Game creators tackle ethical issues

How to crate a game which can meet marketing’s need and display a little social responsibility at the same time? I think this should be a very tough question for any game creator. It seems very difficult to find the balance between making more profit and having responsibility for the society. For example, most game players are teenagers. This age could be easy to addict to anything they like or something they only could think of such as violence, sex and so on. As a game designer, he/she might add some plots related to those that game players may interest in. No matter how it would affect game players even though in the negative side, as long as it would help in marketing result.

In fact, certain game creators did make some impressive changes in designing the games especially when we compare to those who still use violence and sex attracting game players. They crated the games based on the stories, either fiction or faction, and the characters in the games would react to each move which the players gave to. However, even though there are no negative scenes in the game, the game itself could be a big problem as well once you addict to it. Sometimes, the game itself could not bring much fun to the players, but they still want to continue to finish the game because they already invest too much time on it. Sometimes, the game itself did bring a lot of fun to the players; as a result, they do not want to stop it until the game is over.

Actually, this article let me recall my roommate in college. In the regular time, we all were supposed to graduate in four years, but he spent six years in college and did not get degree in the end of sixth year. The educational system in Taiwan, college student has maximum six years to take enough credits to graduate. In the end of sixth year, if you still can not take all credits you need, you will get nothing. At that time, he almost spent more than eight hours per day to play on-line games. I think we can not blame that he would go like this way because of games. The game itself could be good in some ways like it could help people to relax; as long as you do not addict to it.

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