Welcome to A-level ICT
Multiplayer games are games played by more than one person by means of a computer and an internet connection or multi-player consoles which allows players to play in similar game setting at the same time
• It serves as an avenue for players to benefit from interactions with another person by either as forming of a joint venture or competition. This also allows them to have a form of social communication.
• Promotes Association: Multiplayer games allow players to build their own networks of alliance. This promotes interaction within the players since they need to support each other in order to win the game. This will also allow players to build teamwork in order to attain victory.
• Boost Self Reliance: Multiplayer online games will also contribute in boosting one's self confidence since this type of gaming not only limited for forming groups or teams but as well as in developing competition within each player. This will entice each to do better as reward points are still given individually to those players who show off throughout the game.
• Improves Social Interaction Capacity: Since this permits alliances and competition, this will surely improve a player's social interaction capacity as it allows supervision of co-players activity, resources and skills. Players will also be required to communicate with one another in order to achieve a common goal or have a good fight.
• Most exciting game experience: Multiplayer gaming will promise you to practice a more exciting game experience since you are now dealing or fighting with other individual unlike in a typical one-player game which only put up a fight between you and the computer. Having an alive competitor
Requires long hours of playing: Since you are playing with multiple other players, you cannot just stop from playing because this will affect the network. Typically, this will require you to play in long hours depending also o your coplayers playing the game.
Incurs health hazards: Due to the long hours of playing, numerous health problems may be acquired such as eye or carpel tunnel syndrome, poor postures and severe stress on joints and nerves. Everybody should be aware that there are real health hazards involve in spending too much time in front of the computer.
Allows players to avoid face to face interaction/ losing social life (but not if opposite given as an advantage)
Meeting dangerous people/ grooming - can lead to Cyberbullying