Pubg: A Game Changer

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is an online multiplayer battle royale game developed by South Korean company Bluehole. In the game we have 100 players on an island, scrambling for weapons and each player fighting to remain the last one standing out. Whosoever wins the game gets a virtual chicken dinner. Mobile gaming has seen many hits like Candy Crush and Clash Royale but nothing has come closer to PUBG appeal. This video game is so appealing that it has made many non-gamers a champion of PUBG. But do we realize that these video games are made purely for entertainment purpose? Why do we need a source of entertainment in our lives? In order to amuse ourselves in leisure time and get some fun and pleasure but when this particular source of entertainment becomes a ‘NECESSITY’. When we cannot think beyond it then we refer to it as an ‘ADDICTION’. The game is appealing to such an extent that its users are so engrossed into it that they actually forget difference between the Real World and Virtual World. Since, the key rule of the game is to kill or get killed which itself reflects that the game is all about violence. Its users become so much emotionally involved in the game that they actually forget that it is just a GAME and not the reality. One grisly and awfully horrific example to reflect how much aggressive people are becoming due to this game: One Delhi guy who killed his parents and sister due to his addiction to PUBG. He along with a group of 10 of his friends rented a room. So whenever they bunked their classes they went to that room for playing PUBG and when his parents objected him for missing classes and for his lifestyle, he held a grudge on it and made a plan to teach them lesson and so he murdered them.

The game has become a weapon of mass distraction for students and is not letting them concentrate on their academics.We have many cases in Delhi only where students have actually failed in examinations due to this addiction. I understand that there are many people out there who play it purely for entertainment purpose but we need to take some strong steps for those group of people who take such games seriously and actually get emotionally and mentally attached to it.

The Government has took a decent step by putting a 6 hour per day limit on the game i.e. your game won’t start if you have already played it for 6 hours a day.

This step has actually done justice to sensible gamers also and will also reduce the number of adverse cases due to addiction. But the problem is still not completely solved. The parents must keep a check on their children. Also we must educate our friends who are very much engrossed into the game to limit the usage.

It is imperative for one to know that everything has its own limit beyond which it would only harm us.