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Advantages and disadvantages of gaming

There are few advantages considered to disadvantages gaming has. And these points may vary
person to person depending on how he takes gaming - as an addiction or just for casual
gaming. Let's directly jump into the disadvantages first.

Disadvantages:
 Games are addictive,
When people tend to get more attracted to the game and they play it excessively than they
should, it can be called addiction and this is not good at all. They're wasting their whole time
with games, missing the opportunities outside the virtual world of games. Unless one wants
and have absolute confidence that he can make a career out of gaming, then this point is not
for them.

 Can effect life of the player,

Majority of players are teenagers and teenagers have studies to do and growing
responsibilities to handle. But, once they get into gaming and take it seriously which they
should not, their career has possibility of getting side tracked. As a result of excessive
gaming, their studies are negatively impacted and socially, they become dull.
 Can have negative socializing impact,

Yes, players are usually not that socially active and they tend to have weak relationships with
their families. This is because of games being mostly violent and playing violent games
excessively, makes even the player go violent as studies say. Hence, in the end, they have
negative social impact.

Advantages:

 Improves mental abilities.

Games can improve mental ability of a human. This is because, there are many plots in
games, where player has use their skills to survive and level up. And playing these kind of
games moderately, can really improve mental abilities. It is also said that, games can improve
the multitasking abilities to certain extent though it is not suggested to multitask.

 Multiplayer games improve mutual understanding between teams.

Multiplayer games, played in teams, are one of the most played games. They also tend to
improve the understanding between each person in the team and hence, they can play better in
team than solo. This also increases communication skills.

Playing games moderately can have good effects but opposite can have negative ones.

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