Escape to virtual world

Opening your browser, getting ready to surf the web for whatever you want to do... facebook, tweet, watch youtube videos or search for something on the internet... all these things have one thing in common, the advertisements.

Who can not notice the intensive ads on web pages?  Sometimes I feel like they can come out of my closet...maybe not all of us bother living the experience of Travian, Metin2, IMVU and the others. So, in the coming few lines we are getting into this world and know more about it

The idea behind this kind of games is the virtual world. So, you live your life with most of its details. Also these games have been prepared well to make you feel the experience as never known before.

Travian
Build your own village, that's what you will probably find in its ad.
And here we can see what the game is all about, building a village for yourself and your people, feeding and protecting them. also, trying to earn new lands to expand your kingdom.

   

Metin2
Here, you are a worrier, you start with limited abilities and resources which you try to enhance throughout your journey and strengthen your fighting abilities, your sowrd, your horse, your weapons and then form a union of worriers to fight other ones and gain some extras.

The game also includes some details other than war and fights. You may get married to some worrier girl, make a wedding, invite your union, dance with your bride and so many other stuff.

IMVU
This game is what we can call "A general purpose game" or to be accurate"no purpose game". You have to just login, make a character of your own, meet other characters and do whatever you want with them, it’s like being in a large chatting room in 3D.

This is a brief explanation for each of these games, but actually that wasn’t the goal of this article from the beginning, it doesn’t matter what is inside the game because as we said they have different ideas, but they all have the same core. The idea of a virtual world.

The developers of games in general are looking for the profit, what can make the players want it more so that they play it more and more.

This kind of games specifically is designed on the background of the problems that the teenagers are facing in their real lives as the game presents for them an easier solution for these problems other than facing them, this solution – as they see it – is to runaway.

You can’t beat your disability of studying?? Login to the game and beat your enemies…
You can’t make relations with other people in your life?? Come make them inside the game…
You can’t express your ideas and thoughts in front of people?? Who needs to do it? You can express your fighting abilities inside the game.

I'm not trying to say that these games are made by the devil but when you spend in front of your PC more than what you spend in studying or going to school or setting with your family, of course there is something wrong then.

Usually when we talk in our magazine about a new game, service or product, we try to let people know more about this sort of technology, but this is not the core of the thing. In our case we are talking about a phenomena that had an absolutely bad impact on its users as those games have provided for the subscribers the world they want, or we can say the escape way from reality. They simply ask the players to leave their problems and go fight or make a union of worriers or find some virtual girl to love or even get married to...life with us is so easy, you don’t have to face your life problems…just login to the game and enjoy.

I don’t want to talk like a parent but games weren't actually made to spend more than ten hours a day in front of you PC screen. and here let me say "First things first", So set your priorities and then act due to them.

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Published at www.magnology.net | 20th Issue | 02/11/2010

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