My knowledge of video games is more or less restricted. I have never come in contact with the heavier games like World of Warcraft, Conan and CS (counter strike). The type of games that are closest to me are sport games, I don’t know how many hours I’ve wasted on the ice hockey game NHL. I guess that’s some kind of addiction.It doesn’t matter how you look at it, it will always be a problem. However, if you can be able to “handle the addiction” there is a lot to learn from it I think. I’ve some friends that played a lot back in the days. One friend was forced to quit high school because his addictions to the game counter strike. But when I ask him if he have some regrets from it he says that it wasn’t just bad for him, he made some new contacts and most important, he learned English very well.
The development in video games goes forward and the means of communication becomes better and better. Today you can have a lot of friends to play with and you don’t even have to meet them eye to eye. This is and will be a major problem, especially for the younger ones. Humans need to be social and get together with other people.
//Anton Möller
Hi Anton,
SvaraRaderaI think that this text had a good flow and was very easy to follow. Your paragraphing was good and I liked that you shared some personal experiences. But from my point of view playing NHL is about as much wasted time as playing CS. Might ever be worse if your not playing with your friends, then you don't learn so much english or socialise at all.