What are the positive and negative effects of playing games?

Write an
academic essay to discuss both sides and suggest some ways to reduce bad
effects?
In today’s modern life, playing games is becoming more and more common with
the general public. Besides, a lot of positive and negative effects that it brings for our life,
there exist a lot of important solutions to solve this problem discussed in the following
essay.
It is clear that playing games brings us a lot of positive effects to our lives. One of
the most important positive effects is that playing video games is an excellent way for
entertaining and relaxing after a long day of studying or working. Take me as an
example, I usually have classes begin from 7 – 11AM in the morning, and 1:30 – 5PM in
the evening, which make me feel so tired and depressed, thus I often release my stress by
playing my favorite game that name is Homescape. It is very interesting and fastinating.
Additionally, another important one is that we can learn useful skills from playing games.
Continueing with my example before, as I play Homescape, this game not only helps me
practice my patience and reasoning ability to find ways to solve problems but it also can
help me learn English.
On the other hand, there exists many negative effects of this problem. One of the
most serious negative impacts is that it can affect to our heath, especially our eyes.
Namely, when we play games for long hours and our eyes are in constant contact with the
device’s screen, which will cause eye diseases, so it is very harmful and dangerous. In
addition, another serious disadvantage that we need to take into consideration is that it
also can make us addicted if we play too much, and waste a lot of time, and only want to
stay at home or some people even skip school to go to the game store and spend a lot of
money just to play games all day instead of spending that time on studying and working.
As a result, these exists many serious disadvantages that we should solve as soon as
possible.
On account of its serious effects, there are also many important solutions to this
problem. The main solution is that we should control our gaming time by setting
disciplines for ourselves that only play 2 hours a day. These things not only ensure our
health but also can help us establish discipline to have a healthy life. Futhermore, another
important one is that we should take part in many outdoor and health activities such as
playing sports, swimming, hanging out with our families or friends, and so on. For me,
those activities also bring us a lot of benefits and we even feel more relaxed, blissful than
play games.
In conclusion, many people think that playing games is more and more popular with
the general public. There exists a lot of positive and negative effects as well as suitable
solutions. The way I see it, the positive effects always outweigh the negative ones.