Argumentative Essay On Video Games

All I’ve thought about video game was a stress relief thing you can play using your computer or consoles which has the visual feedback shown on TV or the monitor until recent years. But I realized it’s based on what game you are playing. There are some games which have competitive scenes and others are casual games just for fun. Nowadays, people tend to call competitive video games as eSports. The word eSports means electronic sports due to the fact that it is played on computer. This sport got its ticket to be in 2022 Asian Games and is waiting for the approval of being one official medal sport in 2024 Olympic Games. The problem is people still are believing that something involves computer must not be called sport. However, video games have
It has some big reasons behind it. At our parents’ and grandparents’ youth time there wasn’t much competitive games as todays’ as the computers weren’t belonged to most of the people from 1940-1990s. But what about arcade games? It wasn’t everywhere, few percentage of people had arcade game box in that era. Because of it, our elder generations have spent much more time on studies, and life skills than us. Therefore, us the new generation tends to spend many hours on computer games which makes our parents believe the games are to be blamed as struggles we are getting. There are tons of incidents that kids are going crazy because they are getting addicted to the games. Another reason why people can’t accept eSports as regular sports are because person must be seated on chair and make sure their eyes are open for hours which is burden for our body. Some people thinks sports require mostly the
In the Game 5 of 2017 NBA Finals there were around nineteen thousand attendees who were watching the game in the Oracle Arena. On the other hand, ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 (first of the two major tournaments of this year in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene) Finals had around seven thousand people watching the match in the Agganis Arena which has capacity of seven thousand two hundred people. It’s understandable because eSports is growing genre compared to basketball which has been successful for fifty years. Moreover, the ELEAGUE Major broke the most viewers’ record of the Twitch, most successful live-streaming platform on the internet. One million twenty-six thousand people watched the game between Cloud9 and Faze