How Does Online Gaming Change People's Lives -

Written By (BasilID/Profil3ID): BBD

There is a place where 100 thousands of people are at right now and the population of this place is doubling every year. Either they are talking to friends, doing quest, or just having fun. It’s the world of online gaming. This world is also known as third places. The first place we have in our lives is our home and work, some where we have to go in life. The second places are anywhere we have to go that is nor home or work, like the grocery, getting the gas, going shopping. The third world is the online world where one can be anywhere with an internet connection. This can be on a computer or on their gaming console. The online world is used to most players to get away from the real world and become what they want to be. Online gaming change people lives, in a good way or bad. Is it just to get away, to have fun and make friends, how much time do one spend on the online world, and does it cost anything?

On this online world one can be who ever they want to be. Different games make one choose what they want to be from varies characters like some kind of creachers, monster, wizards, dwarfs, warriors, ninjas, bowman, or just be themselves. Not all online games are made to kill others or to kill monsters, some games like SIMS are made to make new friends and be you. The reason what most people play online games is because one can play with friends. Eighty one percent of gamers play games with friends that already know in the real life, and they also play with friends who they just met online. Of the power being online one don’t have to show their face and the person on the other side don’t know where one live or make any contact with the player in real life, the player will tell the online friend the problems they are having then telling the friends or family in real life. The reason of this being is that the players fell that they other player has more common way of thinking since they do play the same game. On the online gaming it is really easy to make friends it is also very easy to lose friends, if one think a person is not really friendly to them or just don’t want to be their friends one can easily delete them off their buddy list, can change guilds or one can block them from talking to them and one may never see that person ever again. Of the reason it is so easy to make friends and learn about each other thirty percent of online gamers gets into a relationship with the other person and have not seen each other real faces. Witch gender play games also come in play since the male and female come online for different reasons. Forty two percent of online gamers are females and fifty eight percent are male.

It is not hard to go on the online world it is just a simple log in and one is in the game. To escape the online gaming one has the will to log off. An average person who plays games very from gender, an adult woman play games 7.4 hours a week, while an adult man play games 7.6 hours per week. Some people call themselves gamers and they out their might go play 23.4 hour per week playing games. Forty three percent of gamers will play much or more in ten years. The age of the gamers do also very. The average gamer age is 33. Twenty eight percent of gamers are age under 18, forty eight percent are between the ages 18-49 and twenty four percent are in the age range 50+. The numbers do change if they are playing on the computer or on the console. For Computer Gamers thirty percent of most frequent game players are under eighteen years old. Twenty six percent of most frequent game players are between 18 and 35 years old. Forty four percent of most frequent game players are over 35 years old. For Console Gamers Forty percent of most frequent game players are under eighteen years old. Thirty five percent of most frequent game players are between 18 and 35 years old. Twenty five percent of most frequent game players are over 35 years old.

Online games are very costly, there are some good games that have a monthly payment, some games are one time pay and some games are just free. Games do have other cost. The cost is not money but it is time. Since online gamers have the will to log in and log off anytime, some gamers forget that they can log off. Some gamers make a living for playing games. They will hunt for game money and sell them on the internet for real cash. Most game creators don’t allow these to happen by banning anyone who buy or sell game money for real money because of safety reasons. Some gamers in the other hand just want to stay in the cyber world and never leave, because they have varies of friends with different time zone, or they want to level up and be that number one person. These people move into the third place and vanish from the first and second place.

We go home and work and meet the same people, we got outside and we so our stuff. The online gaming world is the number one place where people go and get away from life it self and meet friends and have lots of fun. Even if one plays for hour a day or even all day there is always change in the online gaming world. No matter what type of person one is, there is a place for anyone out there, which fits their need. Everyday more and more people join the online world. Everyday game creators find games to find one needs.

Appendix/Sources

10 Ways Online Gaming Will Change the Future
Want to Make a Friend for Life? Play an MMORPG
GAME PLAYER DATA
Massive Multiplayer Online Games as “Third Places”
Study shows MMOs help make friends ... and lovers

Why did I write this?

It is like every show, movie has a video game, and mostly every video games that come out these days are able to play with others online.

Summary, because I know that some people don't like reading!

Online gaming change people lives!

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