For individuals, first, they can create their own career through playing videogames. In the film, there are many professional gamers in South Korea. They can make money through winning the game, they can also become the "new stars", famous in young generation. Many fans clubs are created and the MV are made in order to introduce those game players. This situation also happen in China. Those professional gamers will help others to go into the next level, and this is a trade between the gamers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Xiaofeng_(professional_gamer) Li Xiao Feng is one of the professional gamers in China
For the societies, government and company may use video game for propaganda. Take the US as example, the US Army take the video game as a real simulation of being a real US Army. Because of the real simulation exercise, it attract many teenagers wants to be one of them and develop a positive image that US army are brave in protecting the country.
On the other sides, there are also many disadvantages of playing video game.
For the individuals, just use the Korea as an example, the health level will be affected if the player really play the games for a long time. According to the video, because of the long time of playing the games, their health are really affected. They all sleep in the morning time but work at night. Some news also state that it is easy for the long time game players to get muscle pain, and it is also not good for their eyes.
Besides the negative effect on the game players, i also read some cases that the game players spend too much money on buying the vitural goods or weapon.
For the societies, some video game may convey a erong message to the society, ti the next generation. Although the US Army really can develop a good image of the army. However, i think the game maximize the postitve image of being a soilders but minimize the the risks of being a army. Being a soilders is not only click some button, or just focus and shoot. It also include many others practice such as body trainning, the skills of how to survive... It makes a feeling that being a army is so easy. If the teenager really be a army,they should notice that when they lose in the real war/ fight, they many lose their life.
So i think no matter how real the video game is, it cannot be truth.
Will video game encourgae aggressive values and anti-social action in real world?
In the video, it shows that there is the relationship between the video game and the aggressive brain activeity.And i do think that it may have some relation. In nowadays, it is not uncommon to hear the news that players are affected by the games. When the players accicted to the game, they may think that they are one of them in the game world, they want to fight and win the game. And if they cannot seperate the two identities, they may controlled by the game to do some violence action. For example, i found the news from wikipedia,
On June 7, 2003, 18-year-old American Devin Moore shot and killed two policemen and a dispatcher after grabbing one of the officers' weapons following an arrest for the possession of a stolen vehicle. At trial, the defense claimed that Moore had been inspired by the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,
Can A Video Game Lead To Murder?". CBS News. 2005-06-19. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/17/60minutes/main702599.shtml.
In October 2004, a 41-year-old Chinese man named Qiu Chengwei stabbed 26-year-old Zhu Caoyuan to death over a dispute regarding the sale of a virtual weapon the two had jointly won in the game The Legend of Mir 3. ,
Cao Li (2005-06-08). "Death sentence for online gamer". China Daily. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/08/content_449494.htm.
From those example, i think that the video game may have effect on aggressive value, we just don't know the level of the affection.
Should the government have the right to ban the games?
I think it is hard to ban the game although we know that the game may have some problem. It is because from the artists' point of view, they may think that it is their free to do the creation, if the government ban the games, it mauy easily to have some arguement on the freedom of creation.
However, even it is hard for the governmet to ban those game, i think the governmet should have some regulation the protect the next generation. For examplem just like the film regulation, the government can set the rules that some young people cannot buy the game if they are not the age. It may protect them a little. However, if we really want to protect the next generation, only the action of government is not enough, the parents, the school and the society also have the responsibility to teach the children and convey the right value.
