As we enter the world of globalisation, we are faced with new social problems - one of them is addiction to computer games.
Nowadays we often hear such things on TV or read in a newspaper that more and more people are getting addicted to a game called World of Warcraft, but the problem is "Who is guilty? The game or a person who is playing it?".
To begin with, I want to say that I have never played World of Warcraft for more than a few weeks, simply - I didn't like this game, so forgive me if you don't agree with the facts I am going to say.
Firstly, what is an addicted man? It is the man, who cannot spend a day without using that thing or doing whatever related to that thing. Addiction may be to computers, casino or like a cup of tea or coffee, glasses of beer, wine and whisky, the cigarettes, the snorts of cocaine, the joints, the tablets of acid, the fixes of heroin, and the ubiquitous tranquiiizers and sleeping pills. It may be that every drug-induced state has its counterpart in a state of mind arrived at without drugs, but drug taking still remains one of the easiest and most immeaditae ways of altering psychological states; for some people, the ease and immediacy with which drugs achieve their effects proves particularly seductive. So long as there are drug takers, there will be drug casualities. No form of drug taking is without its dangers, but the quest to eliminate drug taking has proved to be the search for a chimera. So at our point, the problem of a high number people addicted to World of Warcraft may be solved by "learning to live surrounded by it, but not getting into it".
Recently, the friend of mine has created a thread in Lithuanian e-sports website telling that he is quitting this game and is regreting, how much time he has spent to play World of Warcraft, how much he would have done during the playtime ( 960 Hours ). He was charging this game for it.
But now again, "Who is guilty? The game or a person who is playing it?". In my opinion, everything depends on a person, not on a game. Game isn't saying things like "come and play me 10 hours a day", the person decides how much he wants to play, even if it may break their lifes.