An Ex Gamer Confession

Through out my teens and mid last year I've always been a “Gamer”. By definition a “Gamer” plays a game by a game developer. Among my favorite type of game are RPG and MMORPG based. I have totally stopped playing such game, but I still do occasionally plays short game in Warcraft (Dota and TD)

In a 3D, multiplayer, online, role-playing game, a “Gamer” creates character. The character can be male or female and of any races (Human, Elf, Undead, Ogres, etc) and classes (Warrior, Hunter, Mage, Barbarian, etc). Then “Gamer” launch these character into a fantasy world fills with magic, sorcery and mythical pets (Dragon, Kirin, Unicorn and birds galore). A “Gamer” character evolves and changes as they interact with other “Gamer” and characters on the Net.

Around this time of the day, I will dropped everything I'm doing, logged on into a game called “Supreme Destiny”, my last serious MMORPG based game. It's the only day (once a week) where hundreds of player pitched against each others fighting for Kingdoms, Towns and Ultimately the “Crown” of power in game.

The potent mix of defining and acting out an ideal self in a rich, exciting, dangerous, lawless and magical land creates a peculiar draw for “Gamers”. This is one Utopian virtual environment where “Survival Of The Fittest” applies. A standard daily life of a “Gamer” involves trading pens and papers for sword, shield and amour; a mouse, keyboard and monitor.

“The sad truth is that in many ways. Game is better than real life. It is easier to succeed in Game; I can be beautiful, fit, powerful and wealthy; in real life I am chronically ill and there isn't much fun or achievement to be had,” writes one “Gamer”. “Game is more than just opiate, and much more than “just a game”. In a very real sense Game gives a “Gamer” an opportunity to feel free.”

Men and woman latch on to their computers, so engrossed in the online role-playing that they seemingly lose contact with real-life roles,work, friends and family, leaving ruined relationship in their wake.Sometimes a Gamer’s fantasy life overlaps into the real world. When someone starts bringing real-life emotions into a fantasy role-playing game or vice versa, it is no longer role-playing.

A 50+ years old Gamer I once knew said this to me “Playing a little game at time is good for the mind and soul, it have good calming effects and sharpen the mind. Work great in releasing stress too! But like all good things on earth, being extreme is bad. An hour in a game releases stress, but the next adds a whole new level of stress! “


After all these years….finally…..I QUIT~!! ^.^ V