Rules and Addiction

Rules

Rules are set so that they define how to play the game and what is right and wrong in that specific game. It is important that rules are set so that the game is played in an ordered manner and fair way. Game designers need to establish rules in the designing phase as rules state how the players can interact in the game and people will know if a player is cheating or not. This has a huge impact on the players as they know exactly what to do and what not to do once inside the game world. All these rules, guidelines and factors that affect the game need to be in sync for a successful game to be made. Different games have different rules within the game. For example, in Fifa 15, a bad tackle leads to a foul or penalty for the other team depending on the position of the foul. Another example would be GTA 5, where if the player does something that violates the rules of the game, the player is prosecuted by the police or even the army if it is grave enough.

Addiction

Addiction is the condition of one that causes them to keep performing a habit or practice as if they were mentally and physically enslaved by that habit. Addiction in video games is fairly common. The reasons why people become addicted to video games is because video games have become a lot more realistic and life like. People can now do things within the game that they cannot possibly do in real life such as flying, win a Champions league or even killing people. Also, gaming is used by many to kind of escape their daily lives and be free for even just an hour or 2 and be something else within the game world. Another reason is that some games are really competitive which causes players to keep playing the game to get better and be able to compete with others. The simplest reason for why addiction happens in video games is probably because video games are fun and provide experiences for gamers that they cant experience in real life. Designers will want to make their game addicted as it will heavily boost the sales and people will keep playing them for a long time which will make the game be very popular.