They have been said to make your intelligence level go down dramatically. They come consume you and rune your life, because you will not have one. Video games are the cause of so many students’ grades and social lives wither away. So many have submitted themselves to the surreal worlds of online gaming that there are even sites that offer help for those that are a addicted. It was supposed to be just for fun but now that is all some people live for; they have cut themselves off from the outside world.

There are people realizing that they are in too deep and getting themselves out. One anonymous gamer states,” I quit playing as much and was able to get a new girlfriend, finish up a masters degree and now have more energy during the day, instead of running out of work, grabbing a 12 pack on the way home, and going on an couple 4 hour raids every night. Now I just pvp for an hour or so when I have nothing else to do.” . This is just one of the millions of gamers that play the online game “ The World of Warcraft” that has gotten their life back in the real world.

It further more proves that gaming is not a good thing because so many people are taking out their egressions in an unnatural way. And they are getting these unrealistic ideas that may trigger something inside of them to try these kinds of things. Some teen violence today is even blamed on video game playing. Weather teens are using it as an out or not it still is crazy to think that it is save for the mind to be playing these violent games that have such gruesome images as the one that is depicted above.