The Gaming COmmunity
So many people believe that gaming is simply looking to an electronic simulation and submerging oneself in complete isolation. The reality of the gaming world (pun intended), however, a lot more than that. As technology has progressed gaming has become more and more of a social aspect than anything. Most games today take more team work, social skills, and communication than ever for one to become successful at. Technology has brought multiplayer and online gaming in which players play with one another in different styles of play depending on the game they are engaged in.
Aside from just communication, gaming has a huge impact on modern culture that people see today. We can see reflections of this in social media, quotes from the most popular games, and even in some countries in the way people dress. Gaming contributes so many great, fun things to the community not only inside gaming, but to the world and cultures around it as well.
Aside from just communication, gaming has a huge impact on modern culture that people see today. We can see reflections of this in social media, quotes from the most popular games, and even in some countries in the way people dress. Gaming contributes so many great, fun things to the community not only inside gaming, but to the world and cultures around it as well.
The good
The good side of the gaming community comes a lot through the way people act. It is astonishing how a small kind action in a virtual world can really turn somebody's day around and put a smile on their face. In a lot of multiplayer games, this can happen, and in less competitive games people tend to be a lot more focused on people in a social perspective rather than the game itself.
The gaming community incorporates people of all social statuses and appearances. This is another great thing that comes through gaming, the idea that people who probably would never have met before due to their situations in reality, can become best friends through a game. This also introduces the mix of cultures and ideas through games; people are more in touch with one another and different backgrounds around the world more than ever. It is easy to share and sit back with someone across the globe while sharing common interests and bashing bad guys in a game.
The gaming community incorporates people of all social statuses and appearances. This is another great thing that comes through gaming, the idea that people who probably would never have met before due to their situations in reality, can become best friends through a game. This also introduces the mix of cultures and ideas through games; people are more in touch with one another and different backgrounds around the world more than ever. It is easy to share and sit back with someone across the globe while sharing common interests and bashing bad guys in a game.
The bad
In all honesty, there are negative sides to the gaming community as well. Different games produce different communities, and the more competitive games where players look to benefit themselves rather than work with others tend to produce more negative atmospheres. These games are not necessarily bad, and not everybody that plays them is a bad, or angry person. However, communities are largely characterized by the type of game they link to. Typically games that produce ragers or tryhards (slang terms for people who negatively impact the atmosphere of the community) tend to have a less positive community.