Cognitive Social Phenomena
As opined by Cover (2010), the cognitive, social phenomena that occur specifically in the context of the MMORPG …show more content…
Sexual predators are on the rise and look for potential victims using the MMORPG. They stalk them and find out everything about them using their sites then attack them (Eck, 2010). It is therefore not wise to share one’s personal information and documenting everything for everyone to see. If not so then it would be wise to keep ones account private whereby only friends can see ones profile.
Although MMORPG can be termed as bad, they can also be good for youths whose parents are too overprotective and do not let them out of the house to socialize with kids their age. They therefore, have an online presence to at least keep up with their friend’s lives even though their parents do not allow them to socialize outside the home. This way, even if they do not have a physical interaction, they have online interaction. Such parents think that the outside world may corrupt their children and hence that is the only way they know how to protect them (Cover, 2010).
To engage players in a MMORPG environment, a gamer designer needs to include an interactive environment, excellent graphics, unique 3-D characters, user-friendly interfaces and a variety of MMORPG’s to choose from, in order to engage …show more content…
Something as simple as badmouthing another person online is considered as bullying. Many lives have been ruined because of this with others even going to the extremes of committing suicide. People with low self-esteem are usually the ones that benefit mostly from SNS (Zhang & International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment, 2010). Here they can create a completely new identity and be the social butterfly that they are not in real life. Youths who frequently use SNS are those that have many friends and get positive reactions on their profiles and wall posts. This suggests that those positive reactions mean that one has a high self-esteem, and people with negative reactions from friends have low self-esteem. Thus, the positive or negative reaction that one experiences helps one in their social