Putting aside all these health and financial benefits, do not forget the main purpose of video games: to have fun and to entertain. Parents sometimes forget to do that with all the work they do in their adult life such as taking care of kids, earning money, doing chores, and pay taxes among a multitude of other tasks. Now, one simply cannot suggest that parents play video games with their kids without proposing some kind of plan. Admittedly, kids have proven themselves more skilled at video games than adults, but only because they play them more often. Note that the terms “kid” and “adult” in this situation do not mean what one would usually think when seeing those words. “Kid” would, in reality, range from ages seven all the way to twenty.
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Video games today cost around $60 and that does not even include expansion packs, season passes, and other horrendous downloadable content, or DLC for short. Many parents probably remember the days of games costing around $40 to $20, and many kids probably remember the days of getting 100% of what their parents payed for. Lowering the price would automatically incline more parents to purchase more games and play those games with their children. The whole concept of downloadable content should become abolished as well. Aside from representing a shoddy business practice, every time a kid attempts to ask their parent for more money for a video game that they already own, the gap between parent and child increases exponentially in size due to an increase of resentment towards video games from the parents. While many uneducated individuals, who have most likely not read this essay, would say that this policy bears too many flaws as video games hold reputations as too hard, too violent, too time consuming, and just plain not important. All of these claims turn out utterly untrue. For starters, most video games have settings which allow players to adjust the difficulty, and many video games even make this feature usable at any point in the game. Many video games also give their players the freedom and liberty to adjust the controller’s button configuration to achieve maximum …show more content…
Many people pay to see two hours of footage but will not bother to buy a game with more than two hours of cut scenes on top of endless hours of gameplay. One such family even pops popcorn and gets together twice a month for games of Mario Kart instead of the usual “movie night” (Needleman). After reading all the previously listed details, how can one still call video games irrelevant? Something that makes billions of dollars, causes great deals of controversy, and has proven itself good for one’s health, should not unjustly face such
Video games today cost around $60 and that does not even include expansion packs, season passes, and other horrendous downloadable content, or DLC for short. Many parents probably remember the days of games costing around $40 to $20, and many kids probably remember the days of getting 100% of what their parents payed for. Lowering the price would automatically incline more parents to purchase more games and play those games with their children. The whole concept of downloadable content should become abolished as well. Aside from representing a shoddy business practice, every time a kid attempts to ask their parent for more money for a video game that they already own, the gap between parent and child increases exponentially in size due to an increase of resentment towards video games from the parents. While many uneducated individuals, who have most likely not read this essay, would say that this policy bears too many flaws as video games hold reputations as too hard, too violent, too time consuming, and just plain not important. All of these claims turn out utterly untrue. For starters, most video games have settings which allow players to adjust the difficulty, and many video games even make this feature usable at any point in the game. Many video games also give their players the freedom and liberty to adjust the controller’s button configuration to achieve maximum …show more content…
Many people pay to see two hours of footage but will not bother to buy a game with more than two hours of cut scenes on top of endless hours of gameplay. One such family even pops popcorn and gets together twice a month for games of Mario Kart instead of the usual “movie night” (Needleman). After reading all the previously listed details, how can one still call video games irrelevant? Something that makes billions of dollars, causes great deals of controversy, and has proven itself good for one’s health, should not unjustly face such