts or even ending their lives due to losses in online games. While some educational games may not have these issues, the online gaming industry overall needs reforms to avoid toxic behaviors and addiction among vulnerable groups.

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Online games can promote inappropriate behaviors in children and young people if they include violent content that ignores age ratings. Many free-to-play games use "freemium" models that encourage real-money spending on in-game items through systems like gambling. This has led to stories of people spending excessive amounts or even ending their lives due to losses in online games. While some educational games may not have these issues, the online gaming industry overall needs reforms to avoid toxic behaviors and addiction among vulnerable groups.

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Online Games only Promote Bad Behavior in Kids and Young People

By: I Gusti Bagus Cesa Eda Udayana


As technology grows and so does the world of entertainment, started from television channels to
YouTube videos, from theatre to online streaming services and from traditional and arcade
games to online video games. Currently there are thousands of different online game titles with
one of the most popular titles such as: Minecraft, Call of Duty, GTA and so much more.
However, not everyone has access to certain platforms to play these popular titles but with the
mass selling of mobile phones some people may have access to some online game titles and thus
the growth of “Mobile Gaming” which quickly became popular among people especially
children.

Everything is not always perfect, as some games start to evolve and promote dangerous
inappropriate behaviors, some say sandbox and educational games such as Minecraft does not
usually promote these behaviors and focus on the player’s creativity which may be true at some
cases but some platforms are overwhelmed by the amount of games which includes violence.
These games are usually played by adults and can be seen from the age rating however some
kids and parents ignore these ratings and just install the games to their devices which caused
them to be exposed to contents not suitable for younger audiences, these games promote systems
known as “freemium” where the majority of people can download them for free however so they
can make progress they have to spend real world money on digital item gambling. When people
start doing this, other young people and children will often do the same thing as well.

Even worse some popular influencers and public figures are sponsored by game publishers are
forced to promote these behaviors, there has been multiple news regarding the inappropriate
behaviors that these games brought, as quoted from metro.co.uk “a guy’s credit card frozen after
spending $4,500 on mobile game Distyle”, another story from indiatimes.com, a guy ends life
after loss in online game. There are multiple stories of how online games affected the lives of
innocent young people negatively.

As technology grows newer, better innovations were made and so does how people react to those
changes as humans we need to adapt positively to the era of globalization, and in the case of
online gaming I suggest to highly avoid to get too addicted to them or you may got lost within
the digital world and be the next victim of online gaming or create a non-toxic community and to
help solve modern problems and make new friends, the choice is in the our hands.

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