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Do you know esports? Well, it refers to video gaming competitions played by individuals or teams, and many people would turn up to watch them. During the game, a young beautiful girl might act as a presenter, explaining and reporting the process of games.
It’s said that those players are paid high salaries, and the best ones are almost millionaires. That’s marvelous and fantastic, isn’t? You can play video games and make good money at the same time. However, is it as beautiful as it looks like?
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When you play some types of sports, like a hobby, you might enjoy it until it becomes a demanding task going up to the professional level. Video gaming is not away from the other traditional sports, for instance football, basketball, tennis, etc. Video games players need exercise, coaching and practice. It is a hard job which needs time, energy, concentration, and also money, to buy different kinds of facilities.
Video gaming is developing drastically in the last decade, and it is enormous, even bigger than music industry including music sales and concerts. The economic value of computer gaming industry is worth more than $130 billion. That is huge.
It will be included in 2020 Asian Games, and it might make an appearance at the Olympics Games one day.
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Is the popularity of computer games a bad thing?
With the new generations grow up, especially millennials, who were accompanied by computer games during their teenage time, their attitude towards computer games are different when they are about to have children comparing with that of their parents. New generations like to play games with their children in spare time.
Some people say it is not necessarily a bad thing, as video gaming industry has created many jobs, like event managers who will put things together, setting up and organizing the gaming competitions.
The others say the computer games are new types of entertainment drug. It sucks you up and not even say a word.
Computer games are time-consuming and we can feel it from our own experience. When you start a game, you will forget about the time and then suddenly you realize that many hours have passed and it is the middle of the night.
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People need discipline when playing computer games, especially when they introduce children to these superficial attractive games. Parents should be mindful that not every player will become an esports professional and make a living on it.
Discipline is the basic and fundamental feature that a person who wants to get into it. For example, how long he will play and what time of the day he wants to play. When the time is up, he has to stop immediately even if he is so eager to carry on. Strong willpower here is playing a big part.
To sum up, esports are so popular that they have become as normal as traditional sports. The new kind of entertainment is not necessarily a bad thing but it needs discipline of players, especially for children. If parents don’t want their children ruined by computer games, strong controls are required.
"I have been a soldier and have discipline requirements on myself," a productive female writer said. " What she calls discipline is self-discipline. For children’s parents, that is the way to go once involved with computer games.
